Beyond reality: What are we truly made of?
25 Nov 2025 | 6 – 7pm GMT | 1 – 2pm EST
What holds the universe together? How did it all begin? And what undiscovered particles and forces lie hidden from view? For decades, these were questions for theorists. Now, we're finding the answers.
Join particle physicist Kate Shaw (University of Sussex, ATLAS experiment) for an exclusive virtual tour inside the greatest scientific instrument ever built: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. By smashing matter together at nearly the speed of light, the LHC acts as a time machine, allowing us to glimpse the dawn of creation.
From the monumental discovery of the Higgs boson to the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model, this talk will reveal the awe-inspiring story of our quest to understand the fabric of reality.
Kate Shaw is an experimental particle physicist, working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Dune, at Fermilab. She is passionate about fundamental physics and data science, physics outreach and communication, and diversity and inclusion, and fostering physics worldwide! She is an Associate Professor at the University of Sussex, UK, and consults for the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, a UNESCO institute.
