Time-domain braiding of anyons By Mélanie Ruelle; Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Paris, France. Thursday April 3 at 3:00 pm (Paris time), Room Charpak, entrance building, ground floor at LPEM in hybrid. Contrary to fermions and bosons, anyons are quasiparticles that keep a robust memory of particle exchanges via a braiding phase factor. This provides them…

Dew formation on soft substrate, Ambre Bouillant (Laboratoire MSC, UMR CNRS 7057, Université Paris Cité), Bruno Andreotti (LPENS, Paris PSL) and Jacco H. Snoeijer (Twente University, Enschede, NL). This seminar will take place at the seminar room of Gulliver C1.62  at 11:30. When moist air encounters a cold surface, it condenses into a collection of…

Please note a common SIMM/Gulliver seminar of Prof. Satish Kumar from the University of Minnesota on Tuesday the 8th of April (unusual slot) at 11am in Charpak room. Satish Kumar Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of MinnesotaDroplet dynamics near topographical features. While solid substrates are often idealized as being perfectly smooth, all real  surfaces possess some…

Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski from Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday, April 15th.Kris will be giving a lecture entitled "Nanostructured Functional Materials by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" at 10h30 in the Holweck Amphitheater.For those of us who do not know Kris, his group has made remarkable contributions to the field of macromolecular engineering, pushing the boundaries of the field, most…