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Installation of the 2020 holder of the Tage Erlander Visiting Professorship

Welcome to the installation of Zhi-Xun Shen as the 2020 holder of the Tage Erlander Visiting Professorship. Zhi-Xun Shen is Professor of Physical Sciences at Stanford University, USA. On 27 April he will hold his inaugural lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Date

27 April 2020

Time

kl 14:00 - 16:00

Place

Oskar Klein auditorium, FR4, Roslagstullsbacken 21, AlbaNova,
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm

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Professor Zhi-Xun Shen will hold his inaugural lecture on the theme 'Quantum Materials – Insights from Einstein’s Electrons ’. The lectureis open to the public.

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Tage Erlander Visiting Professorship

Each year the Swedish Research Council's Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences
appoints a holder of the Tage Erlander Visiting Professorship.

The purpose of the grants to visiting professors is to give universities the opportunity to develop an area by recruiting an internationally leading professor for a short period.

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