[LA-SiGMA] Seminar: Jim Sauls, Northwestern University, this Wed. March 18, 3:30 p.m.

[Bety Rodriguez-Milla]

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Dear All, 

Dr. Jim Sauls, from Northwestern University, will be giving a seminar this Wednesday March 18, at 3:30 p.m. in room 1008B Digital Media Center at LSU. 

The title of his talk is "Discovery of broken time-reversal symmetry and topological edge states in chiral superconductors and superfluids”: The talk is a mix of theory and experimental reports on Sr2RuO4, UPt3 and 3He, with the latter being the first direct detection of chiral edge states
and BTRS in superfluid 3He-A.  For SRO and UPt3 I will briefly summarize theoretical predictions for the ground states, connect the edge state discussion of SRO and 3He-A via the topology of their ground states, summarize the search for edge currents and the observations of BTRS via polar Kerr rotation experiments. 

Speaker’s Bio: I received my BSc in Engineering Physics at Colorado School of Mines in Golden (1975), then moved to New York to do graduate work at SUNY-Stony Brook, where I received a Ph.D. in physics in 1980. I did post-doctoral research at Princeton University in New Jersey (1980-83), NORDITA in Copenhagen and Helsinki University of Technology (1983-84), then joined the Princeton physics faculty for four years (1983-1987). Since 1987 I have been a professor of Physics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
http://eolus.phys.northwestern.edu

All seminars are available via HD videoconferencing at the following venues: LA Tech - 122 Nethken Hall, LSU - 1008B DMC, SUBR - 211 J.B. Moore Hall, Tulane - 600 Lindy Boggs, UNO - 234 Liberal Arts Building, Xavier - 226 Qatar Pavilion.


-Bety



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