Outreach

Awards

• PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics for Nicole Yunger Halpern’s book Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow.
  • Books Authored by Yunger Halpern and Shneiderman Win Literary PROSE Awards (Feb. 22, 2023).
  • Yunger Halpern’s Book Receives AAP Prose Award (Mar. 6, 2023).
• The Quantum-Steampunk Photo Shoot at UMIACS with Nicole Yunger Halpern was included in The Year in Pictures at the University of Maryland.

YouTube Channel

We have a YouTube channel featuring videos from our events. The lectures of the Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Symposium 2023 are collected in a playlist.

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, Symposium in honor of Ludwig Boltzmann’s 179th Birthday, Ludwig Boltzmann Forum, online (Feb. 20–21, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern
• 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

• High-school-class visit, Computational Biology course, Nueva School, San Matteo, CA, USA and online (May 8, 2023).
• What Tom Cruise’s Weirdest Sci-Fi Movie Gets Wrong About Time Travel, by Tara Yarlagadda, Inverse (Mar. 17, 2023). Interviewee: Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Yunger Halpern’s Book Receives AAP Prose Award.
• A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought 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

• Speaker and Panelist at the Tucson Festival of Books (third-largest book festival in the US). Participated in the panel discussion The Future of Tech and spoke at the session “The Future is Quantum!” (Mar. 4–6, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.

• Presented “Quantum steampunk: The physics of yesterday’s tomorrow” and participated in the panel discussion “Putting the ‘Real’ in Real Good Science Fiction” at Boskone (the oldest annual science-fiction convention in New England) organized by the New England Science-Fiction Organization (Feb. 17–19, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.

• 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.

Blog Posts

• Winners of the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest!, Quantum Frontiers (May 1, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Quantum computing vs. Grubhub, Quantum Frontiers (Apr. 3, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Cross-entropy (Apr. 2, 2023). By Anıl Zenginoğlu.
• Identical twins and quantum entanglement, Quantum Frontiers (Mar. 12, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• Memories of things past, Quantum Frontiers (Mar. 5, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• A (quantum) complex legacy: Part deux, Quantum Frontiers (Feb. 19, 2023). By Nicole Yunger Halpern.
• 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.