Ian Affleck

Ian Affleck
Born	(1952-07-02) July 2, 1952 Vancouver, British Columbia^[1]
Fields	Condensed matter theory, superconductivity, quantum magnetism, quantum impurities
Alma mater	Trent University Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Sidney R. Coleman
Notable awards	Sloan Foundation Fellow (1983–1987) Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow (1987–2001) Associate (2001–2008) Fellow (2008–) National Research Council Steacie Prize (1988) Canadian Association of Physicists Herzberg Medal (1990) Royal Society of Canada Rutherford Medal in Physics (1991) Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada/Canadian Academy of Sciences (1991–) UBC Senior Killam Research Prize (1992) UBC Jacob Biely Prize (1992) Canadian Association of Physicists/Centre de Recherche Mathematique Prize for Mathematics/Theoretical Physics (1997) B.C. Science Council New Frontiers in Research Award (1998) Fellow, American Physical Society (2003) Canadian Association of Physicists Medal for Achievement in Physics (2006) Fellow of the Royal Society (2010) Onsager Prize, American Physical Society (2012)^[2]

Ian Keith Affleck is an award-winning Canadian physicist specializing in condensed matter physics. He is (in 2013) Killam University Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia.

Work

Affleck holds numerous awards including the 2006 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement and the 2014 DCMMP Brockhouse Medal.^[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.^[4]

Ian Affleck currently studies theoretical aspects of condensed matter physics, including high temperature superconductivity, low dimensional magnetism, quantum dots and quantum wires.^[5]

Ian Affleck has made many important contributions to theoretical and mathematical physics.^[6] He began his career in high energy theory (HEP), and has successfully applied many techniques from HEP to condensed matter. In particular, he has applied conformal field theory techniques to low dimensional magnetism, Kondo effects and quantum impurity problems. In doing so, he enjoys finding "mathematically elegant solutions" to problems.^[7] He is also a member of the CIFAR's Superconductivity Program and the Cosmology and Gravity Program.^[8]

References

↑ "Ian Keith Affleck". Retrieved 29 September 2012.
↑ "Ian Affleck". The University of British Columbia Department of Physics & Astronomy. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
↑ "New Fellows 2010". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
↑ "New Fellows 2010". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
↑ "Ian Affleck". University of British Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
↑ "Professor Ian Affleck FRS". The Royal Society. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
↑ "2012 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient". American Physical Society Sites. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
↑ "Ian Affleck". CIFAR Canadian Institute for advanced Research. Retrieved 11 March 2014.

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2010

Fellows	Gabriel Aeppli Ian Affleck Paul Brakefield Andrea Brand Eleanor Campbell Philip Candelas Peter Cawley Nicola Susan Clayton John William Connor Russell Cowburn Gideon Davies Donald Dawson Raymond Dolan Hugh Durrant-Whyte Lyndon Evans Richard Evershed Georg Gottlob Ben Green Robert Griffiths Roger Hardie Michael Hastings Andrew Hattersley Craig Hawker Ron Hay Ian Hickson Peter Horton Jeremy Hutson Victoria Kaspi Lewis Kay Ondrej Krivanek Angus Lamond Alan Lehmann Malcolm McCulloch Robin Murray Robin Perutz Max Pettini Thomas Platts-Mills Wolf Reik Loren Rieseberg Peter Rigby Ezio Rizzardo Elizabeth Simpson Alan Smith Eric Wolff

Honorary	Melvyn Bragg

Foreign	Pascale Cossart Carl Djerassi Ludvig Faddeev Edmond H. Fischer Michael Goodchild John B. Goodenough Detlef Weigel Kurt Wüthrich

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 160271672 GND: 142828343

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