Lecture: Phase space and new materials

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Date/Time:Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 at 8:00 pm
Location:Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
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"Cooking, Fishing and Jogging through Phase Space: A Practical Guide to Discovering and Understanding New Materials," Paul Canfield, ISU physics. He will outline the basic philosophy and techniques needed to search for novel materials, including a combination of intuition, experience, compulsive optimism and a desire to share discovery. A general lecture that will include mildly slanderous asides and references to philosophers living and dead.

Paul Canfield is an ISU Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Robert Allen Wright Chair in Physics.

Canfield has spent a score of years in condensed matter physics, earning an international reputation for discovering and developing new materials. His work combines physics, chemistry and metallurgy and is specifically focused on the properties of conducting and magnetic materials.