Dispatches from the high energy frontier

Society Meeting

Thursday, 23rd November 2017 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: swmcmeet

The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Professor Dan Tovey

Dr Dan Tovey 

Dan Tovey is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Sheffield.

From 2010 to 2012 he was Spokesperson and Principal Investigator of Atlas-Uk, representing the 15 UK Institutions participating in the international ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

His main research interest is the search for first evidence of ‘supersymmetry’- a new theory of fundamental physics that could explain the origin of mass and the nature of dark matter in the universe.

Dan holds a PhD in particle physics from the University of Sheffield.