The Opening Ceremony of the International Conference “PASCOS: Particles, Strings and Cosmology”

Prof. David Gross, Prof. Tran Thanh Van, Prof. Takaaki Kajita and Binh Dinh leader at ICISE

The discovery of the Higgs particle in July, 2012 and the most recently gravitational waves of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) created the requirements to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss what has been learned and what might show up in the next few years.

The goal of this symposium is to review and discuss recent progress in particle physics, string theory and cosmology. 

Prof. David Gross, Prof. Tran Thanh Van and Prof. Takaaki Kajita.

The conference was attended by Prof. Tran Thanh Van, Chairman of Rencontres du Vietnam (France), Prof. David Gross – Nobel laureate in physics in 2004, Prof. Takaaki Kajita – Nobel laureate in physics in 2015 and more than 145 professors, scientists and researchers from 22 countries and territories in the world. There were 29 Japanese scientists, 24 American scientists, 4 Vietnamese scientists and so on at the conference.

Scientists will discuss on the issues: Neutrino physics, LHC physics and theoretical status, dark matter and dark energy, precision measures and non-accelerator probes of new physics, Inflation and alternatives, string methods and phenomenology, future accelerator projects and technologies.

Prof. David Gross – Nobel laureate in physics in 2004.

At the first session this morning, Prof. David Gross – an American Nobel laureate in physics in 2004 talked about the issue “The prospect of string theory in the universe”. After that, there was a presentation made by Prof. Takaaki Kajita (Japanese) - Nobel laureate in physics in 2015.

Prof. Takaaki Kajita – Nobel laureate in physics in 2015.

Prof. Takaaki Kajita works at the Institute of Distant Universe and the Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics – Tokyo University.

Prof. Takaaki Kajita’s presentation is about the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. The result of experiment brought him and Arthur B. McDonald a Nobel laureate in physics in 2015. 

Thang Nguyen (Source: daidoanket.vn)