Lecture: “Quarks and cold atoms: Many particle physics from the hottest to the densest to the coldest places in the Universe”
Gordon Baym, professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois, describes the physics of the densest and hottest matter in the universe, and highlights unexpected connections that provide, for example, insights into how nuclear matter deconfines into quark matter with increasing density in neutron stars.
Professor Baym has been a major leader in the study of matter under extreme conditions in astrophysics and nuclear physics. He has made major contributions to the history of physics. His two textbooks, Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, have been of enormous influence on the education of theoretical physicists. He has received the Hans A. Bethe Prize (2002), the Lars Onsager Prize (2008) and the