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About the colloquium:
What is common among a magnet, a halibut, a rack of laundry, cubes of ice, superconductor, and the Higgs boson? The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking is a common theme for many natural phenomena. I'll describe the basic concept and its applications. In particular, the original concepts from Anderson, Nambu, Goldstone, and Higgs do not quite work in many systems that include a magnet on your fridge. I generalize the concept so that it is applicable to all known natural phenomena around us.
About the speaker:
Hitoshi Murayama is a Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley and was the Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) University of Tokyo. His research interests include fundamental physics, cosmology and the connection between them. In addition to numerous awards (including a Breakthrough Prize as a member of the KamLAND collaboration) and society memberships, Hitoshi Murayama helped shaping physics in the US as the Chair US Particle Physics Project Priotization Panel and is probably the only person who has talked about physics at the United Nations Headquarter.
Program:
16:15 - 17:15 IRMP Colloquium
17:15 - 17:30 Q&A Session
17:30 - 18:30 Snacks & Drinks in the Cyclofette
