The event is aimed at the CERN community and CERN Alumni and Retirees, therefore physical attendance will require having a valid CERN access card. 

CERN Alumni should use this form to request CERN access cards.

The author of the new book "Seeing particles: Adventures of an Experimental Physicist" will give a talk at the CERN Library:

This book tells the story of a physicist's sixty years of experimental research into subatomic particles, eventually showing that the quarks that are forever trapped inside protons are smaller than a trillionth trillionth the size of the smallest atom, hydrogen. The author describes how he and his colleagues made many different types of particle detector, explaining how these enable us to "see" these tiniest constituents of matter, and how they were used to search for new fundamental particles. He tells the story of his search for the fourth quark, charm, and the weak force carriers W and Z, and how others found them, but then he participated in the discovery of the most massive top quark at Fermilab and the Higgs boson at CERN. His descriptions of the physics are accessible to a general reader, alongside personal stories including some encounters with great physicists.

The event will be followed by a Q&A and signing sessions. The book is available from the CERN Library & Bookshop.

About the author: 

Michael Albrow spent 18 years at CERN from 1969 before becoming a professor at Stockholm University. He has been at Fermilab since 1991 where he is now a scientist emeritus and a member of the CMS collaboration. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society for outreach and education. He currently has a "science and art" exhibition at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC.