Angels and Demons Winnipeg Lecture

In May, Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Angels & Demons, a major motion picture based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novel. Starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard, the film focuses on an apparent plot to destroy the Vatican using antimatter made at the Large Hadron Collider and stolen from the European particle physics laboratory CERN.

Through a series of public lectures, scientists are using this opportunity to tell the world about the real science of antimatter, the Large Hadron Collider and the excitement of particle physics research.

Across the United States and Canada, scientists from more than 30 colleges, universities and national laboratories will host public lectures as part of the “Angels & Demons Lecture Nights: The Science Revealed” event. More information about the series, including a list of lectures and local contacts, is available at

www.uslhc.us/Angels_Demons.

Worldwide, scientists working on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider will host lectures and other Angels & Demons-related events for press and the public. Lectures are planned at particle physics institutions across Europe, Asia, Central and South America. For more information on the LHC, visit CERN’s Web site at www.cern.ch.

* Canadian participation in the Large Hadron Collider project is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the National Research Council of Canada.

* CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present,

its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.

* Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present a Brian Grazer / John Calley production, Angels & Demons. The film stars Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Directed by Ron Howard. Screenplay by David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman. Produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and John Calley. Based upon the novel by Dan Brown. Executive producers are Todd Hallowell and Dan Brown.

Links

•Official Angels & Demons lecture series homepage at Fermilab
•A picture blog with beautiful pictures of the LHC and CERN at Boston.com
•The Manitoba Museum
•Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Manitoba
•Department of Physics at the University of Winnipeg
•The Daily Show’s John Oliver at the LHC (Canadian IPs only)

Subatomic physics in Manitoba

There are several internationally recognized and active research groups in subatomic physics and gravitation at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and Brandon University.

Experiments:

•The Qweak experiment at Jefferson Lab, Virginia
•Cold neutron and ultra-cold neutron physics at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and TRIUMF
•Atomic parity violation in francium at TRIUMF, Vancouver
•Precision mass measurements on exotic nuclei at Argonne Natl. Lab, Chicago
•Precision mass measurements on exotic nuclei at TRIUMF, Vancouver
•Test of relativistic time dilation at MPIK and GSI, Germany

Theory: The Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics

Created by G. Gwinner, 2009

A public lecture by subatomic physicists Dr. Gerald Gwinner and Dr. Kumar Sharma (University of Manitoba) and Dr. Jeff Martin (University of Winnipeg) with Scott Young (The Manitoba Museum).

Where: The Manitoba Museum Auditorium

190 Rupert Ave, Winnipeg.

When: Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 2:00pm.

Admission is free, seating is first come, first served.

For more information contact us.