Details
Speaker Name/Affiliation
Professor John McGreevy, University of California, San Diego
When
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Seminar Type Other
Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Particle Physics (TASI) Public Lecture
Location (Room)
Duane Physics Room G1B20
Event Details & Abstracts
Duane Physics and Astrophysics, G1B20
2000 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80309
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Abstract: Last century, Landau taught us to classify phases of matter (magnets, solids, superfluids...) using symmetry. In the last 40 years, we’ve been discovering new phases of matter, generally called topological phases, that seem to lie outside this framework. In this public lecture I’ll describe how, by suitably generalizing our notions of symmetry, we can incorporate topological phases of matter into a Generalized Landau Paradigm.
About the speaker: John McGreevy is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. His work focuses on various topics in theoretical condensed matter and high-en