Physics Colloquia: Isotopes for Medicine and New Tests of Quantum Mechanics

In this talk, I will discuss our progress in meeting three challenges by James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford, and Steven Weinberg.  The common threads are isotopes of the elements, both stable and radioactive.  New methods developed by our group and implemented at the non-profit Pointsman Foundation will make these isotopes readily available for medical diagnostics and therapies. This work is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation in Denmark with the creation of a new Center for Biomedical Quantum Sensing, and the areas of research in my group will be described.  In parallel to applications in medicine, radioactive isotopes will enable new tests of quantum mechanics that will be conducted in my group.

Host: Pablo Laguna