Particle accelerators talk

The next free lectures at the Department of Physics are detailed below, all free, click on the links to find out more and to book a space.

The Hintze Lecture Series - ‘LSST: New Science Frontiers’

Date: 26 Oct 2012 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Venue: Martin Wood Complex, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU

Audience: General public (Age 14+)

Expected to be on the sky by 2020, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope system will produce a 6-band (0.3-1.1 micron) wide-field deep astronomical survey of over 18,000 deg2 of the southern sky using an 8.4 meter ground-based telescope and a 3200 megapixel camera. Each night, LSST will obtain multiple images covering a wide swath of sky visible from its location on Cerro Pachón in northern Chile. Each patch of visible sky will be visited more than 800 times during the 10-year survey. The LSST leverages innovative technology in all subsystems.

Particle accelerators: making the Higgs Boson and more!

Free

Date: 6 Nov 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Venue: Martin Wood Complex, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU

Audience: General public (Age 14+)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world's highest-energy sub-atomic particle smasher. In July 2012 physicists working at the LHC announced convincing evidence for discovery of a new type of particle that is very likely a Higgs Boson.