

Condensed matter physics is the branch of physics that studies systems of very large numbers of particles in a condensed state, like solids or liquids. Condensed matter physics wants to answer questions like: why is a material magnetic? Or why is it insulating or conducting? Or new, exciting questions like: what materials are good to make a reliable quantum computer? Can we describe gravity as the behavior of a material? The behavior of a system with many particles is very different from that of its individual particles. We say that the laws of many body physics are emergent or collective. Emergence explains the beauty of physics laws.
Mario Krenn Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Madelyn Cain Harvard University
Julian May-Mann University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jess McIver University of British Columbia
Young-June Kim University of Toronto
Andrew Potter University of British Columbia
Anton Burkov University of Waterloo
Tsung-Cheng Lu (Peter) Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Liujun Zou Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics