Title: Neutrino Masses and Conformal Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking

Speaker: Prof. Manfred Lindner (MPI，Heidelberg)

Time: 10:00AM, Oct. 31th (Friday)

Place: Theoretical Physics Division，319

Brief Introducation of the speaker：

Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner got his Ph.D. in 1987 from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Subsequently, he worked for several years at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, CERN and Heidelberg University. In 1993, he became a professor for theoretical physics at the Technical University in Munich. Since 2007, he has been a professor at the faculty of physics and astronomy of Heidelberg University, and the director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg.

Prof. Lindner has made many important theoretical contributions to the fundamental problems in elementary particle physics and astroparticle physics, in particular the electroweak symmetry breaking, neutrino physics and dark matter. On the experimental side, Prof. Lindner and his team make leading contributions to the international research projects for neutrino oscillations (Double Chooz), neutrinoless double-beta decays (GERDA), and direct searches for dark matter (XENON100 and XENON1T).