Outside Event: Presidential Lecture Series: Frank Wilczek

[General Public]

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 6pm

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Fowler Hall – Stewart Center View map

Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, considered one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists and a pioneer in modern quantum theory, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang Oct. 30 for a conversation as part of the university’s Presidential Lecture Series.

Wilczek’s Purdue appearance, titled “Our Strange Universe: What Is It? What Does It Mean?” is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall. The Presidential Lecture is free and open to the public, but a general admission ticket will be required.

Wilczek, the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics with David Gross and David Politzer for their 1973 discovery of “asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction,” which revolutionized our understanding of nuclear matter.

Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, a leading theoretical physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer, to headline Presidential Lecture Series event