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Particles, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar
Professor
Vladimir
Miransky
University of Western Ontario
Relativistic Dynamics in Graphene: Magnetic Catalysis and Quantum Hall Effect
This talk will emphasize another example of the fruitful overlap between particle physics and condensed matter physics, especially on questions concerning symmetry and symmetry breaking. We discuss applications of field theory methods to graphene, an exciting new material with all sorts of wonderful properties.
Very short bio: Professor Miranksy is a world expert on symmetry breaking, the subject of last year's Nobel Prize to Nambu. He has visited UConn a number of times, once as a Guest Professor, and is an excellent speaker.