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SUBJECT: Grenfell Presentation: International Year of Astronomy
DATE: March 13
What is Dark Matter? (And why should we care?), a presentation by Dr. James Taylor from the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, will be held Tuesday, March 17, in LC301, the lecture theatre of the Library and Computing Building. Sponsored by the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Canadian Association of Physicists.
Description: Around the world, in the deepest mines and the deepest oceans, from the Antarctic to low-Earth orbit, experiments are now searching for the elusive dark matter particle. Dr. Taylor will attempt to explain how and why.
All are welcome. Free admission.
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For more information, please contact Dr. Doug Forbes, Physics, Division of Science
SWGC, MUN, at (709) 637-6295 or dforbes@swgc.mun.ca or Pamela Gill, communications co-ordinator, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook
Memorial University of Newfoundland, at (709) 637-6200 ext. 6134 or pgill@swgc.mun.ca.