The Princeton University Department of Physics is set to present a lecture by Samuel Ting on April 3 at 8 p.m.
Ting is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 1976 Nobel Laureate of physics.
Ting will speak about and present the latest findings from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer instrument on the International Space Station. The AMS measures the antimatter in cosmic rays to find possible evidence of the still-hypothetical dark matter, which is thought, along with dark energy, to drive the universe’s expansion and the motions of galaxies.
Ting is the principal investigator for the multipurpose particle-physics detector, which was installed on the space station in May 2011 and has collected more than 50 billion cosmic ray events.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
It will take place in room A-02 in Princeton University’s McDonnell Hall located on Washington Road in Princeton.
More information is online at princeton.edu/physics/.
