Astronomy Days continues at Bradbury Science Museum
Dark matter. What exactly is it? Does it exist? Scientists have tried to directly detect dark matter and have gathered evidence of its existence since the 1930s.
At 6:30 this evening at the Bradbury Science Museum, Laboratory scientist Victor Gehman of Neutron Science and Technology (P-23) will help explain this mind-boggling subject.
"Evidence for Dark Matter and How Scientists are Looking for it,” is part of the museum’s “Astronomy Days” lecture series. The talk is free and open to the public.
Astronomy Days also is part of the museum’s Summer Adventures in Science program. The museum is part of the Community Programs Office (CPO).
"I'll start off with a summary of the observational evidence for it from the early 20th century until now,” said Gehman in describing his talk. “Then I’ll move on to some possibilities for what the dark matter could be, and finish with a discussion of how scientists (including ones here at the Lab) are looking for dark matter in laboratory experiments.”
Gehman received his bachelor's degree in physics and his master's degree in applied physics from Virginia Tech, and is working toward completing his doctorate at the University of Washington.
The final Astronomy Days lecture is Friday at the museum. “Transient Phenomena in Astrophysics” by Michael Chen, Clare Constantine, Andrew Gott, Steven Lippert, Leah Wang, Kathryn Woo, and Pia Yarnell of Thermonuclear Applications (X-2) discusses the observations made, theories learned, and reflections on the Earthwatch 2007 adventure at Los Alamos.
For more information on the Summer Adventures in Science program, click here.
