Physics Colloquium
Monday, February 27, 2012, 04:00 PM
120 Engineering, Hammond auditorium

Chris H. Greene, Ph.D., Professor of Physics at CU-Boulder, will talk on "Universal Insights into Few-Body Systems" starting at 4:00 pm. Refreshments will be available at 3:45.

ABSTRACT:

Dramatic recent theoretical and experimental progress has been solidifying our understanding of 3-body and 4-body interactions and their intimate connection with the Efimov effect. Even a system of 3 or 4 bosons or fermions with short range forces can be challenging to theory, while at the same time intriguing and broadly-applicable insights have emerged. Recent years have seen rapid advances on the experimental front based on experiments with ultracold atoms,which make use of tunable Fano-Feshbach resonances. My colloquium will discuss these recent developments and some of the puzzles that have been emerging on the experimental front in the field this past year.

BIO:

Chris Greene is Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Fellow of JILA. His did his undergraduate work at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, PhD studies under Ugo Fano at the University of Chicago, and a postdoctoral stint at Stanford with Richard Zare. After 8 years on the faculty at Louisiana State University, he moved to Boulder, where he has worked ever since.

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Event Contact: Kathy Reischauer can be reached at (970) 491-6206

Sponsored by the Department of Physics.