RENOWNED SCIENTIST and Nobel laureate Prof David Gross will deliver the first HRI-Triveni lecture on 'The Future of Physics' at Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) on January 31. The lecture will be held in the HRI auditorium at 3 pm.
HRI-Triveni Lectures are being started by HRI, a premiere research institute of the country, focusing on fundamental problems of Physics and Mathematics, with this talk and which will henceforth witness internationally acclaimed scientists speaking on various topics from time to time.
Prof David Gross is well-known for his work on the theory of the strong interactions responsible for the nuclear force.
In 1973, Prof Gross, working with his student Frank Wilczek at Princeton University, discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is almost negligible.
Asymptotic freedom, also discovered by David Politzer independently, was important for the development of quantum chromodynamics- the theory of the strong nuclear force.
During the last two decades, Prof Gross has been working mainly on string theory. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Professor at Princeton University until 1997. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1997, the Dirac Medal in 1988, and currently is the Frederick W Gluck Professor in Theoretical Physics and Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
{{/usCountry}}During the last two decades, Prof Gross has been working mainly on string theory. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Professor at Princeton University until 1997. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1997, the Dirac Medal in 1988, and currently is the Frederick W Gluck Professor in Theoretical Physics and Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
{{/usCountry}}Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, Gross was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of Asymptotic freedom.
He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.