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| The IET Prestige Lecture Series 19 May 2009 - The IET, Savoy Place, London, UK
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Programme
About the event The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been described as the world's largest scientific experiment, and physicists and engineers from all over the world have invested years of effort in designing and constructing it. Yet, despite its size, the LHC has been built to study the very smallest components of the universe. Although we know a lot about these fundamental building blocks of nature from previous experiments, we've realised that we need to discover and understand far more. Tara Shears will describe some of the outstanding mysteries and open questions in particle physics, which the LHC has been designed to help investigate. Three of the most pressing questions being: the question of mass and our search for the Higgs boson; the problem of antimatter; the search for dark matter. The hope is that data from the LHC will shed light on at least some of these mysteries, and Tara will show how the plan to analyse this data and understand more of the universe. She will describe the experiments, which detect the outcome of the beam collisions, and also the intention to manipulate and make sense of the huge volumes of data that will be recorded. Lyn Evans will describe some of the technical innovation and challenges in the LHC design and construction. About the speakers
Tara began her scientific career in 1991 by taking a PhD in particle physics with the University of Cambridge, where she analysed data from the OPAL experiment at CERN and measured the lifetime of one particular fundamental particle - the bottom quark. After her PhD she remained on the OPAL experiment, first with a PPARC postdoctoral fellowship and then a CERN fellowship, investigating the production of W bosons.
The citation for his election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, for example, was “for contributions to the physics of particle accelerators and storage rings, in particular to the development of the understanding of the fundamental limitations of high-energy hadron colliding beam devices”. Lyn has been at the forefront of the development of the world’s most powerful accelerators for more than 30 years. Since 1994, he has led the design and construction of the LHC at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) near Geneva. The LHC will open up the energy frontier and will certainly make many rich discoveries. A drinks reception will be held after the presentations, which is free of charge and open to all. We would welcome all attendees to join us for this networking opportunity. History of the event Originally The Young Professionals’ Lecture was the ‘IEE Silvanus P. Thompson Lecture’ - two lectures that ran concurrently and following a re-brand in 2005, the Young Professionals' Event changed format to a single annual event. The change of name reflects the intended target audience of both engineers and technologists, and implies an informal networking opportunity for those who attend. In 2008 it became part of the IET’s long running annual Prestige Lecture Series which includes the Kelvin Lecture, the first of which was given by Silvanus P. Thompson. About the IOP The IOP is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of over 36,000 and is a leading communicator of physics-related science to all audiences. Contact us For further details you can contact us on: Email: eventsa2@theiet.org
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Dr Tara Shears 
Lyn Evans