Organizers: Chiarra Nappi; Nathan Seiberg; Chris Tully; Herman Verlinde; Liantao Wang

This workshop is the inaugural Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics (PCTP) (later PCTS) workshop.  This workshop is held jointly with the MC4BSM Workshop and LHC Olympics.

This includes a public lecture on March 22, 2007.

The Physics Department of Princeton University is offering a special public lecture on Thursday, March 22, 8:00 PM in McDonnell  A02. The title of the lecture will be ``A Journey of 333 Elephants to the Origin of Mass: Frontier Exploration in Fundamental Physics”. The speakers will be Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor of Physics, Harvard University and Chris Tully, Professor of Physics, Princeton University. The topic of the lecture will be the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest scientific instrument,   which is now on the verge of completion in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Large Hadron Collider sits 15 stories underground in a tunnel measuring 16 miles in circumference in the countryside outside of Geneva, Switzerland.  Powered by 1500 superconducting magnets running at superfluid liquid helium temperature, the LHC and its detectors are capable of probing distances billions of times smaller than the most advanced optical microscopes.  The images captured at these distances are at the forefront of our theoretical understanding of Nature and promise to unearth the greatest mysteries of our time. Professor Arkani-Hamed is a theorist actively working on predictions  of the physics that will emerge from the LHC. Professor Tully is an experimentalist actively working on one of the particle detectors used in the LHC.