Symposium on the centennial of Richard P. Feynman

Friday, the 30th of November

Auditorium A100, Sciences II

30, quai Ernest Ansermet, 1205 Genève

Organized jointly by the Swiss Physical Society and the History and Philosophy of Science Unit of the University of Geneva. The celebration, gathering physicists and historians of modern physics, intends to review Richard Feynman’s contributions to 20th century physics in a morning session and aims at presenting some examples of contemporary research that has followed upon his pioneering work in the afternoon session of the celebration event.

Program :

10:20 - Olivier Darrigol: The magic of Feynman's QED

11:10 - Adrian Wüthrich, Putting Feynman's style into context

12:00 - Lunch 

13:30 - Charalampos Anastasiou, Feynman diagrams and modern collider physics

14:20 - Gabriele Veneziano, Feynman's strong interaction side

15:10 - Uwe-Jens Wiese, Quantum simulations: from Feynman's vision to today's reality and into the future

16:00 - Coffee break

16:20 - Roundtable Discussion

Free entrance.

Full program at : https://indico.cern.ch/e/feynman_centennial