Lepton-photon conference wraps up in San Francisco
Last Saturday, about 230 high-energy physicists of various stripes wrapped up a week of talks on all aspects of the field at the XXVI International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies – known among physicists, not surprisingly, as Lepton-Photon. Held in San Francisco and hosted by SLAC (with help from the University of California-Santa Cruz and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), the conference summarized the latest developments in a wide range of subatomic studies. The breadth of this view – from theory to experiment, from colliders to the cosmos, and from antimatter to dark matter to the regular matter that makes up the visible universe, plus dark energy and gravitational waves thrown in for good measure – makes Lepton-Photon unique among high energy physics conferences.