This series already started, but it is possible to join the individual lectures. At the beginning of the previous century, the birth of the theory of relativity and of quantum mechanics revolutionised our fundamental view of nature.

Over the course of the century, a beautiful theoretical framework called the Standard Model was developed. The way this theory was realised in nature was verified step-by-step through the discovery of new fundamental particles, culminating in the recent discovery of the Higgs boson.

The lecture series contains a mini-course of eight one-hour lectures. We discuss the fundamental elements of the special relativity theory and quantum mechanics, placing particular emphasis on the counter-intuitive aspects of both theories: the relativistic quantum world is fundamentally different from our macroscopic world.