The mysteries of matter, force and space

This evening at 5pm on Campus Limpertsberg, Matteo Cavalli-Sforza will give a talk on the world's most expensive science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 km ring of superconducting magnets in which protons circulate and collide at unprecedentedly high energies, recently began operations at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory. Scientists hope that the results of the experiments at the LHC will shed light on fundamental physics problems such as the origin of mass, the nature of the mysterious “dark matter” and whether there is more to space than the three dimensions we perceive.

Matteo Cavalli-Sforza studied physics at the University of Pavia, taught at Princeton University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and conducted research at all the major world laboratories of his discipline. Currently he directs the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, a research center devoted to particle physics, astrophysics and observational cosmology. He has conducted experiments on the nature of the smallest particles known to us – produced on Earth at particle accelerators, or very far in the Cosmos – in the belief that understanding these phenomena will reveal the most fundamental and fascinating aspects of physical reality.

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Matteo Cavalli-Sforza
"The LHC – exploring the mysteries of matter, force and space at a new frontier"
Monday 15 March 2010 / 5pm
Bâtiment des sciences, BS 1.03 / Campus Limpertsberg