[Yaaarc] Clauser's Interferometer & Impossible Optics

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There is an interesting(to some ;) ) talk tonight on the weird and wonderful world of quantum mechanics and optics.:

  Optical Society of America
  Ann Arbor Section
            
       
         
  
  Public Meeting Notice
  (EECS 800 registration earns graduate course credit at the University  of Michigan)
  Room 1500, EECS Bldg.,
  1301 Beal Avenue, North Campus, University  of Michigan
  8:00 pm, Tuesday, March 13, 2007
   
  Clauser's Interferometer & Impossible Optics
   
  Professor Joseph H. Eberly
  University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
   
  Abstract:  This talk takes an excursion into a frontier of physics and optics research.  The viability of Schrödinger's Cat is no longer just an academic thought experiment. The Clauser Interferometer appeared in 1972, the first in a new generation of optical apparatus designed for observations of quantum phenomena and tests of quantum mechanics itself. Subsequent experiments have reinforced questions whether the natural world is real or not, whether something is there if you don't look.  The mysterious and nearly magical answers being obtained are making some people uncomfortable.
   
  Biography:  Professor Joseph H. Eberly is currently the Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics, Professor of Optics, and the Director of the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering at the University of Rochester in Rochester  New York.  His research focuses on theoretical atomic and optical physics. Main concentrations are in the areas of quantum optics that are associated with atomic coherence, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum information and measures of quantum entanglement, nonlinear optical pulse propagation, diffraction-free modes of light, relaxation and noise, multiphoton processes, and intense-field short-pulse ionization of atoms.
              He received his B.S. from Pennsylvania State University in 1957 and his Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1962.  He is a Fellow of OSA and APS, has served on several editorial boards and is the president of the Optical Society of America.  He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Smoluchowski Medal (Physical Society of Poland 1987), the Humboldt Preis (A. von Humboldt Foundation of West Germany 1984), and the 1994 Charles Hard Townes Award.  He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, letters and reviews
   
  Map to meeting site: www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/umnc.html (or see the AAOSA website). Free parking in lot east of Lurie Engineering  Building (enter at intersection of Beal & Bonisteel).  You are also invited to join the officers and speaker for dinner at Paesano's Restaurant, 3411   Washtenaw Avenue (near US-23) in Ann Arbor at 6:00pm, prior to the seminar.
   
   
  Next Ann Arbor Section Meeting:  April 10, 2007, Expert Panel on "Beyond Science - starting your technology business", hosted by Dr. Anthony Tai (I-3com).  
  



 
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