Professor Ana Achúcarro, full university professor of Theoretical Physics in the Leiden University (Netherlands) and in the University of the Basque Country-EHU, gives the lecture “Observing the Big Bang”, on Friday 3 July at 19:00h, in Sala de la Muralla of the Principal Peset Hall of Residence (plaza Horno de San Nicolás, 4).
Acúcharro will carry out an approach to the universe origin from the String Theory, discipline that proposes that the particles that compose the matter take part of a structure more basic in the way of filaments or strings.
In the International Year of Light is the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the oldest light of the universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). CMB shows how was the universe 380.000 years after the Big Bang, the Great Explosion that gave rise to everything. Thanks to its study we know that the universe is expanding; it has been possible to determine its age and composition, the history of the expansion and how galaxies and everything around us has been formed.
Achúcarro will offer a tour through what we know about from the Big Bang theory until the CMB, as well as the surprises that the universe still encloses, formed for the most part by dark matter and energy, both of unknown nature. The work of Ana Achúcarro focuses on the early universe, the String Theory, the solitons and black holes. Graduated in Physical Sciences in UPV-EHU, received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1989.
Her doctoral thesis introduced the term “brane” in the scientific literature. She has worked at Imperial College (London) and at Tufts University (Boston), and was elected as a member of the European Academy (2011).
The conference, with free entrance, serves as a point of departure to the first encounter on String Theory and genre, which takes place on 6 and 7 July in the headquarters in the University-Business Foundation (ADEIT). In this encounter, organised by the Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC, CSIC-UV), international experts will reflect on the causes of the low participation of women in lifelong posts in the research in String Theory, and, by extension, in Physics in general, mathematics and engineerings.
The talk will be carried out in Spanish and will be addressed to all audiences.
Place: Principal Peset Hall of Residence (plaza Horno de San Nicolás, 4). Sala de la Muralla.
Date: Friday 3 July, at 19:00h.
Last update: 2 de july de 2015 09:16.
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