This talk has been cancelled (April 28, 2015)
Speaker(s): Jim Enstrom (’65) I will describe how I have used my 1965 HMC B.S. in physics to rise, at […]
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Quantum Computing With a 2D Array of Movable Atom Traps Formed by Pinholes (April 14, 2015)
Speaker(s): Katharina Gillen Quantum computers have the potential to perform certain tasks much faster than even the most powerful supercomputers […]
Evidence of quantum squeezing of motion in a mechanical resonator (March 31, 2015)
Speaker(s): Emma Wollman Quantum mechanics places limits on the minimum energy of a harmonic oscillator via the ever-present “zero-point” fluctuations […]
Exploring the Dark Sector with Euclid and WFIRST (March 10, 2015)
Speaker(s): Jason Rhodes (’94) The past decade has seen the emergence of the so-called “concordance model” of cosmology. In this […]
A Long Winter: Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization with the South Pole Telescope (March 3, 2015)
Speaker(s): Jason Gallicchio The South Pole Telescope is the largest Cosmic Microwave Background telescope in the world. Its high-resolution maps […]
Optical Nanofibers (February 24, 2015)
Speaker(s): Luis A. Orozco Nanofibers are a versatile platform for applied and fundamental studies. I will present our work starting with […]
Dispersion Engineering with Cold Atoms: Ferromagnetism, Rotons, and Beyond (February 10, 2015)
Speaker(s): Colin V. Parker (’06) For classical or quantum Hamiltonians, one typically writes the kinetic energy, or dispersion, as a […]
Extreme Quantum Mechanics: Quantum simulation of many-body systems using ultracold atomic gases (February 3, 2015)
Speaker(s): Andrew Grier (’04) What happens when the strength of interactions between atoms is turned up to infinity? What about […]
Ultracold Atomic Superfluids in 3D, 1D, and in Between (January 27, 2015)
Speaker(s): Ben Olsen Atomic gases cooled to nanokelvin temperatures can be used to study the physics governing exotic many-body quantum […]
TBA (January 20, 2015)
Speaker(s): TBA