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SUMMARY:The winding road to topological insulators - Eugene Mele\, Univers
 ity of Pennsylvania
DTSTART:20141204T141500Z
DTEND:20141204T151500Z
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CONTACT:Dr G Moller
DESCRIPTION:This talk surveys the classification of electric states of mat
 ter with a focus on the unique properties of topological insulators and th
 eir discovery  from a careful consideration of the low energy properties o
 f single layer graphene.  The  topological band theoretic classification o
 f insulating states in two and three dimensions and experimental realizati
 ons are briefly discussed.\n\nBiographical Sketch\n\nEugene Mele is Profes
 sor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a condensed matter
  theorist who specializes in electronic phenomena in low dimensional syste
 ms\, including conducting polymers\, crystal surfaces\, fullerenes\, carbo
 n nanotubes\, graphenes and topological insulators. He received his Ph.D. 
 in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978).  He was 
 an Associate Scientist at Xerox Webster Research Center (1978-1981) before
  joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1981) where he has
  been a Full Professor since 1988. Significant honors include the Alfred P
 . Sloan Fellowship and two teaching awards for distinguished teaching at P
 enn: the Ira Abrams award (highest teaching award in the School of Arts an
 d Sciences) and the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation award (hi
 ghest teaching award in the University).  He is a Fellow of the American P
 hysical Society. In 2010 he shared the Europhysics Prize of the European P
 hysical Society for the discovery of topological insulators. He was awarde
 d a UK  Leverhulme Visiting Professorship (2014).
LOCATION:Cavendish Laboratory\, Small Lecture Theatre
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