Colloquium speaker, James Wells (University of Michigan) today at 3:45pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please join us for the Physics Colloquium today, at 3:45 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception at 3:30PM in the Atrium. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:         James Wells (University of Michigan)
Date:             Tuesday, April 3,  2018
Time:             3:45PM
Place:            1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:               the Theoretical Physics Ecosystem Behind the Higgs Boson Discovery



Abstract:   A simplified history of the Higgs boson has Peter Higgs positing it in the mid-1960s followed by a long wait while experimentalists progressively turned up collider energies until it appeared as expected several decades later. However, in order for both the hypothesis and the experimental discovery to occur, a vast and complex theory ecosystem, across multiple subfields, had to thrive in the years before Higgs's hypothesis and in the years that followed, building up to its discovery, which was not universally believed would even happen. In the process I describe how important the discovery of the Higgs boson has been to particle physics and what it means for the future. I also provide a response to Phil Anderson's statement in Nature: "Maybe the Higgs boson [of particle physics] is fictitious!"
The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule


Also, there is the speaker student discussion starting just after the colloquium, at 4:45pm in the Smith Seminar Room.



Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Program Coordinator
Department of Physics
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