Smashing Physics

Professor Jon Butterworth from UCL visits the ATOM Society for our April event.

He will discuss how we do physics at the ‘energy frontier’ and what we have learned from it – including the discovery of the Higgs boson and what that means. He’ll also look at what we still don’t understand, and what the next steps might be.

Prof Butterworth works on the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. He writes the “Life and Physics” blog for the Guardian, and has written a book on the Higgs discovery called “Smashing Physics”.