Berkeley Lab researchers served on the local organizing committee and presented talks for the tenth edition of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conference, hosted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in San Francisco on June 10-14, 2024. As part of the event’s larger program, a free public special public event – What’s Left to Discover? Our Unknown Universe – was presented at San Francisco’s Exploratorium on June 11.

In the first part of the program, Daniel Whiteson, a professor of physics at UC Irvine, spoke about current research efforts to answer some of the open questions about the nature of the universe:

The second part of the evening featured a discussion with Hitoshi Murayama, a senior researcher in the Physics Division and chair of the 2023 P5 Committee, and Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and moderated by KQED science and climate reporter Danielle Venton, on the latest breakthroughs in particle physics and their implications for our understanding of matter and energy, among other topics:

Collaboratively organized with the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program for the Future Circular Collider Innovation Study (FCCIS), the conference was jointly co-organized by Argonne National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, Brookhaven National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and the US Department of Energy (DOE), with generous support from the University of California’s Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and Santa Cruz campuses, and California State University East Bay.