Van Winter Memorial Lecture in Mathematical Physics: What is Quantum Field Theory?
Van Winter Memorial Lecture in Mathematical Physics: What is Quantum Field Theory?
Speaker: Nathan Seiberg, Charles Simonyi Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Abstract: We will review the status of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) as the language of physics. We will stress that despite enormous success and a lot of progress, we still do not have a completely satisfactory presentation of the theory. In particular, QFT is not yet mathematically rigorous. This will lead us to discuss the symmetries of QFT as associated with topological operators. This modern view has generalized our ideas of symmetries and has led to many new results.
The Van Winter Memorial Lecture in Mathematical Physics honors the memory of Clasine van Winter, who was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1968 until her retirement in 1999. The annual lecture is jointly sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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139 Chemistry-Physics Bldg
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"Who Counts as a Person? Women, Wombs, and Project 2025"
Lynn Paltrow's talk “Who Counts as a Person? Women, Wombs, and Project 2025,” on Wednesday October 16 at 2pm in Law School Room 291, is co-sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the J. Rosenberg College of Law.
Lynn M. Paltrow, JD, is a feminist lawyer who founded Pregnancy Justice (formerly National Advocates for Pregnant Women).
Last fall the campus faced demonstrators and speakers who claimed that “women are property” and asked, “what is a woman?” This fall we are making space on our campus for equal time for scholarly analysis that does not presume that a woman is property or a “what” instead of “who.”
For more than 30 years, Ms. Paltrow pioneered legal advocacy that acknowledged how abortion and pregnancy are not separate issues. Come and learn how all people with the capacity for pregnancy – not just those seeking to end a pregnancy – are harmed by the loss of Roe v Wade and what we can do about it now.
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Room 291, J. David Rosenberg College of Law
