Sanford Underground Laboratory Director Dr. Jose Alonso and the particle physics community worldwide are taking a walk down the red carpet, and they invite everyone to join them.
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.
On Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and the Sanford Underground Laboratory will sponsor a lecture at the Elks Theatre. The event is free and open to the public. A second lecture will be held Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at Meier Hall on the Black Hills State University campus in Spearfish.
Alonso promises a unique, personal lecture. After he retired from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Alonso helped assemble the ATLAS Detector, one of four large experiments set to start up with the Large Hadron Collider.
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.
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