From 23 to 27 September, the Institute of Theoretical Physics III is organizing an international workshop in memory of Professor Konstantin B. Efetov with the title: "Universalities, symmetries and correlations in low-dimensional electronic systems."
Efetov was an internationally recognized expert in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics. He was particularly interested in collective many-body effects and phase transitions as well as the properties of materials, such as superconductivity and magnetism. He developed the supersymmetry approach to describe disordered systems and, together with F. Sebastián Bergeret and Anatoly F. Volkov, discovered the long-range proximity effect in superconducting contacts with ferromagnets.
Throughout his scientific career, he has received numerous awards, including the Landau-Weizmann Research Prize in 1998 and, in 2011, the French “Chaire Blaise Pascal” science prize—the first researcher from Germany to receive it. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the development of the supersymmetry method, the American Physical Society elected him a Fellow that same year. Efetov has served as a professor in the Department Physics and Astronomy since 1997.
The workshop will bring together former colleagues, students and friends of the solid-state physicist to discuss the latest experimental and theoretical advances in the fields that Efetov's research has so significantly influenced.
Registration is still possible via mail to individual lectures can also be attended spontaneously as long as seats are still available.
Further information is available on the workshop website.