CSC+Lecture+9th+May+2007

=Charters Science Colloquium= Invites all Year 10 Students and above to

The Structure of

Matter

by

Royal Holloway College, University of London
Wednesday 9th May 2007 at 15.15 in the Lecture Theatre

The talk will discuss the structure of matter at the level of the smallest particles, the quarks and the leptons, and briefly describe the accelerators and experiments used to determine their properties. Such experiments show that when energy is turned into mass equal amounts of matter and antimatter are produced, leading us to ask why there are therefore not equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the Universe. We still do not understand the answer to this question but some of the ideas that may be relevant will be discussed.

Professor Green's research interests currently centre on electron-positron collisions at the LEP collider at CERN, Geneva and the PEP-II collider at Stanford, California. He has served on PPARC committees and panels responsible for the public understanding of science in the UK. He is Dean of the Faculty of Science at Royal Holloway College.
 * The Speaker**