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Understanding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics + Q&A
Understanding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics + Q&A
| dc.contributor.author | Cvitanović, Predrag | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wells-Bonning, Erin | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Emory University. Dept. of Physics | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-21T15:41:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-01-21T15:41:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-11-11 | |
| dc.description | Presented online on November 11, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. | en_US |
| dc.description | Predrag Cvitanović is an endowed Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is highly regarded for his work in nonlinear dynamics, particularly his contributions to periodic orbit theory. Perhaps his best-known work is his introduction of cycle expansions—that is, expansions based on using periodic orbit theory—to approximate chaotic dynamics in a controlled perturbative way. This technique has proven to be widely useful for diagnosing and quantifying chaotic dynamics in problems ranging from atomic physics to neurophysiology. Cvitanović worked briefly on a General Motors assembly line upon first arriving in the United States. Cvitanović earned his B.S. from MIT in 1969 and his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1973. Before joining the physics department at the Georgia Institute of Technology he was the director of the Center for Chaos and Turbulence Studies of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Predrag Cvitanović is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, a corresponding member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a recipient of the Research Prize of the Danish Physical Society, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. | en_US |
| dc.description | Erin Bonning is Lecturer, Department of Physics and Director of the Emory Planetarium. She is the author of numerous scholarly publication on astrophysics and astronomy, specializing in black hole physics, quasars, and active galaxies. | en_US |
| dc.description | Runtime: 66:48 minutes | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Georgia Tech School of Physics professor and Glen P. Robinson Chair in Nonlinear Sciences Chair Predrag Cvitanović and Emory University Senior Lecturer and Director of the Planetarium Erin Wells Bonning explain the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. After the presentation, the speakers will answer questions from the audience, so come curious! Half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. In 1957 Penrose, then a graduate student, met Georgia Tech’s late David Ritz Finkelstein in a fateful meeting that changed both men’s lives forever after. It was Finkelstein’s extension of the Schwarzschild metric which provided Penrose with an opening into general relativity and set him on the path to his 1965 discovery celebrated by this year’s prize. The other half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of — in Ghez’s words — "The Monster at the heart of the Milky Way," a black hole whose existence had been hypothesized since the early 1970s. In order to visually observe an object that famously does not emit any light, precise measurements of stars moving in the black hole’s gravitational field had to be carried out. The independent work of Genzel and Ghez mapping the positions of these stars over many years has led to the clearest evidence yet that the center of our Milky Way galaxy contains “The Monster”, that possibly every galaxy contains a black hole, and that the environment near it looks nothing like what was expected. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 66:48 minutes | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/64234 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | School of Physics Seminar | |
| dc.subject | Black holes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nobel prizee | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physics | en_US |
| dc.title | Understanding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics + Q&A | en_US |
| dc.type | Moving Image | |
| dc.type.genre | Lecture | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.author | Cvitanović, Predrag | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Sciences | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Physics | |
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