QFT & QCD: Past, Present, and Future

 

Friday, March 18, Harvard University Science Center B

1:00                 Registration of Out of Town Guests

1:30                 Opening                                              

1:45-2:30         David Gross                 The Future of Physics

2:30-3:15         Frank Wilczek              Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm

3:15-3:45         Break

3:45-4:30         Paul Steinhardt              Cosmology in a False Vacuum          

4:45-5:15         Murray Gell-Mann        Recollections of Sidney

                        Sheldon Glashow          Small Matrices, Sidney, and Me

 

 

Saturday, March 19, Jefferson 250

10:00-10:45     Erick Weinberg            Vacuum Tunneling in de Sitter Space—QFT in the Past and in the Future

10:45-11:15     Break

11:15-12:00     Steven Weinberg          Perturbation Theory for Non-Gaussian Correlations in Cosmology

12:00-1:30       Lunch Break

1:30-2:15         Gerard ’t Hooft            Symmetry and Sidney

2:15-2:45         Break

2:45-3:30         Edward Witten            Emergent Phenomena in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics

 

 

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                        “3043” as the Department Code.

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For Saturday ($5), the DEAS lot is adjacent to Jefferson.

 

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