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Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical Condensed Matter physics is about building models of physical processes, often driven by experimental data, generalising the solutions of those models to make predictions, and transferring the concepts gained into other areas. Theory plays an important role in understanding known phenomena and in predicting new ones.

With over seventy members, TCM is the largest university Condensed Matter Theory group in the country. Able to trace its history back for over sixty years, it has been home to many leading theoreticians.

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John Jumper

Many congratulations to Dr John Jumper for being one of the recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Dr Jumper was an MPhil student in TCM in 2007/08, before returning to America to study for a PhD at the University of Chicago. He won the prize for his work in protein folding using machine learning, work he started at Chicago and then continued with the development of AlphaFold at DeepMind, a subsidary of Google.

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