DUNE Conference May 18-22 / From the Black Hills to the Frontiers of Physics: A Global Experiment Beneath South Dakota
Join us for an evening of science, stories, and liquid-nitrogen ice cream from 7 pm - 8:30 pm on Tuesday May 19 in the Surbeck ballroom on SD Mines campus with a public outreach talk by Prof. Kate Shaw from the University of Sussex/UK.
Deep beneath the Black Hills, in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, a remarkable transformation is underway. At the Sanford Underground Research Facility, scientists and engineers are building one of the most ambitious physics experiments ever conceived: the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
Hosted by Fermilab in Illinois, where a powerful particle beam begins its 1,300 km journey through the Earth, DUNE will allow physicists to study the elusive particles called neutrinos: tiny, nearly-massless particles that are all around us. By studying them, scientists hope to understand why the universe is made of matter, and ultimately, why we are here at all.
DUNE brings together more than 1,500 scientists from 220+ institutions across 38 countries, in a shared effort to build a clearer picture of how the universe works. Discover the scale of this international collaboration and how this experiment is tackling some of the biggest questions about the universe.
