PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Thursday, October 12, 2006

4:10 p.m.

1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 3:30 pm in rom. 1400 BPS Bldg


Speaker:  Raman Sundrum
          Johns Hopkins University

Title:    Extra Dimension, the Hierarchy Problem and Particle Colliders

Abstract:

I explain why theorists believe in extra spacetime dimensions, how they
are presently hidden, and how they can be discovered at high energy
particle colliders such as the upcoming Large Hadron Collider.  I show
why the energy regime we are approached at particle colliders is a
special opportunity for extra dimensions to appear experimentally, linked
to their possible role in resolving the central puzzle of particle
physics: the Hierarchy Problem.