Christos Leonidopoulos Inaugural Lecture: Searches for New Physics, the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and the future of Colliders

Abstract

In this lecture, I will give a historical overview of searches for New Physics at various colliders around the globe.

This has been a momentous effort requiring ingenious ideas, laborious planning and design, and international collaboration among thousands of scientists over the last decades. Along this narrative, I will share some of my personal work on searches for hidden symmetries of Nature and triggering systems, a term used to describe a combination of hardware and software selection algorithms that filter through massive collision rates in real time. I will also offer my personal view on what lies ahead for Collider Physics.

Biography

Professor Christos Leonidopoulos is a Chair in Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked on the Belle experiment at KEK (Japan), the D0 experiment at Fermilab (USA) and the CMS and ATLAS experiments at LHC (CERN, Switzerland). He is involved with the Future Circular Collider Design Study and the European Committee for Future Accelerators. Before joining Edinburgh as a Chancellor's Fellow in 2012, he was a Senior LPC Fellow at Fermilab, a Research Physics Scientist at CERN, and a Research Scientist at Columbia University. He received MSc and PhD degrees from Princeton University. He has a BSc degree from National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Refreshments

The lecture will be followed by a reception outside the Alder Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building.

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