Seminars

Physics Without Frontiers - Helping to build the next generation of scientists worldwide

Name: Physics Without Frontiers - Helping to build the next generation of scientists worldwide
Start: 2025-11-12T11:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-12T12:30:00+00:00
Location: R61 CR03 (RAL)

by Kate Shaw (Sussex)

Wednesday 12 Nov 2025, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/London

R61 CR03 (RAL)

Description

Physics Without Frontiers is the flagship international outreach programme of the International

Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), built through a network of volunteer scientists who are PhD

students, researchers, and professors working to help build the next generation of scientists in the

Global South, often in their home country. Working with universities without strong research teams,

the programme aims to bring training in all areas of physics and mathematics to students who might

otherwise lack exposure, and mentor them to further study whether in academia or industry. This

talk will present the impact and successes of the programme.

Biography:

Dr. Kate Shaw is an experimental particle physicist at the University of Sussex, UK, working on the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the DUNE experiment at Fermilab. Her research is focused on the physics top quark which is the heaviest known fundamental particle. She has worked on studies relating to the Higgs Boson which was discovered in 2012 and facilitates fundamental particles to acquire mass, and has worked on luminosity calibration and determination at ATLAS. Shaw is passionate about physics outreach and communication, and diversity and inclusion. She was the coordinator for ATLAS outreach for 5 years, ATLAS Diversity and Inclusion contact for 2 years, and is the current lead on the ATLAS Open Data project which she initiated in 2014. Shaw works to bring ATLAS and DUNE science and technical skills to the public and high school students through various outreach and communication initiatives. In addition Dr Shaw is a staff scientist at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, where she has worked since 2010, and founded and coordinates the ICTP Physics Without Frontiers program which aims to promote physics in developing countries.