Yale Postdoctoral Trainees

Kimball Smith Series: "Beyond Bits – Global Effects of Quantum Technology"

Join the Kimball Smith Series for a moderated panel followed by small group discussions regarding quantum technologies and their relevance to international affairs.

The panel will feature Mark Ritter (Chair of Physical Science Council at IBM Research) and Robert Schoelkopf (Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics; Director of Yale Quantum Institute). Both panelists are members of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee.

WIDG Seminar: Vidul Joshi, Yale, "Title TBA"

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Host: TBD

Visualize Science 2024

Pre-register at https://forms.gle/GmzCEAyQoAcGmRkA9 so we can plan teams in advance; walk-ins also welcome

More info and agenda are at https://wlab.yale.edu/visualize

Kimball Smith Series: Writing Workshop by Richard Rhodes

Register below for a writing workshop by Richard Rhodes, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” This workshop is intended for science- and engineering-focused audience.

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Biography of Richard Rhodes

“Let’s stick together: Sustaining the scientific record and scientific community during chaos” with Holden Thorp

Speaker: Professor Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of the Science Family of Journals and a Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University.

Host: Asian Faculty Association at Yale.
Co-sponsors: Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, Kimball Smith Series.

Reception following presentation. No registration is required for the lecture.

Kimball Smith Series: "The Rise of Malignant Deterrence" with Richard Rhodes

Register below for a lecture by Richard Rhodes, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” Light dinner will be provided. Yale community members of all disciplines and levels of expertise are encouraged to attend.

Co-sponsors: Physics Department, History Department.
Partners: Wright Laboratory, Political Science Department.
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NPA Seminar: Lawrence Lee, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, "Title TBA"

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Host: Reina Maruyama

NPA Seminar: Ryan Plestid, Caltech, "Title TBA"

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Host: TBD

WIDG Seminar: Tyler Johnson, Duke, "Title TBA"

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Host: TBD

NPA Seminar: Gavin Morley, Warwick University, "Levitating microdiamonds towards creating a macroscopic superposition"

We magnetically levitate microdiamonds in vacuum, and the microdiamonds we have made contain single nitrogen-vacancy centres with the longest spin coherence times. We aim to use this setup to put a microdiamond into a macroscopic quantum superposition of being in two places at once. But what is the gravitational effect of a mass in such a superposition? Sougato Bose has proposed a way to probe this question experimentally: if gravity is quantum then it could entangle two microdiamonds that are each in spatial superpositions.