TITLE:  Absolutely Mindboggling! ABSTRACT: The fractional quantum Hall states are among the most beautiful, the most consequential, and the best understood strongly correlated states discovered in nature. I will begin with a brief introduction to their rich phenomenology and explanation as a manifestation of the formation of a new kind of emergent particle called the […]

TITLE:  The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research, ABSTRACT:  The National MagLab in the United States exists to provide magnetic fields that are more than a million times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field to thousands of visiting researchers every year.  Why would anyone want to do such a thing?   It turns out that magnetic […]

TITLE: Mechanics of Domain Walls ABSTRACT: Domain walls, narrow regions separating domains of uniform magnetization, have a long history in the field of magnetism. As topological solitons, they present interest from the perspective of basic science and technological applications such as magnetic memory. Domain walls can be driven at speeds up to several kilometers per […]