HEFTI Public Lectures: Frontiers of Physics
Join us for a day of public lectures on topics at the frontiers of physics by distinguished researchers at the forefront of physics research.Professors Frank Wilczek, Maxwell Chertok, Michael Turner, and Leonard Susskind will give series of public lecture at the UC Davis Conference Center on Apr. 6, 2013 beginning at 10 am.
Frank Wilczek is a professor at MIT. He is a particle theorist whose work has ranged from the unification of fundamental forces, the theory of the strong nuclear force, to cosmology and black holes. has won numerous awards, culminating in the Nobel Prize in physics in 2004 for his work on strong interactions. He has written several popular science books and is known for his articles and talks that widen the audience for particle physics.
Maxwell Chertok is a professor at UC Davis and a member of the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider, one of the two experimental groups that recently discovered the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. His research focuses on searches for new physics involving tau leptons, and is known for his physics teaching and outreach activities.
Michael Turner is a professor at the University of Chicago, and formerly the Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation from 2003-2006. He is one of the pioneers of modern cosmology, especially the the application of particle physics for the structure of the cosmos. He is the co-author of one of the standard textbooks on the subject, and coined the term "dark energy" to describe the (still mysterious) physics that drives the observed cosmic acceleration. He was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in 2010.
Leonard Susskind is a professor at Stanford and has contributed many important new ideas to physics, and is one of the most creative and productive theoretical physicists working today. He was one of the founders of string theory, played an important role in understanding the strong interactions, and ost recently has made bold proposals in understanding how quantum mechanics works in the multiverse and near black holes. His achievements have earned him numerous prestigious awards, including the Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics in 1997. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Time and Place
The talk was held on Saturday April 6, 2013 from 10 am to 4 pm in the UC Davis Conference Center Ballroom. Each talk will be followed by a half hour question period.
- 10:00-10:30 Frank Wilczek: Frontiers of Physics
- 10:30-12:00 Maxwell Chertok: Higgs Discovery
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch
- 1:00-2:30 Michael Turner: The Dark Universe
- 2:30-4:00 Leonard Susskind: Black Holes
- 4:00-5:00 Book signing
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Admission includes a box lunch, $7 for students and $15 for the general public.
This lecture is sponsored by the High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative and the UC Davis Physics Deptartment. The faculty, postdocs, and students of the High Energy Physics theory group engage in a wide variety of research aimed at understanding the most fundamental building blocks of nature. Our research interests include supersymmetry, supergravity, quantum gravity, general relativity, extra space-time dimensions, particle dark matter, high-energy scattering theory, lattice QCD, and phenomenological implications of string theory.
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