Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship Series
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Fall 2008 |
Robert B. Laughlin |
Dr. Laughlin is the Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University. He is a recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Physics. In addition, Laughlin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1979 and his current research is primarily focused on high-temperature superconductivity theory. Recent work includes model studies of doped Mott insulators, computation spectroscopic quantities -- optical conductivity, magnetic susceptibility, photoemission -- from first principles, and development of new mathematical methods based on the fractional quantum Hall effect. Laughlin authored A Different Universe: Remaking Physics from the Bottom Down which has been described as revelatory and essential. | |
