Professor Dam Thanh Son
(Department of Physics, University of Chicago)
👨🏫Brief Bio
Dam Thanh Son is currently University Professor at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Physics from the Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow in 1995, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Washington from 1995 to 1997 and at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics from 1997 to 1999. His research spans many areas of theoretical physics, including string theory, particle physics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, and atomic physics. He was elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, and has received numerous prestigious honors, including the ICTP Dirac Medal in 2018 and the N. Bogoliubov Prize in 2019.
🔷演講資訊一
- Title：The emergent "graviton" of the fractional quantum Hall effect
- Time: 2024-12-10 14:20
- Place：Rm. 104, Chin-Pao Yang Lecture Hall, Department of Physics, NTU
📝 Abstract
In fractional quantum Hall states, electrons self-organize into a strongly interacting fluid with nontrivial emergent properties. It has recently been understood that fractional quantum Hall fluids accommodate one or several spin-2 excitations, which have been argued to be condensed-matter analogues of the graviton. In this talk we will review the origin of the idea of the graviton and the basic physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect. We then discuss a recent experiment claiming observation of "chiral graviton modes" and its broader implications.
🔷演講資訊二
- Title：Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theory and Nuclear Reactions
- Time：2024-12-11 11:00
- Place：ASIAA Auditorium, AS/NTU Astronomy-Mathematics Building
📝 Abstract
Conformal symmetry plays an important role in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. A nonrelativistic version of the conformal symmetry, also called Schrödinger symmetry, is approximately realized in various physical systems, including neutrons in nuclear physics and ultracold atoms. Nonrelativistic conformal field theories realize Schrödinger symmetry and possess many interesting properties. After reviewing some facts about nonrelativistic conformal field theory, we describe how it can be applied to the physics of nuclear reactions with several neutrons in the final state.