Supersymmetry: Some Reflections on the Future of a Symmetry from the Future
Colloqui della Classe di Scienze
Mercoledì 04 Dicembre 2019
15:00
Italia
Sala Azzurra, Palazzo della Carovana, Scuola Normale Superiore, piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa
2019 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics “for the invention of Supergravity, in which quantum variables are part of the description of the geometry of spacetime”
Abstract
A critical assessment of some crucial steps in the development of Supersymmetry, Supergravity and String Theory during the last decades, and some personal views about promising directions to address some pressing issues in the quest for the unification of the Fundamental Interactions.