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"The Future of Particle Physics"

Note: Refreshments served at 3:00 PM
Speaker: Pier Oddone, Director, Fermilab
When: December 4, 2007 (Tue), 03:30PM to 04:30PM
Hosted by: Ulrich Heintz
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This event is part of the Department Colloquia Series. Colloquia are at 3:30 in the Metcalf Science Center (SCI 107) Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the 1st Floor Lounge

Particle Physics is about to explore a vast new territory with the advent of particle accelerators of unprecedented energies. By opening this new energy scale, physicists expect to solve some of the most profound and vexing mysteries about the Universe. The origin of mass, the explanation for dark mass, new symmetries, the discovery of extra dimensions of space, and substantial progress in the unification of all forces seem to be within reach. I will review why the physics expectations for the next decade are so dramatic and how the US particle physics program must evolve in order to contribute to the dramatic discoveries ahead.