Public Events

Public Events

The public events are intended to get a general audience in touch with the exciting world of particle physics and the origin of the universe. The Local Organizing Team offers an outreach programme free of charge for the interested public.

Pint of Science Wien – extra Pints „Dark Matter“

Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival which brings researchers to your local pub / cafe / space to share their scientific discoveries with you. On the occasion of the „International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics“ researchers from the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) will present the latest scientific discoveries and experiments on „Dark Matter“ at the Pint of Science Festival in Vienna.

German speaking evening

  • Date: Monday, 22 May 2023
  • Josef Pradler: „The Big Bang Theory“
  • Leonie Einfalt: „Dunkle Materie – oder wie man nach etwas sucht, was man nicht sieht“
  • More information about the event, entrance, and registration: pintofscience.at

English speaking evening

  • Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
  • Valentyna Mokina: „What is common between Monte Carlo, Dark Matter, Crystals, Fridge and Mountains?“
  • Gianluca Inguglia: „Precision particle physics and the hunt for new phenomena“
  • More information about the event, entrance, and registration: pintofscience.at

More information

  • Time: 19:00
  • Address: Cafe Derwisch, Lerchenfelder Gürtel 29, 1160 Wien
  • Ticket costs: € 3
  • Map: Please have a look at the map for the respective locations.

Planetariumsshow „Das Phantom des Universums“

„Das Phantom des Universums“ is an exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. The show will reveal the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky, the scientist who coined the term „dark matter.“ It describes the astral choreography witnessed by Vera Rubin in the Andromeda galaxy and then plummets deep underground to see the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth, housed in a former gold mine. From there, it journeys across space and time to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, speeding alongside particles before they collide in visually stunning explosions of light and sound, while learning how scientists around the world are collaborating to track down the constituents of dark matter. (Copyright: phantomoftheuniverse.org)
  • Date: Saturday, 26 August 2023
  • Time: 18:00
  • Address: Planetarium Wien, Oswald Thomas Platz 1, 1020 Vienna
  • Place: Sternenkuppel
  • Entrance: The registration for participants is via the Planetarium Wien: science@vhs.at
  • Additional programme: Followed by questions and discussions with particle physicists and refreshments.
  • Cooperation: with the Planetarium Wien
  • Map: Please have a look at the map for the respective locations.

Werkstattgespräche

The „Österreichische Studienstiftung der ÖAW“, the Institute for High Energy Physics (HEPHY) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the local organizing team oft he TAUP2023 invites high school students to look „behind the scene“ at the „International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics 2023 – TAUP2023“. Researchers from HEPHY and international particle physicists will present current projects and provide insights into the fields of activity and working methods of experimental and theoretical particle physics.
  • Date: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
  • Time: 10:00 – 18:00
  • Address: University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna
  • Place: Seminar room 1
  • Entrance: The registration for participants is via the „Österreichische Studienstiftung der ÖAW“.
  • Map: Please have a look at the map for the respective locations.

Using messengers from outer space to understand our Universe and its evolution

by Arthur B. McDonald (McDonald Institute at Queens University, Canada)

By building enormous experiments in unusual locations: deep under-ground, under-water or under-ice, on mountains, in large uninhabited areas or in satellites, scientists have determined a clear picture of how the Universe has evolved since the Big Bang. But there are still large unanswered questions. What is the Dark Matter that permeates our Galaxy with 5 times more mass in the dark spaces than in the stars? Why is the Universe dominated by matter with little anti-matter left over after the Big Bang? What are the details of the mysterious Black Holes observed throughout the universe? What are the properties of the enigmatic neutrino particles? By studying particles and waves from outer space scientists are adding to our understanding of the Universe from the smallest particles to the largest scales.
  • Date: Thursday, 31 August 2023
  • Time: 18:30 (entrance 18:00)
  • Address: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
  • Place: Festsaal
  • Entrance: free
  • Map: Please have a look at the map for the respective locations.