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Upcoming TH institutes

In the following months, two TH Institutes will be organized: the CERN-CKC TH Institute on Numerical Holography, from 8 to 18 December, and Understanding the Early Universe, from 6 to 16 January. The CERN-CKC TH Institute on Numerical Holography…

Public lecture: "The Long Road to the LHC"

Public lecture: "The Long Road to the LHC" by Prof. Lyn Evans, Dr Daniel Treille and Prof. Peter Jenni. Lecture by Lyn Evans The key to the discovery of the Higgs boson has been the development of particle accelerators at CERN through the years. I…

Discussing the FCC plans with Michelangelo Mangano

The FCC Kick-off meeting took place in Geneva earlier in February as a response to one of the directions emphasized by the European Strategy for Particle Physics. But is it the right time to start exploring this direction? Michelangelo Mangano says…

2014 CERN TH Winter School

CERN’s Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory is the analytic continuation of the yearly training school of the former EC-RTN string network "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe". The 2014 edition of the…

TH retreat

The meeting offered the chance to those working within the group to get an overview of the ongoing research activities, find out more about the recent results and exchange ideas in a stimulating environment. Moreover, it helped the members of the…

Workshop: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck

Over the next two weeks, the Theory Unit will host a workshop in "Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck" from 17 to 28 June. During the workshop implications of the first cosmology results from Planck will be discussed following the first…

Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory

Superstring Theory is mathematically equivalent to a completely deterministic automaton,yet the world it describes appears to be quantum mechanical. In his seminar, Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University) discussed how can we reconcile these…

The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six

Frank Close delivered a talk about his book The Infinity Puzzle (http://www.infinitypuzzlebook.com/) that covers the history of 50 years of particle physics, the emergence of the Standard Model realizing the unification of the weak and…

The Higgs boson, a History.

Luis Álvarez-Gaumé and John Ellis discuss the history of the Higgs mechanism, indicate its importance for the Standard Model and examine its implications for the scientific community in a paper published in Nature Physics (January 2011). You can…

First Planck Results and Cosmological Implications

The ESA satellite Planck has measured CMB anisotropies over the full sky with unprecedented sensitivity. The collaboration has released its first CMB temperature maps on the 21st of March. Julien Lesgourgues presented a summary of these new CMB…

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