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Mark Sagar is the director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and a leading expert on creating interactive autonomously animated systems which will help defi the next generation of human-computer interaction and facial animation. He started his career building computer simulations of the human eye for virtual surgery, and later worked as the Special Projects Supervisor at Weta Digital and was involved with the creation of technology for the digital characters in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spiderman 2. His pioneering work in computer-generated faces was recognized with two consecutive Oscars at the 2010 and 2011 Sci-tech awards, a branch of the Academy Awards that recognizes movie science and technological achievements.

The nucleon and its structure are the focus of intense study on all energy scales, in both current and upcoming experiments. It is one of the simplest systems in non-perturbative QCD and the accurate description of its properties are a touchstone for theoretical calculations.

Recent precision experiments have provided a wealth of information, but have also illuminated two glaring discrepancies: the proton radius puzzle and the form factor ratio divergence. The former, still unsolved, may have opened the door to the discovery of physics beyond the Standard Model, while a solution for the latter seems in reach.

In this talk, I will discuss the Mainz high precision form factor measurement and global form factor analysis, which are corner stones of the radius puzzle; the OLYMPUS experiment, which is poised to give the final confirmation of the solution to the ratio problem; the MUSE experiment, which will provide a missing piece for the proton radius puzzle; and the DarkLight experiment, which will search for physics beyond the Standard Model at the intensity frontier.