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Penn Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 3:45pm

Randy Kamien

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

A6 DRL

Smectic liquid crystals are layered systems that abound in nature.  I will introduce these materials and show how the long-lived, topologically protected excitations defy simple classification.  I will describe our attempts.