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2022 Nobel Prize Colloquium
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics, for conducting groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single entity. In an entangled pair, what happens to one of the particles determines what happens to the other particle, even if they are far apart. These results…
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PhysCon 2022
Every four years, the Society of Physics Students (SPS) and Sigma Pi Sigma organizes the Physics Congress meeting (PhysCon). It is the largest gathering of undergraduate physics students in the US, and PhysCon 2022, held in Washington D.C. on October 6-8, absolutely lived up to our expectations! The Omni Shoreham hotel, was a beautiful location. It had…
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Groundhog in the fume hood
A groundhog visited Taylor Hall on July 6.See Paul Bonvallet’s Twitter post and the August 8 report in C&EN.
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Outstanding SPS Chapter
2019-2020 Physics Club awarded Outstanding SPS Chapter – 4th year in a row!
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Thinking of Teague
Yesterday, Dr Manz and I went to Lexington, Kentucky to attend the memorial service for Teague Curless. It was good to gather with Teague’s friends and family so that we could talk about him and remember him, and share our aching hearts with each other. Teague’s family incorporated a lot of physics into the memorial…
