Speaker: Prof. John Ellis, King’s College London and CERN Theory Division, Geneva

Paul Gauguin's famous painting Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? deals with some of the most fundamental questions of the Universe. Eminent CERN theoretician Professor John Ellis explains how the Large Hadron Collider might address Gauguin's questions as seen by particle physics and cosmology.

In particle physics Gauguin's questions can be interpreted as: What is the status of particle physics, what may lie just beyond our current understanding of it, and just what is the `Theory of Everything'? In cosmology: What were the earliest stages of the Universe like, what is it made of today, and what is its future? Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva are hoping to provide some of the answers in the near future

Collaboration: University of Edinburgh

Webcast recording of the programme held on 15 February 2013