Catherine Kallin
Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Contact Information
- Office: ABB-429, Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1
- Phone: (905) 525-9140, ext. 23176
- FAX: (905) 521-2773
- email: kallin@mcmaster.ca
Brief Biography
- 1979 B.Sc. Mathematics and Physics, U.B.C.
- 1984 Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University
- 1984 Postdoc, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB
- 1986 Assistant Professor, McMaster University
- 1996 Professor, McMaster University
Research
My research is in the area of strongly correlated electron systems,
including high temperature superconductors, frustrated antiferromagnets,
and quantum Hall systems.
Theory of Quantum Materials
Teaching Schedule for 2008/2009
- Physics 739: Graduate Quantum Mechanics [Fall: Mon&Wed 10:30-12:00]
- Physics 735: Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems [Spring: Mon&Wed 10:30-12:00]
Professional Affiliations and Activities
September/October 2000 issue of Physics in Canada is on
High Temperature Superconductivity
Co-organizer of
KITP Program on SrRuO and Chiral p-wave Superconductivity held
December 2007. All
the talks during this program are available (with audio) online.
Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
program in Quantum Materials, directed by
Louis Taillefer, brings together many researchers working toward an
understanding of high temperature superconductivity and other problems in correlated electrons.
Past General Member of the
Aspen Center for Physics
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Board member for the Boulder
School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. If you are a senior
graduate student or postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter physics, you
should check out this school.
Member of TRIUMF Experimental Evaluation
Committee.
Speaker at International Solvay Institute
"Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter" Conference, October 2008.
Affiliate of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Other Links
Women at the Frontier of
Excellence -- a symposium at UBC to honour Dr. Michael Smith.
MIT hosts
meeting on equity issues.
The Poster Project by Pamela Davis Kivelson.