Physics & Astronomy Public Lecture: "Understanding the Universe from Deep Underground"

Dr. Arthur B. McDonald is a Canadian astrophysicist and the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries he made as the Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) scientific collaboration. These discoveries showed clearly that neutrinos have mass, providing evidence for new laws of physics beyond the standard theory of elementary particles. Dr. McDonald currently serves as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada). From 2006-2013, Dr. McDonald held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics also at Queen’s University. In 2016, he was named as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.

This public lecture will take place on Thursday, October 24 at the W.W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall in the Darla Moore School of Business (Room #101) at 7:00 pm. The content will be presented at a level accessible to a broad general audience. This lecture is free of charge and all are welcome to attend. No reservations are required, but seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more details, please visit http://www.uof.sc/physicslectures. We hope you can join us for this special event!