Guest Lecture with Dr. Martin Spinrath
On 12th April 2016 Dr. Martin Spinrath from the Institute of Theoretical Particle Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology delivered a guest lecture at SGU. The title of the lecture was “The Physics Nobel Prize 2015. “Why Neutrinos Matter”. The guest lecture was attended by lecturers from different faculties and by the students from the study program Sustainable Energy and Environment. Dr. Spinrath explained the research history concerning neutrinos from the first theoretical assumption of their existence to their experimental confirmation to new research results that show that neutrinos have a mass. The latter was under debate for a long time, and it was frequently assumed that they were massless. However, through the detection of neutrino oscillations it was demonstrated that they should have mass. Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) were awarded the Physics Nobel Prize 2015 for this discovery. The guest lecture gave the attendees an informative insight into some aspects of particle physics in general and into the research about neutrinos in particular.
Dr. Martin Spinrath (left) with Dr. Matthias Guenther (right)
The guest lecture was attended by lecturers from different faculties and by the students from the study program Sustainable Energy and Environment
