After a five year hiatus the John David Crawford Memorial lecture was held February 21, 2023. Tony F. Heinz, from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Lab gave the lecture titled “Seeing Electrons in Two Dimensions: Optically Excited States in 2D Materials.”
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The Department established the Memorial Lecture Fund in honor of John David Crawford (1955-1998), Associate Professor of Physics, who died on August 23, 1998 of Burkitt’s Lymphoma. He was a member of the Department since January of 1990 when he was hired to establish a theoretical program in non-linear phenomena.
This was the eighth Crawford lecture. The first lecture was held in 1999 and given by Henry Abarbanel. Other past lectures were given by Edgar Knobloch, Leo Kadanoff, Frank Wilczek, William Bialek, Eric Heller, Susan Coppersmith.