Public Lecture on the Science Behind Angels and Demons

On May 15th, Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Angels & Demons, a major motion picture based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel. Starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard, the film focuses on an apparent plot to destroy the Vatican using antimatter made at the Large Hadron Collider and stolen from the European particle physics laboratory CERN.

Through a series of public lectures, scientists are using this opportunity to tell the world about the real science of antimatter, the Large Hadron Collider and the excitement of particle physics research. Across the United States and Canada, scientists from more than 30 colleges, universities and national laboratories will host public lectures as part of the "Angels & Demons Lecture Nights: The Science Revealed" event.

See http://www.uslhc.us/Angels_Demons/ for more on the lecture series.

Prof. Richard Hughes and Prof. Brian Winer will give a public lecture at OSU. The lecture will be held May 14th at 7pm in the Smith Seminar Room of the Physics Research Building. For free tickets please send e-mail to Info_AngelsAndDemons@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu

A PDF poster is available here.