Shulamit Goldhaber Colloquium
Dr. Fabiola Gianotti 
CERN

Date: Jan. 4, 2009

Title: Preparing for physics at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

Abstract:

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most ambitious
projects in science ever, will deliver first proton-proton collisions
in Summer 2009. I will review the main LHC physics goals, and the
status of the accelerator and of the ATLAS experiment. I will then
discuss a few examples of physics measurements that can be performed
with the very first data in 2009-2010.