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SUMMARY:John Bahcall Colloquium: From a Few Solar Neutrinos to the Quantum
  Entanglement of Many Trillions of Neutrinos
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CONTACT:sgranum@sanfordlab.org\;605-571-2305
DESCRIPTION:The John Bahcall Colloquium is a monthly lecture series hosted
  by The Institute for Underground Science at SURF. The series features tal
 ks spanning diverse disciplines of underground science and related areas\,
  providing a forum for sharing new results\, exchanging ideas\, and foster
 ing cross-discipline collaboration.\n \nTopic: From a Few Solar Neutrinos
  to the Quantum Entanglement of Many Trillions of Neutrinos \nFor many ce
 nturies we were only able to look at the Universe using the light our eyes
  can see. Gradually scientists uncovered many other messengers of the cosm
 os\, including neutrinos\, radio waves\, and gravitational waves. This mul
 ti-messenger approach was truly revolutionary in astrophysics\; a revoluti
 on which started underneath the town of Lead with the experiments of Ray D
 avis\, supported by the theoretical work of John Bahcall. Davis was able t
 o catch a small number of neutrinos\, but that small number led to fundame
 ntal questions about subjects like the nature of the mass\, precise detail
 s about the evolution of stars\, and the possibility of detecting very far
  sources by high-energy neutrinos which can travel and carry information f
 or very long distances. In the first part of this talk\, developments in n
 eutrino physics will be summarized starting with the Davis experiments. Th
 e second part will cover how supernovae or mergers of two neutron stars co
 nvert gravitational binding energy into 1057 neutrinos. Quantum entangleme
 nt of those neutrinos and the possibility of using quantum computing to de
 scribe neutrino transport will be discussed.\n\n \nSpeaker: Dr. A.B. Bala
 ntekin\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison \nBalantekin received his Ph.D
 . from Yale University. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Te
 chnology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory\, he joined the faculty of the 
 University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is now the Eugene P. Wigner Profe
 ssor of Physics. Balantekin was selected as a Presidential Young Investiga
 tor in 1987.  He has received the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Ke
 llett Mid-Career Award\, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) S
 enior Scientist Award and the Distinguished Service Award of the Division 
 of Nuclear Physics (DNP) of the American Physical Society (APS).  He also
  received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (together with Day
 a Bay and PROSPECT Collaborations) and the Hans A. Bethe Prize of the APS.
 \nBalantekin served as the Chair of the DNP and on the Executive Board of 
 the APS. He served as the editor of Journal of Physics G\, Physical Review
  C\, and Physics Letters B. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Societ
 y and the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom as well as a member o
 f the Turkish Science Academy.\nYou can register for this talk here.\n\nht
 tps://indico.sanfordlab.org/event/197/
LOCATION:Virtual or Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center\, Lead\, SD
URL:https://indico.sanfordlab.org/event/197/
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