<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear All, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is a reminder for the theory seminar tomorrow:<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Monday, March</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""> 4th, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">1:00PM, Room L102</i></b></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Srimoyee Sen (U. of Washington), "</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Anyonic particle-vortex statistics and the nature of dense QCD"</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Abstract:</span> <br class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Recent theoretical observations have established the presence of Z_3 -valued </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">particle-vortex braiding phases in high density quark matter. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Certain mesonic and baryonic excitations, in the presence of a superfluid vortex, have orbital angular </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">momentum quantized in units of 1/3. Such non-local topological features can distinguish phases </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">whose realizations of global symmetries, as probed by local order parameters, are identical. If </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Z_3 braiding phases and angular momentum fractionalization are absent in lower density hadronic </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">matter, as is widely expected, then the quark matter and hadronic matter regimes of dense QCD</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">must be separated by at least one phase transition.</span></div></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Carlota, Vincent and Raza</div></body></html>