String Theory, the LHC and the Early Universe

About the Speaker

Prof. Fernando Quevedo obtained his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg. Following a string of research appointments at CERN, Switzerland, McGill University in Canada, Institut de Physique in Neuchatel, Switzerland, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, as well as a brief term as professor of physics at the UNAM (Mexican National Autonomous University), Mexico, Prof Quevedo joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998, where he is currently Professor of Theoretical Physics and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He was appointed director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy in October 2009.

Prof. Quevedo is a well-known theoretical particle physicist with wide-ranging research interests in string theory, phenomenology and cosmology. He was awarded the 1998 ICTP Prize in recognition of his important contributions to superstring theory.