A Celebration of Sir Tony Leggett’s 80th Birthday
Thursday evening, March 29 – Saturday evening, March 31, 2018
Urbana, Illinois
Talk slides are linked below. We hope to have video linked soon.
Speakers:
Ping Ao, Shanghai University
“Dynamics: From Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena, to Motion of Topological Defects, Genesis and Progression of Cancer, and Framework for Nonequilibrium Processes
Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford
Is Reality There When Nobody Looks
George Crabtree, Argonne National Lab
Critical Current by Design”
Jim Eisenstein, Caltech
“An Almost-Superfluid”
Christian Enss, Universität Heidelberg
“Breakdown of the Universality of Glasses at Ultralow Temperatures – Interplay of Nuclear Spins and Atomic Tunneling Systems”
Matthew Fisher, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physcs, UCSB
“Are We Quantum Computers, or Merely Clever Robots? ”
Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Is There Universality in Biology”
Laura Greene, National High Magnetic Field Lab, FSU, UFL, LANL
“Tony’s Advocacy in Science Diplomacy and Human Rights: Impact and Global Guidance”
Ray Laflamme, Institute for Quantum Computing, UWaterloo
“Tony Leggett’s Global Impact in Canada”
Ying Liu, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
“Learning physics from and working with Tony in the US and China: From ‘Foundation of Quantum Mechanics’, to phase-sensitive test of pairing symmetry in Sr2RuO4, to ‘Basic Aspects of Superconductivity’ and ‘Shanghai Center for Complex Physics’ ”
Daniel Loss, University of Basel
“Majorana Fermions in Nanowires: Facts and Fictions”
Yoshi Maeno, Kyoto University
“Leggett’s Tree”
David Mermin, Cornell University
“My Life with Leggett”
Mike Norman, Argonne National Lab
What’s Up with the Cuprates?”
Jim Sauls, Northwestern University
“Spontaneously Broken Spin-Orbit Symmetry – A View in 2018”
Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley
“The Dawn of Superconducting Quantum Processors”
Phil Stamp, University of British Columbia
“Quantum Gravity in the Lab”
Rongjia Tao, Temple University
“From Sustainable Energy to Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes: Challenges for Soft Matter Physics”
Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University
“Broken Paradigms”
Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva
“Coulomb Interaction and the MIR Scenario in high Tc Superconductors”
Peter Wolynes, Rice University
“Homo vitro fragilior”
Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine
“Low Temperature Properties of Glasses: Beyond Two Level Systems”
Program: Schedule
To leave birthday wishes that will be given to him at the celebration:
https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/3453864
Conference Organizers:
David Ceperley, Philip Phillips, Dale Van Harlingen, Smitha Vishveshwara
Conference Secretary:
Becky McDuffee: mcduffbe@illinois.edu; 217.300.0898