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The Second Kind of Impossible: The Quixotic Search for Natural Quasicrystals
Event Details:
Monday, October 14, 2024
3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Location
SLAC, Kavli Auditorium
Speaker: Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton University) In Person and zoom
Quasicrystals are exotic materials with symmetries once thought to be impossible for matter. This talk will describe the decades-long adventures searching for them in nature and other exotic environments that continues to this day, resulting in one of the stranger scientific stories you will ever hear.
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