Ongoing Mysteries in Astrophysics – Don Driscoll
Date: Wed. April 11th, 2007, 4:00 pm-5:00 pmLocation: Rockefeller 221
We are at the brink of a Golden Age of Astrophysics with the promise of answers to many long-outstanding questions, including: What is the nature of Dark Matter? What source powers Active Galactic Nuclei? Where do Gamma-Ray Bursts come from? Where do the highest energy Cosmic Rays come from? With an unprecedented number of experiments both active and coming online, there is a real hope that many of these questions may be answered in the near future. I have been lucky enough to be associated with some of the world’s most advanced astrophysical experiments. In this talk, I plan on detailing my life as an experimentalist and how my work has touched on some of these intriguing questions.