The Second Kind of Impossible: The Quixotic Search for Natural Quasicrystals

Speaker: Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton University) In Person and zoom

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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.