Harvard University
Friday Afternoon: Science Center B
Saturday: Jefferson Hall 250
Dedicated in honor of
Sidney Coleman
Friday, March 18
Science Center B
1:00
Registration
1:30
Opening
1:45-2:30
David Gross
The Future of Physics
Introduced by Norman Ramsey
2:30-3:15
Frank Wilczek
Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox
to Paradigm
Introduced by Lisa Randall
3:15-3:45
3:45-4:00
Break
Lawrence Summers
4:00-4:45
Paul Steinhardt
Cosmology in a False Vacuum
Introduced by Greg Moore
4:45-5:15
Murray Gell-Mann
Recollections of Sidney
Introduced by Leon Cooper
Sheldon Glashow
Small Matrices, Sidney, and Me
Introduced by Howard Georgi
Saturday, March 19
Jefferson 250
10:00-10:45
Erick Weinberg
Vacuum Tunneling in de Sitter Space—
QFT in the Past and in the Future
Introduced by Alan Guth
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:00
Steven Weinberg
Cosmological Correlations
Introduced by Kenneth Wilson
12:00-1:30
Lunch Break
1:30-2:15
Gerard ’t Hooft
Symmetry and Sidney
Introduced by Nathan Seiberg
2:15-2:45
Break
2:45-3:30
Edward Witten
Emergent Phenomena in Condensed
Matter and Particle Physics
Introduced by Arthur Jaffe
About the Speakers
Murray Gell-Mann is a Distinguised Fellow of the
Santa Fe Institute, as well as the Robert Andrew Millikan
Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the
California Institute of Technology. He received the
Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 “for his contributions
and discoveries concerning the classification of
elementary particles and their interactions”.
Sheldon Glashow is a Professor of Physics at Boston
University, as well as the Higgins Professor of Physics
Emeritus at Harvard University. He received the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1979 “for contributions to the theory
of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction
between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the
prediction of the weak neutral current”.
David Gross is the Director of the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics at the University of California at
Santa Barbara and holds the Frederick W. Gluck
Professorship of Theoretical Physics. He received the
Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 “for the discovery of
asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong
interaction”.
Paul Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in
Science at Princeton University, a member of the faculty
in the Department of Physics, and an associate faculty
member in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.
He received the P.A.M. Dirac Medal from the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 2002.
Lawrence
Summers is President of Harvard
University. Formerly he had been a professor of
economics at Harvard, and served under President
Clinton as Secretary of the Treasury.
Frank Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of
Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 “for the
discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the
strong interaction”.
Erick Weinberg is a Professor of Physics, as well as
Chair of the Department of Physics at Columbia
University. His major interest is elementary particle
theory, including the study of topological and
nontopological solitons.
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in
Science at the University of Texas at Austin, a member of
the Physics and Astronomy Departments. He was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 “for
contributions to the theory of the unified weak and
electromagnetic
interaction
between
elementary
particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak
neutral current”.
Gerard ’t Hooft is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at
the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Universiteit
Utrecht. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1999
“for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak
interactions in physics”.
Edward Witten is a Professor in the School of Natural
Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey. He received the Fields Medal in
1990 “for his work connecting theoretical physics to
modern mathematics”.
About Sidney Coleman
Sidney was born on March 7, 1937 in Chicago.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree
from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957,
and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of
Technology in 1962. He came to Harvard in
1961 and now is the Donner Professor of
Science.
Not only was Sidney instrumental in the
discovery of asymptotic freedom and the
understanding of its consequences (ultimately
resulting in the 2004 Nobel Prize). But in his
generation he was the “number one” expositor
of new ideas in renormalization theory and
symmetry, both to experts as well as to
students. His legendary lectures at Harvard
and at numerous summer schools in Erice,
Sicily, inspired a whole generation of young
physicists.