Professor Greiner advised on designs for a new physics exhibition at the Deutches Museum in Munich, one of the largest natural science and technology museums in the world. The new exhibition includes exhibits on Atomic Physics and Optics. These exhibits at the Deutsches Museum have now opened to the public.

Professor Ketterle gave the keynote talk at the Deutsches Museum for the inauguration of the exhibit “Licht und Materie.” Below, curator Eckhard Wallis takes viewers on a short tour of the five thematic areas of the special exhibition: “What is light,” “Spectroscopy,” “Laser,” “Quantum physics,” and “MCQST module.” (video is in German)

The Cambridge Science Festival returns in-person, and CUA is pleased to be participating again! Our workshop will kick off with a brief talk by Professor Zwierlein on the nature of cold. CUA members from MIT and Harvard will present an ion trap, tornado machine, make-your-own-hologram station, and a demonstration with liquid nitrogen. Cambridge Science Festival...

Between 2020 and 2021 a student-led CUA community service steering committee, Engage CUA, was formed. It was born out of efforts related to and following ShutdownSTEM, beginning as a regular meeting to discuss research on important topics around increasing diversity.  The primary goal is to organize and track outreach efforts. In the past year, CUA members...

Follow the link (directly above) to see the CUA’s video entries for the 2021 Cambridge Science Festival, focusing on explaining some of the CUA’s research to a K-12 audience. Special thanks to our volunteers for creating these wonderful videos!