Professor Ketterle will be speaking at the International Year of Quantum Summit in the Milestones section of the program. Quantum Mechanics Near Absolute Zero Temperature Quantum mechanics describes the microscopic physics of atoms, nuclei and elementary particles. However, when particles are cooled to very low temperatures, their de Broglie wavelength increases and new quantum phenomena...

Professor Ketterle gave three lectures at the KAIST-MIT Quantum Winter School 2024, Daejon, South Korea (1/8/2024 –1/10/2024).

The Cold Atoms Predoc School is organized every year in Les Houches School of Physics, in the framework of the GDR Gaz Quantiques in the continuity of a PhD program started in 2004. The objective of the school is to give students starting a PhD thesis in this field all the necessary knowledge on Laser...

Between 2020 and 2021 a student-led CUA community service steering committee, Engage CUA, was formed. It was born out of efforts related to and following ShutdownSTEM, beginning as a regular meeting to discuss research on important topics around increasing diversity.  The primary goal is to organize and track outreach efforts. In the past year, CUA members...

CUA PIs selected students and postdoc representatives among their groups to act as advisors in the discussion of the CUA values. The representatives discussed and came up with a list of values centered around two themes (research and community). The list was then displayed in the final format of the Community value posters, distributed and...

On May 20, the definitions for the units of mass, charge, temperature and mole will change.  This is a major change in the international system of units, eliminating all man-made objects from these definitions.  This talk will provide some historical background and motivation for defining fundamental base units.  However, the main focus of the talk...