PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Thursday, March 1, 2007
4:10 p.m.

1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 3:30 pm in Rm. 1400 BPS Bldg


Speaker: Richard Milner
         M.I.T.

Title:   Studying the Glue Which Binds Us All

Abstract:

Quantum Chromodynamics tells us that the proton and neutron constituents
of atomic nuclei are bound systems of light mass quarks interacting via
exchange of gluons. The talk will describe our current understanding of
this unfamiliar world, present a number of important, open questions and
motivate a new electron-ion collider (EIC) to study the glue which binds
us all.