DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013
TIME: 12:15 PM
PLACE: MONROE HALL ROOM #127
Abstract: The main purpose of elementary particle physics is to understand properties of elementary particles and fundamental interactions among them. In this talk, I will begin with a brief review on the success of the Standard Model, the best theory we know so far, for describing elementary particle physics. This review includes the current status of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments and the recent discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson at the LHC. In spite of its great successes, the Standard Model suffers from several serious problems, which requires extensions of the Standard Model, that is, new physics beyond the Standard Model. In addition to the LHC experiments, there are many on-going and proposed experiments for exploring new physics and it has been highly expected that new physics phenomena will be discovered in the near future. The discovery of new physics beyond the Standard Model should lead to a revolution of elementary particle physics in the next decades and promises remarkable progress in our understandings of Nature.
Refreshment will be provided.