Friday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m.

WAA Meeting & Lecture
Solving the Missing Baryon Problem with Fast Radio Bursts
Isabel Medlock
Department of Astronomy, Yale University

Fast radio bursts are mysterious pulses of radio energy lasting milliseconds to a few seconds. Their origin is still a mystery. Another cosmic mystery is that almost half the baryonic matter (matter made of up protons, neutrons and electrons) that was created shortly after the Big Bang seems to be unaccounted for in today’s universe. Where might this matter be, and in what form? How can it be detected? This talk will explore what has been described as “one of the major unsolved problems in physics.”