Catherine Kallin
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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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| Born | |
| 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 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Physicist |
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]
