Greetings to G. Volovik on his anniversary at JETP Letters website http://jetpletters.ru/en/personalia.shtml

Our congratulations to Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky on being awarded the Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize 2021 for his research in the field of gravitation and cosmology, including the development of the theory of the inflationary stage in the early Universe.

The first Chez Pierre Seminar for the Spring 2021 semester will be held on Monday, February 22, 2021 at 12:00pm noon EST.

The seminar will be broadcast via password protected Zoom link. Please see the details below.

Igor  Mazin – George Mason  University

“Conventional high temperature superconductivity: from A15 to MgB2 to superhydrates”

I will review in a rather popular-science way, mostly for the benefits of the younger generation, the history of the half-century long quest for the room-temperature superconductivity, concentrating on the conventional electron-phonon mechanism. I will outline several stages, characterized by different paradigms, which can be tagged in a Popperian way thus:

(1) A-15 and the concept of an upper bound on Tc

(2) V.L. Ginzburg and the concept of a negative dielectric function

(3) MgB2 and the concept of doped covalent bonds

(4) H3S and the concept of MgB2 on steroids

(5) superhydrates and the concept of artificially stabilized metal hydrogen

I am dedicating this talk to G.M. Eliashberg on the occasion of his 90^th birthday.

 

Talk:  12:00pm noon EST

Date: Monday, February 22, 2021

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Host: Leonid Levitov

Topic: Chez Pierre seminars - Spring 2021

Time: Feb 22, 2021 12:00PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Our congratulations to L.P. Pitaevski on receiving Lars Onsager prize.

Our congratulations to Lev N. Shchur with his election as an APS Fellow “for innovative use of computer simulations and the development of superior random number generators for their use in statistical physics”.

Our congratulations to Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky, who has been elected to foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.
For more information see site of the Academy.

2016 Winter workshop/school on Localization, Interactions and Superconductivity is going to be held at the Institute from December 19 till December 22. The sessions will take place at the institute conference-hall. The tentative schedule can be found at the conference webpage.

Our congratulations to Alexei Kitaev, laureate of The 2017 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics for "theories of topological order and its consequences in a broad range of physical systems. For more information see site of The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize.

Our congratulations to Paul B. Wiegmann, laureate of The 2017 Lars Onsager Prize "for the pioneering discovery of the exact solution of the Kondo and Anderson models, opening a new field of exact treatments of quantum impurity systems". For more information see site of The Lars Onsager Prize.

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics announces the annual conference "Landau Days 2016". The conference will be held on June 20-22 2016. For more information please see conference site.

International conference on Localization, interactions and superconductivity will be organized in Landau Institute from June 27 till July 1, 2016. The conference opening is on June 27 at 9:20. The scientific program starts at 9:30. The program and useful information can be found at the conference website.

2014 Winter workshop/school on Localization, Interactions and Superconductivity is going to be held at the Institute from December 22 till December 25. The sessions will take place at the institute conference-hall. The tentative schedule can be found at the conference webpage.

Annual conference "Landau Days - 2014" will be held 23-25 June, 2014 in the Landau ITP building.

For programme and additional information please check conference site.

Our congratulations to Yakov G. Sinai, laureate of The 2014 Abel Prize "for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics". For more information see site of The Abel Prize.

23-25 June 2014 Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics organizes The annual conference "Landau Days 2014". The conference Landau Days 2014 will be devoted to memory of passed away members of Landau Institute.
June 23 - memory day of Yuri Bychkov
June 24 - memory day of Nikolai Kopnin
June 25 - memory day of Sergei Manakov
For more information see conference site.

Dear colleagues and friends, the funeral (cremation) of Nikolay Kopnin will take place on Thursday, 31st of October at 14:00 at Khovanskoe Cemetery. The buses will start from the Institute of Physical Problems (Kosygina str. 2, Metro Leninskii prospect) at 12:30. People from Chernogolovka will be brought to the Institute of Physical Problems by our bus. After the cremation (approximately at 16:00) there will be a mourning party at the canteen of the Institute of Physical Problems.

Our congratulations to Grigory E. Volovik and Vladimir P. Mineev, laureates of The 2014 Lars Onsager Prize for their contribution to a comprehensive classification of topological defects in condensed matter phases with broken symmetry, culminating in the prediction of half-quantum vortices in superfluid He-3 and related systems.
For more information see site.

Our congratulations to Alexander Polyakov, laureate of The 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize for his many discoveries in field theory and string theory including the conformal bootstrap, magnetic monopoles, instantons, confinement/de-confinement, the quantization of strings in non-critical dimensions, gauge/string duality and many others. His ideas have dominated the scene in these fields during the past decades. For more information see official site of Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation.

