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FROM QUANTUM PHENOMENA TO QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES
SPEAKER: Asiminia ARVANATAKI (PERIMETER INSTITUTE of THEORETICAL PHYSICS, Canada)
Asimina Arvanitaki (PhD Stanford University, 2008) is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute since 2014. After: research positions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (2008-11), and the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford University (2011-14).
She is a particle physicist who specializes in designing new experiments to test fundamental theories beyond the Standard Model. These experiments rely on the latest developments in metrology, such as atomic clocks, and the optical trapping and cooling of macroscopic objects. She recently pioneered a new experiment to look for new spin-dependent forces in nature at an unprecedented level of precision. She also works on theoretical challenges raised by experimental results, such as a model of particle physics influenced by string theory called "split SUSY." In 2016, she received an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario.
