Nathaniel Craig is a full professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he works on topics in particle theory ranging from quarks to the cosmos. He is a recipient of an Early Career Award from the US Department of Energy and a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. He currently leads the Particle Theory Initiative at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, which seeks to strengthen research connections both within the particle physics community and at its dynamic interface with other fields.

Abstract:
We plan to construct the next generation of colliders because there is new fundamental knowledge to be gained at the energy frontier — knowledge about both the Standard Model itself and the more fundamental theory that underlies it. I’ll survey the triumphant role of colliders in building the Standard Model, the main open questions now facing particle physics, and the profound motivation these questions provide for successors to the Large Hadron Collider, from precision Higgs factories to high-energy lepton and hadron colliders.