Assoc Prof Martin Sevior

Duration: 19 min 38 sec
Format: MP3

Our guest for this episode is Associate Professor Martin Sevior from the School of Physics.

"India needs to increase its use of energy by about a factor of ten, ten times more electricity than what it does now. If it does this via the production of coal, then India all by itself will wipe out all of the Kyoto CO2 emission protocols that we!|ve developed." - Associate Professor Martin Sevior

Useful links

School of Physics at the University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Sevior's page in the School of Physics web site.

Martin Sevior obtained his Ph.D. in the field of Nuclear Astro-Physics from the University of Melbourne in 1984. In 1985 he worked at the TRIUMF cyclotron accelerator in Vancouver, Canada. In 1993 he returned to the University of Melbourne and is now working in the field of Experimental Particle Physics. He performs experiments with the world's highest intensity and energy particle accelerators in Japan and at CERN in Switzerland. His employs these to investigate the cause of the Universal Matter-AntiMatter asymmetry (at the Belle experiment in Japan) and the origin of mass at the ATLAS at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. Both experiments probe conditions that last existed less than 1 billionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Martin is the leader of the Experimental Particle Physics group in the School of Physics.

Martin is also a key contributor to the nuclearinfo.net web site. nuclearinfo.net is developed by a group of physicists at the School of Physics

Associate Professor Sevior's detailed article on nuclear power in The Oil Drum.

Martin is also heavily involved in Open Source / Free Software community and is a core developer of the AbiWord word processor.

Associate Professor Sevior's recent journal articles:

• Observation of b -> d gamma and Determination of | V t d / V t s |, D. Mohapatra et al. (The Belle Collaboration), published in PRL 96,221601 (2006)
• Observation of a new narrow charmonium state in exclusive B+ ->K+ pi+pi-J/psi decays, S.-K.Choi, S.L.Olsen, et al.(Belle Collaboration), published in PRL 91, 262001 (2003)
• Observation of Large CP Violation in the Neutral B Meson System, K.Abe, et al.(Belle Collaboration), published in PRL 87, 091802 (2001)

Martin's blog

Credits

Host: Jacky Angus
Producers: Kelvin Param and Eric Van Bemmel
Audio Engineer: Miles Brown
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi
Photography: Kelvin Param

Series Creators: Eric Van Bemmel and Kelvin Param

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