Science Education
Lectures are free and open to students and adults with an interest in science. All lectures begin at 7:00 pm in CEBAF Center Auditorium [Download a Map] [Locate Jefferson Lab on Google Maps] [Display a QR Code for Scanning] and last for about an hour. Seating in the CEBAF Center Auditorium and overflow area is limited to about 300 people. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Unfortunately, people arriving once capacity has been reached will be turned away. A live video stream will be available for those not able to attend in person. Lectures will be added to the video archive for on-demand viewing upon approval from the presenter.
NOTICE: For security purposes, everyone over 16 is asked to carry a photo I.D.
Security guards may inspect vehicles, book bags and purses.
Guesstimating the Environment
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
Paper or plastic? Gasoline or electric cars? Ethanol or gasoline? Local or imported food? We are constantly bombarded by environmental questions and by contradictory answers from "experts." This talk will show how you can cut through the fog of numbers to answer these questions for yourself, not precisely, but good enough. We will cover the principles of estimating, introduce the "Goldilocks" categories of answers, and then look at some of the big (and small) environmental questions of our time.
Dr. Lawrence Weinstein - Old Dominion University
The Higgs Boson and Our Life
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
On July 4th, 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments operating at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a new particle compatible with the Higgs boson (hunted for almost 50 years), which is a crucial piece for our understanding of fundamental physics and thus the structure and evolution of the universe. This lecture describes the unprecedented instruments and challenges that have allowed such an accomplishment, the meaning and relevance of this discovery to physics, and the implications to our day to day lives.
Dr. Fabiola Gianotti - European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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