Stoner Colloquium: Professor Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford

The School of Physics and Astronomy are delighted to present the 2022 Stoner Colloquium, by Professor Shivaji Sondhi, Wykeham Professor of Physics, University of Oxford

This one hour lecture starts at 17:30, and there will be a small reception after the lecture.

The lecture will also be live streamed. If you wish to change your attendance to watch online instead please register via https://stoner2022-sondhi-online.eventbrite.co.uk

Abstract:

Last year an experiment by Google's Quantum AI group created a time crystal in the laboratory. We will take a tour of the history leading to this result. That history will illustrate multiple interesting themes in Physics: the power of thermodynamics and what it takes to defeat it, how modern physicists like to organize phenomena by symmetry, the continuing evolution of Physics from being a natural science to one which increasingly studies artificial systems.

Bio:

Shivaji Sondhi is a theoretical condensed matter physicist. He was born in India, received his PhD from UCLA, spent a quarter century at Princeton and is now the Wykeham Professor of Physics at Oxford. He is known for his work on the quantum Hall effect including the discovery of skyrmions, on quantum magnetism where he shared the Europhysics Prize for the discovery of magnetic monopoles, for the discovery of time crystals and for work on quantum many body physics and statistical mechanics more broadly.