The 16th Dvořák Lecture by Stefan Söldner-Rembold: Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Admission to the lecture is free, however, it is necessary to reserve a seat using the registration form at rezervace.fzu.cz
The program will also include the awarding of emeritus certificates to FZU researchers.
Anotation
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, the search for physics beyond the standard model – these mysteries at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics are key to understanding the evolution of our universe. DUNE is an international neutrino experiment dedicated to addressing these questions as it searches for leptonic charge-parity symmetry violation, stands ready to capture supernova neutrino bursts, test the three-flavour paradigm and search for new physics. To achieve its science goals, it will employ the technology of liquid-argon time projection chambers at an unprecedented scale and precision. DUNE will comprise a far detector located at the SURF laboratory in South Dakota and a near detector close to the neutrino beam source at Fermilab near to Chicago. The lecture will introduce the science and technology of DUNE and discuss the status of the international project.
Stefan Söldner-Rembold
Professor Stefan Söldner-Rembold’s research focuses on particle and neutrino physics. He is currently Head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College London and previously led the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He studied at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich in 1992, supported by a fellowship from the Max Planck Institute. After completing his Habilitation at the University of Freiburg, he was a Heisenberg Fellow based at CERN from 1999 to 2003.
Professor Söldner-Rembold has held leadership roles in major international physics collaborations, including serving as spokesperson for the DUNE collaboration and previously as spokesperson of the Dzero experiment at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. A Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the UK Institute of Physics, he has received several awards including a Royal Society Wolfson Research Award, the James Chadwick Medal and Prize, and the Max Born Medal and Prize.
Vladimír Dvořák
(1934–2007)
Vladimír Dvořák was a solid state physicist and the most prominent Czech scientist in the theory of ferroelectricity and structural phase transitions. He was affiliated with the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague for his whole productive life. He served as its director in 1993–2001 and was the main protagonist of the revolutionary reforms of the Institute after 1989. He was a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic since 1995. His personality has strongly influenced the scientific program and development in the Department of Dielectrics of the Institute since the late sixties up to the present. He was a brilliant lecturer and is considered one of the most respected directors of the Institute. To commemorate his work and personality, the Institute Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences decided to organize an annual festive Dvořák lecture, given by prominent internationally renowned scientists in the field related to the research pursued at the Institute.
The lecture and discussion will be held in English only; no Czech translation will be provided. Admission is free, but seat reservation is required at rezervace.fzu.cz
If you cannot attend the lecture in person, you can watch it remotely using Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81367813729?pwd=a8tBc6f8ZafzO5hG2dhEcmKTAMsj6R.1
Meeting ID: 813 6781 3729
Passcode: 080386