Cosmic Rays - Messengers of the Universe
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Venue: Lecture Theatre 5W 2.3
The centenary of the discovery of cosmic rays was celebrated in 2012. This talk will cover how cosmic ray research has developed from those early days of exploration and adventure right up to the modern day facilities scattered around the planet today. The composition of cosmic rays, the mystery of where they originate from in the Universe and how they are produced will also be explored.
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Prof Glenn Patrick CPhys, FInstP, FRAS
Dr Glenn Patrick is a particle physicist from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near to Oxford where until recently he led one of the groups studying the differences between matter and antimatter at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He was also a leading member of the collaboration that built the UK component of the worldwide computing Grid, which analyses the huge amounts of data flowing from the LHC. Glenn is now an Honorary Scientist at RAL and also a Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and often gives public talks explaining the concepts of particle physics.