4 Corners Southwest Ontario Condensed Matter Physics Symposium 2015

Event Type: Conference
Scientific Area(s):
Quantum Matter
PIRSA collection: http://pirsa.org/C15024
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This eighth annual one-day symposium aims to provide an opportunity for condensed matter researchers in southwest Ontario to gather together and discuss informally their most recent research. The general format of the meeting consists of 2 guest speakers and 5-7 contributed talks. The names of the contributing speakers and title of their talks will be announced later. Registration begins at 9:30 am. The meeting is expected to start around 9:45 am and end between 5-5:30 pm. A lunch will be provided by the Black Hole Bistro.
 
There will be two keynote speakers for the symposium. Professor Bob Cava from Princeton University and Professor Allan MacDonald from the University of Texas at Austin.
 
 Past speakers for this event were as follows:
 
2014
David Huse, Princeton University
Young Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
Steve Kivelson, Stanford University
Radu Coldea, University of Oxford
2012
Paul Chaikin, New York University
Patrick Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011
Seamus Davvis, Cornell University
Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2010
Leon Balents, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics