Outreach

The press is communicating some of our results (as well as their importance and significance) to the general public. This is a role that professional societies (e.g., the American Physical Society) are strongly urging scientists to fill.

Outreach efforts to the general public have been repeatedly described by policymakers as crucial to the survival of support for science.

Work (circa 1992--2009) by our group has been featured in:

• Science News 142, 231 (Oct. 92)
• Science News 144, 261 (Oct. 93)
• Physics World 6, 42 (Dec. 93)
• Science 264, 200 (April 94)
• New Scientist, p. 36 (12 March 1994) exp.)
• Science News 147, 198 (April 95)
• American Physical Society News 4, 8 (June 95)
• American Institute of Physics: Physics News 261 (March 6, 96)
• Science 271, 1373 (March 8, 96)
• American Physical Society News 5, 9 (June 96)
• Physics Today ("Search and Discovery" section) 50, No. 6, 19 (June 97)
• Science News 152, No. 3, 37 (July 97)
• Science On-Line: Science Now (July 17, 1997)

• American Institute of Physics: Physics News 331 (July 24, 97)

• Scientific American (August, 1997)
• 1998: translations into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Polish, Arabic, etc. of our Scientific American article.

• American Institute of Physics: Science Report Radio (Physics News broadcasted by Radio Stations) (1998). (Note: For over 25 years, Science Report Radio has been played regularly on 181 stations nationwide. It is the nation's longest running radio science feature. Each program reaches approximately four million listeners. At least one radio station in 19 of the top 20 markets broadcasts the show. In 1997, Science Report also became available via the Public Radio Satellite System).

• American Physical Society: Division of Materials Physics' Webpage (1996-present).

• New Scientist, No. 2140, p. 16 (June 27, 1998).

• Science News 154, 285 (Oct. 98)
• Science News, No. 155 (October 31, 1998). Coverstory, and the only featured long article of the issue.

• New Scientist, Vol. 161, No. 2179, P. 40 (27 March 1999). Also listed in the cover.

• Physics World, 12, No. 4, p. 24 (April 1999); coverstory.

• 1999 American Physical Society: Centennial Exhibit celebrating the 100 years of the APS. Very large posters and also videos on our theory work on vortex dynamics were featured right next to the ``history of superconductivity" exhibit. Only another group, Argonne National Laboratory, was featured (experiments on vortex dynamics).

• Featured in the book How Nature Works, by Per Bak (Springer-Verlag, 1996). A full page with color photos and text, plus additional mentions elsewhere in the book.

• Newspapers in the US (e.g., Dallas Morning News, Oct. 20, 1997, Discovery Section, Cover Story); also in newspapers in Michigan and Colorado.
  

• Newspapers abroad (e.g., Swiss Die Weltwoche, Oct. 2 1997, Science Section, Full page article; and also in Germany).

• Science Magazines abroad. For instance, the December 1997 issue of the European science magazine Focus (with a circulation of over 300,000 copies per issue) devoted five pages (p. 32-36), including an interview, and also in the cover; the weekly Panorama (page 165; May 14, 1994) also featured our work.

• 1998: Featured in the book Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998).

• 1998: Several of our results are very prominently featured and described in some detail in Chapter 2 of the book: Self-organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems, by H. Jensen (Cambridge, 1998).

• 1999: Michigan Daily (2-12-1999). Ann Arbor News (2000). Both on sand avalanches.

• 1999: 10-minutes Television program broadcasted by The Learning Channel (part of the Discovery Channel Network). It was first broadcasted on February 15, 16, and 17 of 1999, and replayed many times later.

• 2000: The Discovery Channel: Television program first broadcasted in the summer of 2000, and rebroadcasted many times since then.

