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My Random Walk Through the Wonderful World of Physics, from 1957 to 2017... and Counting!

On 15 March 2013, internationally renowned theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss returned to lectureon the discovery of the Higgs particle by the LHC at CERN, explaining the significance of this remarkablediscovery -- which is the hottest thing in science these days. This was Lawrence's third lecture at YBC.Both the students and teachers were...

On March 6th Scott Atran lectured at Uppsala University on the Battle of Kudilah, Pitfalls of Coalition Strategy Against ISIS.

On 15 November 2018 at Stockholm University, Tegmark lectured on Living in the Age of AI. Sponsored by Boston Consulting Group Gamma, this program was attended by 900 students, faculty and members of the general public.

On 13 December at KTH and on 14 December at Uppsala University, Björn Engquist, PhD (Univ. of Texas-Austin) gave lectures on multiscale modeling.

On November 27 Takakki Kajita, PhD (University of Tokyo); Nobel Prize in Physics 2015, lectured at Uppsala University on his work in the Kamioka Nucleon Delay Experiment (Kamiokande).

On the 24th of May 2017 at Uppsala University Frank Wilczek (Professor of Physics at MIT and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2004) spoke at the Department of Astronomy & Physics on the theme "time crystals".

The Program provided a multi-dimensional perspective on genocide by: (a) a Holocaust survivor, who can provided a personal, first hand account of persecution under Nazi rule (b) a social anthropologist who has done extensive field research in the Middle East and Asia, interviewing Al-Qaeda and Islamic State and other combatants and thus can provide...

International large-scale experiments are playing an ever-increasing role in the advances in physics and astronomy. The past few years have seen Nobel Prizes from discoveries in physics experiments, including neutrino experiments in Japan and Canada that established that neutrinos have mass and oscillate, the discovery of the Higgs Boson in two...

My Random Walk Through the Wonderful World of Physics, from 1957 to 2017... and Counting!