Shown in the image above, left to right are Dr. Shantanu Basu, Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy,   invited Laird lecturer and Nobel laureate Dr. Klaus von Klitzing, Dr. Neil Turok, Director of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, and Professor Mahi Singh of Western.

Professor von Klitzing entertained and informed a good crowd of approximately 300 people who gathered in the Paul Davenport Theatre to hear the Elizabeth Laird Memorial Lecture for 2013, entitled “The Quantum Hall Effect: Physics and Application”.

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