Details
Speaker Name/Affiliation
Ben Brubaker/Quanta Magazine
When
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Seminar Type
Seminar Type Other
Life After JILA
Location (Room)
JILA Auditorium
Event Details & Abstracts
Speaker bio: Ben Brubaker is a New York City-based science journalist who covers theoretical computer science as a staff writer for Quanta Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Scientific American, and Physics Today, and elsewhere. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at JILA before moving into science writing.
Reception at 5:30 at the Sink. We'll meet at the hbar at 5:15 to head over.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.