Three David Gross lectures at Princeton this week
David Gross, physics professor at UC-Santa Barbara and 2004 Novel Prize laureate for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, is giving a series of public lectures this week entitled "The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality." Taking place April 25-27 in the Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50, at 8pm, the series break-down is:
"Theory of Elementary Particles" on Tuesday
"Questions and Speculations: The Search for a Unified Theory" on Wednesday
"The Coming Revolutions: Toward a New Understanding of Space and Time" on Thursday
Also of interest, though in a competing time-slot, there is a computational mathematics lecture "Quantum Computers: How Physics Experiments Might Solve Mathematical Problems" by Peter Shor of MIT, at 8pm in A02 McDonnell.