Professor Bob Cousins will present a free public lecture on the Large Hadron Collider and its physics at Winston House, London, on Tuesday 2 November at 7 p.m. Cousins will present the goals of revolutionizing elementary particle physics and the implications for our understanding of the Big Bang and dark matter. The lecture is intended for the general public. Seating is limited, and registration is required. Refreshments will be served following the lecture. For more information on the Large Hadron Collider and CMS, visit www.uslhc.us and http://cms.web.cern.ch/.

UCLA Professor Bob Cousins has spent three years at CERN as a deputy to the leader of one of the huge experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.  "We're going to study the Big Bang as far back as we can take it," said Cousins, whose research group is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and who is principal investigator on a CMS grant funded by the National Science Foundation. "The fundamental questions," he said, "were asked by the ancient Greeks: Where did we come from, what are we made of? How did the universe evolve and what are the forces of the universe?