Nobel Laureate Eric Cornell, who proved Einstein’s predictions, to speak at Wayne State University Thursday, April 10
April 9, 2008MEDIA ADVISORY
WHAT:
Eric Cornell, 2001 Nobel Laureate and the 2008 Vaden W. Miles Memorial Lecturer to speak at Wayne State University.
WHEN:
Thursday, April 10
Presentation: 4 -5 p.m. with a student poster session and reception which will kick off the lecture from 3 to 4 p.m.
WHERE:
The Bernath Auditorium at Wayne State's Adamany Undergraduate Library on 5155 Gullen Mall. David Adamany Undergraduate Library.
MORE INFO:
Dr. Eric Cornell, the 2001 Nobel Laureate of Physics and the 2008 Vaden W. Miles Memorial Lecturer, will discuss how one reaches the necessary record-low temperatures, and explain why one even goes to all the trouble to make this "bizarre" state of matter. Dr. Cornell's visit to WSU is sponsored by the American Physical Society's Division of Laser Science Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Program. The program's purpose is to bring distinguished scientists to colleges and universities to convey the excitement of Laser Science to undergraduate and graduate students.
Dr. Cornell is described as an energetic speaker who can enrapt audiences with his excitement of research in quantum physics. From rocket building in his youth to studying the science of physics, Cornell excites and engages audiences at all levels with his storytelling of how he became a physicist, earning a Nobel Prize, and his work with Bose-Einstein condensation.
Eric Cornell received his B.S. from Stanford University in 1985, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1990. His doctoral research was on precision mass spectroscopy of single trapped molecular ions. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colo. and is now a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, and a professor adjoint in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He shares the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle.
MEDIA AVAIL:
Media interview opportunities also available by contacting Cheryl Yurkovich at 313-577-2150; cyurkovich@dmac.wayne.edu.
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- Contact: Cheryl Yurkovich
- Voice: (313) 577-2150
- Email: cyurkovich@wayne.edu
- Fax: (313) 577-4459
- Website: www.media.wayne.edu
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