ANDRE GEIM
Regius Professor, University of Manchester
2010 Nobel Laureate
all lectures will be held in Jefferson 250 and streamed live on Zoom
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Monday, March 25, 2024, @4:30pm: Colloquium - "Wonder Materials"
Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, is not only the thinnest but also probably the simplest material one can imagine. Nonetheless, graphene has acquired so many superlatives to its name and revealed such a cornucopia of new phenomena that it is often called a wonder material. Following its advent, many other one-atom or one-molecule thick crystals have been isolated and investigated. These so-called two-dimensional materials have become one of the hottest topics in materials science and condensed matter physics. Aiming at an audience unfamiliar with 2D materials, I will briefly describe the research field trying to explain why graphene and its cousins have attracted so much attention.
Tuesday, 26, 2024, @4:30pm: Lecture I - "Exploring 2D Empty Space"
It is now possible to create angstrom-scale channels that can be viewed as if one or a few individual atomic planes are pulled out of a bulk crystal leaving behind a 2D space. I shall overview my work on this subject over the last few years, which covers studies of gases, liquids and ions under the extreme angstrom-scale confinement.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024, @4:30pm: 2nd Colloquium - "Science of flying frogs"
Magnetic response of the very majority of materials is diamagnetic, billion times smaller than that of “real” magnetic materials such as iron or nickel. No wonder then that most things including humans are generally considered to be non-magnetic. However feeble, the ubiquitous diamagnetism is strong enough to support such dramatic phenomena as true levitation. In this talk - intended to be both informative and entertaining - I will show how to use strong magnets to let live frogs fly and, vice versa, how to use your fingertips to levitate magnets in between.
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Sir Andre Geim is Regius Professor at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on graphene, a one-atom-thick material made of carbon. He also received numerous international awards and distinctions, including medals from the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, and holds honorary doctorates and professorships from many countries and universities. Sir Andre is a member of the British, American and Chinese academies of science, among others.
Thomson-Reuters repeatedly named Geim among the world’s most active scientists and attributed to him three new research fronts – diamagnetic levitation, gecko tape and graphene. More than forty of his papers were cited >1,000 times with nine of them >10,000 times. Two of the latter are among 100 most cited research papers in human history, according to journal Nature. He was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel prize for his work on levitation, becoming the first and only recipient of both Nobel and Ig Nobel Prizes. Sir Andre was knighted by Dutch and British monarchs.