Higgs discovery talk open to public Higgs discovery talk open to public

A free public talk, "Black holes, information, and gravity," will be presented by Roland Winston of the Schools of Natural Science and Engineering at the University of California, Merced, at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 26, in the Grand Eagle Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Wichita.

Wichita State University's physics department is hosting the 10th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons (BEACH 2012) -- a particle physics conference now through Saturday, July 23-28, at the Hyatt Regency Wichita.

This is the first international conference in the United States since the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs particle on July 4. The Higgs particle is sometimes also referred to as the God particle.
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