Ivo van Vulpen seminar @ Amsterdam University College

25 september 2012

Who’s in Town

On a regular basis AUC organises small-scale seminars by inviting interesting guest speakers "who are in town" for presentations and debates with members of the academic community. The seminars are organised with AUC students, as part of their extra-curricular activities. They aim to connect debates in science and society, focusing on "the big questions".

25 september 2012-18.00-20.00: Dr. Ivo van Vulpen: Quest for Higgs

Mankind’s greatest achievements have arisen from the curiosity to understand the physical world around. After Newton’s laws of classical mechanics, Einstein’s relativity and Maxwell’s understanding of the similarities between magnetism and electricity, we are now heading for a revolutionary new adventure: exploring the unknown world of the Higgs boson. Dr. Ivo van Vulpen, Assistant Professor at the UvA/Nikhef, will introduce this particle that is of fundamental importance for particle physics. After having explained the Standard Model and having given some insights into the quest for the Higgs boson, we will also present the very latest results on the Higgs boson from the experiments at CERN and look into the future of particle physics. Is it really a Higgs? And what comes next?

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