Thu, 10 Nov
|Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86719222041
'Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow' - Nicole Yunger Halpern
Theoretical physicist Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern will discuss her new book, 'Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow'. It is named one of “the best science books coming your way in 2022” by New Scientist.
Time & Location
10 Nov 2022, 18:00 – 19:00 GMT
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86719222041
About the event
Nicole Yunger Halpern is a theoretical physicist at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland, as well as the author of the book Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow. Nicole earned her PhD at Caltech, winning the international Ilya Prigogine Prize for an energy-science thesis. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, she won the International Quantum Technology Emerging Researcher Award. Nicole has written over 100 articles for the blog Quantum Frontiers and suspects that a copy of her is a novelist in some parallel universe. You can follow her on Twitter @nicoleyh11 and check out her website https://quantumsteampunk.umiacs.io/.