The Dartmouth Physics Society has invited Professor Timothy Smith (https://www.trailnotes.org/) to give a talk on proton therapy. He will be talking about his research with accelerators for cancer treatment. The talk will take place on Wednesday, January 13th, at 4 pm in the Wilder blue room.
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A new machine for cooling atoms to ultra-low temperatures has come online in the Wright lab. The machine is is somewhat fittingly located directly below the location in Wilder Hall where the pressure of light was first measured at Dartmouth in 1901 by E. F. Nichols and G. F.Hull, and it uses radiation pressure from carefully tuned lasers to capture and cool a dilute gas of lithium atoms. The photograph shows the first stage of the cooling process, where the temperature is less than a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero. After a second stage of cooling to less than a millionth of a degree above absolute zero, the atoms begin to act like "matter waves" rather than point-like particles. Researchers in the Wright lab plan are using clouds of ultracold atoms to study unusual quantum states of matter (e.g. superfluids that can flow without any friction) and related aspects of quantum many-body physics that are not fully understood.
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Dartmouth College is seeking a Teaching Laboratories Technician, who will work in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, supporting the undergraduate teaching labs and other department needs, setting up labs, maintaining computers, equipment, and lab rooms, building lab replacement parts, ordering equipment, overseeing students filming classes, editing and processing video files, assisting the lab manager with developing new labs, supporting professors and staff with technical problems, research, and other administrative duties.
[more]Astronomy SeminarThursday, October 15, 201510:00 am, Wilder 202 Allison KirkpatrickUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst Title: "What Lies Beneath: Dust Obscured Star Formation and Black Hole Growth"
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Several Dartmouth faculty share their thoughts on the recent Nobel Prize for Physics and the mystery of neutrinos. Read more...
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