The Russian Singing Concert will showcase the talents of students Luke Brown, Joseph Ison, Laura King, Lukas Spohn, Aphelion Delong-Grant, Sara Smith, Caroline Goodell, Nate Barker and Anabel Canedo. The group will be accompanied by pianist Juelin Zhao, a graduate student from UK School of Music.

The program will be presented at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, in the Niles Gallery of the Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library. This event is free and open to the public.

The event will benefit both the students and audience. The Russian Singing Concert is an opportunity to hear the rich culture of Russian music and offer an appreciation for the students’ hard work over the course of the semester. The concert aims to unite the audience through the poetry of music and the music of poetry.

Dr. Ronald Garcia-Ruiz, MIT

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Dr. Jim Sauls, LSU

Title: The Left Hand of the Electron in a Chiral Vacuum

Abstract: In 1957, parity violation by the weak force was demonstrated in experiments led by Chien-Shiung Wu on the asymmetry of electron currents emitted in the beta decay of polarized 60Co. The asymmetry reflects two broken symmetries that mirror reflection and time-reversal. 

The same year, Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer published their microscopic theory of superconductivity, and soon thereafter Anderson and Morel proposed that the ground-state of liquid 3He was possibly a BCS condensate of chiral p-wave Cooper pairs, exhibiting spontaneously broken mirror reflection and time-reversal symmetries. 

Indeed, the high-pressure phase of superfluid 3He, discovered in 1972, is the realization of the Anderson-Morel state.Definitive proof that 3He-A spontaneously breaks mirror and time-reversal symmetry, however, came 41 years later with the observation an anomalous Hall effect for electrons moving in 3He-A. I discuss the prediction, discovery and origin of the anomalous Hall current of electrons moving in a chiral vacuum.