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The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics presents a lecture by:
Savas Dimopoulos,
The Hamamoto Family Professor of Physics, Stanford University
“Particle Physics in the 21st Century”
April 1, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Sibley Auditorium in the Bechtel Engineering Building
Elementary particle physics is entering a spectacular new era in which experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and at astrophysical observatories will soon start probing some of the most profound questions in physics, such as: Why is gravity so weak? What is the origin of mass? What is the Dark Matter of the Universe? Are there new dimensions of space? Can we produce black holes and strings in the lab? Are there other parallel universes, each with different laws of Nature? LHC is expected to shed light on such questions and lead to a new deeper theory of particle physics. Surprisingly, recent developments suggest that the principle of minimalism which has been driving scientific thinking for centuries, is losing ground to the old principle of plenitude, as the complexity of the extra dimensions in string theory suggests the existence of a plethora of ultra-light particles with exciting observational signatures in Cosmology, Astrophysics and at the LHC.
Tsinghua Week
Monday, April 5, 2010 at 3:20 pm
In Pauley Ballroom (West),
MLK Student Union Center
As part of Tsinghua Week at the University of California, Berkeley the following physicists from both the University of California, Berkeley and Tsinghua University will speak:
Speakers:
1. Robert J. Birgeneau
Chancellor and Professor of Physics, UCB
“High Temperature Superconductors: a Surprising Development”
2. Chen-Ning Yang
Professor of Physics, TU
“Some Recent Research in Cold Atoms”
3. Charles H. Townes
Professor of Physics, UCB
"Measurements of Sizes and Shapes of Old Stars and Surrounding Material"
4. Tipei Li
Professor of Physics, TU
“A Cold and Rigid Universe after the Hot Big Bang”
5. George Smoot III
Professor of Physics, UCB
6. Shoushan Fan
Professor of Physics, TU
“Carbon Nanotube: from Materials to Applications”
7. Marjorie Shapiro
Professor of Physics, UCB
"Searching for New Phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider."
8. Qikun Xue
Professor of Physics, TU
“Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth and Novel Properties of Topological Insulator Thin Films”
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