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Invited Paper MG+EN+MS-WeA11
Condensed Matter Physics in an Age of Computation

Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 5:20 pm, Room 202 B

Session: Education for Interactive R&D & Industrial Implementation
Presenter: M. Marder, University of Texas at Austin
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Condensed matter physics and materials physics have grown so enormously that no one can hope to know everything done in the last five years let alone the last fifty. This does not relieve researchers of the charge of educating new generations of students. I will discuss the balance between acquisition of skills and acquisition of knowledge, and the way that computing power changes what is taught and how.