Colloquia

Colloquium October 2- When a Symmetry Breaks

by Prof. Hitoshi Murayama (University of California, Berkeley & Kavli Institute IPMU, Tokyo)

Europe/Rome
1/1-1 - Aula "A. Rostagni" (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Marzolo)

1/1-1 - Aula "A. Rostagni"

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Marzolo

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Description

Speaker: Prof. Hitoshi Murayama 

Affiliation: Professor at the University of Berkeley and Founding Director of the Kavli IPMU in Tokyo

Date: October 2nd, 2025, 3 p.m.

Where: Aula Rostagni 

Abstract: What is common among a magnet, a halibut, a rack of laundry, cubes of ice, superconductor, and the Higgs boson? The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking is a common theme for many natural phenomena. I'll describe the basic concept and its applications. In particular, the original concepts from Anderson, Nambu, Goldstone, and Higgs do not quite work in many systems that include a magnet on your fridge. I generalize the concept so that it is applicable to all known natural phenomena around us.

youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@UniPadovaAulaRostagni

 

 

Registration
Colloquim Murayama - 2/10/2025
Participants
  • Aleksandra Kravtsova
  • Alessandro Verganti
  • Alessio Inglese
  • Andrea Fenech
  • Andrea Zoppi
  • Anna Giorgia Macrì
  • Antonio Trovato
  • Arsenii Titov
  • Fabio Apruzzi
  • Federico Toccafondi
  • Francesco D'Eramo
  • Francesco Piro
  • franco simonetto
  • Fulvio Baldovin
  • Giovanni Gerardo
  • Giovanni Maria Pontiroli
  • Giulia Piaggio
  • Giuseppe Calajò
  • Konstantin Schmid
  • Leonardo Palombini
  • Leonardo Papa
  • Martucci Luca
  • Muhammad Younas Khan
  • Neelam Singh
  • Paolo Umari
  • Riccardo Sbarbati
  • Rihab Nawaz
  • Rosa Laura Lechuga Solis
  • Scognamiglio Alessandro
  • Weilong Chen
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