NBIA Colloquium: Henriette Elvang

Speaker: Henriette Elvang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Place: Auditorium A

Title: Boiling Water, Beta Decay, and Pions

Abstract: From condensed matter physics to particle physics, the analysis of how physical observables depend on the scale of the system is incredibly powerful. Using boiling water, beta decay, and pion scattering as examples, I will describe these ideas and discuss old and new methods for analyzing how they link high energy to low energy physics.

Brief Bio-sketch: Henriette Elvang is Professor of Physics at University of Michigan and is currently spending a year on sabbatical at NBIA. Following B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at University of Copenhagen, Henriette received her PhD in Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara, and went on to MIT as Pappalardo Fellow (2005-2008) and then to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2008-2009). She joined the faculty at University of Michigan in 2009 and was named Thurnau Professor in 2019, the University's highest award for excellence in teaching. She was named Cottrell Scholar in 2013 by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and received the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physics Society (APS) in 2016. Henriette was elected Fellow of the APS in 2018 and became Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2021.