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Symmetry And Fundamental Physics: Tom Kibble At 80 (Paperback)
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Symmetry And Fundamental Physics: Tom Kibble At 80 (Paperback)
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Tom Kibble is an inspirational theoretical physicist who has made
profound contributions to our understanding of the physical world.
To celebrate his 80th birthday a one-day symposium was held on
March 13, 2013 at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College,
London. This important volume is a compilation of papers based on
the presentations that were given at the symposium.The symposium
profiled various aspects of Tom's long scientific career. The tenor
of the meeting was set in the first talk given by Neil Turok,
director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, who
described Tom as "our guru and example". He gave a modern overview
of cosmological theories, including a discussion of Tom's
pioneering work on how topological defects might have formed in the
early universe during symmetry-breaking phase transitions. Wojciech
Zurek of Los Alamos National Laboratory continued with this theme,
surveying analogous processes within the context of condensed
matter systems and explaining the Kibble-Zurek scaling phenomenon.
The day's events were concluded by Jim Virdee of Imperial College,
who summarized the epic and successful quest of finding the Higgs
boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. At the end of the talk,
there was a standing ovation for Tom that lasted several minutes.In
the evening, Steven Weinberg gave a keynote presentation to a
capacity audience of 700 people. He talked eruditely on symmetry
breaking and its role in elementary particle physics. At the
banquet dinner, Frank Close of Oxford University concluded the
banquet speeches by summarizing the significance of Tom's
contributions to the creation of the Standard Model.
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