2025 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture in Physics: Eric Cornell

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Eric Cornell, a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will give the 2025 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture in Physics titled "Looking for Fossils of the Big Bang" for the Department of Physics & Astronomy.

Eric A. Cornell is a fellow of JILA and an adjoint professor in the University of Colorado Physics Department. He also works for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His research is in the field of experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics. One major effort involves leveraging the techniques of precision metrology to look for evidence of new particle physics. A second effort makes use of ultralow temperature atomic gases to explore few- and many-body quantum physics.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 was awarded jointly to Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl E. Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates."