WL Summer Program & International Festival of Arts & Ideas “Beneath the Green, The Quantum”
BENEATH THE GREEN, THE QUANTUM
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YALE QUANTUM INSTITUTE
Undergraduate
WL Summer Program: Evening at Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium
Wright Lab summer program students are invited to celebrate the Summer Solstice (longest day of the year) with a planetarium show and observing with telescopes, pending weather. In case of poor weather, the event will be held on Thursday, June 22. Open to all summer student researchers in astronomy, physics, and the Yale Quantum Institute.
WL Summer Program: Walking tour of Yale
Students in the Wright Lab summer student research program are invited to join a guided walking tour of Yale University.
The tour will leave from the Yale Visitor Center at 149 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06511 at 1:00 p.m. Please plan to come a few minutes early so the group does not leave without you.
The tour lasts approximately 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes, and will end in the Broadway District near the Yale Bookstore at 77 Broadway.
WL Summer Program: Tour of YQI labs
Wright Lab summer program students are invited to join YQI for a tour of the superconducting quantum devices laboratories in Becton. Meet up at YQI at 12 pm for a quick introduction to Quantum Information Science and then we’ll head to the labs and back to YQI where lunch will be provided.
Host: Florian Carle
YQI Seminar: Oriol Romero-Isart, Institute for the Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, "Levitated Nanoparticles in Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions: Pushing the Boundaries of Quantum Mechanics"
In recent years, advancements in optically levitated nanoparticles have enabled the cooling of their center-of-mass motion to the quantum ground state. As a result, a nanoparticle, which comprises billions of atoms, becomes delocalized over picometer scales. This talk aims to explore the challenges and requirements of achieving a macroscopic quantum superposition of a nanoparticle, in which the center-of-mass position is delocalized over orders of magnitude larger scales.
Summer 2023 EHS Orientation for Wright Lab Research Shop Users
Wright Lab will host a 1-hour Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Shop Orientation on Tuesday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m. The EHS shop orientation is offered each semester and is required to be taken once by anyone who would like to gain access and make use of the research and teaching shops at Wright Lab.
For more information on the shop facilities at Wright Lab see:
https://wlab.yale.edu/facilities
Register here: https://forms.gle/pGj8bpuFD5UcWAQX8
Introduction to the Advanced Prototyping Center
In this workshop we will cover the equipment available at the Wright Lab Advanced Prototyping Center and how to get started designing parts. Basics of CNC laser and abrasive water jet cutting will be included, as well as an introduction to 3D printing. No prior experience is required, but having an idea for a project that you may want to get started on would be great. We will start off with a classroom presentation and then have a quick tour of the facilities.
NPA Seminar: Berndt Mueller, Duke/Yale, "What can energy-energy correlators tell us?"
Energy-energy correlators (EEC) have been proposed as new powerful tools to explore the substructure of QCD jets. Compared with other tools that are used to characterize jet substructure they have the advantage of being firmly anchors in QCD, and their scale evolution is well defined and calculable in perturbative QCD. Experimental data indicate a rapid transition from a regime (at large relative angles) that is well described by perturbative parton splitting to a regime (at small relative angles) where the EECs are described by statistical emission of hadrons.
Book Launch: Steve Lamoreaux, Yale, "The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: A Brief Tour with Comments on the History of the Atomic Theory"
Given that a search on Amazon.com for books on ‘quantum theory’ returns over 10,000 hits while searching for ‘quantum physics’ returns over 20,000, one might wonder if the world needs yet another book on the subject. These numbers correspond to one book a day for 30 years, ranging from advanced mathematical treatises to books without a single equation, from deep philosophical debates between authors with different understandings of the subject, to textbooks teaching the methodology and various applications.
Elusives Journal Club
Members in the departments of physics and astronomy who work on dark matter and neutrino-related fields are invited to get together to discuss papers related to their field. Topics include: neutrinos, dark matter, BSM physics, fundamental symmetries, precision physics and more.
