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It gets cold outside in the winter, but the coldest spot around is Prof. Wright's lab in the basement of Wilder where an array of lasers trap and cool lithium atoms almost to absolute zero temperature. The Fermi degenerate atom cloud is then used to study superfluidity and other exotic properties
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Inviting postdoctoral applicants to submit applications to Neukom Fellows program hosted by the Physics and Astronomy department. Apply at neukom.dartmouth.edu.
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Congratulation to Professor Lorenza Viola on her appointment as a Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters.
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Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar recently gave a TEDx Talk entitled Analog Supercomputers: From Quantum Atom to Living Body.
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Physicists and philosophers from Austria, Canada, Holland, and the United States came together for The Gravity in the Quantum Regime conference to tackle issues at the intersection of quantum theory and gravitational physics.
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Great turn out for the Department of Physics and Astronomy Class of 2018. We had 14 senior honor theses this year. Congratulations to all the seniors.
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Our alumna Karen Daniels (class of 1994) describes herself as being on a random walk through science in a recent Q&A on the American Physical Society website.
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Nobel Laureate Jerry Friedman visits Dartmouth, giving a public lecture "Are We Really Made of Quarks?"
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Professor Miles Blencowe is quoted in this article about a recently proposed experiment would confirm that gravity is a quantum force.
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Ramanathan's group attends the APS March Meeting in Los Angeles. Highlights include Kent Ueno's presentation and Lihuang Zhu receiving a travel award.
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