Significant Events - 2000 Significant Events are divided into 5 categories. You can scroll through the list, or select a category from the list below to go directly to it. You can also view the Significant Events from 2004, 2003, 2002 or 2001.

General Education and Outreach On-going Future Flight Program Science Events

General

Date  Title 12/08/00 New Center for Ultracold Atoms Established at PI Institute. 12/01/00 Nobel Laureate Visits JPL. 11/17/00 Fundamental Physics Data Form Illustration for Book Cover. 05/19/00 Israelsson Receives NASA Award at JPL Ceremony. 05/19/00 Jacobs Receives Award from American Physical Society at April Meeting.

Education and Outreach

Date  Title 12/08/00 JPL LTMPF Engineer Enjoys Outreach. 11/03/00 DYNAMX Investigator Stars on TV. 10/06/00 DYNAMX Investigator Returns to the Air Waves. 09/01/00 STEP PI Explains "Why perform these experiments in Space?" to Public Forum at COSPAR. 08/18/00 Lt. Col. Raymond Nelson Obtains Exciting Data on DYNAMX Research in Thesis Work. 07/07/00 Fundamental Physics PI Chairs Undergraduate Research Conference. 07/07/00 Fundamental Physics PI Explains Bose-Einstein Condensation. 06/23/00 Fundamental Physics Workshop Draws 85 to Solvang. 06/09/00 JPL Fundamental Physics Team Tells Microgravity Research Story at Open House. 05/26/00 Fundamental Physics Team at JPL Prepares for Open House. 02/11/00 Project Team Members Enjoy Physics Fun Day. 02/04/00 Mass Media Notes Selection of DYNAMX for Flight.

On-going

Date  Title 01/21/00 JPL Facility Team to Hold Review. 01/21/00 Experiments for Second Flight of LTMPF to be Reviewed.

Future Flight Program

Date  Title 12/01/00 Low Temperature Facility Faces Review. 11/10/00 Aerogel Passes Shake Test for STEP. 11/03/00 DYNAMX Team Operates Cryogenic Probe. 10/06/00 STEP Project Meets in Scotland. 08/11/00 Fundamental Physics Investigator Takes to Air Waves. 08/04/00 New Material for Magnetic Bolometry: PdMn Thin Film Fabricated and Tested by DYNAMX Team. 07/28/00 MISTE Team Aids LabVIEW Software Test on Flight-Like Hardware at JPL. 07/14/00 Miste PI Describes Crossover Behavior of the Heat Capacity and Susceptibility near the 3He Critical Point. 07/14/00 DYNAMX Team Active at QFS Meeting. 06/02/00 STEP Team Produces Large Aerogel Samples for Tests. 04/28/00 Stanford University Reports Manufacture of Model Superconducting Magnetic Bearing. 04/07/00 Project Scientist Describes Space Station as Research Platform. 03/31/00 Paper Describes Simulations Benefiting the Flight Experiment DYNAMX. 03/24/00 Stanford Team to Participate in ESA Study of Clock Missions. 03/24/00 DYNAMX Team Develops Tiny Valve. 03/17/00 International Effort Develops New Atom Cooling Method for Space Clocks. 03/10/00 LTMPF Flight Project Protoflight Probe Delivered to JPL. 03/10/00 Cold Shake Dewar Extends Shake Test Capability to Low Temperatures. 02/18/00 Low Temperature Microgravity Physics Facility Experiments Chosen. 01/28/00 JPL Facility Team Reviews Cost Estimates.

Science Events

Date  Title 12/08/00 MIT Student Wins Prize at Optical Society Meeting. 12/01/00 NASA Announces Research Grants In Fundamental Physics. 11/03/00 Fundamental Physics Investigators Establish Aspen Workshop on Quantum Gases. 10/20/00 Invited Talks Describe Quantum Gases. 09/08/00 Ketterle Group Members Present More Invited Talks. 09/01/00 Article Describes Motions of Impurities in Bose-Einstein Condensate. 08/25/00 PRL Article Demonstrates Potential for Ultra-Stable Laser-Cooled Clocks. 08/04/00 Ketterle Group Presents Papers at QFS 2000. 07/28/00 Laser Cooling Group Presents Seven Papers at DAMOP Meeting. 07/21/00 MIT Students Awarded Prizes. 07/21/00 Rice University Laser-Cooling Group Contributes to DAMOP Meeting. 07/14/00 Fundamental Physics Investigator Talks at French Meetings. 07/07/00 Fundamental Physics PI Joins New Faculty at the University of New Mexico. 07/07/00 Duke University PI Describes Crossover from Classical to Asymptotic Behavior near a Critical Point. 06/23/00 Fundamental Physics PI Chairs Session at Computational Research on Materials Meeting. 05/26/00 Fundamental Physics Program Featured in Magazine Article. 05/19/00 Invited Talk Presented to Physical Society Meeting. 05/19/00 Several Talks Presented to Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference by MIT Group. 05/12/00 CheX Flight Results to Appear in Physical Review Letters. 05/05/00 Prof. John Reppy to Receive NASA Medal. 05/05/00 Prof. Moses Chan Inducted into National Academy of Sciences. 05/05/00 Berkeley Paper to Appear in Physical Review Letters. 04/21/00 University of Washington Reports Development of Compact Tunable Clock Laser. 03/31/00 Fundamental Physics Investigator Presents Talk at Swiss Meeting. 03/24/00 Fundamental Physics Investigator Presents Invited Talk at Physical Society Meeting. 03/17/00 PARCS Mission Presented at Swarthmore Colloquium. 03/10/00 Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate Created in Austin. 03/03/00 Paper Describes Approach to the Critical Point. 03/03/00 International Flavor of Laser Cooling Continues. 02/25/00 Franklin Institute Recognizes Outstanding Contributions by Ketterle to BEC Confirmation. 02/25/00 Ketterle Group Publishes Paper Describing Excitations of BEC. 01/28/00 Investigator Describes Superfluid Gyroscopes. 01/21/00 Paper Describes Helium near the Transition to Superfluidity. 01/21/00 Ketterle Contributes to School on Bose-Einstein Condensation. 01/21/00 JPL Group Observes Josephson Effects in Liquid Helium. 01/14/00 Fundamental Physics Investigator Prepares Feature Article for Physics Today. 01/14/00 Ketterle Receives Prestigious Prize.

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