Prospects in Theoretical Physics is an intensive two-week summer
program designed for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
considering a career in theoretical physics. The 2011 program,
“Frontiers of Physics in Cosmology,” took place from...
In physics, the twentieth century started with the twin
revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics. Much of the second
half of the century was devoted to the construction of a
theoretical structure unifying these radical ideas,
confirmed...
A knot is simply a tangled loop in ordinary three-dimensional
space, such as often causes us frustration in everyday life. Knots
are also the subject of a rather rich mathematical theory. In the
last three decades, it has unexpectedly turned out...
Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences
In this talk, Professor Matias Zaldarriaga
discusses the development of the modern study of cosmology,
beginning with the discovery of the expansion of the Universe by
Edwin Hubble, through current efforts to map the cosmic microwave
background...
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor, School of Natural Sciences
In this talk, Nima Arkani-Hamed,
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses the
direction of fundamental physics in coming years and decades,
including efforts to replace the concept of spacetime and
understand how the macroscopic...