• 2002: Our publication on novel quantum nano-circuitry: "Scalable Quantum Computing with Josephson junction Qubits", J.Q. You, J.S. Tsai, and F. Nori, in Physical Review Letters, 89, 179 (November 2002) (available on line from http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/e197902) has been featured in several places, including:
  • The December 11 to 18, 2002, issue of the Technology Review News, Page 1. Available at
    http://www.trnmag.com/. It features our results, and also four other stories for that week. The article, titled "Design links quantum bits", tml is relatively long (for a news piece).
  • November 22, 2002: United Business Media's Electrical Engineering Times, described as "The Industry Source for Engineers and Technical Managers Worldwide", has an article describing our results (titled: ``Superconducting junctions eyed for quantum computing" and available at
    http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20021122S0013).
  • Electronics Weekly, November 06, 2002, News; Pg. 5, on our results on "Quantum qubits".

  • October 23, 2002. "Paper Discusses Circuitry for Quantum Computing", in Supercomputing online. Available at http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=2756

  • Our work motivated the long article "Thoughtful about uploading", Bill Tammeus, Kansas City Star, November 2, 2002.

  • October 2002: Featured in Innovations Report, Forum für Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft, a technical news site in Germany.

  • October 23, 2002, featured in AScribe - The Public Interest Newswire. October 24, 2002, featured in NewsWise, that covers new science and technology developments.

  • The December 2002 issue of Science and Technology Trends (number 21, Dec. 2002) has a one-page article featuring our November 2002 PRL results. This is a publication of the ``Science and Technology Foresight Center" of the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP). The latter is part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Japan.

    Newspaper articles overseas include the following ones:

  • Japan Industry News of the "Japan Industrial Journal", page 2, Thursday, October 24, 2002.

  • Daily Industrial Newspaper (the Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun), page 4, Thursday, October 24, 2002.

  • Nikkei (this important newspaper is the Japanese version of the "Wall Street Journal"), Friday, October 25, 2002.

  • Science News (in Japan), November 8, 2002.

• 2002: Our publication "Experimentally-realizable devices for controlling the motion of magnetic flux quanta in anisotropic superconductors", S. Savelev and F. Nori, published in Nature Materials, 1, 179 (November 2002), has been:
  • Listed on the cover of the November issue of Nature Materials.

  • also featured in a pedagogical two-pages "News and Views", Nature Materials 1, 143 (2002), titled: "Controlling the Motion of Quanta".

  • Nikkei (this newspaper is the Japanese version of the "Wall Street Journal"), Monday, January 6, 2003. An article on Page 23 describing these results.

  • November 6, 2002. "Stories of modern science, from UPI", By Ellen Beck. (UPI = United Press International).

  • November 13, 2002. Electronics Weekly, Pg. 6. "US and Japanese scientists control magnetic flux quanta".

  • The UM press release in http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2002/Nov02/chr110402c.html was covered by news agencies and newswire services, including: (*) Innovations Report, Forum für Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft, a technical news site in Germany); (*) AScribe, The Public Interest Newswire; (*) NewsWise, that covers new science and technology developments.

• 2002: Our 1999 work on "Biologically-inspired solid-state devices for the control of the motion of quanta" is nicely highlighted in the Molecular Motors first feature article of the November, 2002, Physics Today, page 38. 442571

• 2003: Our work Observing Brownian motion in vibro-fluidized granular matter, by G. D'Anna, et al. has been featured in (the list below is very incomplete):
  • Cover Story of Nature (August 21st 2003 issue of Nature). The text accompanying the cover photo was: "Against the Grain. Brownian motion in a non-equilibrium system".
  • News coverage in French include: L`Hebdo, Le Temps, 24 Heures.

    http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2003/Aug03/r082003

    http://ipumich.temppublish.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?Releases/2003/Aug03/r082003

    was covered by news agencies and newswire services, including:

    • The Resource for Science Information (BrightSurf.com). One of the few ``Today's Science News" for August, 25, 2003.

    • Innovations Report (Forum fur Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft, Germany). August, 25, 2003. 0.html

    • Global Technology Market Place (GlobalTechnoScan.com). Weekly Magazine on New Technology. Issue 27th Aug to 2nd Sept. 2003.

