Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the Week of November 29th through December 6th, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
- No events scheduled
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
- No events scheduled
Friday, December 4th, 2009
- The Very High Energy Universe
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Speaker: Rene Ong, UCLA
- Abstract: Our understanding of the very high energy (VHE) universe has progressed rapidly during the last few years as a result of new instruments and exciting discoveries. In particular, ground-based telescopes, such as VERITAS in southern Arizona, have discovered many astrophysical sources of VHE gamma rays, including supernova remnants, binary star systems, blazars, and radio galaxies. These telescopes are also carrying out sensitive searches for the annihilation of particle dark matter. Similar exciting results are arriving from the recently-launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. This talk will overview what we know about the VHE universe and describe recent exciting results from VERITAS. The future prospects for high-energy gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy will be summarized.
- Host: Montaruli