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(Public Lecture) Complexity and topology in quantum matter

(Public Lecture) Complexity and topology in quantum matter
Date & Time
April 25, 2023 (Tuesday) | 16:00-17:00
Venue
CPD - 3.28 (Central Podium Levels), Centennial Campus, HKU
Speaker
Professor Fakher Assaad
Theoretische Physik I Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Würzburg, Germany

(Public Lecture) Complexity and topology in quantum matter
 
In this lecture Professor Fakher Assaad will explain how topology, properties of an object that are preserved under continuous transformations, dominates our understanding of the solid state. It allows for the most precise determination of the Planck constant, plays a pivotal role in spintronics, and often determines the properties of complex collective phenomena. 

 

Professor Fakher Assaad

Speaker Professor Fakher Assaad

Theoretische Physik I Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Würzburg, Germany

Professor Assaad receive his PhD in Physics at the ETH Zürich in 1991. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at University of Würzburg from 1991-1993, University of Tokyo from 1994-1995, University of California, and Santa-Barbara at 1996-1997. He started his assistant position at the university of Stuttgart in 1997 and worked as Heisenberg fellow from 2001-2003. He then worked as professor (C3) at the University of Würzburg from 2003. In 2009, he became co-spokesman of the research unit FOR1162, Electron induced phenomena in surfaces and interfaces with tunable interactions and spokesman of the research unit FOR1807, Advanced Computational Methods for Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems, in 2011. His project proposal for computational resources was awarded the John von Neumann Exzellenz-Projekt 2012 prize. His research interest includes: computational quantum many body physics, strongly correlated electron systems, and development and investigation of numerical tools.