MPIDS Prandtl Colloquium: A Random Walk Through Physics To The Nobel Prize
MPIDS Prandtl Colloquium
- Date: May 12, 2021
- Time: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: J. Michael Kosterlitz
- Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS)
- Room: https://www.ds.mpg.de/livestream
- Host: MPIDS / LMP
- Contact: ramin.golestanian@ds.mpg.de
The talk is the story of my random walk through physics via Cambridge, Oxford, Turin and Birmingham finishing up at Brown University. I describe my very crooked path through life including physics and my other life as a mountaineer. I also include a somewhat simplified version of my prize winning work.