Professor Eilam Gross. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Hosted by Dr Kostas Nikolopoulos, Physics
March 2017
Eilam Gross was born in Tel Aviv. After completing his army service in an elite communications unit, he left for New York to study music. There he came across a cult book, The Tao of Physics, which prompted him to come back to Israel and study physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His master's thesis at the Weizmann Institute was written on string theory, after which he "deserted" theortical work for experimental high-energy physics.
In the last twenty years, Professor Gross has devoted his scientific career to the search for the Higgs particle and its discovery. He was ATLAS statistical data analysis forum convener where he took a major part in developing the statistical methods used for search and discovery. He was then ATLAS Higgs convener at the time of the discovery of the Higgs Boson.
If you would like full details of the plans for Professor Gross’s fellowship or would like to meet with him during his visit as an Institute of Advanced Studies Distinguished Visiting Fellow, please email ias@contacts.bham.ac.uk.