Lessons from the International Space Station | Samuel Ting | Nobel Conference

Samuel Ting presents "The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment on the International Space Station" at the 49th annual Nobel Conference: The Universe at Its Limits. Which took place at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2013.

Samuel C.C. Ting, Ph.D.
Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Experimental physicist Samuel Ting shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics with Burton Richter of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.” Their discovery of the J/ψ meson nuclear particle opened the door to the identification of a whole family of new particles. Ting is also the principal investigator for the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment installed on the International Space Station in May 2011, a project involving 500 scientists from 56 institutions and 16 countries.

Subjects:
-Beginning of Lecture (6:07)
-Launch of AMS (7:44)
-Physics of Charged Cosmic Rays (8:13)
-Goals of AMS (10:56)
-AMS: An International Collaboration (14:06)
-Testing AMS (19:05)
-AMS in Space (23:58)
-Results of First Two Years (28:17)
-Comparison to Theoretical Models (33:45)
-New Results (35:47)
-PAMELA (38:15)
-Future Use of AMS (41:04)
-Discoveries in Physics (44:49)
-The Future of Discovery (48:07)
-Beginning of Q&A (56:10)

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