Catherine Kallin
Catherine Kallin is a Canadian theoretical quantum condensed matter physicist whose research topics have included spin wave theory, the quantum Hall effect, frustrated antiferromagnets, chirality in superconductors, and high-temperature superconductivity. She is a professor emerita of physics and astronomy at McMaster University.[1]
Catherine Kallin | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Langara College University of British Columbia (BSc) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Some Dynamic Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bertrand Halperin |
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| Discipline | Physicist |
Education and career[edit]
Kallin is originally from Vancouver,[2] where she was an undergraduate at Langara College[3] and the University of British Columbia (UBC),[4] graduating from UBC in 1979.[5][6] She was turned off from physics in her high school education, but regained interest after taking a general-interest physics course at Langara.[3][7]
She completed her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1984.[4] Her dissertation, Some Dynamic Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces, was supervised by Bertrand Halperin.[6] After postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she became an assistant professor at McMaster University in 1986.[4]
Recognition[edit]
In 1994, Kallin was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for contributions to the understanding of correlations between electrons in low-dimensional systems".[8]
Kallin was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1987.[9] She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1996,[10] and was awarded the 1996 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.[7] Kallin was given a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials Theory in 2003, renewed in 2010.[11][12] She won a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2013,[13] and a Simons Fellowship in 2016, the only Canadian winner in that year.[2][5]
Langara College gave her their outstanding alumni award in 2016.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Catherine Kallin", Profiles, McMaster University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ a b "Mac prof only Canadian to win prestigious Simons Fellow", The Hamilton Spectator, 29 March 2016
- ^ a b c "Catherine Kallin, PhD - Arts & Sciences (1976)", Outstanding Alumni: Past OAA Recipients, Langara College, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ a b c "Catherine Kallin", People, Perimeter Institute, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ a b "Quantum materials expert explores extreme superconductors", Alumni notes, UBC Science, 3 January 2017, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ a b Harvard PhD Theses in Physics: 1971–1999, Harvard Physics, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ a b Past Winner, 1996 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship: Catherine Kallin, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, 28 June 2016, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 1994 by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ "Sloan Foundation Awards 90 Grants", The New York Times, 19 April 1987
- ^ "Catherine Kallin", Fellows, Guggenheim Foundation, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ "Catherine Kallin, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials Theory", Canada Research Chairs, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ "McMaster's newest Canada Research Chairs explore micro-machines, condensed matter physics, immunology", Daily News, McMaster University, 23 October 2003, retrieved 2021-02-01
- ^ Van Dongen, Matthew (27 February 2013), "Mac professor earns national research fellowship", The Hamilton Spectator
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