Dmitry Budker, professor of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, is our next Guest at the Wigner Colloquia on November 5, 2024, at 14:00
Place: Building 1, meeting room
Zoom link: https://wigner-hu.zoom.us/j/82526525269?pwd=o0QwOQ4bBIBJSQw3GZJronVRua8…
CV of the speaker:
Dmitry Budker is a Professor at the Helmholtz Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (since 2014), and Professor Emeritus and Professor of Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley (since 2016). Born in the USSR, he studied at UC Berkeley from 1989 and earned a PhD in Physics there in 1993. His career includes roles as a Faculty Scientist at LBNL (1996–2015) and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley (2005–2015). He has been recognized with numerous awards and was recently a finalist for the 2024 Falling Walls Global Call in Physical Sciences, as well as a recipient of the 2021 Norman F. Ramsey Prize. He won an ERC Advanced Grant in 2015. Budker's research interests include fundamental symmetries, weak interactions in nuclei, magnetometry, and zero- to ultralow-field NMR. He is also actively engaged in the study of dark matter.
Abstract of the lecture:
Parity violation (PV) in atoms was considered by Ya. B. Zel'dovich in 1959, shortly after the discovery of parity violation in beta decay. However, a realistic experimental approaches and the first observations of the effects we only bade in the 1970s. Today, atomic parity violation is a subfield of precision measurements, while observation of PV in molecules remains an unmet challenge. We will discuss what motivates present-day atomic and molecular experiments and mention a few of the ongoing and proposed experiments.
