Perimeter Public Lecture: The Invisible Universe: Higgs, Dark Matter, Gravity Waves (Marcela Carena)
Nov 4, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
31 Caroline St N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
Free with registration
Organized by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Most of the universe is invisible, but the invisibles determine our everyday existence. There is an invisible energy field, related to the Higgs boson, that provides mass. There is dark matter that holds our galaxy together, but we have yet to detect it in the laboratory. We have only recently learned how to detect gravity waves (ripples in spacetime) coming from the far corners of the cosmos, and possibly from dramatic events in the early universe.
The CERN Large Hadron Collider may produce signals of dark matter, new forces of nature or cousins of the Higgs boson. Discoveries from the LHC and from other experiments and observatories will be needed to pull together a coherent picture of the invisible world and explain the first instants of the Big Bang.
Speaker: Professor Marcela Carena, executive director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and physics professor at the University of Chicago.
Free public lecture. It begins at 7:00 pm; your ticket is valid until 6:45 pm so ushers can seat everyone. Also livestreamed on Perimeter’s YouTube channel.