May 07, 2026
Insights into the quantum world: Public lecture by Nobel laureate Duncan Haldane at TU Dresden on 12 May
Duncan Haldane, Nobel Prize winner in Physics (2016), is a professor of physics at Princeton University.
The School of Science is pleased to welcome Physics Nobel laureate Duncan Haldane for a public lecture on Tuesday, 12 May 2026 at TU Dresden. The focus of the lecture will be on current developments in quantum physics, in particular the role of quantum entanglement and novel topological states of matter, which are considered the basis for future quantum technologies. The event begins at 7.00 pm in the Audimax of the Hörsaalzentrum.
Duncan Haldane is a British physicist known for his work in theoretical condensed matter physics. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1973 and completed his PhD in 1978, both at the University of Cambridge. Between 1977 and 1981, he worked at the Institut Laue-Langevin, followed by a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California from 1981 to 1985. He then spent two years at Bell Laboratories before becoming a professor at the University of California, San Diego, in 1987. In 1990, he joined Princeton University as Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics. In 2016, Haldane was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with David Thouless and Michael Kosterlitz, "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.
In his public Nobel lecture entitled “Quantum Entanglement, Topological Quantum States, and the ‘Second Quantum Revolution’”, Haldane provides insights into current developments in quantum physics. The focus will be on the role of quantum entanglement and novel topological states of matter, which are considered the foundation for future quantum technologies.
The lecture will be held in English. Admission is free. Please register at: https://tu-dresden.de/mn/nobel
Save the Date: Don’t miss the next Nobel Laureate lecture: On Wednesday, 17 June 2026, Nobel Laureate in Physics Georg Bednorz will be visiting Dresden to speak on “Superconductivity – from phenomenon to key technology of the 21st century”.
Full details: https://tu-dresden.de/mn/nobel
The public lecture series ‘Nobelpreisträger zu Gast an der TU Dresden” is supported by von Ardenne GmbH, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden e.V., the cluster of excellence ctd.qmat, Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski and Lohrmanns Brew.
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