Professor Roy. J. Glauber   Nobel Laureate in Physics 2005
100 Years of Light Quanta
Jun 23, 2006

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  Lecture by Prof. Roy. J. Glauber

'Comb' to a High Precision -
the Achievement of This Year's Nobel Laureates in Physics
精密的光梳尺 ─
本年度諾貝爾物理學得獎者的 成就

Speaker : 黃景揚教授
          香港中文大學物理系副教授

Date    : 28 October 2005 (Friday)
Time    : 4:45 pm
Venue   : TY Wong Hall, 
          5/F Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building,
          The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Lecture by Prof. K. Y. Wong

• Photoelectric Effect and Quantum Nature of Light
• Brownian Motion and Molercular Kinetic Theory of Heat
• Special Theory of Relativity
• Mass-Energy Equivalence

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  Lecture by Prof. H.M.Lai
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• Earth's Atmosphere
• Rotating Earth - Coriolis Force
• Cloud Physics
• Meteorological Observation and Monitoring
• Numerical Weather Prediction

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  Lecture by Dr. Li Ping Wah
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• In this lecture, the present state of knowledge in elementary particle physics and the questions that we are currently addressing will be reviewed. The state of string theory, an ambitious attempt to construct a unified theory of all the forces of nature will also be reviewed and the conceptual revolutions that might be necessary to complete this task will be described.

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  Lecture by Prof. David J. Gross
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• Quark Interactions
• Deep inelastic scattering
• Asymptotic freedom
• Yang-Mills field

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  Lecture by Prof. Kenneth Young
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• What is Quarks
• Quark models
• Strong Interaction
• Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Strange stars

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  Lecture by Prof. M. C. Chu
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• On February 1,2003, the NASA space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry over East Texas. The speaker was a member of the board that investigated the origins of this accident. In his talk he will describe how the board was able to determine with almost absolute certainty of the physical cause of the accident.

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  Lecture by Prof. Douglas D. Osheroff
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• The confirmation that the universe is full of dark matter and dark energy has been selected as the most important scientific breakthrough in 2003 by Science Magazine. In comparison, normal matter that we are familiar with contributes a negligible fraction to the total mass-energy of the universe! What are dark matter and dark energy? How do they affect the evolution of the universe and galaxies? How can scientists study these ＆invisible＊ forms of matter-energy? This talk will answer these questions and discuss some contemporary research in this area.

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Lecture by Prof. M. C. Chu
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• 科幻小說與電影為黑洞這類奇異的天體添上了不少神秘色彩。人們既熟悉黑洞這個名稱，卻又因種種神秘的傳說而對它感到陌生。然而，在現代天文學家的眼裡，黑洞只是一種在宇宙中隨處都可能存在的天體。近年哈勃太空 望遠鏡為我們開啟了研究黑洞的大門。出乎意料之外，黑洞可以多種不同的形式存在，包括孤立的黑洞、在雙星系統中的黑洞、星團中的中型黑洞、活躍星系中的超級黑洞。沒有蟲洞、沒有通往另一個宇宙的時光隧道等幻想，黑洞的存在卻使人類切實地了解到一些宇宙演化的奧秘。

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Lecture by Prof. S. S. Tong
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• The story of how, in roughly the twelve-month period July 1972每July 1973, we came to a theoretical understanding of the experimental data on what we now know as superfluid 3He is a sort of complex detective tale, involving many actors besides me; for reasons of time I will concentrate in this lecture on my own involvement, and will have to omit several important developments in which I had no direct role.

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  Lecture by Prof. Anthony J. Leggett
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• Braid Algebra
• Dirac's Game
• Topology
• Rotate Neutrons
• Knot Theory
• Statistical Mechanics

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  Introduction by Prof. P. M. Hui
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  Lecture by Prof. C. N. Yang
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• Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
• Advance of perihelion
  (a)Gravitational red shift
  (b)Defection of light
• Grav Waves

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  Lecture by Prof. K. Young
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• 【賴漢明 教授，香港中文大學物理系教授】
  鞦韆是大家熟知的玩意兒，原來裡面包含了不少重要而有趣的物理。除了即時想到的振動及共振之外，它還包含了另類的?量共振，也帶出一些奇特的非?性振動。這個普及物理講座將圍繞上述振動現象，作出概念上的解釋，並利用一個非常簡單的共振彈簧擺，示範一個趣怪的非?性振動現象。
  
  
• 【劉煥明 教授，香港中文大學理學院院長及物理系材料科學講座教授】
  過去幾年科學家在研究快速反應和制備及分析微觀材料結構都有重大突破，這些成功已經分別得到學術上例如諾貝爾獎和應用上如新產業開發的認同，甚至出現以前只會在科幻小說裡才看到的如飛秒天地 （ Femtoland ） 及納米世界 （ Nanoworld ） 等詞彙。但什麼是飛秒及納米？我們如何量度它們？我會與大家發掘這些問題與答案。
  
  
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