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Brian Cox

For Astronomy Ireland's April Public Lecture (and DVD) we are flying in a very unique speaker indeed, Dr. Brian Cox.

Brian is a pop star, having played with the bands Dare and D:Ream (who had the hit "Things can only get better")

Brian is also a TV presenter - he has presented the award winning BBC documentary series "Horizon" on the subject of Gravity

In addition Brian is a world-class astrophysicist - he leads one of the key experiments in the 10 billion euro LHC experiment at CERN (on the Swiss-French border) where 2,500 of the world's top scientists are going to smash bits of atoms together at the highest speed ever. They hope to mimic the formation of the Universe in the Big Bang!  They hope to create mini Black Holes, explain Dark Matter that seems to make up most of the matter in the universe and provide a new theory to explain the universe.

What a fascinating speaker, with a highly unusual career - pop-star, TV presenter, world-class scientist.  It promises to be an incredible evening so book your tickets or place an order for the DVD of the lecture now HERE

When they turn on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) this summer you will know all about, why it is so important and why so much money is being spent on it.

Recently on BBC Horizon HERE.  His early background is soaked in music - a keyboard player he joined the group Dare in 1986.  they recorded 2 albums and he toured the world with them before they broke up in 1992.He joined pop sensation D-ream in 1993 having many top 10 hits including New Labour Election song  "Things can only get better".  They split in 1997 at which stage he had a doctorate in Physics from the University of Manchester.

He is based in Manchester and CERN Geneva. He is in charge of an upgrade of the giant ATLAS and CMS Detectors at the Large Hadron Collidor.  In this talk Brian will speak about his work in CERN and the ongoing search for Dark Matter and Black Holes.

 

 

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