Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton) The Second Kind of Impossible

Thursday 1 Oct 2020, 15:15 → 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

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. 

https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/63411629039

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