Lectures on Tap - "Dark Matter: The Unsolvable Mystery"

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🧠 Lecture: "Dark Matter: The Unsolvable Mystery"

🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Joseph Howlett

Join us for a captivating evening with Dr. Joseph Howlett, a particle physicist turned science journalist, as he shares his firsthand experiences from the quest to unlock the secrets of dark matter. Just five years ago, Joseph was working deep underground in a cavern beneath the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, where he was part of a team assembling the world’s largest dark matter detector.

In this enlightening lecture, Joseph will candidly discuss the ambitious efforts to discover the elusive substance that constitutes 85% of the universe and the unique challenges and dead ends researchers face along the way. He will explore how these monumental scientific endeavors often lead to unexpected discoveries, prompting a reevaluation of our understanding of science itself.

Dr. Joseph Howlett is a staff reporter at Scientific American. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the BBC, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. Before becoming a journalist, he spent a decade as a particle physicist at Columbia and Stanford Universities, where he searched for answers to the universe’s biggest mysteries.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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