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The story of oscillating neutrinos

State: 
Declined
Contact Details
I am the event manager: 
I am the event manager
Event Manager Info
1. Event Manager Organisation: 
Uni of York / Physics and Astronomy section
2. Event Manager First Name: 
Kate
3. Event Manager Surname: 
Lancaster
9. Event Manager Email address: 
Event type and format
17. Length: 
2 hour
18. What will the format of your event be?: 
Talks/presentations - 1 person presenting new science or for a specific audience with Q & A; or a TED talk
Panel discussion/debate - exploring a subject with more than one speaker with lots of audience interaction
19. Please give any details about the format of your event you feel are relevant.: 
Talks by our experts followed by a 30 min panel that gives the audience ample opportunity to ask questions and interact with the experts.
20. Location/venue: 
Venue and location to be allocated by the Festival team
21. Venue requirements: 
AV / data projector
22. Audience Level: 
General Public
Event details
12. Event title: 
The story of oscillating neutrinos
13. Description of the core message of your event and key topics to be covered (c.100 words): 
It is a century since Bruno Pontecorvo was born; the first to suggest neutrinos could oscillate between different “flavours”. This provided a solution to what was known as the “solar neutrino problem”, in which the number of neutrinos detected from the sun was much lower than predicted. This session will explore the story of how neutrino oscillations were discovered. We will also look at the modern field of neutrino physics and what this has taught us about the standard model and the origins of neutrino mass.

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