a Cosmic Soup of Quarks and Gluons

Dr. Iwona Sakrejda
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Iwona Sakrejda of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe an unusual state of matter, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, which filled the early universe for approximately 10 microseconds after the Big Bang, and which is now being recreated in laboratories around the world.