The
annual Irons lecture at Rutgers University brings renowned physicists to campus
to share the knowledge and excitement of leading-edge research with students,
faculty and the community.

This
year’s presenter is Boris Kayser, particle physics theorist at Fermilab, the national
high-energy physics research laboratory in Batavia, Ill. A New Jersey native, he was a Westinghouse Science Talent
Search winner in high school before earning an undergraduate degree in physics
at Princeton in 1960. He has been particularly interested in the physics
of neutrinos and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter.

Kayser’s
talk will focus on antimatter, explaining what matter and antimatter
are, how scientists make antimatter in the laboratory, and whether antimatter
could be made into a bomb that could destroy a city, as portrayed in Dan
Brown's novel and movie, Angels and
Demons. He will also discuss whether patients receiving a PET scan should
worry about the antimatter generated in that test, and whether dark matter in
the cosmos could be antimatter. Finally, he will examine a concept that
attempts to explain why the universe contains matter but no antimatter.

Further
information is available at the Irons lecture website: www.physics.rutgers.edu/irons.