I’m just back from a 4-day conference in Bad Honnef, just south of Bonn. It’s a beautiful place! My last workshop log went down fairly well, at least within the research community, so I figured I’d do another as a summary of what was discussed at the conference. Despite the length of this post, there’s… Continue reading Conference Log: Bad Honnef
In 1960, Theodore Maiman and co-workers created the world’s first laser. Working on the principle of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, the beam produced by a laser is unique in that all the photons in the beam have both the same wavelength and the same phase. Because of this innocuous-sounding property, the humble… Continue reading Where Randomness Meets Subatomic Precision
I’ve just spent a really fun few days at King’s College London, at the PhD-student-run Workshop on Localisation in Quantum Systems, and since I blogged last week about the general research area I work in, I thought I’d do a little write-up of the workshop for anyone interested who couldn’t attend. Apologies that this is… Continue reading Workshop Log: King’s College London
Broken Symmetry 