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Title:: The Big Bang Machine at CERN outside Geneva, Switzerland
When:: March 31, 2010 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where:: Los Angeles

Description

WHERE & WHEN:

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 7:00 pm, Covel Commons - Grand Horizon Room
Professor Robert Cousins, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy

Picture by Michael Hoch, CMS

AGENDA:

- UCLA's Prof. Robert Cousins, who spent three years at CERN as a deputy to the leader of one of the huge experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, will present the goals of revolutionizing elementary particle physics and the implications for our understanding of the Big Bang and dark matter.

- Welcome by Bruno Ry, Consul General of Switzerland.

- Introduction by Christian Simm, Executive Director of swissnex in San Francisco, who will speak about
scientic exchanges between Switzerland and the US, and generally about international collaborations and technological achievements in Switzerland, with special regard to CERN.

- Question-and-Answer period and light refreshments to follow.

Free to the public. Limited seating - Registration required: http://events.pna.ucla.edu/lhc

Event jointly organized by UCLA, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Division of Physical
Sciences, and the Swiss Consulate General in Los Angeles as part of its U.S. - wide program
ThinkSwiss-Brainstorm the Future. (www.thinkswiss.org).

MORE INFORMATION:

To highlight Switzerland as a top location for international research and to better understand the ongoing experiments at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva with the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), the Consulate General is co-organizing a Public Scientific Lecture at UCLA. This event is realized in collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Washington D.C., Presence Switzerland www.thinkswiss.org and UCLA. Professor Cousins will explain what CERN and the LHC is, how this organization works, explain the experiments and show the importance of international research and cooperation in Switzerland.

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cousins/homepage/bio.html

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been restarted, and CERN is now focused on delivering collisions to the LHC experiments. Information and resources related to the restart and 2010 event can be found on:

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/lhc-first-physics/

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2010/04/News%20Articles/1234564?ln=de)

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/104846/The_Big_Bang_machine#

CERN overhead view: http://www.interactions.org/imagebank/images/CE0002H.jpg