PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Thursday, January 18, 2007
4:10 p.m.

1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

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


Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed
         Harvard University

Title:   Fundamental Physics in 2010

Abstract:

Fundamental Physics is on the threshold of an exciting new era, with the
anticipated start of the Large Hadron Collider this year.  Will the LHC
show evidence for supersymmetry -- the first extension of our notions of
spacetime since relativity?  Will it reveal new dimensions of space or
new strong forces?  Or will an even more radical possibility gain support,
that our observable universe is a miniscule part of an enormous multiverse
hidden behind our cosmological horizon?  In this talk, I will describe what
the LHC can tell us about these questions by 2010.