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Hi all<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">John
Ellis will be giving two free public talks on High Energy Physics, CERN
and the LHC next week.<br>
<br>
Date: Monday 15 December<br>
Time: 18:00 for 18:30<br>
Place:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.mtnsciencentre.org.za/" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 156);">MTN Sciencentre</a>, Canal Walk, Cape
Town<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<br>
Date: Wednesday 17 December<br>
Time: 18:00 for 18:30<br>
Place:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.sci-bono.co.za/" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 156);">Sci-Bono</a>, Newtown, Johannesburg<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/picture.php?albumid=139&pictureid=1613"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 156);"></a><br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36304079203"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 156);"></a><br>
<br>
Please note that the talks are free but booking is essential (through
MTN Sciencentre or Sci-Bono).<br>
<br>
About John Ellis:<br>
<br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">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.</span><br>
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