LHC Physics is Focus of Theoretical Physics Program at Institute for Advanced Study
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The 2013 Prospects in Theoretical Physics program will convene graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from around the world at the Institute for Advanced Study July 15 to 26 to explore “LHC Physics.” This will mark the twelfth anniversary of the annual summer program and will cover the latest developments at the Large Hadron Collider.
"The topic of LHC physics is very timely,” stated Chiara Nappi, Professor at Princeton University and an organizer of this year’s program. “With the discovery of a Higgs-like boson a year ago, Prospects in Theoretical Physics will offer participants the opportunity to discuss the latest interpretations and analyses and the implications for the field.”
Prospects in Theoretical Physics builds on the strong relationship of the research groups at the Institute and Princeton University, and faculty members from both institutions are involved in the program. The intensive two-week residential program is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars engaged in all areas of theoretical physics. More than 100 participants from some 15 countries, including the United States, will attend a range of lectures on topics such as the experimental results of the Higgs and prospects for physics beyond the standard model. In addition to lectures, participants will work through some of the basic experimental papers in daily homework and discussion sessions.
Prospects in Theoretical Physics, first held at the Institute in 2002, seeks to help the physics community train the next generation of scholars in various areas of theoretical physics. In past years the program has covered a range of topics including cosmology, supersymmetry, astrophysics and computation and biology. A special effort is made to reach out to women and minorities, along with graduate students in small universities who typically do not have the same opportunities and access to leaders in the field as graduate students in large research institutions.
Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2013 is jointly organized by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute, Chiara Nappi of Princeton University and Scott Thomas of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. In addition to the organizers, lecturers include Beate Heinemann of the University of California, Berkeley; Elliot Lipeles of The University of Pennsylvania; Michelangelo Mangano of CERN; Patrick Meade of Stony Brook University; Sunil Somalwar of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Raman Sundrum of the University of Maryland; Jesse Thaler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Natalia Toro of the Perimeter Institute; Chris Tully of Princeton University; Neal Weiner of New York University; and Kathryn Zurek of the University of Michigan.
Additional information may be found at www.sns.ias.edu/pitp.
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