Chong Wang: Explorer of Quantum Elegance

During his childhood in the Chinese city of Zunyi, Chong Wang was exposed to multiple world languages by his parents, who were language teachers.

But it was the language of mathematics that captivated him most.

His parents, spotting his early preference for equations and formulae over grammatical conjugations, nurtured his explorations. “My mother quite encouraged me a lot when she found out I had the appetite for it,” Wang recalls.

Their encouragement evidently worked. He went on to complete fellowships at both MIT and Harvard before joining Perimeter Institute, where he is using his mathematical prowess to research the properties of quantum materials.

Wang’s research zeroes in on a very particular breed of materials that he and his colleagues have dubbed Stiefel liquids, named for Swiss mathematician Eduard L. Stiefel, who developed the mathematics of “rubber sheet geometry” Wang uses in his explorations.

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