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Brian C. Sawyer - Compact Penning Traps for Quantum Science with Cold Atomic Ions

Penning ion traps are useful experimental…

From  Katie Gentilello April 29th, 2022 52 plays 0  

Gang Cao - Opportunities created by spin-orbit interactions

Effects of spin-orbit interactions in condensed…

From  Katie Gentilello April 10th, 2022 15 plays 0  

Ana Maria Rey - Optical lattice clocks: From Timekeepers to Spies of the Quantum Realm

Harnessing the behavior of complex systems is at…

From  Katie Gentilello April 6th, 2022 3 plays 0  

Mariel Borowitz - Protecting the Space Environment: Sustainability and Security

In recent years, the number of objects in space…

From  Katie Gentilello March 12th, 2022 6 plays 0  

Margaret Gardel - Physics of Morphogenetic Matter

My lab studies how the movement and shape of…

From  Katie Gentilello November 17th, 2021 2 plays 0  

Xiaoxing Xi - Crackdown on Academic Collaboration with China Harms American Science

Academic collaboration with China was once…

From  Katie Gentilello November 6th, 2021 16 plays 0  

Mikhail Shifman - The Beginning of the Quantum Era

Shifman reviews the growth of quantum physics…

From  Katie Gentilello November 3rd, 2021 8 plays 0  

Murray Daw - Collapse of the Collapse: Physicists Return to Reality

Recent developments[1] have shown that the…

From  Katie Gentilello October 21st, 2021 37 plays 0  

John E. Thomas - Optically-Trapped Interacting Fermi Gases

Optically-trapped, ultra-cold gases of spin…

From  Katie Gentilello September 17th, 2021 18 plays 0  

Daniel Arovas - Quantum Magnetism from the Iron Age to Today

The quantum theory of magnetism has provided many…

From  Katie Gentilello April 22nd, 2021 11 plays 0  

Andrea J. Liu - How materials can learn to function

How does learning occur? In the context of neural…

From  Katie Gentilello April 8th, 2021 14 plays 0  

Ruth Murray-Clay - Origins of Structure in Inner Planetary System

Why do many stars host close-in chains of…

From  Katie Gentilello March 11th, 2021 7 plays 0  

Michael P. Brenner - Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations

When Newton's laws are applied in every…

From  Katie Gentilello November 30th, 2020 63 plays 0  

Julia Yeomans - Self-propelled topological defects

Active materials such as bacteria, molecular…

From  Katie Gentilello October 28th, 2020 20 plays 0  

Peter J. Hirschfeld - Superconductivity: There's Plenty of Cream at the Bottom

In 1961, Brian Pippard gave a speech at IBM…

From  Katie Gentilello October 21st, 2020 17 plays 0  

Andrew Zangwill - A Mind Over Matter: the Life and Science of Philip Anderson

Dr. Zangwill presents a biographical survey of…

From  Katie Gentilello October 15th, 2020 63 plays 0