Hitoshi Murayama
- News
Appointed as the Director of a new $12M/year research institution
Institute for the Physics and
Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) at University of Tokyo.
It is one of the five centers instituted by the World
Premier International Research Center Initiative.
Read the Science
article about this initiative.
- Research Interest
Supersymmetry Phenomenology
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Particle Cosmology
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Physics at e+ e- Linear Collider
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Collider Physics
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Supersymmetric Field Theories
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Neutrino Physics
For further information, read the research
opportunities guide, or see the list
of publications, and also Educational material on particle
physics. My CV is here in PDF.
- Popular Articles
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Quantum Universe
reports
Exposition of coming revolution in particle physics
from HEPAP. I
was on the production team.
- Popular Talk
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Mystery
of Anti-matter (Video)
- Talk at Physics
is for Kids BBQ at Aspen Center
for Physics aired by Grass
Roots TV. See The Incredibles, Simpsons, and Einstein all in the
same talk.
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E=mc2
- 2005 Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, April 21, 2005
- This famous equation, part of the theory of relativity set forth
by Einstein in April 1905, changed our understanding of
nature at the most fundamental level. "c" is the speed of light.
It is the ultimate speed in the universe; nothing can go faster. "m"
stands for mass. For centuries after Newton it was
believed that mass is absolute. But this equation of Einstein
revealed that mass is yet another form of energy, "E", that
can change to other forms -- kinetic, gravitational, chemical,
thermal, nuclear -- and back again to mass. An electron and
an anti-electron annihilate into pure energy; in turn, energy
can create matter and anti-matter. The fascinating story of
energy and mass is still evolving a century since Einstein as
we understand more of where they come from, how they
shape the universe, and the missing pieces of the universe:
Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
- Watch a similar talk as one of the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory Summer Lectures aired on UCTV (Video)
- Recent Talks for Physicists
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Quantum Universe (PDF, zipped Keynote, Video)
- What is the Universe made of? How did it come to be? Why do we
exist? This kind of fundamental questions about the Universe used to
be just philosophy, but are now coming into the realm of quantitative
science. The key is in quantum physics of elementary particles that
determined the evolution of the Universe when it was very young. I
will discuss this amazing connection between the large (the Universe)
and the tiny (elementary particles), in the context of current and
forthcoming experiments.
- Department colloquium at University of Tennessee, Jan 22, 2007
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Outlook: The Next Twenty Years
(PDF) and Keynote file in StuffIt archive
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I discussed the convergence of many approaches and scientific
questions in particle physics at the TeV energy scale. I listed four
categories of big questions, "Horizontal," "Vertical," "Heaven," and
"Hell." I discussed how these questions may be addressed at
near-future experiments and theoretical developments.
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(Concluding talk at Lepton Photon 2003 at Fermilab, Aug 11-16, 2003)
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The Next Twenty Years in Particle Physics
(PDF version, 18.9MB) or (Keynote zipped, 20.0MB)
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The particle physics is at a very exciting stage. Dark Matter, Dark
Energy, Neutrino Mass, and Weak Force all suggest that TeV is the
relevant energy scale of the problem. We are just about to probe this
energy scale. The past two years the particle physics community went
through the planning process for the next twenty years. The outcome
was the realization that there are many deep scientific questions that
can be addressed in the near future.
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(Michigan State University Physics Department Colloquium, Mar 25, 2004)
The Big World of Little
Neutrinos (PowerPoint)
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This is the historic era in neutrino physics. I first review the
properties of neutrinos and discuss why neutrino masses are
interesting probes to physics beyond the Standard Model. Then I
discuss how we have recently learned that they do have tiny mass and
will learn in the near future to settle the remaining issues. Finally
I argue that neutrino masses may well be relevant to the question "why
we exist" in our universe.
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(UC Riverside Physics Colloquium, May 1, 2008)
- Courses
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Physics 7C (Spring 1996)
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229A (Fall 1996)
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229B (Spring 1997)
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129A (Fall 1997)
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129B (Spring 1998)
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229C (Fall 1998)
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229A (Fall 1999)
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229B (Spring 2000)
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221B (Spring 2001)
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221A (Fall 2001)
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221B (Spring 2002)
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129A (Fall 2002)
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221A (Fall 2004)
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221B (Spring 2005)
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229C (Fall 2005)
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221A (Fall 2006)
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230A (Spring 2007)
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233B (Fall 2007)
- Mac OS X for Physicists
- Choir at
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
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Nishinomiya Yukawa Commemoration Prize (Japanese)
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Popular Science, April 2002
- Fellow of American Physical Society, 2003
- murayama at hitoshi.berkeley.edu
- Phone (510) 486 5589, Campus phone (510)
642-1019
- Location Bldg. 50A 5101 (LBL), 447 Birge (Campus)
