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. Rocky Kolb presents: EFI and the Chicago School of Particle Cosmology
Fifty years ago cosmology was a fringe area of science, with little data and little theoretical effort. For the most part particle physicists did not appreciate that the big bang could be used to explore nature at energy scales unreachable with even the most powerful terrestrial accelerators. The Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, led the world in the development of the new field of Particle Cosmology. We are still at the leading edge of exploring the connections between the inner space of particle physics and the outer scape of the cosmos.