On December 9, Gordon Baym from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be delivering a lecture entitled “New States of Quantum Matter”.

Location: Schiciano Auditorium, Side A

Time: 4:30pm

Abstract: In recent years physicists have created new states of quantum matter — from quark-gluon plasmas in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions to new Bose and Fermi superfluids in ultracold trapped atomic clouds. Although these systems differ in energy scales by some 20 orders of magnitude, they share many questions of physics in common. This talk will review these new states and discuss intriguing connections between the two areas.