4:00 p.m., March 18, 2003--Nobel Prize-winning scientist Phillip W. Anderson, a professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University, will speak on “RVB. Plain Vanilla—a Simple Theory of High Tc,” at 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, in 131 Sharp Laboratory, as part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Bartol Research Institute’s Colloquim.

The 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Anderson and his co-recipients Sir Nevil Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck, for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.

Anderson’s research interests include theoretical physics, especially quantum theory of condensed matter, spectral line broadening and magnetism, as well as superconductivity, broken symmetry, random statistical systems and prebiotic evolution.

Besides having published more than 450 papers on a wide range of scientific topics, Anderson is the author of “Notes on the Theory of Magnetism” (1954), “Concepts in Solids” (1963), “Basic Notions in Condensed Matter Physics” (1984), “A Career in Theoretical Physics” (1994) and “The Theory of Superconductivity in the High Temperature Cuprates” (1997).

Anderson also is the author of review articles and book chapters on exchange in insulators, Josephson effect and quantum coherence, hard superconductors, localized moments and resonances in transition metals.

A reception will be held at 4 p.m., in the President’s Room at the Blue and Gold Club. For more information, or to request disability accommodations at least one day before to the event, call 831-3361, fax 831-1637, or send e-mail to [perkinsm@udel.edu].

Article by Jerry Rhodes