birth_place article_title name birth_date
vancouver , british columbia ian affleck
 ian affleck 02 july 1952
ian affleck

ian keith affleck is a canadian physicist .
he is -lrb- in 2013 -rrb- killam university professor , department of physics and astronomy , university of british columbia .
he was elected a fellow of the royal society in 2010 .
ian affleck studies quantum dots and quantum wires .
ian affleck has made many contributions to theoretical and mathematical physics .
among his many years of research experience , affleck also studied the condensed matter theory and the high energy theory .
in doing so , he enjoys finding `` mathematically elegant solutions '' to problems .
he is aso a member of the cifar 's superconductivity program and the cosmology and gravity program .
