The bizarre world that exists at the microscopic level will be discussed at a free public lecture Wednesday, July 9, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Yale University physics Professor Ramamurti Shankar will give the talk "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! Yogi Berra's Guide to the Quantum World" at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B20.
During his talk Shankar will explore the strange things that are happening all around us at the microscopic level. The lecture is aimed at a lay audience.
"What is so different in the quantum world? What is happening that is so bizarre? This is what I will explain during my talk," said Shankar, the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics at Yale.
Shankar's presentation is part of the ninth annual Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter and Material Physics, which is hosted by CU-Boulder and supported by a $1.36 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The school runs from June 30 to July 18. This year's theme is "Strongly Correlated Materials."
The Boulder Summer School enables advanced graduate students to work at the frontiers of science and technology by exposing them to a range of concepts, techniques and applications much broader than any single graduate program or postdoctoral apprenticeship can provide, according to CU-Boulder physics Professor Leo Radzihovsky.
For more information about the talk call 303-492-5436. For more information about the summer school visit .