We announce that a Harvard Endowment fund for Dalgarno Memorial Lectures was just created. Donations to the endowment fund are welcome. If you'd wish to donate, please go here. In selecting a fund, choose Other - FAS, and enter Dalgarno Memorial Lectures for the fund name.
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Hiking Catalina Mountain, Winter School, B2 Institute, Arizona, March 10-16, 2019.
L-R Dmitry Abanin, Thierry Giamarchi, Marcel Wagner and Immanuel Bloch.
In a news article in Nature, ITAMP postdoc Nicole Yunger Halpern is quoted about the realization and applicability of quantum voting machine and process (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07129-y). Last year, she published an article about precisely this scheme and how it may be possible to violate the Arrow's impossibility theorem (named after the economist Kenneth Arrow) (https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.062306).
Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck was the 2018 Dalgarno Lecturer at ITAMP is the winner of the 2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. Her citation reads, "The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for 2018 to Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden University, NETHERLANDS. “For her combined contributions to observational, theoretical, and laboratory astrochemistry, elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets.”"
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We are delighted that our own Rivka Bekenstein has won the DAMOP Thesis Prize competition. She, in fact, becomes the first winner of the renamed thesis prize, the Jin Thesis Prize.
Congratulations Rivka. Well deserved.
We are ecstatic with the news that Misha Lukin has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. This is a great honor and Misha is due many heartfelt congratulations.
Congratulations to our own Rivka Bekenstein for being a finalist for the DAMOP Thesis Prize. This a great honor and she will give an invited talk at DAMOP (http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DAMOP18/Session/D03.1).
In a recent joint theory/experimental effort, the first Rydberg polaron has been realized in a quantum boson gas. This work observes the formation of exotic oligomeric Rydberg molecules (dimer, trimer, tetramer, pentamer, ...) in a lego construction to many-body Rydberg polarons. The theory was led at ITAMP by Richard Schmidt, Hossein Sadeghpour and Eugene Demler in Physics. https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2018-03.
We're excited to announce that Prof. van Dishoeck (Leiden) will be the next Dalgarno Lecturer in 2018. She will visit ITAMP and deliver lectures on March 26, 28 and 29, 2018 (CfA Colloquium). POSTER, ABSTRACTS, Playlist - ITAMP- Dalgarno Lectures