Seminar
07 Jul, 2021 - 17:00
Reflections on 50+ years of success stories
Gabriele Veneziano (CERN and College de France)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
I will share some thoughts prompted by the amazing successes but also by some puzzling aspects of our present description of Nature from the smallest scales of elementary particle physics to the largest ones of gravity and cosmology.
BIO
Gabriele Veneziano is widely considered the father of string theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN, and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France. He is member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France.
Among his numerous prizes and awards, he received the Gold medal of Italian Republic, the Dannie Heineman prize of American Physical Society, the Enrico Fermi prize of the Italian Physical Society, the Dirac Medal at ICTP.
