With the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (the biggest physics experiment in the world), the race to find the Higgs boson particle and the hunt for dark matter, physics has been dominating the news like never before. Read more
For more than a thousand physicists, the destination last week was the Palais de Congrès in Paris, an enormous 1970s construction of jutting concrete and angled glass. Until Wednesday, the centre will host one of the most eagerly awaited meetings on the scientific calendar. The International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) has an impressive track record as the place where new discoveries are announced, but this time around there is an extra buzz in the air. This is the first year that physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, will join researchers from other laboratories in unveiling their latest results. Read more
The French particle physics community is particularly proud to have been selected to host the 35th ICHEP conference in 2010 in Paris. This conference is the focal point of all our field since more than fifty years and is the reference event where all important results in particle physics cosmology and astroparticles are presented and discussed. This alone suffices to make this event very important. But in 2010, a coincidence of exceptional events will make this conference even more attractive! What is then so special about ICHEP 2010 conference? Read more