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On October 18, Professor Homer Neal (Physics, University of Michigan), co-author of BEYOND SPUTNIK: US Science Policy in the 21st Century, discusses his work with the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be inaugurated in Geneva on October 21, 2008.

• Saturday Morning Physics at THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
• Date: 10/18/2008; 10:30 am to 11:30 am
  The Large Hadron Collider: The World’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
• Location: 170 & 182 Dennison
• Host Department: Physics

This huge accelerator, eighteen miles in circumference, will permit scientists to explore some of the most intriguing questions of our time, such as, what is the origin of mass, what are the basic symmetries of Nature, and what are the properties of the smallest building blocks of matter. The University of Michigan has one of the largest research groups involved with the LHC and Professor Neal will review the University’s role in this project, the status of the accelerator, and the plans for the initial experiments.

• VIDEO: The experimental run of the "Big Bang That Wasn't" collider in Geneva.
• READ: The New York Times quotes Stephen Hawking, theorizing that use of this collider could result in the production of black holes and possibly the destruction of our planet.
• VIDEO: The Large Hadron Collider Rap... That's right, you heard us.

GO BEYOND SPUTNIK ONLINE: Check out the Beyond Sputnik online learning center at http://www.science-policy.net/ for the latest news, teaching resources, learning guides, and internship opportunities for students in the 21st-Century field of Science Policy!

PRAISE FOR BEYOND SPUTNIK:

"Homer A. Neal, Tobin L. Smith, and Jennifer B. McCormick have written a landmark work calling for a national effort to restore our nation's power in the fields of science, energy, and education, as we did in the remarkable year following Sputnik. The next president should read Beyond Sputnik and accept this call to action as did President Eisenhower."

--Ambassadore David M. Abshire, President of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, Cofounder and Vice Chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and President of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation

Homer A. Neal is the Samuel A. Goudsmit Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Interim President Emeritus, and Vice President for Research Emeritus at the University of Michigan, and is a former member of the U. S. National Science Board. Tobin L. Smith is Associate Vice President for Federal Relations at the Association of American Universities. He was formerly Assistant Director of the University of Michigan and MIT Washington, DC, offices. Jennifer B. McCormick is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Mayo College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and is the Associate Director of the Research Ethics Resource, part of the Mayo Clinic's NIH Clinical Translational Science Award research programs.

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