'PARTICLE PHYSICS AND THE NEW CENTURY': Top quark: the heaviest and least understood of the quarks, a family of subatomic particles that are the fundamental building blocks of matter.
Find out more when Robin Erbacher, associate professor of physics at °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ and leader of the team studying the top quark for Fermilab's Collider Detector experiment, presents "To the Top and Beyond: Particle Physics and the New Century," a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in the ARC Ballroom. Admission is $4, or free with student ID. The talk is part of the HEFTI Public Lecture Series sponsored by the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative and the Department of Physics.
HUMANITIES GOING 'BEYOND THE BOOK': The Davis Humanities Institute announced a conference titled Beyond the Book: Humanities Scholarship in the Digital Age, featuring leaders in the field of digital scholarship and publication. The conference is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center.
The cost is free, but preregistration is required; call (530) 742-4327 or e-mail dhi@ucdavis.edu. Organizers said lunch will be provided for people who register by Jan. 25.
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