Pickup at Cumberland House and travel to campus

• Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Room: 403

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Thomas Papenbrock

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Lucas Platter

Room: SC104 SC104

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty Room: 613 Robert Grzywacz

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Jian Liu (University of Tennessee)

Room: 217A

Lunch

• Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Rick Mukherjee (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga)
• Jian Liu (University of Tennessee)

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Steve Johnston (University of Tennessee)

Room: 502

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Michael Guidry

Room: 308 SC

Meeting with UTK Physics & Astronomy Faculty

• Wonhee Ko (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Room: 203

Pre-Colloquium Reception Room: 3rd Floor Atrium

Colloquium: A Strange Exchange: Paraparticles and Where to Find Them

• Kaden Hazzard (Rice University)

Room: 307 Particle exchange statistics is a fundamental characteristic of quantum matter, conventionally thought to be constrained to either fermionic or bosonic. Each type gives distinct phenomena: fermions and the consequent exclusion principle lead to the structure of the periodic table and properties of metals, while bosons and their bunching give lasers and superfluidity. I will discuss recent research in our group that has shown other exchange statistics are possible (beyond already-known anyons, which are restricted to two dimensions) and naturally emerge as excitations in spin models. These “paraparticles” admit non-interacting theories, unlike anyons, and I will describe our vision of using this to form the foundation of new analytic and numerical methods to provide a window into correlated matter.experiments that have led up to where we are now, and our current efforts with regards to this table-top dark matter search.