Prof. Frederick Duncan Haldane (Princeton University) visited the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM) at the National University of Singapore on 9 and 10 Jan 2023.
Prof. Haldane is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize Physics, together with Prof. David J. Thouless and Prof. J. Michael Kosterlitz, “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.
During his visit to NUS, he held numerous discussions with I-FIM’s scientists and delivered an open lecture jointly organised by I-FIM and the Faculty of Science. His lecture on “Fractional quantum Hall effect: what is it, and why does it occur?” was held at Lecture Theatre 28 and attended by over 200 staff and staff from NUS.