Public lecture with Nobel Prize winner Professor Takaaki Kajita
Public Lecture: 7.30-9pm (doors open at 7pm), Monday 5 December 2016
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Great Halls 1 & 2
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We live in a world of neutrinos. Thousands of billions of neutrinos—mostly created by the Sun—are flowing through your body every second. You cannot see them and you do not feel them; and they are very hard for scientists to measure.
Then, when scientists were finally able to catch them, there were fewer than they expected. But why? Was our Sun losing its power?
Join us on Monday 5 December for a free public lecture by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015, Professor Takaaki Kajita: the man credited with the discovery of neutrino oscillations, and the solution to this riddle.
His is a story of twists and turns, including gigantic underground laboratories, passionate conflicts over the nature of matter, and fears of the end of the world—culminating in science’s most prestigious prize and the unexpected conclusion that neutrinos have mass.
On Monday night, Professor Takaaki Kajita will tell us his story, and talk a little about what comes next.
His talk will be introduced by Prof Hans Bachor from Australian National University (ANU), and our thanks to the ANU for their support of this lecture.
More information on the event is available here: www.scienceinpublic.com.au/conferences/physicscongress/kajita-public-lecture
Free
Event Details
Date:
5 December 2016
Time: 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm)
Where is it?
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Merivale St & Glenelg Street
South Brisbane, 4101
QLD
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