Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Fall 2009 Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS
Volume 54, Number 14
Friday–Saturday, October 23–24, 2009; Golden, Colorado
Session G1: Plenary Session II |
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Chair: Thomas Furtak, Colorado School of Mines Room: Green Center Metals Hall |
Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:30AM - 10:06AM |
G1.00001: The Role of Physicists in the 21st Century Invited Speaker: Some call the 19th Century the golden age of physics, and the 20th Century the golden age of biology as well as the information age. What is in store for physics as a discipline in the 21st century? I will present my thoughts on the excitement of new explorations we couldn't do before as well as some challenges for the field. I will also talk about the role of physics and physicists in addressing today's multidisciplinary societal challenges. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:06AM - 10:42AM |
G1.00002: Creating a Star in the Laboratory: The National Ignition Facility Invited Speaker: The National Ignition Facility, completed in 2009, is the world's largest laser. As such it is expected to compress a pellet of $^{2}$H and $^{3}$H to achieve a temperature exceeding 100 million K and density of up to 1000 g cm$^{-3}$, both seven times their values at the core of the Sun. These should produce ignition and energy gain. NIF plans to encourage programs in basic research, with nuclear astrophysics being part of that program. This presentation will describe the basic operation of NIF, as well as the motivation for and some details of several nuclear astrophysics experiments that might be conducted at NIF. Finally I will discuss how NIF might impact the world's energy future. This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE-AC52-07NA27344, LLNL-ABS-416423. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:42AM - 11:18AM |
G1.00003: New Physics beyond the Standard Model: from the Earth to the Sky Invited Speaker: The Standard Model in particle physics has been very successful in explaining the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions of fundamental particles. There are, however, motivations for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The origin of electroweak symmetry breaking and generation of masses are still unresolved issues. The existence of dark matter and the explanation of matter-antimatter asymmetry also call for new physics beyond the Standard Model. In this talk, I will discuss recent developments in theoretical particle physics and how to discover those new physics scenarios in both high energy colliders and dark matter detection experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
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