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SUMMARY:The Modern Bootstrap - Professor J Cardy FRS\, University of Calif
 ornia\, Berkeley
DTSTART:20191030T193000Z
DTEND:20191030T203000Z
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CONTACT:Tommy Tai
DESCRIPTION:The original idea of the bootstrap programme\, which was popul
 ar in the 1960s especially in\nCambridge\, was that we can think of each 
 ‘elementary’ particle as being made out of all the\nothers\, a notion 
 called ‘nuclear democracy’. Thus\, in principle\, if we know everythin
 g about\nhow protons scatter\, we can predict everything about pions\, and
  vice versa\, thus ‘pulling\nourselves up by our own bootstraps.’ This
  programme foundered (but not before giving birth to\nstring theory)\, par
 tly due to its technical difficulty\, but mainly because of the success of
  the\nreductionist viewpoint of the quark model. However more recently the
  bootstrap has achieved\ngreat successes\, not in the strong interactions\
 , but in two- and three-dimensional theories\nwhich describe phase transit
 ions in condensed matter\, and I’ll describe some of these.\n\nYou may r
 ead an overview on 'the Bootstrap model' here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
 ki/Bootstrap_model\n\nAbout the Speaker: Professor John Lawrence Cardy FRS
  is a British-American theoretical physicist at the University of Californ
 ia\, Berkeley. He is best known for his work in theoretical condensed matt
 er physics and statistical mechanics\, and in particular for research on c
 ritical phenomena and two-dimensional conformal field theory.
LOCATION:Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre\, Chemistry Department\, Le
 nsfield Road
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