{"id":14039,"date":"2025-03-18T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:22:44","slug":"caltech-president-a-pioneer-in-quantum-physics-to-headline-april-presidential-lecture-series-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2025\/Q1\/caltech-president-a-pioneer-in-quantum-physics-to-headline-april-presidential-lecture-series-event","title":{"rendered":"Caltech president, a pioneer in quantum physics, to headline April Presidential Lecture Series event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for a conversation as part of the Presidential Lecture Series<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Purdue appearance by Rosenbaum, also the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics at Caltech, is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in Stewart Center\u2019s Fowler Hall. The event, titled \u201cA Second Quantum Revolution: Harnessing Quantum Technology for the Future,\u201d is free and open to the public, but a general admission ticket<\/a> will be required.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cPresident Rosenbaum is both a brilliant scholar and a long-standing leader in American higher education,\u201d Chiang said. \u201cHis own research in quantum physics is pioneering and his leading Caltech since 2014 has been highly impactful. Purdue\u2019s Presidential Lecture Series continues to invite leaders from across academia, industry, government, sports and the arts, and we look forward to an intellectually exciting conversation with President Rosenbaum about science and university research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a field of study, quantum physics traces its roots to the late 1800s and early 1900s from a series of atomic experiments that didn\u2019t make sense in the context of classical physics. From living cells to black holes, nature is built on quantum physics, which is the study of the fundamental building blocks of matter and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Individually and collectively, atoms and subatomic particles obey the rules of quantum physics \u2014 behaving far differently than objects at the scale of humans\u2019 everyday perception. And harnessing the power of quantum physics has given rise to new technologies \u2014 both for applications used today in everything from semiconductor chips and lasers as well as future products centering around the development of quantum computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosenbaum\u2019s research expertise is on the quantum mechanical nature of materials. This field of physics studies electronic, magnetic and optical materials at the atomic level, which are best observed at temperatures near absolute zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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