The Yale Physics 2004 Leigh Page Prize Lectures were given April 12th, April 14th and April 16th by Prof. Kathryn Moler from Stanford University.
April 12, 2004 - Quantum Mechanics of Nanostructures
An introduction to the wavelike nature of electrons, followed bythe reasons that moving through some solids makes electrons seem to stop acting like waves, and the ways that nanotechnology helps us visualize and understand these effects.
April 14, 2004 - Superconductivity
A lecture on how electrons and other particles can form pairs tomove without resistance, including an update on modern materials and Bose-Einstein condensates.
April 16, 2004 - Spin-charge Separation
A lecture on how an electron can break up into fractional quasiparticles, on how that might lead to superconductivity, and on the search for spin-charge-separated superconductors.
The Leigh Page Prize Lecture series are given each year by a distinguished physicist in honor of Leigh Page who received his PhD in Physics from Yale in 1913. He was later acting Chair and Director of the Sloane Physics Laboratory. Professor Page devoted his time to teaching (mostly graduate classes), research, and writing several textbooks. Since 1967, several speakers in the Leigh Page Prize Lecture series have later received Nobel Prizes and other and notable awards. In connection with the lecture series, a prize is offered to first year graduate students in recognition of their fine academic record and for the promise of important contributions to the field of physics.