Dr Margaret Reid has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of
America
Dr Margaret Reid has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of
America, the world's largest professional society for scientists working
in optical and laser physics. Her nomination was for:
`developing ways to test the fundamental concepts of nonlocality,
squeezing, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradoxes, entanglement and
macroscopic superpositions in quantum optical systems'.
These pioneering theoretical studies in quantum squeezing and EPR
entanglement led to the world's first experiment at Caltech,
demonstrating EPR correlations in the form originally proposed by
Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen - one of the most famous papers on the
foundations of quantum physics.
She has also been honoured with an invited Professor position in Paris,
at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France's largest university for
science and technology. In France, she will pursue joint research with
CNRS Director Elisabeth Giacobino.
She will work on the theory of the quantum entanglement of light with
ultra-cold atoms, in cooperation with experimentalists at the
Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel.
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