public lecture
For the last half century we have been exploring nature at shorter and shorter distances using high energy particle accelerators. I review the present state of knowledge of elementary particle physics including the recent discovery of the Higgs particle and the other experimental revolutions that might occur at the Large Hadron Collider now running at CERN. Finally I discuss the challenges we face as we attempt to unify all the forces of nature.
D. Gross is a permanent member and holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California.
He is the recipient of the J. J. Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society in 1986, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Prize in 1987, the Dirac Medal in 1988, the Oscar Klein Medal in 2000 and the Harvey Prize of the Technion in 2000.
In 2004 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics, together with H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interaction.
The event will be hosted at the historic main building of the ETH, at Rämistrasse 101. More information on how to get there.
