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The Future of Particle Physics

by David Gross
The Future of Particle Physics
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1601 views
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Elementary Particle Physics seeks to discover the basic constituents of matter and understand the fundamental forces that act on them. In this lecture I shall review the current state of particle physics, the grand success of the ñstandard modelî, ....

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00:37:00

Discovery of the Higgs Particle

by Martinus Veltman
Discovery of the Higgs Particle
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1476 views
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Recently the Higgs particle has been discovered at CERN. This particle was theoretically predicted. The historical development of field theory, leading to this prediction will be discussed.

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00:29:00

Future Accelerators for Astro-Particle Physics

by Carlo Rubbia
Future Accelerators for Astro-Particle Physics
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1388 views
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One of the most remarkable results of astro-particle Physics has been the success of the Standard Model, recently culminated in the discovery of the Higgs particle (Ho). However, the Ho is observable only in few channels at the LHC, in the presence o....

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The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics

by Serge Haroche
The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1311 views
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The year 2015 has been named the International Year of Light, to mark milestones in the science of light which occurred 1000, 200, 150, 100 and 50 years go. I was a young student in physics in 1965, when the cosmic radiation background was discovered....

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Light Quanta and Their Idiosyncrasies

by Roy Glauber
Light Quanta and Their Idiosyncrasies
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1653 views
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Maxwell's electromagnetic theory (now 150 years old) seemed in its comprehensive way to be capable of answering all of the questions one might ever pose about the theory of light. But that spell was broken in 1900 by Planck's discovery that light bea....

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The Origin of Elementary Particle Masses

by Francois Englert
The Origin of Elementary Particle Masses
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1168 views
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In the beginning of the 60s, the laws of classical general relativity, Einstein's generalisation of Newtonian gravity, and of quantum electrodynamics, the quantum version of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, were known. These laws describe long range....

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Self-assembled nanoparticles using a mixture of temperature responsive copolymers

by Yohei Kotsuchibashi
Self-assembled nanoparticles using a mixture of temperature responsive copolymers
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1268 views
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Temperature responsive polymer is an interesting material that shows reversible hydration/dehydration behavior in water at 32C, termed as the lower critical solution temperature (LCST). In this video, temperature responsive block copolymers are focus....

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The Long Road to the Higgs Boson – and Beyond

by John Ellis
The Long Road to the Higgs Boson – and Beyond
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 0 views
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The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s LHC accelerator in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations was the culmination of a decades-long search that had started in 1964 with the proposal of this unique particle, a signature of the origin of the....

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From the Structure of the Ribosome to the Design of New Antibiotics

by Thomas Steitz
From the Structure of the Ribosome to the Design of New Antibiotics
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1756 views
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Structural studies of the ribosome exemplify the evolution of structural studies in cell biology from the early negatively stained images of macromolecular assemblies in whole cells, to a detailed atomic understanding of the mechanism of action of a ....

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The Large Hadron Collider and the Super World

by David Gross
The Large Hadron Collider and the Super World
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1649 views
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In the period 1990 to 2001 many powerful new astronomical observational facilities have become operational. Hubble Space telescope was launched in 1990; it was followed by the construction of Keck I in 1992 and Keck II in 1996, by the completion of....

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The Development of Particle Physics

by Martinus Veltman
The Development of Particle Physics
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1345 views
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Particle physics mainly developed after World War II. It has its roots in the first half of the previous century, when it became clear that all matter is made up from atoms, and the atoms in turn were found to contain a nucleus surrounded by electro....

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00:28:00

From the Structure of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics

by Thomas Steitz
From the Structure of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1490 views
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Structural studies of the ribosome exemplify the evolution of structural studies in cell biology from the early negatively stained images of macromolecular assemblies in whole cells, to a detailed atomic understanding of the mechanisms of action of a....

