2023 Benjamin W. Lee Professorship - Special Lecture series 

□ Time & Place: 

Oct. 23 (Mon.), 2023 | 14:00 – 15:30 (KST)

Oct. 24 (Tue.),  2023 | 14:00 – 15:30 (KST)

Oct. 25 (Wed.), 2023 | 10:00 – 11:30 (KST)

Online & #501, Hogil Kim Memorial Bldg., POSTECH

□ Zoom Link: 

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkcuGtpzovE9YduT6RjyOLIsg0uL9RPAhK 

□ Introduction

Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, currently serving as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is best known for his seminal contributions to string theory and M-theory.  

□ AWARD

   - Fields Medal (1990)

   - National Medal of Science (2002)

   - Crafoord Prize (2008)

   - Lorentz Medal (2010)

   - Isaac Newton Medal (2010)

□ Research Article 

   - "String Theory Dynamics In Various Dimensions" (1995) 

   - "Anti-de Sitter Space And Holography" (1998)

   - "M-Theory" (1995)

   - "Bound States Of Strings And p-Branes" (1996)

   - "Chiral Symmetry Breaking In Chromodynamics" (1980)

   - "Electric-Magnetic Duality And The Geometric Langlands Program" (2007)

   - "String Theory And Noncommutative Geometry" (1999)

   - "Supersymmetry And Morse Theory" (1982)

   - "Duality, Sparticles, And The LHC" (2007)

   - "Quantum Field Theory And The Jones Polynomial" (1989)

   - "Mirror Manifolds and Topological Field Theory" (1991)

   - "Anomaly Cancellation On Manifolds Of G2 Holonomy" (2001)

   - "Topological Quantum Field Theory" (1988)

   - "Introduction To The Maldacena Conjecture On AdS/CFT" (1998)

   - "The Cosmological Constant From The Viewpoint Of String Theory" (2000)

   - "Black Holes And Entropy" (1996)

   - "Noncommutative Geometry And String Theory" (2001)

   - "Monopoles, Duality, And Chiral Symmetry Breaking In N=2 Supersymmetric QCD" (1994)

   - "A New Proof Of The Positive Energy Theorem" (1981)

   - "String Theory In Various Dimensions" (1996)