This year's Carr Lecturer is Prof. Carlo Beenaker, professor of theoretical physics at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group, established in 1992. Professor Beenakker is one of the absolute top international experts on mesoscopic physics. He has an exceptionally long list of scientific analyses, inventions and discoveries to his name, including mesoscopy in superconducting metal structures, quantization of conductivity, edge channels and contributions to random matrix theory. He also made a substantial contribution to establishing the basic concepts of single-electron tunnelling, Coulomb Blockade and noise in mesoscopic systems, and to transport theory of the Quantum Hall effect.

The schedule for Prof. Beenaker's seminars includes the Tuesday Physics Department Colloquium (4pm), a Wednesday CMTC seminar (11am) and the Thursday CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium (2pm) -- information can be found here.