Gabriel Lewis Bridges, Columbia – (GAPS) an Antarctic balloon mission searching for dark matter

Gabriel Lewis Bridges, PhD candidate, Department of Physics, Columbia University

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) an Antarctic balloon mission searching for dark matter with cosmic-ray antimatter

THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT

Join us LIVE in the WAS Classroom for this lecture, featuring our speaker joining us remotely. This event WILL be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom, but we’d love to see you in person in the classroom at the Westport Observatory. As always, the talk will be posted to the Westport Astronomical Society’s YouTube channel afterwards.

Gabriel is a PhD candidate studying particle astrophysics. His interest in uncovering the dark secrets of the universe came as no surprise to his friends, family, or the public school educators who shaped his path, all of whom bore witness to him discovering video games through the NASA website and spending his Saturdays computing the entropy of plasma waves. When he isn’t lost in programming simulations or integrating Si(Li) detectors into the GAPS experiment, he can sometimes be found mixing craft cocktails – which makes him an asset both in and out of the lab.