The physicist Luis Álvarez-Gaumé explains the invisibility of the Universe in La Nau
The Spanish physicist Luis Álvarez-Gaumé will visit on 29 May the Cultural Centre La Nau to teach the conference “The Dark Side of the Universe”. The event will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Assembly Hall within the programme of the Escola Europea de Pensament Lluís Vives. Entrance is free and limited to the capacity of the room.
28 de may de 2018
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé will address some of the questions that are being asked by modern research in fundamental Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. In the last decades, we have become more ignorant on the matter that permeates the Universe. The invisible seems to contain the answer to the basic questions of the properties of the visible universe, and even our own existence.
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé researches the string theory and quantum gravity at the New York State University in Stony Brook (SUNY) and the CERN. He doctorated in SUNY in 1981 and worked in the University of Harvard between 1981 and 1984. Then he became a professor at the University of Boston. From 1986 to 2016, he was permanent member of the Theoretical Physics Division of the CERN. Actually, he was the director of the team. In 2016, he became director of the Simons Centre for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook.
He is the responsible of several contributions in the field of string theory and its mathematical framework. He and Edward Witten proved in 1983 that normally quantic field theories have gravitational anomalies. He is also known because he found Physical evidence of the Atiyah-Singer theorem by means of supersymmetry. Álvarez-Gaumé studied breaking supersymmetries in low energy Physics.
He was a Junior Fellow, in the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was given the Javed Husain Award for Young Researchers (UNESCO) and the Humboldt SeniorResearch Award. He is also an academic of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
The Escola Europea de Pensament Lluís Vives is a cultural project promoted by the Office of the Vice-principal for Culture and Sport and managed by General Foundation of the Universitat de València. It aims to create reflection, and critical and participative debate on current issues. The School also counts with the support of the public administration and the civil society: The President of the Valencian government, the City Hall of Valencia, the Valencian Department of Transparency and Education, Research, Culture and Sports, the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, the Alfons el Magnànim Institute, the Escola Europea d’Humanitats and the Caixa Popular.