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Join SLAC Connections Neutrinos Get Under Your Skin Speaker: Boris Kayser, Fermilab Date: 30 August 2005 Time: 7:30 PM Location: Panofsky Auditorium, SLAC Campus Admission: Free admission and no scientific knowledge is necessary to at tend. After the event , stay for refreshments and chat with physicists.
The enigmatic neutrinos are among t he most abundant of the tiny particles that make up our universe. They a re a billion times more abundant than the particles of which the earth a nd we humans are made. Thus, to understand the universe, we must underst and the neutrinos. Moving ghostlike, almost invisibly, through matter, t hese particles are very hard to pin down and study. Their behavior, so dif ferent from that of everyday objects, will be explained, and recent disc overies will be described. The open questions about neutrinos, forthcomi ng attempts to answer these questions, and the role of neutrinos in shap ing the universe and making human life possible, will all be explained. About the speaker: Boris Kayser is an overtly enthusiastic particle physi cs theorist who is particularly interested in the physics of neutrinos a nd the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter. An author of well ove r 100 scientific papers, he served as co-chair of a just-concluded year long study of the future of neutrino physics. He has appeared in an awar d-winning TV documentary on neutrinos, and is one of the leading public speakers on these ubiquitous but elusive particles. Boris Kayser is a member of the theory group at SLAC's sister laboratory, Fermilab, with the title of Fermilab distinguished scientist.
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