11:00 am
In-Person and Virtual Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106
Join us for a free public lecture series celebrating 50 Years of Discovery at the Enrico Fermi Institute of UChicago. Attendees can join in person or virtually.
Prof. Angela Olinto presents: Flying High to Catch Neutrinos and Other Extreme Particles
What can neutrinos and cosmic rays teach us about the most powerful processes in the universe?
Researchers are flying ultra-fast cameras on NASA science balloons to help answer that question, observing extremely energetic subatomic particles, including neutrinos and cosmic rays, arriving from the deepest corners of the cosmos.
Over the past decades, these scientific instruments have evolved to combine different types of observations, allowing researchers to learn more from these particles and better understand the extreme events that produce them.
In this talk, Angela V. Olinto, (Emeritus Professor Univ of Chicago, Provost and Rutherfurd Professor of Columbia University and a leading astrophysicist), will describe her work related to earlier balloon projects that helped develop this technology, and look ahead to a planned balloon flight in 2028, which promises to deepen our understanding of the powerful processes that shape our universe.