Event
The Anna I. McPherson Lectures in Physics 2010--- The Scientific Lecture presented by Dr. David J. Gross Nobel Prize in Physics 2004--Director of UCSB's Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Friday, March 26, 2010 15:30to17:00
Rutherford Physics Building
3600 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T8, CA
The coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics.
I review the present state of knowledge in elementary particle physics and the question that we are currently addressing.
I discuss the experimental revolutions that might occur at the Large Hadron Collider, soon to be finished at CERN.
I shall also review the state of string theory. The necessity to go beyond the standard model of particle physics and to understand how quantum gravity has led to this ambitious attempt to unify all the forces of nature and all forms of matter as different vibrations of a string-like object.