    • EurekAlert! Public News. A Service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with support from the US Department of Energy and the US National Institutes of Health. Eurekalert.org is described as the premier web site for science news since 1996. Public release date: 22-Aug-2003.

    • Science News. 8/22/2003. http://sciguy.com/News/Article.asp?ArticleID=5410

    • Headline News. NewsHub.com. 22-Aug-2003.

    • Knowledge Science. http://www.kenkyu40.net/index.php

    • World Wide News Headliner.

• 2003: Our work on vortex dynamics in superconductors was featured in part of a television program, prepared by the Danish Broadcast Corporation, about the study of superconducting materials.

• 2003: Our publication "Controlling Transport in Mixtures of Interacting Particles using Brownian Motors", by S. Savel'ev, F. Marchesoni, and F. Nori, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 10601 (2003), available on-line at http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v91/e010601, has been featured in:
  • for several weeks as the top-listed research news in the front page of the University of Michigan web site (www.umich.edu). This web site gets a lot of traffic everyday. The actual press release is in
    http://www.umich.edu/news/Releases/2003/Jun03/r061903.html.

    A very nontechnical and brief graphical summary is in
    http://www.umich.edu/news/Releases/2003/May03/img/ratchets.jpg

  • Newswise/Science News also appeared in Small Times magazine (presenting technological advances in nano-science). http://www.smalltimes.com/
    

  • Le Scienze, the Italian version of Scientific American, among other science news outlets.

  • "Conveyor Belt on a nanometer scale", Machine Design, No. 19. Vol. 75, Pg. 35; October 9, 2003.

• 2003: Our publication "Reversible Rectifier that Controls the Motion of Magnetic Flux Quanta in Superconductors", (2003) has been featured in several venues including:
  • an "Enhanced Perspectives" in Science 302 1159 (2003). It is available on-line at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5648/1159. This is the only "Enhanced Perspectives" of that issue of Science, with dozens of links with further information on the subject, and one of three "Enhanced Perspectives" covering all of physics for 2003.

  • prominently featured in the page "This week in Science" of that issue of Science (Nov. 14, 2003).

  • Newspapers in Europe (e.g., El Pais, Madrid), Japan, and the USA.

  • Spain Nano-technology Network: http://www.nanospain.net/nanospainpapersg.htm/

  • Nanopic site:
    http://www.nanopicoftheday.org/2005Pics/January2005/25MagFluxRectifier.htm

• 2005: Our work on mechanical qubits (by S. Savel'ev, X. Hu, and F. Nori) has been featured in several venues including:
  • Scientific American, April 2005, page 28.
    Qubit Twist: Bending Nanotubes as Mechanical Quantum Bits.
    http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/%7Enori/Sci-am-mechanical-qubits.pdf

  • United Press International."Nano World: Nano for quantum computers".
    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050317-124226-2271r

• 2005: On our publication "Using Josephson Vortex Lattices to Control THz Radiation: Tunable Transparency and THz Photonic Crystals":
  • PhysicsOrg.com: The latest Physics and Technology News.
    http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=3767
    

  • Daily Science News, http://www.sciencenewsdaily.org/story-3767.html
    

    Also at SciCentral ("Gateway to the best scientific research news sources"),
    

    Air Force News (http://afpet.ft-belvoir.af.mil/topnews.asp),
    Broad Education (http://broad-education.com/news-18670.html),
    and PhysicsNews.com.
    

    PhysicsLink.com. Physics and Astronomy online. http://www.physlink.com/index.cfm
    http://www.physlink.com/News/042205ThzPhotonicCrystal.cfm
    

  • The UM press release is in
    http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Apr05/r041805a
    

