Activiteiten: June
01 June 2016 t/m 22 June 2016
public lectures given by prominent female scientists in the Netherlands
Together with EMMEPH and the UU Gender Programme, the University
College Utrecht (UCU) invites you to a series of public lectures given by
prominent female scientists in the Netherlands in ...
Together with EMMEPH and the UU Gender Programme, the University
College Utrecht (UCU) invites you to a series of public lectures given by
prominent female scientists in the Netherlands in the frame of a new
interdepartmental Summer Course on Gender, Science and Technology.
The lectures are free of charge and no reservation is required.
June 1st (Wednesday) BBG 020 15:15 - 17:00
Prof. Dr. Petra Rudolf
Female scientists – a historic perspective
Petra on her own work – Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces
June 3rd (Friday) BBG 017 15:15 - 17:00
Prof. Dr. Cristiane Morais Smith
Emmy Noether: the queen of invariants
Cristiane on her own work: Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty
June 10th (Friday) BBG 017 15:15 - 17:00
Dr. Anna von der Heydt
Sofia Kowalewskaja – princess of science
Anne on her own work: Fascinating fluids – from turbulent flows to climate
June 15th (Wednesday) BBG 020 15:15 - 17:00
MSc. Flore Kunst
Well, you are a woman after all: Positive discrimination as help and hindrance
Flore on her own work: Dirac superconductors
June 22nd (Wednesday) BBG 020 15:15 - 17:00
Dr. Henriette Schlupmann
Barbara McClintock: temperamental inheritance before the age of DNA
Henriette on her own work: Ferns for food
08 June 2016
EMMEPH Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics
Date: Wednesday, 8 June, 2016
Time: 16.00 – 17.30 (with a reception ...
Speaker: Prof. Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics
Date: Wednesday, 8 June, 2016
Time: 16.00 – 17.30 (with a reception after the Colloquium)
Location: Cosmos, Koningsbergergebouw, Budapestlaan 4a-b Utrecht (located in the Uithof of Utrecht University).
Abstract:
Over the past several years, our understanding of topological electronic phases of matter has advanced dramatically. A paradigm that has emerged is that insulating electronic states with an energy gap fall into distinct topological classes. Interfaces between different topological phases exhibit gapless conducting states that are protected topologically and are impossible to get rid of. In this talk we will discuss the application of this idea to the quantum Hall effect, topological insulators, topological superconductors and the quest for Majorana fermions in condensed matter. We will then show that similar ideas arise in a completely different class of problems. Isostatic lattices are arrays of masses and springs that are at the verge of mechanical instability. They play an important role in our understanding of granular matter, glasses and other 'soft' systems. Depending on their geometry, they can exhibit zero-frequency 'floppy' modes localized on their boundaries that are insensitive to local perturbations. The mathematical relation between this classical system and quantum electronic systems reveals an unexpected connection between theories of hard and soft matter.
