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April 18, 2011 MIT PHYSICS NOBEL LAUREATE FRANK WILCZEK TO GIVE CU-BOULDER’S GAMOW LECTURE
Apr 18th
April 18, 2011
MIT PHYSICS NOBEL LAUREATE FRANK WILCZEK
TO GIVE CU-BOULDER’S GAMOW LECTUREMassachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Frank Wilczek, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, will give the 46th George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder on Tuesday, April 26.
Free and open to the public, the talk is titled “Anticipating a New Golden Age: A Vision and Its Fiery Trial at the Large Hadron Collider.” Wilczek will describe the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, and how it will test new phenomena and ambitious ideas. The talk will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium and is intended for a general audience.
The LHC sends protons and charged atoms whizzing around a 17-mile underground loop located on the border of France and Switzerland at 11,000 times per second — nearly the speed of light. Located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the collider can smash particles together at energy levels seven times higher than the previous record by such accelerators.
Scientists are using the LHC to attempt to recreate conditions immediately following the Big Bang, searching for answers about mysterious dark matter, dark energy, gravity and the fundamental laws of physics. The experiments may even shed light on the possibility that other dimensions exist, according to physicists.
Wilczek says future generations may view the LHC as the defining symbol of our culture, analogous to the pyramids of Egypt. The LHC project involves roughly 10,000 people from 60 countries, including more than 1,700 scientists, engineers, students and technicians from 94 American universities. Roughly 10 faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students from CU-Boulder’s physics department have been involved in LHC research and development.
Wilczek shared the Nobel Prize in physics with David Gross and David Politzer for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction, research he conducted as a 21-year-old graduate student at Princeton University.
Wilczek has received numerous awards, including a 1982 McArthur Fellowship “genius grant,” the 2005 King Faisal International Prize for Science and the 2003 Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The George Gamow lecture series started in 1971 and honors the late CU-Boulder physics professor who was pivotal in developing the big bang theory of the creation of the universe. He also was known for his many books popularizing science.
For more information on Wilczek and his work visit the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine at http://artsandsciences.colorado.edu/magazine/2011/04/nobel-laureate-to-deliver-gamow-lecture/.
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Jefferson Parkway not Yah-way Seth Brigham stands alone as only voice against. Liz Payton Not with him
Dec 24th
OPINION;
Yes, it seems there was almost unanimous opinion by even our elected officials generally stating that, “The Jefferson Parkway
Resolution,” is a bad idea with terrible implications, especially, for the surrounding area and communities. More urban sprawl, for what? 5 Million dollars that will be long gone, but, the “Park Less Way” will be here forever !!! In fact, at first glance this bondoogle appears to be a “boondoggle,” a project that wastes time and money, but in reality it’s a bizarre, sadistic, soul-stealing version of its better known cousin, a bondoogle.
For example, a bondoggle would be a 10-day trip to Rocky Flats for a 2-day shoot on the “Plutonium Preserve.”
While a bondoogle would be the same 10-day trip. Only it snows every day, the Rocky Flats Lounge gives you food poisoning and you’re forced to sit in your hotel in Louisville working 17-hours a day on an erectile dysfunction medication pitch to help out the home office. That, my friends, is being bondoogled. And, so there was a unanimous decision by Council to remain silent on future plans and pass prearranged “Resolution.” Yup, we got bondoggled, bondoogled and “bamboozled,” to practice trickery, deception, cozenage, or the like.
That’s what happens when “principles,” moral rules or beliefs that helps you know what is right and wrong and that influences your actions, gives way for some short term financial gain, all on the premise, the excuse, that we can’t do anything about it anyway. As a member of the public, I often play the part of “the fool,” One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformityin order to reveal spiritual or moral truth.But, I’m afraid we have elected a bunch of “fools,” a group deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding, who…
have served us another “fool,” A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.That’s the dessert you’ve been served on your vacation to Rocky Flats!