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Sigma Xi Lectures Slated on High-Energy Physics - April 21, 2008
WILLIAMSTOWN — David Tucker-Smith, assistant professor of physics, will present the annual Sigma Xi Lectures on Thursday, April 24, and Friday, April 25, at 4:15 p.m. in Wege Auditorium.
The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
The Thursday lecture will on "News from the High Energy Frontier" and the Friday one on "Searching for New Physics with the Large Hadron Collider."
A reception will follow the Friday lecture.
Tucker-Smith has been at Williams since 2003. He teaches a courses on particles and waves and on gravity and, this spring, "Newton, Einstein and Beyond."
He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Amherst College in 1995, and his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. He did his postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sigma Xi lectures are held twice a year. Sigma Xi is an international honor society of science and engineering with a mission to "promote the public's understanding of science for the purpose of improving the human condition." |
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