Due to unavoidable circumstances this event has moved to March 7. We hope you are still able to join us.
Welcome to the "Big Question in Particle Physics" colloquium series, organized by the Snowmass Early Career Core Initiatives. This series aims to explore the underlying questions which motivate the research programs within Snowmass, and give examples and ideas of how early-career scientists might hope to address future research problems over the course of their careers in physics.
In this colloquium, we explore the big questions around the future of physical theory with Chris Quigg (Fermilab) and Jim Gates (Brown). What are the next ideas to test? Where should theory go from here? What do the latest experiments say are the strengths and shortcomings of current theory? What implications can future measurements have on our most fundamental understandings of nature?
Supplemental Reading Material (Jim Gates)
-
Is String Theory Phenomenologically Viable? (Physics Today 2006 Essay): https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2218556
-
Sticking With SUSY (Physics World 2014 Essay): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/27/10/3
-
Will Evolution and Information Theory Provide The Fundamentals Of Physics? (Video Presentation 2014 Talk): https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/provost/initiatives/will-evolution-and-information-theory-provide-fundamentals-physics
Supplemental Reading Material (Chris Quigg)
- Nature's Greatest Puzzles (2004 SLAC Summer Institute): https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0502070.pdf
- Perspectives and Questions (Seminar Slides, 2021): https://bit.ly/3G8vPyQ
Josh Barrow
Kristi Engel
Julia Gonski
Tiffany Lewis
Jorge Torres