Speakers Bureau: The Promise of Science

Science comes in two flavors: fundamental and applied. Fundamental, or basic, science seeks to discover the hows and whys of the world. Applied science – technology – takes this knowledge and applies it to our lives. Often, the eventual applications are unknown, but without fundamental research, the practical applications and products would never be.

Speaking topics related to the promise of science include:

Superconductivity – Under certain conditions, some materials lose their resistance to electrical currents. This means more efficient transportation of power and more powerful magnets. Learn what this research tells us and where it is leading.

Nanoscience – This is a blanket term for all kinds of things that go on in vanishingly small structures. These are like neither the bulk materials we deal with every day nor atoms, but have unique properties of their own. This is one of the hottest areas of current research, attracting scientists from a range of disciplines.

Modeling – Using computers and various imaging tools, researchers can examine all kinds of processes and materials.

• X-rays, Tomography and Other Imaging – Bring the very small and the biologically unavailable into view. For example, the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a very powerful source of X-rays, views the inner makeup of tiny but intricate objects. Advanced signal and image analysis tools allow us to model the previously unknowable and determine the physical phenomena behind it.

Looking for THE Answers – What makes the universe tick? What is matter? What holds the universe together and what was it like in the moment of the Big Bang? Projects using tools at Argonne are seeking the answers to these and other basic questions.

• Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) – Weighing the ubiquitous neutrino is part of finding missing mass that the Big Bang theory says should exist.
• Particle Accelerators – ATLAS, APS, IPNS and other high-powered acronyms.
• High Energy Physics

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Argonne Community Relations Office
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