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. Topics discussed included tensor networks on curved spacetimes, gravitational decoherence, semiclassical gravity, and the role of ‘time’ in a quantum theory of gravity.
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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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Nobel Laureate Jerry Friedman visits Dartmouth, giving a public lecture "Are We Really Made of Quarks?"
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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. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v11/47
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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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