2022 Segrè Lecture featuring Eric Cornell
Monday, November 7, 2022 at 5:30 pm
Chevron Auditorium at International House
A reception was held at 4:30 pm
View photos from the event HERE
14 billion years on, what can we learn about original imperfection?
The conventional wisdom is that if you want to learn more about the early universe, you build a bigger telescope, and that if you want to learn more about subatomic particles, you build a bigger accelerator. I will talk about a third and complementary way to get at both sorts of questions: table-top precision measurement. As an example I will discuss the result of our recent attempt to see tiny differences between the north pole and the south pole of the humble electron.
Eric Cornell
Eric Cornell is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. He is currently a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a physicist at the United States Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. His lab is located at JILA.