Big Bang hits Townsville

The international anti-matter conference will be held on Magnetic Island this weekend.

One of the issues on the experts’ galactic agenda is understanding why the Big Bang created a universe dominated by matter and not anti-matter.

The conference will showcase the latest international research on how electrons and positrons (the most common anti-particle) interact with matter.

Professor Ron White, Head of Physical Sciences in the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University will co-chair the conference.

• What: The biennial POSMOL Conference (Low-Energy Positron and Positronium Physics (POS) and Electron-Molecule Collisions and Swarms (MOL) )
• When: 22 – 24 July 2017
• Where: Magnetic Island
• Who: 100 scientists from all over the world.

Background:

• The POSMOL conference is a satellite meeting of the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), which will be held in Cairns from 26 July to 1 August.
• Electron-molecule collisions are the basis for many of the fundamental processes that make life and the POSMOL conference seeks to further understand how positrons interact with atoms, molecules and materials.