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Knowing our Universe from a Hole in the Ground

Event Details

Ewan Lectures

Location: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, 390 King St W, Kingston, ON K7L 2X4

Date: January 17, 2024

Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Dr. Art McDonald, presenter for the Ewan lecture series, is shown smiling in a headshot. A background photo shows the excavation of the SNO cavity 2km underground. Dr. Art McDonald's talk

Ewan Lecture by Nobel Laureate Art McDonald

On Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 we will have the privilege to hear from our own Professor Emeritus Art McDonald, the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics, emeritus, at Queen’s University. He is also a co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Physics for the discovery that neutrinos have mass.

Join us at 7:00pm for this free event, where Dr. McDonald will give an exciting talk about how we come to learn about the history of the Universe by going deep underground, and how this history comes to rely on various mysterious things like dark matter and neutrinos.

Tickets available here!

We will have ASL interpreters present at the event. Please let us know if there are other ways we can reduce barriers to your participation. Feel free to reach out to outreach@mcdonaldinstitute.ca if you have any questions or accommodation requests.