There's a free public lecture (translation: it's for real humans, not physicists) at Carleton University this Thursday evening on the discovery of the Higgs boson, a feat as complex and important as the landing on the moon. Carleton designed and built a key component of the Atlas detector (the forward calorimeter) right here in Ottawa and are a key ( Read more... )

I just registered for the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference in Halifax (Oct. 21st through the 25th). This will be my first trip to Canada's east coast, and I'm really looking forward to it! It's been my goal since I've been back to get somewhere out that way sometime, and sooner than later is better :). I have been up and down much of the ( Read more... )