Inagural Lecture: Flavour Physics - Status and Prospects (Marzia Bordone)

Tuesday Apr 28, 2026, 4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Lecture Theatre (KPH)

Alfons Weber (ETAP, Institut für Physik, JGU), Tyler Kutz (JGU Mainz)

Physics Colloquium

4:00 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee

4:15 PM → 5:15 PM Inagural Lecture: Flavour Physics - Status and Prospects

Flavour physics provides some of the most stringent tests of the Standard Model and a powerful indirect probe of new physics. Precision studies of quark transitions have revealed a striking pattern of masses, mixing, and CP violation that remains unexplained by current theory, while persistent tensions in key observables continue to attract attention. In this talk, I will review the present status of flavour physics, highlighting both the successes of the Standard Model and the puzzles that persist. I will then discuss how future progress, driven by increasingly precise measurements and theoretical developments, may provide crucial clues toward a deeper understanding of the flavour sector and its role in fundamental physics.

Speaker: Prof. Marzia Bordone (JGU Mainz)

5:15 PM → 5:45 PM Discussion and Nibbles