Speaker:

Xing Zhizhong graduated from Peking University in 1987. He received his PhD from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1993 and postdoctoral degrees from the University of Munich and Nagoya University. He is now a research fellow and director of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Institute of High Energy, CAS, head of the Department of Modern Physics, School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and executive deputy director of the China Center of Advanced Science and Technology. He was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and selected as a national candidate for the New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project.

He has been engaged in theoretical research of particle physics for years, obtaining many original academic results in the phenomenology of neutrinos. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Commission on Particles and Fields of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and a member of the review panel of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants. In his spare time, he is engaged in the creation of popular science works and is a pioneer among Chinese scientists for writing blogs. His popular science translations include I Am the Smartest Man I Know and Higgs: The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle', and his original popular science works include The Mystery of Neutrino Oscillation.

Time: 15:00-17:00, October 23

Venue: Lecture Hall, 2F, Building 3