The Stirling lecture this year will be given by Professor Frank Close, a renown particle physicist and author. His talk will be “The Infinity Puzzle – from Higgs to the LHC”– a public lecture on quantum field theory, the Higgs boson and the LHC. What is the Higgs boson, why is it named after Higgs, who should (ultimately) share the Nobel prize? The lecture will be held on Thursday December 6 at 16:30 in the Appleby lecture theatre (W103).