Outreach

Popular-Science Articles

• Chaleur, travail, rendement: optimiser les machines quantiques, Pour la Science (Jan. 25, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern. Translated from English version published in Scientific American.

Public lectures

• Quantum steampunk: The physics of yesterday’s tomorrow, Institute for the Science of Origins, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, OH, USA (Nov. 1, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• What if the Victorians had discovered quantum computing?, Ask a Physicist, Beyond Center, Arizona State U., Tempe, AZ, USA and online (Oct. 24, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Quantum steampunk: The physics of yesterday’s tomorrow, PQI 2022, Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI), Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Sept. 15, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Quantum steampunk: The physics of yesterday’s tomorrow, Physics Today Webinar: Editor’s Series, online (Sept. 8, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.

Podcasts

• Quantum steampunk, Qubites Valorem Reply (Dec. 21, 2022). With Nicole Yunger Halpern.

• Nicole Yunger Halpern on quantum steampunk, Conversations at the Perimeter, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Dec. 1, 2022). With Nicole Yunger Halpern.

• Quantum steampunk: Thermodynamics meets quantum information, It’s About Time!, Clubhouse (Nov. 19, 2022). With Nicole Yunger Halpern.

Interviews in mainstream media

• A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thougt Experiment—in Real Life, by Sophia Chen, Wired (Oct. 14, 2022). Interviewee: Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Launches With $2M Grant, Maryland Today (Sept. 30, 2022) and University of Maryland Research Roundup (Oct. 7, 2022). Interviewee: Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It, by Dan Garisto, Scientific American (Oct. 6, 2022). Interviewee: Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• UMD graduate students reflect on end of Ford Foundation diversity fellowship, by Nene Narh-Mensah, Diamondback (Oct. 3, 2022). Interviewees: Anthony Munson and Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Diving into UMD’s Quantum Community, by Bailey Bedford, U. of Maryland Physics Website (Sept. 6, 2022). Interviewee: Nicole Yunger Halpern.

Presentations to student and interest groups

• Quantum steampunk: The physics of yesterday’s tomorrow, Cavendish Inspiring Women, Cavendish Laboratory, U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK and online (Nov. 10, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Quantum steampunk: The physics of yesterday’s tomorrow, Zen4Quantum, Santa Clara, CA, USA and online (Oct. 29, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Quantum steampunk: Quantum information meets thermodynamics, Undergraduate Quantum Association,, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA (Oct. 25, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Quantum steampunk, Casual Conversations, Dartmouth Class of 1969, online (Sept. 20, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.

Photoshoot

The Quantum-Steampunk Photo Shoot at UMIACS was included in The Year in Pictures at the University of Maryland. With Nicole Yunger Halpern.

Blog Posts

• A (quantum) complex legacy, Quantum Frontiers (Jan. 29, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Eight highlights from publishing a science book for the general public, Quantum Frontiers (Dec. 18, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• A peek inside Northrop Grumman’s subatomic endeavors, Quantum Frontiers (Nov. 21, 2022). By Jade LeSchack.
• The spirit of relativity, Quantum Frontiers (Nov. 14, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Announcing the quantum-steampunk short-story contest!, Quantum Frontiers (Oct. 9, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Mo’ heights mo’ challenges – Climbing mount grad school, Quantum Frontiers (Oct. 3, 2022). By Shayan Majidy.
• We’re founding a quantum-thermodynamics hub!, Quantum Frontiers (Sept. 21, 2022). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.