Chadwick and Meitner: Discoveries that changed the world

Professor Gerry Lander Speaker: Professor Gerry Lander, Former Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin Grenoble, France Prof. Lander retired at the end of 2005 as Director of the Institute for Transuranium Elements (an European Commission Laboratory) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and is now living in Grenoble. He has returned to doing science, at least part time! His […]

APPEAL 10 Future Accelerator Projects

From Accelerator and Particle Physics to Cancer Treatment Manjit Dosanjh, CERN https://www.iceccancer.org/about-icec/leadership/manjit-dosanjh/ https://www.adams-institute.ac.uk/news/manjit-dosanjh-appointed-visiting-professor-john-adams-institute-oxford-physics-department https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHU17r1iRU https://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/event/4899/contributions/16507/attachments/13313/16056/Dosanjh-PRAE_Talk-October_2018.pdf My notes from the lecture (if they don’t make sense then it is entirely my fault) Physics technologies involved with the discovery of the Higgs particle A way of illustrating the process Physics technologies for cancer The challenge isn’t the […]

APPEAL 10 Future Accelerator Projects

After the Higgs Discovery Linear Colliders for Higgs Factories! Philip Burrows Interim Director, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science Oxford University https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/burrows https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-burrows-23a73328/ https://www.adams-institute.ac.uk/news/linear-collider-%E2%80%93-uk-meeting-john-adams-institute-oxford-september-2013-philip-burrows My notes from the lecture (if they don’t make sense then it is entirely my fault) John Adams Institute A centre of excellence for advanced and novel accelerator technology, providing expertise, […]

APPEAL 10 Future Accelerator Projects

Welcome to the Big Bang Experience A Brief History and Future of the Large Hadron Collider Dr Stephen Gibson Royal Holloway University of London, Physics Department https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/stephen-gibson(70f6a5f7-e7ad-4b38-a72c-1df1dd76071c).html My notes from the lecture (if they don’t make sense then it is entirely my fault) Perceptions of physicists in the media The Big Bang Theory: how not […]

APPEAL 10 Future Accelerator Projects

Introduction to Accelerators Physics and Particle Colliders Physics and Particle Colliders 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/ My notes from the lecture (if they don’t make sense then it is entirely my fault) Introduction […]

APPEAL 10 Future Accelerator Projects

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 […]

Connecting with people: Developing unity and understanding under the night sky

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 […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

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 […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

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 […]

Particle physics – Beyond the standard model

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 […]