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00:37:00

Cosmic Rays: the Most Energetic Particles in the Universe

by James Cronin
Cosmic Rays: the Most Energetic Particles in the Universe
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1187 views
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Astrophysical objects are able to accelerate atomic nuclei to energies 10^7 times more than man made accelerators such as LHC. _Particles arrive at earth from space with energies as great as 50 joules, a macroscopic energy in a microscopic particle.....

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01:18:00

What is Quantum Optics?

by Roy Glauber
What is Quantum Optics?
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 3698 views
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The image of light waves as oscillating electromagnetic fields explains virtually all the phenomena of traditional optics.  An awareness that these waves are somehow subdivided into quanta has however been with us since the early 20th century.  The....

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The Development of Particle Physics

by Martinus Veltman
The Development of Particle Physics
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1373 views
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Particle physics mainly developed after World War II. It has its roots in the first half of the previous century, when it became clear that all matter is made up from atoms, and the atoms in turn were found to contain a nucleus surrounded by electro....

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Designing Molecules and Nanoparticles to Help See and Treat Disease

by Roger Tsien
Designing Molecules and Nanoparticles to Help See and Treat Disease
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1232 views
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Molecules to observe and manipulate biological systems can be devised by a variety of strategies, ranging from pure chemical design and total synthesis to genome mining and high-throughput directed evolution. Examples of both successes and failures a....

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The Amazing Ribosome

by Ada Yonath
The Amazing Ribosome
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1362 views
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Ribosomes are the universal cellular machines that act as polymerases that translate the genetic code into proteins. They posses spectacular architecture accompanied by inherent mobility that facilitate their smooth performance in decoding, peptide ....

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Molecular Machines for Protein Degradation Inside Cells

by Robert Huber
Molecular Machines for Protein Degradation Inside Cells
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1392 views
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Within cells or subcellular compartments misfolded and/or short-lived regulatory proteins are degraded by protease machines, cage-forming multi-subunit assemblages. Their proteolytic active sites are sequestered within the particles and located on t....

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Proteasome and DegP Protease, Mechanisms and Drug Design

by Robert Huber
Proteasome and DegP Protease, Mechanisms and Drug Design
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1424 views
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Within cells or subcellular compartments, mis-folded and/or short-lived regulatory proteins are degraded by protease machines, cage-forming multi-subunit assemblages, the proteasome and HtrA/DegP.  They are essential components in very complex regul....

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Controlling Photons in a Box and Exploring the Quantum to Classical Boundary

by Serge Haroche
Controlling Photons in a Box and Exploring the Quantum to Classical Boundary
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1715 views
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The founders of quantum theory assumed in 'thought experiments' that they were manipulating isolated quantum systems, obeying the counterintuitive laws which they had just discovered.  Technological advances have recently turned these virtual experi....

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The Real M-Theory

by Brian Josephson
The Real M-Theory
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1281 views
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How can one advance a working hypothesis that will not be wrong tomorrow and ridiculous the day after? Beyond the Standard Model we find uncertainty and confusion, with both unclarity as to which might be the correct theory, as well as little in the ....

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Creating Artificial Magnetic Fields to Act on Neutral Atoms

by William Phillips
Creating Artificial Magnetic Fields to Act on Neutral Atoms
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1559 views
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Cold, quantum degenerate gases of neutral atoms have proved to be useful in simulating the behavior of quantum systems like electrons in solids.  For example, cold atoms moving in optical lattices (periodic potentials created by interfering laser be....

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Neutrinos: a Golden Field for Astroparticle Physics

by Carlo Rubbia
Neutrinos: a Golden Field for Astroparticle Physics
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1133 views
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Neutrinos have been the origin of an impressive number of ‘surprises’.  We know that neutrinos have tiny masses and that oscillations are occurring spontaneously between neutrino species.  But additional new discoveries may be ahead of us and t....

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The LHC at CERN and the Higgs

by Martinus Veltman
The LHC at CERN and the Higgs
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1431 views
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The strong interactions, the forces responsible for the interactions between quarks and notably supposedly responsible for quark confinement, profited from the development of gauge theories.  In the wake of the gauge theory of weak interactions also....

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