Rocky Kolb

Oxford Physics Public Lectures

Oxford Physics Public Lectures

The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about t...

The Physics of Fine-Tuning

The Physics of Fine-Tuning

How fragile is our world? What physics led to the existence of life, and how likely --o...

Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
The Quantum and the Cosmos	The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago.	Rocky Kolb	14 November, 2018
Dark Matter, Fine-Tuned	What surprising features of our theories cry out for explanation? Rocky Kolb and Rafael Alves Batista consider features of our theories that look unlikely or unnatural, and what our chances are for building a unified theory that explains them.	Rocky Kolb, Rafael Alves Batista	12 October, 2016
Why Now?	We’re at a particularly interesting time in the evolution of the universe. Rafael Alves Batista and Rocky Kolb chat about the interesting features of our time, and why we should--or should not--expect to be living now.	Rocky Kolb, Rafael Alves Batista	12 October, 2016
Dark Matter Particles	What sort of things could dark matter be, and how would we tell which it is? Rafael Alves Batista and Rocky Kolb review the main candidate dark matter particles, and consider our chances for telling which one is out there.	Rocky Kolb, Rafael Alves Batista	12 October, 2016
Dark Matter(s) Discussion	Celine Boehm, Rocky Kolb, and Justin Read discuss fine-tuning in dark matter models, how we judge astrophysical parameters to be fine-tuned, how we get evidence for dark matter, supersymmetry, and our prospects for finding the dark matter particle.	Celine Boehm, Rocky Kolb, Justin Read	4 October, 2016
The Decade of the Wimp	Dr. Rocky Kolb (Chicago) discusses the theoretical reasons to expect dark matter to be a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP), and the prospects for finding one.	Rocky Kolb	4 October, 2016