INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS
PUBLIC LECTURE
Stone Cold Science: Bose Einstein Condensation and the
Weird World of Physics a Millionth of a Degree Above
Absolute Zero
by
Professor Eric Cornell, Nobel Laureate
JILA, University of Colorado & NIST
Boulder, USA
8 th March 2010, 5:30 p.m. IIA Auditorium,
Abstract
As atoms get colder and colder, they become more and more like waves, and less like particles. When a gas of atoms gets so cold that the "waviness" of one atom overlaps the waviness of another, the result is a sort of quantum mechanical identity crisis, a "condensation" predicted 80 years ago by Albert Einstein. Prof. Cornell will discuss how one reaches the necessary record­low temperatures, and explain why one goes to all the trouble to make this bizarre state of matter.
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All are cordially invited
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