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June 8th, 2011

Open position for Post doc and PhD student

We have a postdoc position on graphene...

May 8th, 2011

OBL, 9/11, and NSA

After the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden, it is interesting to reflect back onto 9/11 and what could have been done to prevent the attack and what was known.

July 16th, 2009

Cooling Close to the Quantum Ground State

We have produced the coldest mechanical mode with occupation = 3.8+/-1.2. 

February 2nd, 2009

2010 Gordon Conference

The 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime will take place 21-26 March, 2010 in Galveston Texas.

January 20th, 2009

Inauguration of Barak Obama

With friends, we witnessed the inauguration of Obama....

February 3rd, 2008

Nanodevice at MOMA

One of our devices has been included in the exhibit "Design and the Elastic Mind" at Museum of Modern Art in New York.

January 27th, 2008

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos

Keith was a invited participant and contributer to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting held in Davos Switzerland.

December 2nd, 2007

EG 2007

Keith Schwab was one of the invited presenters at EG 2007, a three day event held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

September 29th, 2007

Keith lectures at YPO event in Kyoto

Keith gave two lectures at the "Kyoto University" held by the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

September 5th, 2007

Popular piece about our work.....

Here is a description of our work to create quantum superpositions.

August 1st, 2007

Nanomechanical resonators

We have developed and demonstrated nanomechanical resonators in our lab: 16MHz, Q=20,000.  It is these tiny objects, consisting of 10 billion atoms which we will explore their quantum mechanical nature.

June 28th, 2007

7.5 mK !!

We have achieved an ultra-low temperature of 7.5mK on our first cool-down.