September 24th 2011 at the Flemish Opera in Flanders, Science 2.0 columnist (and LHC physicist and Tevatron physicist and educator) Tommaso Dorigo and Peter Woit, Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University and scribe at Not Even Wrong, will be discussing the Higgs for the scientifically curious audience at TEDx.

Synopsis: Around the time of TEDxFlanders, sufficient data should have been collected to allow preliminary answers to a central question that has occupied physicists since the 1970s: what causes particles to get their mass? Is it something known as the “Higgs mechanism”?  

Why listen to them? Experimentalist Tommaso Dorigo and theorist Peter Woit run two of the most prominent blogs dealing with the latest developments in particle physics.

Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist working with the Collider Detector experiment at Fermilab and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of the world’s most respected centres for scientific research on fundamental physics. Peter Woit is Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. He is known for the critical view on string theory in his book "Not Even Wrong"

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