5:00 pm
Kersten Physics Teaching Center, room 206
5720 South Ellis Ave.
Please join us as we congratulate Professor Dam Thanh Son for being honored with the 2018 Dirac Medal by the International Center for Theoretical Physics.
Dam Thanh Son, born in Hanoi, Vietnam, was the first to understand that gauge/gravity duality could be used to address basic questions in strongly interacting many-body problems from cold trapped atoms to the quark-gluon plasma. He was able to show that one could compute transport coefficients, such as viscosity and conductivity, analytically in these systems, and that strong coupling typically gives rise to a bound on these coefficients. More recently, he has argued for the emergence of a Dirac fermion at the half-filled Landau level, work which has stimulated rapid developments in our understanding of three-dimensional gauge theories.