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SUMMARY:Lecture - The Time It Takes 
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 Abstract\n
 Maria Goeppert Mayer, who won the Nobel 
 Prize in Physics, calculated how long atoms 
 took to decay and understood the reasons some 
 were stable. I am interested in whether there 
 are new elementary particles which have 
 long lifetimes being produced in the proton-proton 
 collisions at the Large Hadron Collider 
 in Switzerland. In this lecture I will discuss 
 the work of Goeppert-Mayer done before 1960 
 and the work we are doing presently at CERN.\n
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 Bio\n
 Melissa 
 Franklin is an experimental 
 particle physicist who studies proton-proton 
 collisions produced by Large Hadron Collider 
 (LHC). She is a collaborator on the ATLAS experiment 
 at the LHC where she works in collaboration 
 with over 3,000 physicists. Franklin 
 was co-discoverer of the top quark and the Higgs 
 boson. She is presently studying the properties 
 of the Higgs boson and searching for new 
 physics beyond the Standard Model. Professor 
 Franklin, born and raised in Canada, received 
 her bachelor of science degree from the University 
 of Toronto and her PhD from Stanford 
 University. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow 
 at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, was an assistant 
 professor at the University of Illinois in 
 Champagne/Urbana and was a Junior Fellow in 
 the Society of Fellows at Harvard, before joining 
 the Harvard faculty in 1989. In 1992, she 
 became the first woman to receive tenure in 
 the Physics department and she served as chair 
 of the Physics department from 2010-2014.\n
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 Price: free\n
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 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
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