Time:9:00 am, Oct. 15th(Sunday), 2017
Venue:108, Building No.2, West Campus
Topic:The Creation of Quantum Mechanics: the Game of Genius
Lecturer:Zexian Cao
About the Lecturer:Mr. Zexian Cao, born in 1966, graduated from the Department of Physics of University of Science and Technology of China in 1987 and received his Doctorate in Physics from Kaiserslautern University in Germany in 1997. He has been a member of the Institute of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 1998 and has been enrolled in the CAS “Hundred Talents Program”. Zexian Cao has published research papers in international journals such as Science, APL, PNAS, PRL, Advmat, and Nature, and nearly 200 articles in Chinese papers on physics and materials science. He is the editor, translator or author of many monographs, including:Etymologicon for Chinese Physics Learners (three volumes), The Beautiful Invisible, Thin Film Growth, An Extraordinary Thought: How the Giants in Science Are Tempered,andQuantum Mechanics for Kids. Cao is now a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the CAS, a columnist for the journal Physics, and an editor of Phys. Status Solidi and other journals.
About the Lecture:The years from 1900 to 1928 witnessed the most exciting time in the history of physics. A group of geniuses, mainly young people, constructed a new system of quantum mechanics in less than 30 years, which changed physics and completely changed human society. This lecture will systematically review the creating process of quantum mechanics, describe the extraordinary thoughts of those geniuses, explain the logical backgrounds that the bright ideas generated from and interrelationships between them, and build the theoretical framework of quantum mechanics by historical narratives. Quantum mechanics is never a revolution; it’s just a natural, logical continuation of classical physics.
All teachers and students are welcome!
School of Science
Oct. 12th, 2017
(Translated by Tong Xing)
