2025-03-03
1 小时 34 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events Podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Okay, welcome everyone.
My name is Larry Kramer.
I'm the President and Vice Chancellor here at LSE and it's my privilege and pleasure to welcome you all to this very special event hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment.
Tonight's event highlights something that we don't actually focus on enough,
and by we I mean not just LSE or even the higher education sector,
but really our society as a whole, which is the relationship between the physical and social sciences.
Being at a social science institution, I don't actually get to introduce events like this all that often,
an event about the sort of cutting edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role
that major research infrastructure actually plays in advancing our understanding of the universe.
And of course that sort of work is more than just interesting and certainly more than just theoretical.
Beyond just pushing the boundaries, I said beyond just,
beyond just pushing the boundaries of knowledge, you know these groundbreaking scientific endeavors,
which include everything from understanding the nature of dark matter to exploring the origins of the universe,
actually have pretty significant consequences that make a huge difference in our everyday lives.
The organization that tonight's speaker will soon lead, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,
no more colloquially as CERN,
is one of the world's most important and impactful scientific infrastructure organizations.
It's also arguably one of the great diplomatic achievements of recent decades.