The amazing Quantum World CQD show

The amazing Quantum World CQD show

23^rd January 2013

Every year, new doctoral students in the Controlled Quantum Dynamics group get the opportunity to present their work to the public in an entertaining way. Run by Simon Foster, the group’s outreach officer, this year’s performance was run in tandem with Friends of Imperial, an organisation which provides the public access to some of the world-class academics at Imperial College London.

Run under the title ‘Amazing Quantum Worlds’, ten students gave short talks which attempted to capture the puzzling world of quantum mechanics in an approachable, light-hearted way.

The Amazing Quantum Worlds is an outreach show performed by students from the Controlled Quantum Dynamics group at imperial College London. The show aims to help the audience to understand and fall in love with Quantum mechanics, an area of physics which is often seen as complex and confusing, only accessible through impossible mathematics. This however is not true and through this show the students aim to explain the beauty and simplicity of this amazing area of physics, which already impacts upon our daily lives and will play an ever increasing part in our world.

Using inflatable sharks, eggs, liquid nitrogen and a magic quantum tunnelling box, the evening was a great success for the Friends of Imperial and gave a group of young scientists vital experience in communicating their research.