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Dispatches from the high energy frontier
Thursday 23 November 2017, 19:45 - 22:00
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Contact  Professor Dan Tovey

The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider


About the 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.

 Dr Dan Tovey

Location SBC, Meeting Room, Swinton Bottom Club (Formerly Swinton WMC)

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