A University of Oregon physicist participating in a study that recreates the conditions of the early universe will give a presentation in Yachats at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 4.
Sponsored by the Yachats Academy of Arts & Sciences and Polly Plumb Productions, James Brau will give a presentation entitled “Report on a Journey to the Beginning of Time.” The event will be in the Yachats Commons multipurpose room.
Brau is the Philip H. Knight professor of Natural Science at the UO. He is part of a team involved with studies by the large hadron collider, largest scientific instrument ever created on Earth that straddles the Swiss-French border. Brau has been a member of the UO physics department since 1988, served as a founding director of the UO Center for High Energy Physics and led the UO experimental high energy physics team on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Brau is now a leader in the global effort to develop and construct the next large high-energy physics collider, the international linear collider.
Brau will talk about how research at Earth-based particle accelerators aims to answer questions posed by the universe. The presentation is intended for a general, lay audience and informative for anyone interested in physics and astronomy.