Dinner and Talk w/Rolf Ent of the Jefferson Lab on Quarks & Gluons
The MIT Club has invited us at the member price.
Dinner & Talk
Rolf Ent
Jefferson Lab
The Inner Landscape of Visible Matter:
The Role of Quarks and the Glue that Binds Us
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
6:30 Cash Bar | 7:00 Buffet Dinner | 8:00 Talk–Q&A | 9:30 Adjourn
Kenwood Club, 5601 River Road, Bethesda, MD
The matter that forms our world is at its innermost level a teeming many-body system of particles named quarks, their anti-quark siblings, and gluons; all interacting with one another via Nature’s strongest force – QCD. In atomic, molecular and condensed matter systems, where the electrically charged constituents interact by exchanging photons, it is not necessary to consider the photons themselves as important constituents of the matter. In sharp contrast, the force carriers in QCD – the gluons – are constituents that play a pivotal role in determining how the properties of matter emerge from the underlying theory. Physicists have made huge strides in understanding the workings of quarks and gluons, yet a number of puzzling mysteries remain. Experiments over the past two decades point to the shortcomings of the present textbook description of matter, and the unexpected yet quantitative role the gluons must play. Future experiments revealing the building blocks of matter in greater detail than ever before could help physicists in a breakthrough in our understanding of quarks and gluons.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Rolf Ent came to Jefferson Lab in 1993 as a Hall C Scientist and Adjunct Professor at Hampton University. Rolf served as experimental group leader of the Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (NuHEP) Center at Hampton University from 1996-2001, and served as Hall C Leader from 2002-2006. He then served as the 12 GeV Upgrade Science lead at Jefferson Lab until 2009, and became Associate Director for experimental nuclear physics in 2011. He served on the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee from 2006-2008. Rolf received his Ph.D. from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1989. He did postdoctoral research with U.Va. at CERN, then with MIT until 1993. He has performed experiments at NIKHEF-EMIN, the VU and KVI cyclotrons, CERN, SLAC, MIT-Bates, IUCF, NIKHEF-ITH, and JLab, serving as spokesperson on a number of these experiments. He has been involved in several large installation projects at CERN, NIKHEF, and JLab, and has worked with cryogenic and polarized targets, polarized beams, polarimeters, magnetic nd nonmagnetic spectrometers and various detectors. He has been integrally involved in fostering collaborations with universities and mentoring young people in the field through his appointment at Hampton University, as organizer of HUGS Graduate School since 2000 and HU/MIT Undergraduate Summer Program from 2006 to 2011. He has authored more than 130 papers published in refereed journals.
MENU
Sit-down buffet dinner with salad, rolls & butter, two entreés, vegetable, dessert, and coffee/tea.
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The event chairs are William Gandler ilb@mail.nih.gov (speaker & program) and Ken Gordon kengordon@alum.mit.edu (venue). For registration questions please contact Cynthia O’Connell at cjo@alum.mit.edu or 202-657-2188.