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January 31 2012: Conference ISIS 16h30, Prof. Antoine GEORGES, “Quantum Matter with Strong Correlations: from hot superconductors to cold atoms”, Collège de France and Ecole Polytechnique (France)

About 25 years have passed since the spectacular discovery of superconductors with “high” transition temperatures by Bednorz and Müller (Nobel prize, 1987). Yet, the broad class of materials to which these superconducting copper-oxides belong continues to fascinate physicists and chemists. Indeed, solid-state chemistry, new elaboration techniques, and improved experimental probes have provided us with many families of transition-metal oxides with remarkable electronic properties, such as metal-insulator transitions, large magnetoresistance or thermoelectric power. Furthermore, these materials raise deep fundamental physics questions. They challenge the very basic principles on which conventional theories of the solid-state are based because, in those materials, the motion of each electron is strongly correlated with that of all the others. New frontiers are also opening up, which bring together condensed-matter physics and quantum optics. ``Artificial crystals’’ made of ultra-cold atoms trapped by laser beams can be engineered with a remarkable level of controllability, and allow for the study of quantum physics in previously unexplored regimes.

Rencontres ISIS

May 14th, 2008, Rencontre ISIS 17h00, Prof. Martin Karplus “Motion : a hallmark of life. From marsupials to molecules”, Harvard University, Université Louis Pasteur followed by Au temps jadis : images des années 50.
March 10th, 2008, Rencontre ISIS 17h15, Prof. Michel Brunet “Origine des hominidés… Bilan et perspectives…”, Collège de France, followed by a concert by Concert Trio “Trésors méconnus : Carl Reinecke et Alfred Uhl.
January 7th, 2008, Rencontre ISIS 17h15, Pascal Dusapin “Les bords de la musique” followed by a concert by Ensemble Accroche Note.

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