Science & Society Distinguished Public Talks
The University of New Mexico Conference Center, Auditorium 1634 University Blvd. NE Pizza with the speaker will follow the lecture
Joe Incandela is the Yzurdiaga Chair in Experimental Science and professor of physics at University of California–Santa Barbara. He is the former spokesperson of the compact muon solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of the two experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that discovered the Higgs Boson in 2012. He received the 2013 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (Milner Prize).
Abstract. In 2012, noted physicist Joe Incandela rocked the world by announcing a historic discovery: a new particle resembling the long-sought Higgs boson. This lecture will offer a unique insider view of the Large Hadron Collider, the quest for the Higgs, its profound role in defining the structure and evolution of our universe, and what recent data has shown, with implications for the future.