El CERN i el bosón de Higgs: per què invertir en grans infraestructures científiques? (CERN and the Higgs boson: why invest in large scientific infrastructure?)

Debate with:

Juan Fuster Verdú, researcher at the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (UV-CSIC). Specialist in the field of high energy physics. Member of CERN, member of the European Committee for the design of the future linear particle

accelerator, member of the OCDE’s committee for the impact of large scientific facilities in the economy, and local organiser of ICHEP 2014.

Antonio Pich, professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Valencia and coordinator at the National Center for Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics.

Moderated by:

Antonio Ariño Villarroya, vice-principal for Culture and Equality at the University of Valencia, professor of Sociology.

Free entry, limited seating capacity.

Series of talks to commemorate the granting of the Prince of Asturias Award to Peter Higgs and François Englert for their discovery of the Higgs boson.

The debate is part of the I Setmana d’Accés Obert (First Open Access Week) of the University of Valencia.

The lecture will be broadcast live on the University’s Internet Television, Mediauni (mediauni.uv.es/tv) and will be later available on Mediauni’s Culture channel