IQC is pleased to have Anthony J. Leggett from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as a long-term visiting professor from May 15 to July 31, 2006. While at IQC he will be hosting an informal seminar series. These lectures will concentrate on microscopic theory of superconductivity and ending with material on superconducting qubits.
Location BFG 2125
Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (May 18, 25; June 15-29; July 6)
Friday 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. (May 19, 26; June 16-30; July 7)
Sir Anthony James Leggett (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England,) is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and other strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.). He was knighted (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 "for services to physics." He holds dual US/UK citizenship.
His areas of research are theoretical condensed matter physics, low-temperature phenomena, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum fluids, statistical physics, macroscopic quantum systems, quantum theory of measurement.