Ongoing Mysteries in Astrophysics – Donald Driscoll

Date: Wed. April 11th, 2007, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Location: 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.