2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2014

Session

(W-MEDAL2) CAP Medal Talk - André-Marie Tremblay, U. de Sherbrooke (Achievement Medal Recipient / Récipiendaire de la médaille pour contributions exceptionnelles)

W-MEDAL2

18 Jun 2014, 16:15

Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne

448. Life of a theorist without a small parameter

André-Marie Tremblay (Université de Sherbrooke)

18/06/2014, 16:15

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénier

Materials with interesting properties, like high-temperature superconductors, happen to often appear in regimes where their quantum mechanical state is far from any state that can serve as a starting point for perturbation theory. These materials have challenged, in particular, two of the best established theories of condensed matter: band theory and the BCS theory of superconductivity. In...