Dean's Lecture Series

John Huth, chair and professor of physics at Harvard University was guest speaker on October 19th as part of the College of Sciences Dean's Lecture Series. His talk, "The Wisdom of the Inward Parts: Science at the Frontiers of Scale," dealt with the progressive discoveries in the fields of physics and astronomy that have improved our understanding of the largest and smallest structures within the universe while leaving fundamental puzzles unsolved.

John Huth

Huth's research interests include the experimental origins of electroweak symmetry breaking and tests of conjectured solutions to the gauge hierarchy problem. He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and doctorate from the University of California Berkeley.

Reiner Dreizler, Faculty Emeriti at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat's Institut Für Theoretische Physik in Frankfurt, Germany was a guest speaker as part of the College of Sciences Dean's Lecture Series on Oct. 26th and 27th. His first talk was "Density Functional Theory: An Approach to the Quantum Many Body Problem that Works" and his second was "Numerical Simulations: From Tailor-made Materials to Protein Folding."

Reiner Dreizler

Dreizler received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University in Freiburg/Breisgau. He received his doctorate from the Australian National University in Canberra. He worked as a research associate and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1964-1966 and has been a professor of theoretical physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt since 1972. He became Faculty Emeriti in 2001. He has published a book on Theoretical Physics and is currently acting chair of the Centre of Scientific Computing of Frankfurt University

Lectures are always free and open to the public. Upcoming lectures can always be found on the Old Dominion University news web site: www.odu.edu.

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