Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

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Long before he became an iconic figure in Breaking Bad, Werner Heisenberg revolutionized physics with the publication of his landmark 1925 paper in Zeitschrift fur Physik. In a flurry of work from 1925-1927 by Heisenberg, Born, Jordan, Schrodinger, and Dirac, we suddenly had a mechanistic view of the world that was—probabilistic! This worldview (not endorsed by Albert Einstein who famously quipped “God does not play dice”) has been fantastically successful over the past century; it underpins all of physical science, and forms the basis for most modern technology. The weirdness of quantum mechanics will keep us busy for the next century with quantum computers, quantum sensors, and quantum information. We will review our quantum century, and what it portends for the future.

Presenter: Alan Dorsey serves as Professor of Physics and Associate CIO for Research at the University of Georgia. Previous to his current role, he served as the Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA from 2012-2023 and has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia and the University of Florida as well as UGA. He received his undergraduate education at Cornell University, and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had the privilege of studying physics under the supervision of Professor Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics. He has received numerous recognitions for his research and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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