Tuesday September 5, 2017
5:30pm
Della Pietra Family Auditorium, Room 103 of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
In the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the basic laws of Physics in the infinitely small – and the infinitely large – and how the two are intimately connected. New windows have expanded our understanding, and many unexpected questions have emerged. This is an exhilarating time in history. New tools, both theoretical and observational, may lead in the next decade to major advances in our understanding of the universe. As in the past, when major discoveries are made about the fundamental laws of Nature, not only is our view of the world enriched, but also our life is transformed.
A good place to explore the discoveries from the past decades is in the description of symmetry, symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson in High Energy Physics: why, how and where to…. in a nutshell. These talks will present what we know and what we seek in the fundamental laws of Nature; how we go about answering basic questions in high energy experiments, how much we have learned, and how the technical developments needed to make discoveries have changed society. They will also delineate the boundaries of our knowledge and the known unknowns in fundamental high energy physics and cosmology.
Speakers:
Michelangelo Mangano, Head of the LHC Physics Center at CERN, Geneva, CH
Young-Kee Kim,Chair of the Department of Physics, the University of Chicago, and Former Deputy Director, FERMILAB, Batavia, IL, USA
Joe Lykken, Deputy Director, FERMILAB, Batavia, IL, USA
For more information and biographies on each speaker please visit: scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/22963
These public talks are organized within the workshop of the ATLAS Flavor Tagging/Higgs to bb Workshop, that will take place at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, the Wang Center and the Physics and Astronomy Department, all at Stony Brook University.
Organizers:
A. Abanov, L. Alvarez-Gaume, S. Dawson, P. Francavilla, J. McFayden, J. Hobbs,
P. Meade, G. Piacquadio, D. Tsybychev.
