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From Symmetry to Applications: One of Many Journeys Touched by John Yates (Invited Talk)

Thursday, November 10, 2016, 3:20 pm, Room 103C

In the 1970's John Yates spent a sabbatical year at Caltech, where he touched the lives of many students and postdocs working in the group of Prof. Henry Weinberg. My story starts as a young student, fascinated with symmetry and statistical mechanics, who was privileged to work in the laboratory with John, in those early days of surface science when it seemed that every observation opened new horizons.

I will provide highlights of some of the exciting research that followed from those early days of surface science, discussing the impact of scanning tunneling microscopy, the linkages of surface science and nano-electronics, and the practical impacts of many years of fundamental studies from the perspectives of industry and ARPA-E.