This afternoon I am leaving to Belgium. I have been invited by the Université Catholique de Louvain to give a seminar on the status and the future of the Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron collider. This was a good pretext to sit down and learn the latest details of the analyses carried out by CDF and DZERO, and to do some real work of my own, mainly to understand what are the discovery or exclusion prospects for the Higgs in the US in the next few years. I have somehow described my conclusions in a recent article.

Putting together a good seminar is not painless, as I rediscover every time (I tend to forget it after the seminar is given). It took me a while to do the necessary research, study the material, and put together all I wanted to say in a coherent way. And when I finished, it occurred to me that the effort could be exploited by replicating the seminar elsewhere.... So I thought I would use this megaphone I provided myself with -this blog- for some shameless advertisement. So here I go:

Do you organize experimental seminars in a university or other institution in a location  appealing to visit ? If so, let me know if you are interested in a brilliant speaker who can tell you all you ever wanted to know about the Higgs boson searches ongoing at the Tevatron, or even at the LHC for that matter.

If you, on the other hand, are not into organizing seminars, but you are still interested in the topic, well... Stay tuned. I will have a summary of the seminar here soon.