Inviting all for 'A guided tour of the Higgs Boson Discovery and the search beyond' by Prof. B Ananthanarayan.

In this talk he will present an accessible introduction to the phenomena that require the Higgs mechanism in the electro-weak interactions, and the prediction of the Higgs Boson and highlight the features of the great LHC experiment at CERN.

Many of the unsolved problems in the field of elementary particle physics such as dark matter will be commented upon and what we hope to see in the coming years at the LHC and elsewhere.

Prof. Ananthanarayan was born and raised in Hyderabad until he went to IIT Madras in 1980 for B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering and then a Masters and Ph. D. from the University of Delaware. After post-doctoral stints in PRL, Ahmedabad and Universities of Lausanne and Bern in Switzerland, he came to IISc, Bangalore in 1996 and has been there ever since. He has Chaired the Centre for HIgh Energy for over 7 years and has been awarded the Rustom Choksi Award for Excellence in Science for 2014, and holds the MSIL Chair of the DIvision of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of IISc. He was Homi Bhabha Fellow 2009-2011 and serves on the editorial board of Current Science and the European Physical Journal. He has a keen interest in bringing science to the people and has communicated in writing and in speech for a couple of decades.

This session should benefit everyone from young adults of 12th standard to adults.

Entry: Free