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2007 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture In Physics
	The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics Tuesday, December 4, 2007 4:00 p.m. The Johns Hopkins University Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center
Presented by: David J. Gross 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara
David J. Gross, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Frederick W. Gluck Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, will deliver the 2007 Brickwedde Lecture in Physics and Astronomy on December 4. Following the Brickwedde tradition, Prof. Gross will be departmental colloquium speaker on Thursday, December 6. His topic: "The Future of Physics". Gross is among the world's leading theoretical physicists, with research interests ranging from the phenomenology of strong interactions to the superstring theory, which many hope might be the fundamental description of the physical world. Since 1997, Gross has been the Director of the KITP at UC-Santa Barbara, overseeing one of the most vibrant and creative enterprises in all of physics. He moved there from Princeton, where he was Higgins Professor of Physics. Gross shared 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer for their work on the asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Among his many honors are the Oskar Klein Medal (2000), the Dirac Medal (1988) and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Prize (1987). Gross is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. Click on Prof. Gross’s web page for additional details on his career and scientific activity. The Brickwedde lectures were established in 1981 and are funded by an endowment provided by one of our alumni, Professor Ferdinand G. Brickwedde (B.A. '22, M.A. '24, Ph.D. '25), and his wife, Langhorne Howard Brickwedde. Professor Brickwedde has had a distinguished research and academic career. He was a co-discoverer of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen. He was long associated with the National Bureau of Standards and was dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics at Pennsylvania State University from 1956 to 1963. Each academic year, at least one outstanding individual is invited for a three-day period. During this time, the visitor delivers a public address and the weekly departmental colloquium, the latter being geared to the scientific community. At other times, visitors are invited for shorter or longer periods to give a colloquium, teach and/or conduct specialized seminars. As stipulated by the Brickweddes, the visitors are asked to spend generous amounts of time with students. Informal discussions and social activities are arranged so that all students have the opportunity to have close contact with our guests.
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