Events on Monday, May 4th, 2009
- Physics Department Lecture
- Angels & Demons of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
- Time: 7:30 pm
- Place: 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Wesley Smith, UW Department of Physics
- Abstract: The upcoming blockbuster movie Angels & Demons focuses on an apparent plot to destroy the Vatican using a small amount of antimatter. Parts of the movie were actually filmed in the Large Hadron Collider at the European particle physics laboratory CERN. At the University of Wisconsin Physics Department, Professor Wesley Smith will lecture on the the real science of animatter, the CERN Large Hadron collider and the excitement of particle physics research.