Quantum Education
We are working on several quantum education projects looking at various ways to teach students the knowledge and skills needed to work with quantum experiments. This includes investigating an industry-project-based senior capstone course at CU Boulder, a set of quantum optics experiments commonly used in undergraduate quantum and beyond-first-year lab courses, and a new cloud-based BEC experiment that has the potential to bring quantum experiments to students at all institutions.
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.