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ICMT News!
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- March 2009...
Congratulations to David Ceperley, named a Center for Advanced Study Professor.
Our thanks to David Pines, who generously donated his personal book collection to the ICMT.
Our congratulations to David Pines, who was awarded the 2009 John Bardeen Prize for Superconductivity Theory.
Congratulations to Narayana Aluru, who will be invested as the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering on September 17.
Applications are now being accepted for postdocs for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Congratulations to Eduardo Fradkin, who was elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
The Tuesday Tea begins. An informal gathering of condensed matter theorists and experimentals happens in the ICMT second floor discussion area at 4:00 each Tuesday, while classes are in session in the fall and spring semesters. Thanks to Laura Greene and Karen Dahmen for spearheading this gathering.
- January 2009...
Congratulations to Smitha Vishveshwara, named a 2009/2010
Center for Advanced Study Fellow.
- December 2008...
Congratulations to Mike Stone, named a 2008 Fellow of the American Physical Society, "For profound contributions to the physics of quantum fluids and to the application of modern quantum field theory to condensed matter physics."
- October 2008...
- The Workshop on Topological Phases in Condensed Matter was held October 24-26 at the ICMT.
- Congratulations to Jean Pierre Leburton, named a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP).
- September 2008...
- The launch of the ICMT is Friday, September 5th at 3:30 in the newly remodeled spaces of the ESB.
- We congratulate Nicholas Fang, named one of the world's 35 Top Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review. The September issue of TR will feature his work, and that of the other honorees.
- Dale Van Harlingen will be giving the Center for Advanced Study lecture on "Searching for Unconventional Superconductors: A Quantum Map-Quest"
- August 2008...
- Congratulations to Professor Phillip W. Phillips, who has been awarded an American Competitiveness and Innovation (ACI) Fellowship by the NSF Division of Materials Research.
- The remodel of the third floor of ESB is completed and we are starting to move in. We are looking forward to utilizing the great new space, designed for discussion and collaboration.
- June 2008...
The ICMT is sponsoring two workshops this month.
Applied Mathematics -- Scientific Computing Bridges (June 16-17, 2008) and
New Methods in Electronic Structure (June 18-20, 2008). - May 2008...
It has been a Bardeen year; and the celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth is Friday, May 23, 2008 at 3:00pm on the second floor of the ESB, just one floor below what will soon be the new home of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics. - March 2008...
The Bardeen commemorative stamp event was well attended, with remarks by the Chancellor, Provost, Department Heads of Physics and ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Post Office officials, C-U Stamp Club President, and Bill Bardeen, son of John Bardeen. Collectible First Day Covers were available for purchase (photo below).
- January 2008...
ICMT director, Paul Goldbart elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) . - December 2007...
A commemorative stamp is scheduled to be released by the U.S. Postal Service on March 6, 2008, with this description: "Theoretical physicist John Bardeen (1908-1991) co-invented the transistor,
arguably the most important invention of the 20th century. Bardeen also
collaborated on the first fundamental explanation of superconductivity at low
temperatures, a theory which has had a profound impact on many fields of
physics." [N.Y. Times article about John Bardeen: When Superconductivity Became Clear (to Some), 01/08/2008]
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October 2, 2007...
ICMT member Gordon Baym is to share the 2008 American Physical Society Lars Onsager Prize for his"fundamental applications of statistical physics to quantum fluids, including Fermi liquid theory and ground-state properties of dilute quantum gases, and for bringing conceptual unity to these areas." Honored with Baym will be Christopher Pethick of NORDITA and Tin-Lun Ho of the Ohio State University. - October 2, 2007...
ICMT member Ken Schweizer will be the recipient of the 2008 American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize for his"outstanding theoretical contributions to the fundamental understanding of the structure and dynamics in polymer melts, polymer blends, polymer-particle composites, and glasses." - September 26, 2007...
ICMT member Nigel Goldenfeld has been named to a Swanlund chair at the University of Illinois, the highest endowed title at the university. - October 2, 2007...
