Sean Carroll to give special CCAPP Public Lecture

[John Beacom]

Dear colleagues:

We would be grateful for your help in advertising this special CCAPP public lecture.

Sean Carroll is an excellent speaker, and there is tremendous interest in the groundbreaking research at the Large Hadron Collider, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson.  Groups in our Physics Department are playing important roles in this work; for example, see http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/hunting-the-higgs-a-physics-detective-story.

I expect that this talk will be very enjoyable for everyone -- from professional scientists, to our friends and family who wonder what we do all day, to our undergraduate students who probably saw Sean talking about the Higgs on the Colbert Report (see below).

Best regards,
John

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The Ohio State Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) is proud to present the following public lecture:

The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Sean M. Carroll (Caltech)

8:00-9:00pm, Wednesday 20 February 2013
1153 Smith Lab, The Ohio State University
Free, open to all, and intended for general audiences
http://ccapp.osu.edu/PublicLectures.html#seancarroll

For decades, particle physicists have searched for the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece to the "Standard Model" that explains the world we see.  In July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced that they found it.  I will explain why the Higgs boson is so important, talk about the enormous challenge physicists overcame to build the LHC and get it running, and consider what the future of particle physics will look like.

Sean Carroll is a physicist at the California Institute of Technology.  He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University.  His research focuses on theoretical physics and cosmology, especially the origin and constituents of the universe.  He has contributed to models of interactions between dark matter, dark energy, and ordinary matter; alternative theories of gravity; and violations of fundamental symmetries.  Carroll is the author of From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time; Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity; and The Particle at the End of the Universe.

He has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report (November 29, 2012 and March 10, 2010) and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Jennifer Ouellette.  His website is preposterousuniverse.com

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John Beacom
Professor and Director of CCAPP (http://ccapp.osu.edu)
Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy
Ohio State University
email: beacom.7 at osu.edu, phone: (614) 247 - 8102
Dept. of Physics, OSU, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
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