Beasts of the Subatomic Wild
| Date/Time: | Monday, 30 Jan 2017 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Phys 0003 |
| Phone: | 515-294-5441 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Abstract: The historical development of Quantum Chromodynamics, its properties, and speculation concerning the burgeoning supply of exotic particles will be presented.
Ref: Heavy-Quark QCD Exotica, R.F. Lebed, R.E. Mitchell, and E.S. Swanson, arXiv:1610.04528
Bio: Eric Swanson is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1991 and subsequently spent three years at MIT and six years in North Carolina before moving to Pittsburgh.
He has published more than 100 papers on theoretical hadronic physics, condensed matter physics, and biophysics. Swanson was named an APS Fellow for his work on exotic particles and is a founder of the Topical Group on Hadronic Physics of the American Physical Society. He has been a visiting scientist at Oxford University, TRIUMF in British Columbia, Jefferson Lab in Virginia, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is the author of "Science and Society", the forthcoming "Applied Computational Physics", and seven op-eds on science issues in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.