International conference "Chiral Dynamics 2024" with guest speech by Nobel Prize winner David Gross

The 11th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics will take place from August 26 - 30, 2024. Around 150 participants from all over the world will come together at the event center of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. The event is organized by Prof. Evgeny Epelbaum and the Institute of Theoretical Physics II. Employees of the faculty are cordially invited to listen to the lectures.

Chiral dynamics - what holds the atomic nucleus together inside?

The conference brings together experts in the field of quantum chromodynamics every three years. The aim is to explore the dynamics and processes inside the atomic nucleus. Theoreticians and experimental physicists exchange ideas in order to better understand the phenomena for which chiral symmetry of the strong interaction plays a role.

Guest article by Nobel Prize winner David Gross

The Institute was able to win Prof. Dr. David J. Gross as a guest speaker. The physicist is Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics and former Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the USA. Gross is one of the leading minds in particle physics. Together with Prof. Dr. Frank Wilczek and Prof. Dr. David Politzer, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for the discovery of asymptotic freedom. Asymptotic freedom describes the effect that the strong interaction between quarks becomes weaker the closer they are to each other. The physicist was thus able to describe the force acting between quarks mathematically for the first time - and thus co-founded the theory of quantum chromodynamics. His guest lecture on August 28 is a journey through the last 50 years of quantum chromodynamics.

Special plenary session on the past, present and future of quantum chromodynamics

Gross' lecture "Fifty Years of Quantum Chromodynamics" is one of three lectures in the Special Plenary Session, which will take place on August 28:

Nobel Laureate Prof. David Gross, UC Santa Barbara, USA.
10:45 - 11:35 a.m.
Title: Fifty Years of Quantum Chromodynamics

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulf-G. Meißner, University of Bonn
11:35 - 12:25
Title: Chiral Dynamics: Quo vadis?

Prof. Martin Savage, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
12:25 - 13:15
Title: Quantum Simulations of Fundamental Physics

Employees of the faculty are welcome to attend the lectures; prior registration is not necessary. Further information on the program can be found on the conference website: The 11th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics.

Contact:

Stephanie Hohmann

Ruhr University Bochum
Institute for Theoretical Physics II
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D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Phone: + 49 - 234 - 32 23 707
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