Wednesday Colloquia

The Life and Work of Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)

by Prof. Sreerup Raychaudhuri (TIFR Mumbai)

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Online through ZOOM Webinar ( Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97963259354?pwd=ZFZsa2xqWGJSZW5pUjZPNkNqeGlEZz09 )
Meeting ID: 979 6325 9354 Pass code: 04072020
Description
In this talk in memory of the late Steven Weinberg, the major milestones of his life will be touched upon and some of his more famous works will be explained. In particular, the electroweak interactions and the synthesis achieved by him which led to the development of the Standard Model - and to his own Nobel Prize - will be described. Some of his later work, including his far-reaching ideas on effective field theories, will be touched upon. The physical ideas will be explained in a quasi-historical qualitative style.