[NCTS Lecture Series] Top ten foundational ideas of theoretical physics
Title: [NCTS Lecture Series] Top ten foundational ideas of theoretical physics
Speaker: Prof. Anthony Zee (UC Santa Barbara)
Time: 2025/8/6 (Wed.) 11:00-12:00
Place: NCTS Physics Lecture Hall, 4F, Cosmology Hall, NTU
Abstract
We are pleased to announce a two part lecture series by professor Tony Zee (UCSB). Anthony “Tony” Zee is a professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He earned his A.B. at Princeton (1966) and Ph.D. at Harvard (1970), and has held positions at Princeton, IAS, Penn, and UW before joining UCSB in 1985. Zee has authored over 200 research papers spanning quantum field theory, cosmology, condensed matter, biophysics, and random matrix theory. He is best known as the author of three highly regarded textbooks—Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell (2003, 2nd ed. 2010), Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell (2013), and Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists (2016)—and several popular science books including Fearful Symmetry, An Old Man’s Toy, Swallowing Clouds, On Gravity, Fly by Night Physics, and Quantum Field Theory As Simply As Possible. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
