Friday, 19 October 2012

5.00 p.m.

SISSA Main Lecture Hall

Via Bonomea, 265

Trieste

FRANK CLOSE

University of Oxford, UK

FROM ABDUS SALAM TO THE HIGGS BOSON

Frank Close will tell about fifty years of physics history in a public lecture. He will explain the long path made up of sacrifice, disappointment and discoveries in search for the Higgs boson, from the beginning until now.

Everybody is welcome to attend.

Frank Edwin Close is an Oxford physicist and an expert in Physics of elementary particles, as well as a populariser of science. He has written several books, such as "The Cosmic Onion", "Neutrino" and "The Infinity Puzzle", whose issues will be discussed during the lecture. After obtaining a PhD in Physics at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Dick Dalitz, Close worked at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and CERN for many years and then at the Rutherford Laboratory, as the head of the Theoretical Physics Sector. At CERN he was also in charge of communication and since 2001 he has been Professor at the University of Oxford. Currently he is delving into the life and works of Bruno Pontecorvo.