The Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2022 - “What has particle physics done for me?”
Dr Pippa Wells – CERN – After completing her doctorate at the University of Cambridge, Dr Pippa Wells joined CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, to work on the OPAL experiment at the Large Electron-Positron collider. She subsequently moved to the ATLAS collaboration at CERN’s present flagship, the Large Hadron Collider, LHC. She was project leader of the ATLAS inner tracking detector, which measures charged particles as they emerge from the particle interaction point, and which played a crucial role in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. She then coordinated studies to demonstrate the physics potential of a high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC, which will deliver ten times more collisions than the original design. From 2016 to 2020 she served as Head of Member State Relations, and she was appointed Deputy Director for Research and Computing in 2021.
Date:
1 March 2022, 17:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2022)
Venue:
Flora Anderson Hall
Venue Details:
Somerville College
Speaker:
Dr Pippa Wells (CERN)
Organiser:
Alice Tattersall (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
principals.office@some.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Baroness Royall (Principal, Somerville College)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event/dorothy-hodgkin-memorial-lecture-2022-with-dr-pippa-wells/
Booking email:
principals.office@some.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
All welcome
Editor:
Alice Tattersall
