FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
at 7:30 pm on Friday 21st July 2006
Venue: Rennie
Theatre (in the Johnson building, C2 in the
MAP)
Speaker :
Jim Gates (University of Maryland, USA)
a world renowned String Theorist
Title: If You Knew SUSY
Abstract:
Ever so often scientists dream of the existence of a new form of matter in our universe
One example of this can be seen with the suggestion of the electron made by G.J. Storey
in 1874. Today this idea is at the heart of the wealth of advanced nations. Around the
early 1970's, scientists began to suggest even newer forms of matter called
`superpartners' which are one of the possible signatures that Superstring/M-theory
might be more than just a speculation. This lecture provides an accessible introduction
to the concept of `supersymmetry' or SUSY.