"Topology and the Phases of Condensed Matter"

Speaker: 
Siddharth A. Parameswaran
Institution: 
UC Irvine, Dept. of Phys. & Astron.
Date: 
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Time: 
3:30 pm
Location: 
RH 101
 

 
ABSTRACT:
 
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”. I will review the discoveries they made and explain how they have changed our understanding of critical phenomena in low dimensions and the phases of quantum matter.
 
 

 
Host: 
Peter Taborek