by Professor James E. Brau, Knight Professor of Natural Science, University of Oregon, and co-chair, American Linear Collider Physics Group

October 1, 2009, 7 pm
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
(Anthropology Lecture Hall 163)

The universe is dark and mysterious, more so than even Einstein imagined. While modern science has established deep understanding of the matter we know, it is the elements we don't know ("Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy") that dominate the structure of the universe, its behavior and its destiny. What are these curious elements? Scientists are now searching for answers to these and other challenging questions about the universe with experiments at particle accelerators on Earth, and with satellites in space. Results of this research may revolutionize our view of nature as dramatically as the theories of Einstein and other quantum pioneers one hundred years ago.

Biographical information on Professor James E. Brau:

• Knight Professor of Natural Science, Univ. of Oregon
• Director, U. Oregon Center for High Energy Physics
co-chair American Linear Collider Physics Group, and Worldwide Study for future linear electron-positroncolliders
• member of numerous national and international scientific advisory committees, including the Department of Energy/National Science Foundation, High Energy Physics Advisory Committee,and the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council