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Centenary Symposium 2012: Discovery of Cosmic Rays University of Denver, Denver, CO
June 26-28, 2012
This meeting will be at once a historical review of the developments during the 100 years since the discovery of cosmic rays by Victor Hess, a consolidation and summary of the current new data and understanding,
and a look into the future of the field of cosmic ray research.
Local Organizing Committee: Robert Amme, Miguel Mostafa, Jonathan Ormes, Neeharika Thakur, Robert Stencel and Lawrence Wiencke.
Program Planning Committee: S. Funk, F. B. McDonald, R. A. Mewaldt, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Mostafa, J. F. Ormes, Chair, S. Wakely, and G. Yodh
Special on campus accommodations for graduate students.
Carl Anderson and Robert Millikan preparing to take the Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railroad to the top of Pike’s Peak, Colorado Springs, CO 1935 - observing the “mesotron” (muon). C. D. Anderson and S. H. Neddermeyer, 1936, “Cloud chamber observations of cosmic-rays at 4300 meter elevation and near sea level”, Phys. Rev. 50, 263.
“The results… appear most likely explainable by the assumption that a radiation of very high penetration power enters our atmosphere from above.”
Viktor Franz Hess
Photo credit: Jimmy Westlake, Colorado Mountain College, 2005
Go to http://portfolio.du.edu/CR2012 for meeting information, registration forms, hotel information and tours. Early registration is rewarded with decreased fees. Attendance by graduate students is subsidized by the National Science Foundation.