What's on archive 2010

Inaugural lecture: Magic Strings

16 Feb 2010, 17:30, Great Hall, Strand Campus

School / area: Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Location: Strand Campus
Location map: Strand: detail
Speaker: Professor Nikolaos Mavromatos

Nikolaos Mavromatos will give his inagural lecture, entitled Magic Strings. The lecture will discuss the possibility that string theory models may violate one of the most fundamental symmetry principles we  have in Physics today, namely Lorentz symmetry at microscopic scales of  the order of the Planck length (ie as small as 10^{-35} meters). MAGIC here is an acromym of a Telescope in the Canary islands, which was  the first to observe delayed arrivals of more energetic photons, as compared to lower-energy ones, from a distant cosmic source.

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