This Physics Department welcomes Dr. Suchitra Sebastian.
Title: "Exploring Materials Universes"
Abstract: Materials comprise trillions of electrons that interact with each other to create a diversity of physical behaviours. We owe much of modern technology - from powerful computing to the marvels of communication - to discoveries of new types of collective electron behaviours in materials. Such discoveries, however, are often serendipitous, given that materials can be thought of as complex universes teeming with vast numbers of electrons, making their behaviours challenging to understand or predict. A question we are often confronted with is how to make progress in discovering novel collective electron behaviours akin to new universes. I will discuss possible approaches to increasing the odds of making discoveries, with examples from cases such as new superconductors and new types of dual metal-insulating materials.
Date and Time: Friday, December 1, 2017. 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: Gant Science Complex, Physics, Room PB-38
Catering will be provided prior to the talk, at 2:30 p.m. in Room P-103.
For more information, contact: Anna Huang at anna.huang@uconn.edu