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IAP 2012 Activity


MIT Physics Lecture Series:e

What Topology Teaches Us About the Electronic Properties of Solids
Dr. David Hsieh, Pappalardo Fellow
Wed Jan 25, 01:30-02:30pm, 6-120

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

The electronic properties of solids are usually determined by their band structure, the energy-momentum dispersion relation of electrons in a periodic atomic lattice. However there exists a special class of materials whose properties are strongly influenced by the wave function composition of their band structure, and whose description is deeply connected to the topology of shapes and objects. The past few years have witnessed a rapid rise in the number of such "topological materials" and we will find out why they have attracted such fundamental and technological interest.
Contact: Denise Wahkor, 4-315, 253-4855, denisew@mit.edu
Sponsor: Physics
Latest update: 09-Dec-2011


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