[AstroNet] Free Public lecture by John Ellis (CERN)

[Claire Lee]

Hi all

John Ellis will be giving two free public talks on High Energy Physics, 
CERN and the LHC next week.

Date: Monday 15 December
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Place: MTN Sciencentre <http://www.mtnsciencentre.org.za/>, Canal Walk, 
Cape Town 

Date: Wednesday 17 December
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Place: Sci-Bono <http://www.sci-bono.co.za/>, Newtown, Johannesburg 
<http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/picture.php?albumid=139&pictureid=1613>
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36304079203>

Please note that the talks are free but booking is essential (through 
MTN Sciencentre or Sci-Bono).

About John Ellis:

John Ellis attended Cambridge University and earned his Ph.D. in 
theoretical particle physics in 1971. After post-doctoral positions at 
Stanford University and Caltech, he went to CERN, where he has worked 
ever since. His research interests focus on the phenomenological aspects 
of particle physics, though he has also made important contributions to 
astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity. Most of his publications 
relate directly to experiment, from interpreting measurements and the 
results of searches for new particles, to exploring the physics that 
could be done with future accelerators. He was one of the pioneers of 
research at the interface between particle physics and cosmology, which 
has since become a sub-specialty of its own: particle astrophysics. He 
was awarded the Maxwell Medal of the UK Institute of Physics in 1982 and 
its Dirac Medal in 2005, and was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of 
London in 1985. In addition to his theoretical research, John Ellis has 
been an analyst and advocate of new accelerators, particularly the LHC. 
He played a leading role in the first 1984 workshop on LHC physics, and 
has written many articles on searches for Higgs bosons, supersymmetric 
particles and other new physics at the LHC, both for the particle 
physics community and at a more popular level. He is well known for his 
efforts to help countries around the world, including South Africa, get 
involved in CERN scientific activities.
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