Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2024
Public talk on ‘Adventures with Black Holes: Past, Present and Future’
The 18th Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled Adventures with Black Holes: Past, Present and Future, will be given in Cambridge, UK, by Professor Andrew Strominger, Gwill E York Professor of Physics at Harvard University.
The public talk will take place at 5pm GMT on Tuesday 29 October 2024 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and it will also be livestreamed online.
Professor Strominger is a renowned theoretical physicist and a founding member of the Black Hole Initiative, the first worldwide centre to focus on the study of black holes. He is Director of the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature at Harvard where, using a variety of approaches, he tries to shed light on unsolved problems including the unification of forces and particles, the origin of the universe, and the quantum structure of black holes and event horizons.
The annual lecture is named in memory of Andrew Chamblin, a brilliant theoretical physicist who died suddenly in 2006 at the age of 36. He studied twistor theory and global methods in general relativity with Professor Sir Roger Penrose at Christ Church, Oxford in 1991-92, and was then admitted to St John's College, Cambridge to study for a PhD in Theoretical Physics under Professors Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking at the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.
Awarded a JT Knight Essay Prize, he was elected a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and during this time his interests turned to quantum gravity and the superstring theory and supergravity (M-theory).
The Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture Fund was established at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics to endow an annual lecture in Andrew's name at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, on a subject of relevance to his life and work.
The inaugural lecture was given by Professor Hawking in 2007 entitled Out of a Black Hole and the first Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert took place in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, the same year. It is also now held annually.
As in previous years, the memorial lecture will take place at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA.
Tickets are free but booking is required via the online registration form.
A link to the livestream will be sent out prior to the event.
Find out more about the Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture Fund
Published: 23/9/2024