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About the lecture:
How did we come to be? This age-long question in humanity has been one of the main subjects for physicists. I will discuss essential parts of this question: dark matter, Higgs boson, neutrinos, inflation. Dark matter is our mother who shaped us from the primordial gas. Higgs boson keeps us from evaporating in a nanosecond. Neutrinos are superheros who may well have saved us from a complete annihilation. Inflation is our father who planted seeds for everything we see in the universe. The talk is intended for general public.
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 talked about physics at the United Nations Headquarter.
Program:
16:15 - 17:15 Public lecture by Prof. Hitoshi Murayama: How did we come to be? –Yes, It's a physics question!–
17:15 - 17:30 Q&A Session : Ask anything you always wanted to know!
17:30 - 18:30 Snacks & Drinks : Continue discussing with the speaker in a casual atmosphere in the Cyclofette...
