Duncan Haldane Credit: Princeton University
Duncan Haldane Credit: Princeton University - British scientist Duncan Haldane, co-recipient of a Nobel prize in physics in 2016, is here for an international conference on conformal field theories and quantum 'many-body" physics. This week through Sept. Université de Montréal's Centre de recherches mathémathiques is hosting an international conference on the highly specialized subjects of conformal field theories (CFTs) and quantum "many-body" physics - and one of its keynote speakers is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Duncan Haldane , who was awarded the Nobel in 2016 along with two others, is the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Physics at Princeton University, in New Jersey. British-born and -educated, Haldane gave an hour-long lecture Tuesday afternoon, another Wednesday and will give a third tomorrow. CFTs play a key role in physics and mathematical physics due to the deep consequences of what's known as conformal algebra. They've been studied in two spacetime dimensions and beyond by physicists specializing in subjects as diverse as condensed matter, algebra, quantum field theory, string theory and quantum information.
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