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SUMMARY:ICFO | MARC KASTNER
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DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 4\, 12:00\, ICFO AuditoriumMARC KASTNERPresiden
 t\, Science Philanthropy Alliance. Donner Professor of Physics Emeritus an
 d former Dean of Science\, MIT and Professor Emeritus\, Department of Phys
 ics and Applied Physics\, Stanford University$$\n\nMarc Kastner is the pre
 sident of the Science Philanthropy Alliance\, a coalition of leading nonpr
 ofit institutions and foundations dedicated to increasing investment in ba
 sic science research. Prior to leading the Alliance\, Kastner had a long c
 areer in research and teaching and a variety of senior positions at the Ma
 ssachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kastner joined MIT in 1973 and 
 was named the Donner Professor of Physics in 1989. He became director of t
 he Center for Materials Science and Engineering in 1993\, head of the Depa
 rtment of Physics in 1998 and dean of the School of Science in 2007\; he s
 tepped down as dean in 2013.\nKastner’s early research focused on the el
 ectronic and optical properties of amorphous semiconductors\, especially c
 halcogenide glasses.  He and collaborators invented the Valence-Alternatio
 n model that relates the electronic properties of these materials to their
  chemical bonding. Later\, together with Robert Birgeneau\, he studied the
  relationship of the magnetic properties of high temperature superconducto
 rs to their electronic transport and optical properties.  In 1990 Kastner
 ’s group fabricated the first semiconductor single-electron transistor\,
  and in 1998 they discovered the Kondo effect in these nano-structures\; t
 he latter is a state in which electrons inside and outside the transistor 
 are quantum mechanically entangled.  \nKastner has served as chair of the 
 Solid State Sciences Committee and as chair of the Board on Physics and As
 tronomy of the National Research Council. He has also served on the Scienc
 e Advisory Boards of the National Cancer Institute and the Gordon and Bett
 y Moore Foundation. Kastner is a member of the National Academy of Science
 s\, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a fellow of th
 e American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advanceme
 nt of Science. In 1995\, he received the David Adler Lectureship Award of 
 the American Physical Society\, and in 2000 he won the Oliver E. Buckley P
 rize of the American Physical Society. Kastner received a B.S. in chemistr
 y\, an M.S. in physics\, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chi
 cago and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.\n
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