Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate in Physics - Prof. Friedman
"Exploring the Universe at the Largest and Smallest Distances"
- Date: October 6, 2011 (Thursday) 14:00 - 16:10 (Doors open at 13:30)
- Vanue: Lecture Hall at Chemistry Bldg., Hongo Campus
- Capacity: 230 (Pre-registration required: Admission free)
- Audience: Faculty/Staff. Students. Public.
- Registration:
Registration form here.Registration Closed - Speaker: Jerome Friedman (1990 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Sponsor: Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Japan Science and Technology Agency - For inquiries, please contact the General Management Section, IPMU
- TEL: 04-7136-5972
- E-mail: gm-pm _at_ ipmu.jp (Please replase _at_ with @.)
Programme
14:00 - 14:05 Opening Remarks
Yoichiro Matsumoto (Managing Director, Executive Vice President, The University of Tokyo)
14:05 - 14:10
Hiroaki Aihara (Deputy Directors, IPMU)
14:10 - 15:40 Lecture "Exploring the Universe at the Largest and Smallest Distances"
Prof. Jerome Friedman
15:40 - 16:00 Q&A Session
16:00 - 16:10 Closing Remarks
Speaker
Prof. Jerome Friedman
| Jerome Friedman received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1960, he was hired at MIT as an assistant professor and was promoted to Professor in 1967. At MIT he served as Director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Head of the Physics Department. In 1991, he was appointed as Institute Professor. He is an experimental particle physicist whose research has included studies of particle structure and interactions with high energy electrons, neutrinos, and hadrons. He received, jointly with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 and the W.H.K. Panofsky Prize in 1989 for the experimental discovery of quarks. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. | 
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