Ceremonial Session

Wednesday,  29 February 2012, 10:30 h there will be a Ceremonial Session in the Lecture Hall Centre, Room 011, of the Georg-August-University Göttingen.

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Opening
by the Local Organizer
Prof. Dr. Arnulf Quadt, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Welcome
by the President of the  Georg-August-University Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel

Welcome
by the Mayor of the City of Göttingen
Wolfgang Meyer

Speech
of the President of the Deutsche Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner

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Ceremonial Lecture
Prof. Dr. Michael Turner, University of Chicago "The Mysteries of Cosmology"

"Deep connections between the very large -- the cosmos -- and the very small -- quarks -- have shaped the Universe we see today and entangled the agendas of particle physics and cosmology.  I discuss the present state of cosmology and the big mysteries that point to new physics -- dark matter, dark energy, inflation and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe -- and the prospects for progress."

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