Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek

The Department of Physics at Lund University invites you to a public lecture by Professor Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004). The lecture is open to the public.

Professor Wilczek, celebrated for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, played a central role in establishing Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the modern theory of the strong interaction. In this talk, he will reflect on five decades of pioneering research – from unified field theories and the Higgs particle to the ongoing search for axions, possible constituents of dark matter.

My Life with Quantum Chromodynamics

Abstract
'It’s been a 50-year love affair, still going strong. Early highlights include discovering asymptotic freedom, formulating modern QCD, and proposing decisive tests of it. This led to quantitative treatment of unified field theories, expanding the scope of cosmology, showing how to discover Higgs particles, and predicting the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter at high temperature and density, including new phases and critical points.

It also launched the continuing saga of axions: wayward children of QCD that not improbably make the ‘dark matter’ of the universe. I’ll describe my role and experiences in all those advances, along with relevant context. At the end, I’ll introduce two things I’m working on now: axion searches that use new technologies to achieve the needed sensitivity, and the circle of ideas around flux channeling.'

About Frank Wilczek

Professor Wilczek has received numerous international honours for his contributions to particle physics, cosmology, and condensed matter theory. He currently serves as:

• Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University, USA
• Chief Scientist, T. D. Lee Institute and Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Professor of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT, USA.

Frank Wilczek's biography on the Nobel Foundation website.
 

Hybrid meeting

You are welcome to attend the lecture in person at Rydbergsalen at the Department of Physics.  You can also follow the lecture online via the Zoom meeting tool: 

Zoom-link to the lecture with Frank Wilczek.

This event is generously supported by the WISE International Science Advisory Board and the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The lecture is part of a series organised by Lund University in recognition of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). All seminars in the series are presented on the Quantum in Lund website.