The University of Colorado at Boulder physics department will continue its Saturday Physics Series with a presentation on the invisible world of elementary particles and antiparticles on Nov. 10.
Physics Professor William Ford will present the talk "Quantum Oscillations and Antimatter" at 2 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. The event is free and open to the public.
During the show the audience will learn what antimatter is and how it behaves differently from matter. Ford also will discuss why understanding the different behaviors of matter and antimatter is necessary to figure out how the pure energy generated in the Big Bang evolved into a world with matter and only small amounts of transient antimatter.
Ford joined the CU-Boulder faculty in 1976 and is currently the principal investigator of the high-energy physics group at CU-Boulder.
The Saturday Physics Series is funded by an outreach grant from CU-Boulder's Outreach Committee and is targeted at Colorado high school students, teachers and adults.
The remaining 2007-08 Saturday Physics Series schedule is:
o Jan. 19, 2 p.m., Duane Physics room G1B30, Professor Charles Rogers of physics, "Making and Shaking Nano Machines."
o Feb. 16, 2 p.m., Duane Physics room G1B30, Assistant Professor Heather Lewandowski of physics, "Billiards at the Nanoscale."
o March 15, 2 p.m., Duane Physics room G1B30, Professor John Bohn of physics, "Physics of Baseball at Mile High."
o April 19, 2 p.m., Duane Physics room G1B30, Assistant Professor Oliver DeWolfe of physics, "Einstein, the Early Universe and Everything."
For more information about the Saturday Physics Series call (303) 735-5993 or visit the Web site at .