Quasiparticles and Quasiworlds
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S541 Lecture Hall, TDLI
We can use theoretical ideas that were originally developed to describe the world by building up from elementary particles to describe different forms of matter as quasi-worlds built up from quasi-particles. We can also use them to imagine new possibilities. This line of thought has a glorious past, a thriving present and a brilliant future.
Frank Wilczek, the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics, the Founding Director and Chief Scientist of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1970, and a PhD in physics at Princeton University in 1974. Wilczek worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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