Renowned Scientist Lecture: Dark Matter & Dark Energy | UC Berkeley
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Mulford Hall (UC Berkeley) | University Dr, Berkeley, CA
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“Science@Cal”: Renowned Scientist Lecture | UC Berkeley
Science@Cal is proud to present a series of free public science lectures on the third Saturday of every month. These talks are given by renowned UC Berkeley scientists and aimed at general audiences.
Talks take place on the UC Berkeley campus at 11 am. Doors open thirty minutes before the talk and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Each talk is planned to last an hour, plus time for at least a few questions at the end. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the start of the talk. Talks take place in 159 Mulford Hall on the north-west corner of the UC Berkeley campus.
– Updated 6/3/19 – Event info last checked via website
The standard model of particle physics has been enormously successful, yet unable to account for dark matter and dark energy – mysterious stuff whose gravity holds galaxies together and drives the accelerated expansion of the universe, respectively.
Physicists have long assumed that the dark sector would at least partially consist of new, relatively massive particles, but have not been able to turn up uncontested evidence for them. A dark sector made of very light particles, however, could have escaped detection in any experiment conducted so far, yet is compatible with all astronomical and cosmological evidence. Precision measurements in physics are suitable to searching for such ultralight dark-sector candidates.
Dr. Müller will give an overview of recently proposed experiments and theoretical models. As first steps, he will report on two of his own experiments. The first measures the fine-structure constant and thereby conducts a broad test of the standard model at extremely high precision. The other constrains the chameleon model of dark energy.
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Cost: FREE
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