Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium
US Mountain Time
Speaker:
Sabine Hossenfelder (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
Our campus is closed to the public for this event.
Naturalness - How Religion Turned into Math
Abstract. Naturalness arguments have been extremely influential in the foundations of physics during the last decades. I will briefly survey the historical roots of the idea and lay out the problems that come from relying on naturalness as a guide to theory-development.