Steven Weinberg Memorial Lecture: Quasiparticles and Quasiworlds with Frank Wilczek

On Monday, March 21, 2022, Frank Wilczek, theoretical physicist, author, Nobel Laureate and colleague of Dr. Steven Weinberg, gave the inaugural Steven Weinberg Memorial Lecture in honor and memory of College of Natural Sciences professor and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg. The topic of the talk was “Quasiparticles and Quasiworlds.” Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, intellectual adventurer and the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. His current theoretical research includes work on axions, anyons and time crystals—all concepts in physics that he named and pioneered. Each has become a major focus of worldwide research.