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/The masterminds of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will visit Universidad Nacional de Colombia

The masterminds of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will visit Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Bogotá N.° 888

  • The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently the biggest experiment in the world, and it pretends to recreate the Big Bang that originated the universe.

  • Héctor Castro, a Physics Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

  • John Ellis, a scientist from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), has been the key for European scientists to establish relations with Latin American scientists, in special with the Colombian ones.

Twelve of the masterminds of the biggest experiment in the world, the Large Hadron Collinder, will visit Universidad Nacional de Colombia to establish relations with the physicists of the country.

This special visit will be possible due to the union of several universities, led by Universidad Nacional de Colombia. This event will bring to the country this group of important scientists, which are currently in charge of some of the most important physics projects in the world. All of them are part of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a milestone of the human mind with which scientist pretend to recreate universal facts such as the Big Bang, the explosion that originated the universe, or finding subatomic particles which are part of the theory, but have not been seen by men.

Héctor Castro, a researcher from the Physics Department of Universidad Nacional de Colombia and one of the people in charge of bringing the 12 CERN scientists to the country, affirms that the presence of these scientists is a unique opportunity for physics students to know the most recent advances, which are taking place with the LHC.

And this will be first hand information, since these scientists are the leaders of the experiments that are being carried out with the LHC, Alice detectors (where the Big Bang conditions are recreated), Atlas, LHC-B and CMS. The scientists will be in the country on October 20th, 21st and 22nd.

"This is a big effort and a great achievement of Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Physics Department. The idea is to involve more teachers and more research groups in this cooperation with CERN. It is important to highlight the big interest the scientists have to visit Colombia, since they are also excited about Colombians getting involved in their research," said Professor Castro.

In fact, for a year and a half, Universidad Nacional de Colombia has had a cooperation agreement with CERN through Colciencias, which allows students from master programs to develop their research projects. In addition, Professor Javier Cardona, from the Accelerator Physics Group, works with CERN scientists to develop several simulation exercises related to LHC experiments.

It is important to mention that the first of the CERN scientists will arrive to the country this week, the Israeli George Mikenberg, a researcher from LHC-Atlas Experiment and a professor of the Weizmann Institute of Science, from Israel. He will give some special courses for physics students next Thursday, October 14th and Friday 15th, and will give two lectures to offer a clear perspective of their work.

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