The Higgs Boson & Beyond

Abstract:
    With the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN LHC, high energy physics has entered a new era. The completion of the “Standard Model” (SM) implies, for the first time ever, that we have a relativistic, quantum-mechanical, self-consistent theoretical framework, valid up to exponentially high energies, perhaps to the Planck scale. Yet, there are compelling reasons to believe that new physics beyond the SM is not far from our reach. I discuss the need for the new physics, and motivate the future colliders beyond the LHC.

Brief Bio:
    Prof. Tao Han obtained his B.Sc and M.Sc Degree in Physics at the Nankai University, China, and Ph.D in 1990 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After three years of postdoctoral research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, he became Assistant Professor at University of California-Davis, then he moved to University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 and became Full Professor in 2001. Now he is Director of Pittsburgh Particle physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC) and Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. His research field is in elementary particle physics theory, focusing on high-energy collider physics and in connection to astro-particle physics and cosmology. Prof. Han is a recipient of Outstanding Researcher Award, Natural Science Foundation of China (2002-05), 1000 Talents Professor, Tsinghua University, P. R. China (2012-15), Fellow of American Physical Society (2003) and Fermilab Frontier Fellowship (2004).