科普講座 from Nathan Seiberg, The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

02-04

Prof. Seiberg胖了……

第一個Public Talk的錄像弄好了，但是正式版的出來還需要等一下，小老闆估計要拖兩天再掛網頁上，我先泄露個手機低配版。這個Public Talk非常的基礎，講的很不錯，一般大學非物理系理科生水平應該可以聽懂，所以大家都可以看一下。

Twentieth Arnold Sommerfeld Lecture Series: Public Lecture

Public Lecture: The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

In recent decades, physicists and astronomers have discovered two beautiful Standard Models, one for the quantum world of extremely short distances, and one for the universe as a whole. Both models have had spectacular success, but there are also strong arguments for new physics beyond these models. In this lecture, we will review these models, their successes and their shortfalls. We will describe how experiments in the near future could point to new physics suggesting a profound conceptual revolution, which could change our view of the world.

Professor Nathan Seiberg, IAS Princeton, USA 10.01.2017 at 17:15

Short Biography

Nathan Seiberg is a distinguished theoretical physicist whose research focuses on various aspects of string theory, quantum field theory, and particle physics. His work has shed light on the worldsheet description of string theory as a two-dimensional conformal field theory and its space-time manifestations. Seiberg has contributed to the understanding of the dynamics of quantum field theories, especially supersymmetric quantum field theories. His exact solutions of such theories have uncovered many new and unexpected insights, including the fundamental role of electric-magnetic duality in these theories. These exact solutions have led to many applications in physics and in mathematics. He has also clarified how supersymmetry can be dynamically broken, and has explored the phenomenological consequences of supersymmetry breaking.

Nathan Seiberg received his PhD in 1982 from the Weizmann Institute where he also became a professor in 1986. From 1989 to 1997 he was professor at Rutgers University, before he moved to Princeton in 1997, where he is now a professor at the IAS and the University. He received many honors, among them

Dirac Medal (2016)

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012)

Fellow of American Physical Society (since 2009)

Member of National Academy of Sciences (since 2008)

Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2001)

Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society (1998)

MacArthur Fellowship (1996)

Oskar Klein Medal (1995)

我辦公室的Master說：Seiberg is so famous, like a superstar, the Justin Bieber in Theoretical Physics.

聽到後我和一個辦公室的另一個博士後都沉默了，博士後不甘地問到：Why JB?

這個Master回答：Sorry I only know JB as a very well-known non-German superstar...

然後我們兩個就流淚了。

還是羨慕Princeton的基友，天天可以見到JB in TPhys.

後續還有一個Theory Colloquium和一個Seminar。Colloquium已經錄好了，面向物理專業，物理系的都能聽懂。Seminar就是關於他和Witten最近轉CMP搞的2+1D Web Duality blabla的最新文章了，這個要等明天了。

啊……Witten和Seiberg都開始勾搭CMP了，String吃棗藥丸！

PS：最近登陸知乎很困難，首頁登不上去，但是別的頁面都行，有知道為什麼的大神么？