Quantum in the Crowd

New students means new opportunities to get out of the lab and teaching the public about the weird world of quantum technology. But first, we need to show everyone what demos we have available. This afternoon, we invited the whole group to see what our engagement cupboard has to offer. Euan Allen showing some of our new(ish) CDT students how to use our Galton Box. Seasoned veterans through to those new to public engagement joined us to get hands on with our demos. Everything from hand held busking demos to more technical demos was on offer to have a play with. Everyone pitched in to find out what is on offer. Sam Morley-Short and Stasja   Stanisic building some origami microscopes With everyone well trained in how to operate our kit, watch out for us at the next science festival and join us to learn more about quantum mechanics! What's that up there? Some of our CDT students getting hands on with our spectrometers.

by Dr Döndü Sahin   Last year in September 2015 the Centre for Quantum Photonics ( CQP ), received an email from the European Commission (EC) inviting them to nominate a  Marie Sklodowska-Curie  fellow for a limited number of places to participate at the 66th Lindau Physics Nobel Laureate meeting. I was nominated by  Jeremy O’Brien   and  Mark Thompson as an experienced researcher under the Marie-Curie ITN in Photonic Integrated Compound Quantum Encoding ( PICQUE ) project directed by  Fabio Sciarrino  (Uni Roma). The selection process was two-fold, after my nomination by CQP 1  I submitted my supporting application to the EC and by the end of October first evaluations were positive. The EC forwarded my application to the Lindau Nobel meeting selection committee and on the 1st of March 2016, I was emailed by the Lindau committee to confirm that my application was successful. I was one of 400 applicants from over...