Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2017
Volume 62, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, January 28–31, 2017; Washington, DC
Session C15: Dannie Heineman Prize and Henry Primakoff Award SessionInvited Prize/Award
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Sponsoring Units: DPF DCOMP Room: Washington 2 |
Saturday, January 28, 2017 1:30PM - 2:06PM |
C15.00001: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics: Applying mathematical techniques to solve important problems in quantum theory Invited Speaker: Carl Bender The theory of complex variables is extremely useful because it helps to explain the mathematical behavior of functions of a real variable. Complex variable theory also provides insight into the nature of physical theories. For example, it provides a simple and beautiful picture of quantization and it explains the underlying reason for the divergence of perturbation theory. By using complex-variable methods one can generalize conventional Hermitian quantum theories into the complex domain. The result is a new class of parity-time-symmetric (PT-symmetric) theories whose remarkable physical properties have been studied and verified in many recent laboratory experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, January 28, 2017 2:06PM - 2:42PM |
C15.00002: Exploring the Dark Sector with the Multiwavelength Sky Invited Speaker: Tracy Slatyer Dark matter constitutes more than 5/6 of the matter in the universe, but its nature and interactions remain one of the great puzzles of fundamental physics. Dark matter collisions or decays have the potential to produce high-energy particles; such particles could be observable by Earth-based telescopes in the future, and may already have reshaped the history of our universe. I will discuss new theoretical tools for teasing information on dark matter out of the multiwavelength sky, and distinguishing a (hypothetical) true dark matter signal from complex astrophysical backgrounds. [Preview Abstract] |
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