Theoretical Physics
Physics- Upcoming School: 2019-2020
The 37th Advanced School in Theoretical Physics: New Ideas for Old Puzzles in Particle Physics
Event date: December 29, 2019 - January 9, 2020
General Director: David Gross (UCSB, KITP)
Organizers:
Nima Arkani-Hamed (The Institute for Advanced Study)
Yonit Hochberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Eric Kuflik (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The field of particle physics is entering an exciting new era. While the need for new physics beyond the Standard Model is still compelling, the lack of observation of such signals challenges our preconceived notions of what the new physics should look like. It is time for fresh approaches to the longstanding puzzles of the field. A wide array of tools from a broad perspective must be used so that new physics is indeed properly searched for and eventually discovered. These new developments will be the focus of the school, whose series of lectures will start from basics and reach the cutting edge of issues and results. Topics will include: new ideas for dark matter theory and experiment, new solutions to the weak scale, precision measurements for fundamental physics, machine learning, advances in cosmology, and future tests of the Standard Model.
Speakers:
Nima Arkani-Hamed, The Institute for Advanced Study
Dmitry Budker, University of California Berkeley / Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Timothy Cohen, University of Oregon
Rouven Essig, Stony Brook University
Yuval Grossman, Cornell University
Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University
Ely Kovetz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Matthew McCullough, CERN / University of Cambridge
Joshua Ruderman, New York University
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Physics - Upcoming School: 2018-2019
December 29, 2019-January 9, 2020
Organizer: David Gross (UCSB, KITP)
David Gross
Theoretical Physics
David J. Gross is the Chancellor’s Chair professor of theoretical physics and the former director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Kavli Institute, he was the Thomas Jones professor of mathematical physics at Princeton University.
Gross was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek, “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.” His other awards include the Sakurai Prize, a MacArthur fellowship, the Dirac Medal, the Oskar Klein Medal, the Harvey Prize, the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society, and the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary degrees from institutions in the US, Britain, France Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, China, the Philippines and Cambodia. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2018, he became President-Elect of the American Physical Society.