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Live media briefing on the science of 'Angels & Demons'
features CERN and Fermilab physicists
CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer, Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman and
Fermilab physicist Boris Kayser answer questions about antimatter, the
Large Hadron Collider and particle physics research
The U.S. National Science Foundation invites you to join a live media
briefing on the science behind the motion picture Angels & Demons on May
19 at 1:00 p.m. EDT (12 noon CDT; 7:00 p.m. CEST). This blockbuster film,
which gives particle physics a moment on the red carpet, hits movie
screens around the world this week. The briefing will feature three
world-renowned physicists from the European particle physics laboratory
CERN and the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory.
Based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel, Angels & Demons focuses on a plot
to destroy the Vatican using a small amount of antimatter. That antimatter
is made using the Large Hadron Collider and is stolen from CERN. Parts of
the movie were filmed at CERN.
The briefing, a live video teleconference, will feature Rolf Heuer,
director-general at CERN, Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate and director
emeritus at Fermilab, and Boris Kayser, Fermilab physicist and chair of
the American Physics Society.s Division of Particles and Fields. To watch
and ask questions during the briefing, visit the Science 360 Web site
www.science360.gov/live/ . Journalists should send an email to
lisajoy@nsf.gov to obtain a call-in number and passcode. Anyone can submit
questions any time to webcast@nsf.gov.
This media briefing is part of a larger worldwide event: "Angels & Demons
Lecture Nights: the Science Revealed." More information about the series,
including a list of lectures and local contacts, is available at
www.uslhc.us/Angels_Demons.
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* U.S. participation in the Large Hadron Collider project is supported by
the Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science
Foundation.
* CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in
Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian
Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission
and UNESCO have Observer status.
* Fermilab is a Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory
operated under contract by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC. The DOE
Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the
physical sciences in the nation and helps ensure U.S. world leadership
across a broad range of scientific disciplines.
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