October 16, 2024
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI)
Professor Hirosi Ooguri of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI) at the University of Tokyo has been selected by the University of Michigan to deliver this year's Ta-You Wu Lecture.
The lecture was endowed in 1991 in honor of Ta-You Wu, who was an alumnus and honorary Doctor of Science of the University of Michigan and one of the central figures of the Chinese and Taiwanese physics communities in the twentieth century. It is the most prestigious lecture event hosted by the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan. Seventeen Nobel Laureates have delivered the lectures, including Kip Thorne, who received the Nobel Prize for his “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” Other past lecturers include Benoît Mandelbrot, the founder of fractal geometry, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, as well as many other scientists who have made fundamental contributions to physics. The 2022 lecturer was Eiichiro Komatsu, who is a Senior Fellow of the Kavli IPMU and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.
"I am honored to have been selected to deliver the Ta-You Wu Lecture with such a long and illustrious history. I look forward to giving the lecture and meeting the professors, students, and other members of the physics community in Ann Arbor," said Ooguri.
Ooguri's Lecture on 23 October will be streamed live on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T-IYWIW-0E.
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About the 2024 Ta-You Wu Lecture (Michigan University)