5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Auditorium (building 20) or tune in to the KAUST Facebook page to watch it live. By John Ellis, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College in London and CERN (Geneva).
These are fundamental questions about the Universe and our place within it that particle physicists address by studying the fundamental constituents of matter using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Its collisions recreate the conditions in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang, enabling us to investigate what happened in the distant past and suggesting what may happen to the Universe in the distant future. Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, LHC experiments are now looking for particles of dark matter.
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About the speaker
John Ellis holds the Clerk Maxwell Professorship of Theoretical Physics at King’s College in London. After his 1971 PhD from Cambridge University, he worked at SLAC, Caltech, and CERN (Geneva), where he was Theory Division Leader for six years. Much of his work relates directly to interpreting results of searches for new particles. He was one of the first to study how the Higgs boson could be produced and discovered. He is currently very active in efforts to understand the Higgs particle discovered recently at CERN, as well as its implications for possible new physics such as dark matter and supersymmetry. John Ellis was awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize by the Institute of Physics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London and of the Institute of Physics, and is an Honorary Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and of King’s College London.
Signing session after the keynote with John Ellis for his book Quantum Reflections available for sale.