Modern Mathematics Lecture Series
Time
Wednesday, 16:00-17:00
April 16, 2025
Venue
Lecture Hall C548
Shuangqing Complex Building A
探花视频
双清综合楼A座C548报告厅
Zoom Meeting ID: 271 534 5558
Passcode: YMSC
Speaker
Ulf-G. Meißner
University of Bonn & FZJ
Ulf-G. Meißner is a W3 professor for theoretical physics at Bonn University and head of the TH group at the HISKP. He is also a director at the Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-4) at Forschungszentrum Jülich. He was the dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Bonn University, from 2008 to 2016.
Selected Research topics
· nuclear structure and reactions
· hadron spectrum and hadronic reactions
· effective field theories for axion coupled to matter
· strangeness nuclear physics
· nuclear lattice EFT
· electric dipole moments of hadrons and nuclei
· soliton models in hadron and nuclear physics
Personal Website
www.itkp.uni-bonn.de/~meissner/
About the lecture
Life on Earth: An Accident?
Abstract
The elements are generated in the Big Bang and in stars. In these reactions, a number of fine tunings appear, which have often been interpreted in the context of the anthropic principle. In this talk, I discuss a different view point and will answer the question: How much are the fundamental parameters of the Standard Model constrained by the abundances of the elements that are required to make life on Earth possible?
