On Thursday, March 8, 2012, two special seminars will be held, one at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing and the other at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) in Berkeley, CA, to discuss the most recent progress at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment. The Beijing seminar will be conducted by Yifang Wang, Director of IHEP and co-spokesperson for the experiment, beginning at 16:00 hours (4:00 p.m.) Beijing time on March 8. In Berkeley the seminar will be conducted by Kam-Biu Luk, Berkeley Lab physicist, professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, and co-spokesperson of the experiment, beginning at 12:15 hours (12:15 p.m.) Pacific Standard Time on March 8.

Live webcasts of both seminars will be available:

For the Beijing seminar, the web address is http://webcast.ihep.ac.cn.

For the Berkeley seminar, the web address is http://hosting.epresence.tv/LBL//1.aspx.

Contacts:

Tongzhou Xu, IHEP Public Affairs, +86-10-88235008, xutz@ihep.ac.cn

Paul Preuss, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs, 510-486-6249, paul_preuss@lbl.gov