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Flandrau: The UA Science Center is holding its next Science Café, a casual forum for people to meet and discuss a particular science topic with a University of Arizona scientist in the relaxed atmosphere of a local restaurant.

Michael Shupe, professor of physics, will give a short talk titled "Simply Smashing: The Large Hadron Collider Ramps Up." The collider, the world's biggest scientific experiment, will zip beams of sub-atomic particles around a 17-mile underground tunnel beneath the border of France and Switzerland.

Scientists expect that the LHC, scheduled to resume activity in early February, will reveal secrets about our world. Shupe, a member of the UA's LHC team, will talk about scientists' hopes and dreams for this Big Science. The machine may detect dark matter, the elusive particle known as the Higgs boson, and, even better – things as yet unnamed.

Seating is limited so please arrive early. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.