S. GOLDMAN PUBLIC TALK

On Thursday, November 19, 2009, Professor Gary Shiu from the University of Wisconsin will be visiting UCF and will deliver a public talk on how our knowledge of space and time has progressed and where it stands currently.

TITLE: String Theory and the Quantum Universe

ABSTRACT:

Our understanding of space and time has undergone a series of upheavals during the last 300 years. In this talk, I will describe some of these, from Newton's absolute conception of space and time, to Einstein's relativity, through quantum theory's uncertainty, to cutting-edge work in string theory suggesting more dimensions of space than those we can see. Ideas to reveal these hidden dimensions experimentally will be discussed. No expertise in physics will be presumed.

LOCATION: Classroom Building 1, Room 309

TIME: 5.00 pm

http://heplectures.physics.ucf.edu/publictalks/ShiuFall2009.pdf

About the Speaker: Gary Shiu GARY SHIU received his PhD from Cornell University. After postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook and the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2002.  His research, broadly known as String Phenomenology, aims at understanding the connection between String Theory, Particle Physics, and Cosmology. His work is supported in part by the US Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Research Corporation.