David Gross (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

David Gross is one of the most important theoretical physicists nowadays, both by his contributions in string theory and in gauge field theories. He has been awarded some of the most important prizes, among them the 2004 Nobel prize (jointly with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer) for the discovery in 1973 of the property of asymptotic freedom of QCD, Quantum ChromoDynamics (that it, the discovery that the theory of strong interactions predicts that quarks behave approximately as free particles at very short distances). The contributions by David Gross in the context of string theory are also numerous, broad, and crucial in the development of the field, reaching from the formulation of the heterotic superstring (in 1984, with J. Harvey, E. Martinec and R. Rohm) to contributions in the most recent research lines in black holes, holography, non-commutative geometry, etc.

David Gross is an excellent speaker, with the ability to communicate deep ideas in Physics in simple and accessible term. It is our pleasure to have him lecture in the general public session of Strings 2007.

Some links with more information about David Gross:

• Autobiography in the Nobel webpage
• David Gross en Wikipedia