STAG Public Lecture Event
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Michelle Pemberton on +44 (0) 23 8059 3612 or email [email protected] .
Event details
The 2004 Nobel Laureate for Physics Professor David Gross will deliver the 2016 STAG Public Lecture on Wednesday 26 October at 2.30pm with refreshments being served afterwards.
The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics
At the frontiers of physics we search for the principles that might unify all the forces of nature and we strive to understand the origin and history of the universe. In this lecture, Professor Gross will describe some of the questions that we ask and some of the proposed answers. He will also discuss what it might mean to have a final theory of fundamental physics and whether we are capable of discovering it.
About the speaker
David Gross is the Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics and former Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 at UC Berkeley and was previously Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University. He has been a central figure in particle physics and string theory. His discovery, with his student Frank Wilczek, of asymptotic freedom led Gross and Wilczek to the formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of the strong nuclear force. Gross was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Politzer and Wilczek, for this discovery. He has also made seminal contributions to the theory of Superstrings, a burgeoning enterprise that brings gravity into the quantum framework. His awards include the Sakurai Prize, MacArthur Prize, Dirac Medal, Oscar Klein Medal, Harvey Prize, the EPS Particle Physics Prize, the Grande Medaille d’Or and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004.
To book your free tickets for the talk, which is taking place at Turner Sims on the University’s Highfield campus, please go to https://www.turnersims.co.uk/events/stag-public-lecture-2016/ or call the Box Office on 023 8059 5151.