[JLabEdEvents] Jefferson Lab Science Series - Spring 2013 Schedule

[Stephen Gagnon]

Jefferson Lab Science Series - Spring 2013 Schedule


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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 -- Guesstimating the Environment

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.


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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 -- The Higgs Boson and Our Life

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.


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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 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.


Due to security concerns, persons 16 years old or older may need to  
show a picture ID to Lab Security Officers. Vehicles and hand carried  
items may be inspected.


Not able to attend in person? Don't forget that the Science Series is  
streamed live (http://education.jlab.org/live/) as well as available  
on-demand from the Science Series Video Archive (http://education.jlab.org/scienceseries/archive.html 
), pending approval from the speaker.


Maps to Jefferson Lab's CEBAF Center Auditorium, as well as additional  
information about the Science Series, can be found on the Science  
Education web site:

        http://education.jlab.org/scienceseries/





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