Physics Program Presents

Walking Through Walls: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists for their experimental demonstration of “macroscopic quantum tunnelling.”   In this talk, intended for a general audience, we’ll explain the 100-year history of the walking-through-walls phenomenon of “quantum tunneling” and how decades of research moved the observation and control of this process from single subatomic particles to macroscopic objects.  We’ll also discuss how the Nobel-prize winning experiments have led to a billion-dollar rush by companies, governments, and two of the three laureates to use this process to build quantum computers capable of solving otherwise intractable problems.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Brody Lab - Hegeman 107

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