This year’s Rosseland Lecture will be held by Professor Hitoshi Murayama from the University of Tokyo.
Prof. Murayama is the leader of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, and is also Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Murayama is conducting research on supersymmetry, the physics of linear electron-positron colliders, neutrinos and cosmology. In 2002 he won The Yukawa Memorial Prize in Theoretical Physics for his work. Prof Murayama is also a recognized mediator of science, both through lectures and books.
The Rosseland Lecture 2014 will be held Tuesday, the 6th of May at 15:15 in “Store Fysiske Auditorium”,
Fysikkbygningen, Universitetet I Oslo, Blindern.
Free and open for all!
Abstract of the Rosseland Lecture
Where do we come from? Science is making progress on this age-old question of humankind. The Universe was once much smaller than the size of an atom. Small things mattered in the small Universe, where quantum physics dominated the scene.
To understand the way the Universe is today, we have to solve remaining major puzzles. The Higgs boson that was discovered the last year is holding our body together from evaporating in a nanosecond. But we still do not know what exactly it is. The mysterious dark matter is holding the galaxy together, and we would not have been born without it. But nobody has seen it directly. And what is the *very* beginning of the Universe?