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“The
second Kind of Impossible"
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Thursday, 01 Oct 2020 |
Video-Recording for any system with MP4-support
- Video.mp4 (ca.495 Mb) - Video_with_eng_sub.mp4 (ca. 476 Mb) |
15:15 – 16:25
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Paul J. Steinhardt
(Princeton University)
Abstract:
Quasicrystals are exotic forms of matter
with symmetries that were once thought
to be mathematically impossible. The first known examples were synthesized
in the laboratory over 35 years ago, but
could Nature have beaten us to the punch?
This talk will describe the decades-long
search to the ends of the Earth and beyond
to
answer this question.