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SUMMARY:50 years of Skyrmions\, an overview - Nick Manton (DAMTP)
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CONTACT:Dr Jock McOrist
DESCRIPTION:T.H.R. Skyrme published his seminal paper on what are now call
 ed Skyrmions in 1961. It was the first proposal to model a particle (in th
 is case anucleon) as a topological soliton. Skyrmions give a remarkable to
 pological interpretation of the conservation of baryon number\, and of the
  spin/statistics of nucleons. Subsequently\, many other topologicalsoliton
 s have been studied\, like monopoles\, instantons\, and branes. The\norigi
 nal Skyrmions have been applied to understand the structure of nuclei\, an
 d a two-dimensional variant (a Baby Skyrmion) has in 2010 been observed in
  an exotic magnet.\n\nTo celebrate 50 years of Skyrmions\, we have arrange
 d a series of occasional lectures in DAMTP over the coming six months on t
 heir different aspects and applications. This talk will introduce Skyrmion
 s\, and give a brief history of Skyrme's thinking and how studies of skyrm
 ions haveevolved over the last 50 years.\n\n*Special Location! For this we
 ek only the colloquium is in MR5. *
LOCATION:MR5\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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