[grads] Fwd: Opportunity

[Snejana Abarji]

Thank you very much, Fred

I did not know about it. I am at home at the moment and will miss his 
lecture, unfortunately.

Do not worry about the situation with Nagib. I will handle it.

Sorry for disturbing you.


On Thu, 1 May 2008, Fred J. Hickernell wrote:

> Dear colleagues and students,
>
> Leo Kadanoff is giving the physics colloquium today in 
> LS111 at 3:35.  You may be interested in that.
>
> Fred
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Peter Lykos <lykos at iit.edu>
>> Date: May 1, 2008 1:31:53 PM CDT
>> To: hickernell at iit.edu, duan at iit.edu
>> Cc: Fred McMorris <mcmorris at iit.edu>
>> Subject: FW: Opportunity
>> Reply-To: lykos at iit.edu
>> 
>> Pls share with AM folks you believe might be interested.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Lykos [mailto:lykos at iit.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:19 PM
>> To: Alfred Liu; 'Amit Kamdar'; 'Andrew Weiner'; Brandon 
>> Burum; David Curtin;
>> 'David Thomas'; 'Divya Srinivasan'; 'Haisung Lee'; Han 
>> Zhang; 'Hao Chen';
>> 'Hyun Song'; 'Jenny Li'; 'Kimberly Davis'; 'Kristina 
>> Schaefer'; Kyoo-Won
>> Buck; 'Lidia Calcaterra'; 'Loredana Huma'; 'Marc Huh'; 
>> 'Nivedita
>> Chandrasekharan'; 'Peter Lykos'; 'Rajesh Naithani'; 
>> 'Ravi Iyengar'; 'Renata
>> Nome'; 'Robert Moriarty'; 'Russell Bonham'; 'Scott 
>> Justus'; Sonia Goyal;
>> Taeyoung Kim; 'Xiang Sun'; 'Yu-Jen Lin'
>> Subject: Opportunity
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We have a serious gap in our grad curriculum in that our 
>> students are not
>> required to study molecular mechanics and quantum 
>> statistical
>> thermodynamics. That is how chemists build a bridge 
>> between studying
>> individual molecules and bulk matter.
>> 
>> An historic figure in the evolution of Quantum Stat 
>> Thermo is Leo Kadanoff
>> (U of Chg) and he will be giving a lecture today in 111 
>> LS as part of the
>> Physics Colloquium series.
>> 
>> I was in negotiation about an honorarium with Leo to 
>> give a Kilpatrick
>> Lecture a couple of years ago but we got bogged down. 
>> This time he was
>> advised there were only two slots left open in the 
>> Physics colloquium and
>> Nobel Laureate Lederman was filling one of them. 
>> Kadanoff took the
>> remaining  slot - gratis.
>> 
>> Well known is that Kent Wilson (son of E. Bright Wilson) 
>> got a Nobel Prize
>> for his contribution to the Renormalization Group (an 
>> essential part of
>> modern Quantum Stat Mech) and many folks wondered why 
>> Leo did not share that
>> prize since his contribution opened the door that Wilson 
>> walked through.
>> 
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