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

General

Date  Title 10/12/01 Wolfgang Ketterle Wins 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics. 07/27/01 Children's Activities Relating to Fundamental Physics now on Web Site. 07/13/01 JPL Scientist Honored by Colleagues. 05/11/01 Fundamental Physics Investigators Prominent at Pan-Pacific Basin Meeting. 03/30/01 Pan-Pacific Basin Workshop Looms Large on Fundamental Physics Agenda.

Education and Outreach

Date  Title 10/26/01 JPL Displays Research in Laser Cooled Atomic Physics at Optical Society Meeting. 08/17/01 JPL Summer Interns Visit Fundamental Physics Low Temperature Laboratories. 05/25/01 JPL Fundamental Physics Team Wows Visitors to Open House. 02/16/01 Project Scientist Speaks to Students and Community. 02/09/01 Physics Fun Day Draws High School Students to Knotts Berry Farm. 01/26/01 Web Site for Fundamental Physics Comes On Line.

On-going Flight Program

Date  Title 02/16/01 STEP Team Produces Unique Aerogel Samples.

Future Flight Program

Date  Title 12/14/01 Flight Investigator Describes Objectives at Home and Abroad. 11/23/01 New Cryogenic Probe Operates Successfully for DYNAMX Team at Albuquerque. 11/09/01 Design Net produces First Electronics Prototype for the LTMPEF Project. 11/09/01 DYNAMX Design for Flight Experimental Cell Released. 11/02/01 MISTE PI Presents a Paper at the ISS Utilization - 2001 Conference. 11/02/01 DYNAMX and CQ Teams Develop New Experiment Cell. 11/02/01 LTMPEF Project and Contractor Team Members Describe Plans for Flight Equipment. 09/24/01 Delta Preliminary Design Requirements Review (PDR) Rescheduled for LTMPEF. 08/28/01 Delta Preliminary Design Requirements Review (PDR) Scheduled for LTMPEF. 08/17/01 Space Station Will Study Attachment Mechanism for Fundamental Physics Payloads. 08/17/01 Peer Review Performed for LTMPF. 08/03/01 Equivalence Principle Symposium Proceedings Published in International Journal. 07/27/01 MISTE Team Evaluates New Flight Cryovalve. 06/22/01 Clock Project Makes the Front Page. 04/13/01 A new publication by the MISTE science team. 03/23/01 Fundamental Physics Investigator Chairs Workshop on Biological Threat Reduction. 03/23/01 MISTE Team Completes Theoretical Analysis of 3He Liquid-Gas Critical Point Measurements. 03/16/01 BEST Experiment Team Finds First Evidence of Dynamic Finite-Size Scaling. 03/09/01 STEP Team Produces Electrodes for Positioning Test Masses. 02/23/01 BEST Experiment Successfully Develops a New Confinement Material. 01/12/01 MISTE Project Scientist Develops Electronics Board for SQUID.

Science Events

Date  Title 12/14/01 Theoretical Paper Describes a new Phase Transition in an Ultra-Cold Gas. 12/14/01 Theory Derives Parameters of Relativity Theory. 12/14/01 Atomic Clock Team at Harvard-Smithsonian Test Relativity Theory. 10/26/01 Rice Team Reports Events. 10/19/01 New Book Describes Cold Atoms. 10/19/01 Review Article Provides Details of High Resolution Thermometers. 10/19/01 Article in Nature Describes New Path to Bose-Einstein Condensates in Helium. 10/12/01 SUMO Paper Presented at Relativity Conference. 10/12/01 Rice Group Publishes Paper in Physical Review. 07/06/01 Nature Article from the Packard-Davis Group at Berkeley is the Basis for a JPL Press Release. 06/15/01 Stanford Team Cancels Gravity in Liquid Oxygen. 06/15/01 Undergraduate Students at the College of Wooster Publish Three Papers. 06/15/01 Paper Presented at the Pan-Pacific Conference Describes Mixtures of BEC. 06/01/01 Results at UC Berkeley Demonstrate Detailed Josephson Effects. 06/01/01 Research Results Reported to APS Meeting by Undergraduate Students. 05/25/01 Ketterle Group Places Three Papers on Cold Atoms. 05/25/01 Article in Nature Leads to Press Release for JPL Team of Researchers. 05/11/01 Amplification of Trap Relative Displacements for Mixtures of Bose-Einstein Condensates. 05/11/01 Research on Liquid Bridges Relates to Infant Health and Planetary Environments. 05/11/01 Review Paper Discusses Enhancement and Suppression in Bose-Einstein Condensates. 04/27/01 Amplification of trap relative displacements for mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates. 04/27/01 Research on Liquid Bridges Relates to Infant Health and Planetary Environments. 04/27/01 Fundamental Physics Investigator Describes Phenomena near Phase Changes. 04/06/01 Article by MIT Investigator Ketterle Featured in NASA News Release. 03/09/01 Cold Atom Paper Displays Quantum Statistics. 02/16/01 Duke Paper Describes Measurements Onset of Convection near a Critical Point. 02/09/01 Fundamental Physics Investigator Describes Phenomena near Phase Changes. 01/12/01 MIT Laser Cooling Group Reports Evidence for Atomic Laser Action in BEC Cloud. 01/05/01 MIT Laser Cooling Group Reports Evidence for Superfluid Flow in BEC Cloud. 01/05/01 Fundamental Physics Investigator Organizes International Workshops.

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