If you want to explain what was and what is, you need particle physics. Because everything we see consists of molecules and atoms, and atoms in turn consist of atomic nuclei and electrons. The atomic ...

A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway. Elementary ...

The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) is an annual summer school in theoretical particle physics. TASI was founded in 1984 and since 1989 has been hosted at the University of Colorado ...

Scientific Organizers: Clay Córdova (Chicago), David Poland (Yale), Sasha Zhiboedov (CERN) The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures given over a four-week period, three or four ...

Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms. Picture this: A stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying.

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics Informatics, Brunel University of London It is often claimed that the Ancient Greeks were the first to identify objects that have no size, yet are able to build up ...