Friday, September 17, 2004

Professor Fridolin Weber,

Dept of Physics, SDSU,

"Strangeness in Nuclear and Astro Physics"

2:00 pm in room P-148

Abstract: In 1984, Edward Witten of Princeton University demonstrated that strange quark matter could be more stable than atomic nuclei. This finding is one of the most startling predictions of modern physics with far-reaching implications of greatest importance for nuclear, particle and astrophysics. In this talk I will provide a pedestrian's approach to the hypothesis and its implications for nuclear and astrophysics.