Emmy Noether’s Two Theorems and the Standard Model
Friday, September 5, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- LocationOsborne 204A
- DescriptionEmmy Noether has had a profound impact on physics, beginning with her work on the failure of conservation of energy in Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. She was invited to work on this problem by David Hilbert and Hermann Weyl, and she published her results in 1918. It was not until the 1950s that her work on local symmetry groups again caught attention, with the rise of gauge theories in QED and QCD. Almost nowhere are her two theories discussed in this context, with a passing reference to global symmetries and conservation laws (which failed in GR), and then moving along to local gauge symmetries without reference to her second theorem. This talk will address her two theorems directly and show how the second theorem is deeply embedded in the Standard Model’s local symmetries.
Hosted by: Department of Physics & Energy Science, UCCS Physics Club
Additional Information can be found at: https://mlc.uccs.edu/event/11349116 - Websitehttps://mlc.uccs.edu/event/11349116
- CategoriesThoughtfulLearning, Seminar, Natural Sciences