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Outreach Event Archive 2019

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Peter Higgs Poster Competition

Secondary school pupils across Scotland are invited to design a large poster that can be submitted digitally. The competition will close on Friday 6 December. The winners will be announced on Friday 20 December. We wish to raise the awareness amongst school pupils in particular of the contributions made in ...

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Peter Higgs' 90th Birthday Celebration

We will celebrate Peter Higgs' 90th birthday with an afternoon of talks looking back to the journey to the discovery of the Higgs boson and looking forward to future discoveries in particle physics. The talks will be given by: Lyn Evans (CERN) Chiara Mariotti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino ...
Playfair Library, University of Edinburgh

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Peter Higgs' 90th Birthday Card Competition

We were delighted to receive hundreds of entries to our birthday card competition from schools all over Scotland. Our judging panel was Suzanne Higgs, Christoph Englert and Lily Asquith who thoroughly enjoyed going through all the entries - it was a very difficult decision. The winning cards were presented to Prof ...

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Higgs Lecture: From Higgs to the Cosmos: a Journey in the Particle World

Prof. Gian Giudice (CERN) will give the inaugural Higgs lecture. Abstract: After the success of the Higgs boson discovery, particle physicists are still trying to unveil the many mysteries related to this enigmatic particle. From its role in the world of particle physics to its unexpected connections with the evolution ...
50 George Square, Edinburgh