On the evening of 19 October, Tao Han, a Distinguished Professor at University of Pittsburgh delivered an online live talk themed the Quest for Mass to a wide variety of faculty and students as the 8th Tsung-Dao Lee Frontier Lecture.
The live session was moderated by Professor Hongjian He, SJTU Chair Professor and Adjunct Fellow of TDLI. More than 2,000 participants attended this online lecture via Classin and Kouxiang.
The origin of mass has been one of the most profound questions in science history. We present the mass generation mechanism of the microscopic world in the highly successful ``Standard Model‘’ for particle physics and discuss the dynamical origin of mass around us. On the other hand, our contemporary theory still falls short to understand the major components of the energy distribution in our Universe, the “dark matter” and “dark energy”. The quest for mass remains to be the most outstanding puzzle in science and continues to inspire exciting research in particle physics and cosmology.
Seven guests were invited: Academician Yuanning Gao at Peking University, Professor Xinchou Lou and Jie Gao at IHEP, CAS, Professor Xueqian Li at Nankai University, T.D.Lee Professor Wei Ku and Xiaogang He and T.D.Lee Fellow Donglian Xu. They made a heated discussion on the development of accelerator technology, new physics beyond the Standard Model, the frontier research of neutrino, the similarities and differences of the characters and research methods of different research directions in physics, the impact of fundamental physics on society and etc.
Prof. Tao Han's research focuses on new physics at colliders, phenomenological formulation of theoretical models. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1990. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at University of Pittsburgh and serves as the founding director of the Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC). He was elected a Fellow of APS in 2003 and Fellow of AAAS in 2019. He is now Chair-elect of APS Division of Particles and Fields.
Video Record：https://vshare.sjtu.edu.cn/open/710e0340009f32583d64a43992be441a