A new series of talks hosted by the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB) kicks off April 8 with a lecture by Nobel Laureate John M. Martinis.
Martinis, professor emeritus of physics at the University of California Santa Barbara, will speak about his research in quantum mechanics from 5-6 p.m. April 8 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Room KG70 in Klarman Hall.
Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and Michel H. Devoret for discoveries involving macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomena in superconducting circuits, work that helped lay the foundation for advances in quantum information science.
“Imagine discovering a wholly new periodic table, but one in which you can engineer the different atoms yourself rather than relying on nature to provide them. Today, we are actively exploring this sort of periodic table to design quantum technologies – it is an enormously exciting time,” said Valla Fatemi, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics in the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering. “Dr. Martinis’ visit gives Cornell students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to hear directly from one of the field’s most influential researchers.”
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Martinis received the 2014 Fritz London Memorial Prize, shared with Michel Devoret and Robert J. Schoelkopf and the 2021 John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications.
The new CURB event, the “Frontiers of Discovery Lecture Series,” will bring distinguished scholars to Cornell to share their research with the broader university community.
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