JILA Colloquium

Partnerships for Informal Science Education in the Community (PISEC) is the longstanding JILA-PFC community partnership-based public engagement program. PISEC connects university volunteers with K12 youth to engage in hands-on, inquiry-based science activities and projects through afterschool clubs and in-class project-based mentorship. We seek to support youth STEM identity development and to cultivate and sustain students' interest in STEM by co-creating transformative and empowering experiences with STEM.

The power of quantum information lies in its capacity to be nonlocal, encoded in correlations among entangled particles.  By contrast, the interactions between particles are typically local, posing both conceptual and practical challenges in understanding, generating, and harnessing entanglement.  To circumvent this bottleneck, we trap an array of atom clouds in an optical resonator that mediates effectively nonlocal interactions, letting photons act as messengers that convey information between distant sites.

Abstract: Many experiments worldwide, and some in this building, can create gasses at ridiculously low temperatures.  Our group thinks a lot about how these novel substances are different from ordinary gases. In this talk, I will share a few of these differences with you.
 

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JILA colloquia are recorded and will be available on the JILA YouTube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLupSU3PE5is1Te1Ua94NMh3NLA55DCNCO

Abstract: QBism (pronounced like cubism) is a foundational program for quantum mechanics premised on the idea that quantum probabilities should be understood as Bayesian probabilities—that is, quantified degrees of belief or gambling attitudes.