On Monday, the 17th of January, 4.30 pm, the first in 2022 Jerzy Pniewski and Leopold Infeld Colloqium of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw will take place. The meeting will be exclusively ONLINE (registration required).

Our guest will be dr. Chris Quigg, Fermilab (USA) giving a lecture on "A Century of Noether's Theorem". The lecture will introduce us to the scientific achievements and the person of Emma Noether, a scientist who 100 years ago formulated and proved the famous theorem linking symmetries with the conservation laws in physics.

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Those who attended the previous Colloquium on 13.12.2021 do NOT need to register. Access to the lecture will provide them with the link received at the registration made previously.

Those who did not attend the previous Colloquium are asked to register for the meeting by clicking on the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcOuurDwoHtKL-lYSDQP7e_bd31iTMbhx 
After registering you will receive an e-mail confirmation with information on how to join the meeting.

We recommend providing professional email addresses, not private ones when registering.

We encourage you not to leave registration to the last minute. Those who register late will not be guaranteed to join the meeting on time.

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For informal discussions, please join us starting at 4 pm.

With best regards,

Barbara Badełek
Jan Chwedeńczuk
Jan Kalinowski
Jan Suffczynski

dr Chris Quigg, Fermilab (USA)
"A Century of Noether's Theorem"

In the summer of 1918, Emmy Noether published the theorem that now bears her name, establishing a profound two-way connection between symmetries and conservation laws. The influence of this insight is pervasive in physics; it underlies all of our theories of the fundamental interactions and gives meaning to conservation laws that elevate them beyond useful empirical rules. Noether's papers, lectures, and personal interactions with students and colleagues drove the development of abstract algebra, establishing her in the pantheon of twentieth-century mathematicians. This essay traces her path from Erlangen through Göttingen
to a brief but happy exile at Bryn Mawr College, illustrating the importance of "Noether's Theorem" for the way we think today.