Purdue University - Department of Physics - General Colloquium
A decade of particle physics – progress over the last ten years and prospects for the next

Thursday November 10, 2005


Professor Brian Foster
Oxford University

I will summarise the major experimental discoveries in particle physics over the last decade or so, including precision physics at LEP & SLD, the proton structure at HERA, matter-antimatter asymmetry in the b system and the discovery of neutrino mass. I will then review the status of the LHC project and end by looking at the next big step in experimental particle physics - the International Linear Collider.