Big Science at the High Energy Frontier 6th July 2019: Organized by CERN, JAI, STFC & University of Oxford Professor Emmanuel Tsesmelis CERN & John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science https://emmanuel.web.cern.ch/ https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/tsesmelise https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-tsesmelis-4bb10345/ https://www.ellines.com/en/achievements/11822-anaplirotis-epikefalis-diethnon-scheseon-sto-cern/ The European Strategy for Particle Physics is the cornerstone of Europe’s decision-making process for the long-term future of the field. The […]

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Professor Richard Hechter https://richardhechter.weebly.com/ Richard Hechter is an Associate Professor of Science Education in the Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Manitoba. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota where he studied the science teaching self-efficacy of preservice elementary science teachers. His current research program […]

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The future of Particle Physics Prof. Jon Butterworth Professor Butterworth is a physics professor at UCL who works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. He previously worked on the HERA electron-proton collider in Hamburg. He won the Chadwick prize of the Institute of Physics in 2013 for his pioneering experimental and phenomenological […]

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Dark Matter searches Dr Christopher McCabe Dr McCabe is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Physics at King’s College London. He obtained his DPhil in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford in 2011. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University […]

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Supersymmetry searches Dr Sarah Williams As a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, Dr Williams’ research focuses on searches for new physics beyond the standard model, including models that predict extra spatial dimensions in the universe and those that could help explain what dark matter is made of. Her career in particle physics was […]

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The decay of the b quark and the new physics Dr Harry Cliff Dr Harry Cliff is a particle physicist based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge who works on the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN, near Geneva. Dr Cliff’s research involves searching for signs of new […]

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Neutrino physics Dr Teppei Katori Dr Katori is a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He obtained his PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and after doing a postdoc at MIT he came to the UK for his current position. He has a wide interest in physics, from nuclear physics and particle physics […]

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New physics with the muon – the anomalous muon magnetic moment Dr Gavin Hesketh Dr Hesketh is an associate professor of physics at University College London. As an experimental particle physicist, his research is focused on the search for physics beyond the standard model. With a background in the collider energy frontier, he now works […]

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The standard model: its successes and limitations Dr Mika Vesterinen Dr. Vesterinen is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. He completed both his degree (2007) and PhD at the University of Manchester (2011). His thesis was on a measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum distribution and of the ZZ and WZ […]

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The Faulkes Telescope Project: bringing the universe in to the classroom Dr Paul Roche, Cardiff University https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/913830-roche-paul https://twitter.com/spaceambassador?lang=en This workshop demonstrated how schools can use robotic telescopes located around the globe to image astronomical objects, allowing students to participate in real research programmes. The session showed how simple it is to use the telescopes (both […]

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