Name: So, what is the world made of?
Start: 2016-05-25T
End: 2016-05-25T
Location: The Yorkshire Grey

Professor Yang and his student Malte Probst will take you on a tour through the world of the smallest building blocks of the universe. At this event, we will find out about the essential ideas of the 'Theory of Everything' and how it revolutionised mathematics. The event will be in the first floor room, there will be games and special Pint of Science and Mendeley goodies to be won!

“Muß es sein?”, epigraph to a cosmic string quartet

Yang Hui-He (Professor of Mathematics)

“Muß es sein?” So wrote Beethoven in an epigraph to his last string quartet. In today’s great quest for the Theory of Everything, physicists are led to ask the same: Must it be so? Do all interactions and all particles of nature fundamentally originate from a cosmic string quartet? In this talk, we take the audience on a bird’s-eye view of the theory of superstrings, what is it and why it is important. We will emphasize the wealth of ideas which has revolutionized the world of pure mathematics.

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