Our congratulations to Alexander Polyakov, laureate of 2013 Physics Frontiers Prize for his many discoveries in field theory and string theory including the conformal bootstrap, magnetic monopoles, instantons, confinement/de-confinement, the quantization of strings in non-critical dimensions, gauge/string duality and many others. His ideas have dominated the scene in these fields during the past decades. For more information see official site of Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation

From September 10 till September 14, the Landau Institute organizes the international conference «New Frontiers in the Physics of Quantum Dots».
The sessions will take place at Bolshaya Gostinaya. The program can be found at the conference webpage.

September 5-6, 2012 P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, mini-course "Disordered Luttinger Liquid" by Igor Gornyi (Institute for Nanotechnology, KIT, Germany)
Program:
September 5, 2012
11:30 - 13:00 - Lecture 1. Introduction: transport and nonequilibrium phenomena in 1D systems
13:30 - 15:00 - Lecture 2. Fermionic approach and functional bosonization
September 6, 2012
11:30 - 13:00 - Lecture 3. Full bosonization: clean and disordered Luttinger liquid
13:30 - 15:00 - Lecture 4. Transport and relaxation in disordered Luttinger liquid

Our congratulations to Isaak M. Khalatnikov and Vladimir A. Belinski, recipients of the Marcel Grossmann Award for the discovery of a general solution of the Einstein equations with a cosmological singularity of an oscillatory chaotic character known as the BKL singularity. For more information about Marcel Grossmann Award see.

Our congratulations to Alexey Starobinsky, who has been awarded the 2012 Amaldi Medal by the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics for his fundamental contribution to Cosmology

Our congratulations to Sergei Ivanovich Anisimov, who has been awarded the Landau-Spitzer Prize in 2012, jointly granted by APS and EPS Plasma Physics Divisions. For more information about Prize see APS site.

Школа-семинар для студентов, аспирантов и молодых исследователей "Взаимодействие математики и физики: новые перспективы" пройдет в МИРАН 22-30 августа 2012 г. Организаторы: МИЭМ - НИУ ВШЭ, МИРАН. Учеными мирового класса будет прочитано 18-20 лекционных мини-курсов по актуальным проблемам на стыке математики, физики, компьютерного моделирования. Также организуется дополнительная секция с научными докладами длительностью по 20 мин. Заявку на доклад можно подать до 30 апреля 2012 г.

The 2011 Simon Memorial Prize is awarded to Sergey V. Iordanskii and Nikolai B. Kopnin "For their calculations and predictions of the fundamental forces acting on quantised vortices in superfluids, superconductors and other ordered systems: The Iordanskii force and the Kopnin force"

Our congratilation to Alexander Zamolodchikov - Dirac Medallists 2011 (together with Edouard Brézin and John Cardy) in recognition of their independent pioneering work on field theoretical methods to the study of critical phenomena and phase transitions; in particular for their significant contributions to conformal field theories and integrable systems. Their research and the physical implications of their formal developments have had important consequences in classical and quantum condensed matter systems and in string theory. For more information see official site.

Conference “Landau Days — 2011”
The conference will be held since 27 till 29 June 2011 in Bol’shaya gostinaya doma uchenykh, Chernogolovka. For more information please see conference website.

Our congratulations to Alexey Starobinsky — 2010 Oskar Klein Medal winner. For more informations see official site.

Our congratulations to Alexander A. Belavin, Alexander B. Zamolodchikov, and Alexander M. Polyakov — 2011 Lars Onsager Prize Recipients “for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, and especially for the remarkable ideas that they introduced concerning conformal field theory and soluble models of statistical mechanics in two dimensions”. For more informations see official site.

You are welcome to the seminars on quantum physics and informatics.

29 iyunya vo vtornik v Institute Fizicheskikh Problem sostoitsya doklad
Prof. Joel Moore (Berkeley University)
«Topological insulators, magnetoelectric coupling and Majorana fermions».
Nachalo v 12:00.

Conference “Landau Days — 2010”
The conference will be held in:
Bol’shaya gostinaya doma uchenykh, Chernogolovka.
For more information please see conference website.

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Congratulations Sergei Anisimov with awarding him the first degree “Order of Merit for the Fatherland”.

Congratulations Sergey Iordansky with awarding him the honorary title “Russian honored worker of science”.

Congratulations to Vladimir Zakharov awarding him the honorary title of Regents Professor Arizona State University.

For Landau Institute staff: now it is possible to create your personal internet home page with the hosting on our server.

Congratulations to one of the founders of our institute Aleksei Alekseevich Abrikosov with Nobel Prize “for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”.