Ian Affleck receives the 2014 Brockhouse Medal

Posted: April 10, 2014

The 2014 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal will be awarded to Ian Affleck, University of British Columbia, for his original and influential contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems, particularly in the application of conformal field theory techniques to the Kondo effects and quantum impurity problems and advances in the theory of quantum magnetism in low dimensions.