Casper College hosts fourth annual Quantum Science Camp and Science Symposium
The Quantum Science Summer Camp for high school students and teachers will run through July 25 at Casper College. The general public is welcome and encouraged to attend the daily lecture, held from 8:10 to 9:40 a.m. each weekday, in the Loftin Life Science Center, Room 206.
The Quantum Science Symposium is a separate, week-long event that has hosted top researchers, scientists, and their students in Casper for over 20 years. It features conferences on quantum physics, quantum computing, quantum biophotonics, quantum lasers, and other related topics. This year’s symposium includes speakers from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Research Center at Stanford University, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The lead instructor for the Quantum Science Summer Camp is M. Suhail Zubairy, Ph.D., a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University. The two-week camp delves into quantum mechanics, quantum interference, polarizers and beam splitters, quantum entanglement, vacuum systems and plasma, quantum secure communication, quantum computer programming, quantum eraser, quantum logic gates, interpretation of the wave function, and much more.
The camp is the brainchild of Marlan Scully, Ph.D., a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University. Scully is a laser physics pioneer, and his work includes the first quantum theory of the laser along with Nobel Prize Laureate Willis E. Lamb.
Thanks to the generous support of donors, those selected to attend the Quantum Science Summer Camp attend tuition-free and receive on-campus housing and dining at no charge during the camp program.
The Quantum Science Summer Camp partners include the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, Princeton University, Casper College, and Natrona County Schools. Texas A&M University will bring in its partnership the RISE Hub — a consortium of universities, national labs and industrial partners, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and focused on aspects of laser fusion energy. The Hub members will contribute to the Quantum and Laser Fusion Science Summer Camp, expanding its topics to include aspects of inertial fusion energy and excimer laser physics.