UC Berkeley's Hitoshi Murayama leads 2015 Vaden Miles Memorial Lecture at Wayne State University
Hitoshi Murayama, UC Berkeley professor of physics and director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Tokyo, will present The Quantum Universe as the keynote speaker at the 2015 Vaden Miles Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, 2015.
The lecture will take place in the Bernath Auditorium located in Wayne State's David Adamany Undergraduate Library. The event is free and open to the public.
The quantum universe: Where do we come from? Science is making progress on this age-old question of humankind. The universe was once much smaller than the size of an atom. Small things mattered in the small Universe, where quantum physics dominated the scene. To understand the way the universe is today, we have to solve the remaining major puzzles. The Higgs boson that was discovered recently is holding our body together from evaporating in a nanosecond. But we still do not know what exactly it is. The mysterious dark matter is holding the galaxy together, and we would not have been born without it. But nobody has seen it directly. And what is the very beginning of the universe?
About the Vaden W. Miles Memorial Lecture
Mrs. Maxine Miles established the Vaden W. Miles Memorial Lectureship in Physics in memory of her late husband, Professor Vaden Willis Miles. Professor Vaden Miles was an excellent teacher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He was known for conveying concepts of physics in an exciting manner and was co-author of a popular textbook on conceptual physics.
During the annual Vaden W. Miles Memorial event, a distinguished physicist is invited to present a lecture with the purpose of inspiring, educating, and promoting physics and astronomy to students, the WSU community, and the general public. A stipulation of the annual lectureship is that the guest speaker also spends time with physics students in an informal setting where they can discuss physics and astronomy topics and career paths.