Department of Physics and Astronomy to host major meeting on the future of fundamental physics

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield will host a meeting of the world's leading particle physicists on the 13th and 14th June, dedicated to discussing the future of fundamental physics following the discovery of a Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Speakers will include 2012 Milner Prize Winner Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS Princeton), 2006 J.J. Sakurai Prize Winner Prof. Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford) and Prof. Chuck Bennett (Johns Hopkins University) Principal Investigator of the WMAP Cosmic Microwave Background experiment. The meeting will precede the world-premier at the Sheffield DocFest film festival of 'Particle Fever', a new feature-length documentary on particle physics in the time of the LHC, produced by David Kaplan and edited by triple Academy Award winner Walter Murch.