{"id":41,"date":"2012-08-17T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:18:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:18:31","slug":"higgs-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Higgs Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR:<em> I gave a public lecture about the Higgs to 500 people and felt like a rock star.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While back at SLAC for the Summer Institute, I had the opportunity to give a public lecture about the Higgs. The target audience was the general public, which in the bay area still seems to skew towards the technologically\u00a0knowledgeable: high-school students with an interest in science, silicon valley types, retired engineers, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SLAC has posted the video to youtube here:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QuZJFzFKLwo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QuZJFzFKLwo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QuZJFzFKLwo<\/a><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QuZJFzFKLwo?rel=0&amp;fs=1' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I prepare slides on what seems like a daily basis for work. Needless to say, this was a very different experience. The technical level was substantially different, and it gave me more of an opportunity to play with entertaining graphics and videos. Frankly, I think it all came out quite nicely, and the audience feedback was overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n<p>There were over 500 people in the audience, apparently a new record. The organizers had to prepare spill-over space outside of the Panofsky auditorium (where I was presenting) and opened a second auditorium. According to the security guards, they still had to turn away about 50 cars when they ran out of space. For ~60 minutes I got to feel like a rock-star! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: I gave a public lecture about the Higgs to 500 people and felt like a rock star. &nbsp; While back at SLAC for the Summer Institute, I had the opportunity to give a public lecture about the Higgs. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/?p=41\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-energy-physics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}