Speaker:
Siddharth A. Parameswaran
Institution:
UC Irvine, Dept. of Phys. & Astron.
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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