Join Dr. Bhattacharya, Wayne State Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, on a fascinating journey into the heart of particle physics as we explore the monumental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. It is one of humanity's most significant achievements, and with its distinct properties, setting it apart from all other fundamental particles, the Higgs boson was the final puzzle piece in our theoretical model of particle interactions. In this talk, Dr., Bhattacharya will focus on the role of the Higgs boson in breaking one of the most fundamental symmetries in nature.

Dr. Saptaparna Bhattacharya is a particle physicist who recently joined Wayne State as a Pathway-to-Faculty Fellow. She received her doctoral degree from Brown University in 2016. In 2022, she received the Humboldt Fellowship to work in Germany’s largest research laboratory. She has been the recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Researcher award from the LHC Physics Center at Fermilab two years in a row from 2019-2020. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research interests lie in studying the Standard Model of Particle Physics with data collected at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva Switzerland. 

Sciences & Humanities Under the Dome is a free public lecture series supported by the Rita & Stanley Levy & Ratna & Vaman Naik Endowment. We welcome all members of the community to join us in the planetarium for these research lectures! Light refreshments will be provided.