Speaker: Prof. E. Tosatti
SISSA and ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Title：New physics at ultra-high pressures
Time: 10:00-11:00, Oct.12
Avenue：Phyiscs Building 221B Meeting Room
Introduction to speaker：
Prof. Erio Tosatti got his Ph.D in 1970 from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, magna cum Laude. He had been visiting research professor in many institutions and is one of the leading scientists in the condensed matter physics. His research fields range from nanosystems to strongly correlated electron systems. He was elected Academician of American Academy of Sciences in 2012. Over the years, Prof. Erio Tosatti has made a series of significant and crucial contributions to those fields with about 450 scientific papers, including 70 Physical Review Letters papers, 9 Science papers, 13 nature & nature series papers.
Abstract:
Condensed matter as we know it gives way to a completely new unexplored world at megabar pressures. High pressure simulations, particularly of the first principles type, [1] provide a privileged access to this world which complements and in some cases overrides experiment. Without entering technical details, and depending on time, I will briefly review some theoretical case studies which highlight interesting physical phenomena in a variety of high pressure systems such as H2O, Fe, CO2 , HD, O2, MoS2, CS2, BaBiO3.
