Tara Shears

Work

• LHCb
• CDF
• PG SM lectures
• Outreach
• LHCb VELO outreach

Contact

• Contact details

Outreach

Outreach is really important. Every taxpayer funds our research and, besides, it's too interesting to keep to ourselves. I give talks, host short films, and have contributed to radio and television. Want to know more? Here are links to some previous activities (mostly 2011), and a list of what's coming up next in 2012.

More information

• Talks (2011)
  • "Uncovering the Universe:Latest News from the LHC" at the Royal Institution in November 2011.
  • "The Standard Model", Royal Society discussion meeting on the LHC, May 2011.
  • Discussion following "Piccard in space", Queen Elizabeth Hall, March 2011.
  • "An update on the Large Hadron Collider", LIFT11 conference, in Feb. 2011.
• Film
  • Labreporter: Links to 5 films, made with Alom Shaha:
    • Big Bang V2.0; the LHC, and why it's so important.
    • Sizing things up; just how small are the small particles we study?
    • The mystery of the missing mass; dark matter .. what is it?
    • Hunting for the Higgs; the mysterious Higgs.
    • The matter with antimatter; where did all the antimatter go?
    • B is for Beauty, about LHCb, why it's interesting that matter and antimatter are different and how we measure it.
  • Host of CERN short films about LHC and LHCb.
  • Interview for Google science fair, March 2011.
• Radio/television (2011)
  • News interviews for News 24, BBC news, World Service, Radio 4, BBC local radio, etc.
  • Contributions to Nightwaves, Radio 3, Schrodinger's quantum kittens, Radio 4.
  • Contributions to Faster than the speed of light, BBC.
• Coming up:
  • QUB STFC public lecture, 12/1/2012.
  • Wellcome Trust Leap of Faith discussion, Higgs, 2/2/2012.
  • TEDxManchester, Higgs, 13/2/2012
  • Numerous talks at Dauntsey's school, 27/2/2012.
  • UCD masterclass,12/3/2012.
  • Guardian Open Weekend, 25/3/2012.
  • Edinburgh science festival, 15/4/2012.
  • Liverpool teacher's conference, June 2012.
  • Royal Irish Academy, Higgs panel discussion July 2012.
  • British Science Festival, September 2012.
  • Liverpool University Open Day, September 2012.
  • Manchester Science Festival, October 31 2012.
  • The future of particle physics, Frontiers, Radio 4, 7 November 2012.
  • Interviews on Science in Action (World service), Material World (radio 4), November 2012.
  • Webchat on "Einstein", Dara O'Briain's science club, November 2012.
  • Science Learning centre teacher seminar on LHC, 13/2/2013.
  • Google hangout with CERN, latest Higgs results, 7/3/2013.
  • Google hangout with CERN, "About last week", 14/3/2013.
  • Hangout with CERN; the matter with antimatter, 18/4/2013.
  • Session host and chat for TEDxCERN 4/5/2013.
  • Hay festival, June 2013.
  • Cheltenham science festival, June 6 2013.
  • Royal Institution evening discourse, September 2013.
  • Gustavus Nobel conference, October 2013.
  • Royal Institution 6th form lecture, October 2013.
  Or you can check what's going on on twitter.