Physics Program Presents
You're Just Going Through a Phase:
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
Friday, October 7, 2016
Hegeman 107
12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Physics Program
This year's Nobel Prize in physics, awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz, recognizes how simple, but often hidden, numbers, can underlie apparently complex phenomena. Touching on superconductivity, magnetism, physics in other dimensions, and the many ways to get lost in the woods, I'll give a general audience introduction to the theories of topological order that the laureates developed, and discuss how these theories both explained puzzles of the past and have helped predict new effects, materials, and devices that may form the foundation for tomorrow's technologies.Pizza and refreshments will be provided!
For more information, call 845-752-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Hegeman 107