• 2005: News coverage (local PDF) on our work on superconducting qubits (Y.X. Liu, et al., Controllable coupling between flux qubits, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 067003 (2006), local PDF). This describes a new method to control the coupling and de-coupling of qubits, by tuning the frequencies of the applied fields.
• 2006: Riken Research News, Noisy whirlpools ousted to improve magnetic sensitivity (local PDF).
• 2006: Riken Research News, The shifting currents of superconductors (local PDF).
• 2006: Riken Research News, Superconducting circuit to test quantum theories (local PDF).
• 2006: Riken Research News, All shook up - Brazil nut effect explained by quantum analogy (local PDF).
• 2006: Riken News, Interview with Prof. Franco Nori (in Japanese) (local PDF).
• 2006: Riken Research News, New ways to control terahertz waves (local PDF).
• 2006: Riken Research News, Using defects to improve quantum bits (local PDF).
• 2007: Riken Research News, Driving for smaller engines (local PDF).
• 2007: Riken Research News, Left-handed waves for perfect two-dimensional imaging (local PDF).
• 2007: Riken Research News, Superconductors' dripping faucet (local PDF).
• 2007: Riken Research News, Profile of Prof. Franco Nori, Taming Quantum Fluxes (local PDF).
• 2007: Prof. Franco Nori comments in Science on results on "acoustic emissions produced by sand avalanches" Looking Inside a Dune for its Boom (local PDF).
• 2007: Physics Today, August 2007, page 29. Stakeholders weight costs of open-access publishing, by Paul Guinnessy (local PDF).
  Also, Prof. Franco Nori was quoted in the pamphlet on the "Free to Read" initiative by the American Physical Society (local PDF).
• 2007: "Artificial atoms made of small circuits", University of Michigan, Physics Department, Annual Newsletter 2007. (local PDF).
• 2007: News coverage on our research, in Russian. Lenta (december 2007) (local PDF). English translation (local PDF).
• 2007: News coverage on our research, in Russian. Inauka (local PDF). Another news item in Russian: GPU (local PDF).
• 2007: New Scientist, UK. October 2007. Quantum theory.
• 2007: Daily Telegraph, UK. November 2007. Quantum theory.
• 2007: Prof. F. Nori elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ten from University (of Michigan) chosen as AAAS Fellows (local PDF), AAAS Members Elected as Fellows (local PDF), Honors to physicists at RIKEN (local PDF).
• 2008: The research done in the group of Prof. Nori is prominently featured in an article (published January 31, 2008) in "Il Sole 24 Ore", the most important economic/financial newspaper in Italy. (local PDF).
• 2008: Optical Society of America (OSA) workshop on Entanglement and Quantum Decoherence (EQD). Nara, Japan. January 2008. F. Nori was a co-organizer and its USA-Japan liason. Six collaborators presented results here. (local PDF).
• 2008: Riken Research News, Magnetic flux quanta get a dance lesson. (local PDF).
• 2008: Riken Research News, Quantum corkscrews from twisting electron waves. (local PDF).
• 2008, April 2: Superconductor Week prominently featured (about one page out of eight for the entire issue) our theory-experiment collaboration on novel ways to control the motion of flux quanta in superconductors ("Nonlinear Nanodevices Using Magnetic Flux Quanta", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207003 (2007), local PDF).
• 2008, May: Interview on "Sound Producing Sand". Published in "Lake" Magazine, May 2008. Page 29 (local PDF),
• 2008, July 28: Superconductor Week (page 6), RIKEN Proposes Method to Improve Quantum Coherence. Featured our paper on "Simultaneous Cooling of an Artificial Atom and Its Neighboring Quantum System", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 047001 (2008) (local PDF).
• 2009: Riken Research News, The single photon switch (local PDF).
• 2009: Riken Research News, Warming up to the Casimir force (local PDF).
• 2009: Riken Research News, Dilating time with superconductors (local PDF, also featured on the cover page).
• 2009, July: Our article "Modeling light-driven proton pumps in artificial photosynthetic reaction centers" (local PDF) was selected as the only current "Research Highlight" (local PDF) of the Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP). JCP was ranked #1 in Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Physics, according to the ISI, 2008.
• 2009, September: APS's Physics featured our paper on the Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide in a synopsis: How to accelerate the wall of an optical waveguide (local PDF).
• 2009, October: Riken Research News, Forecasting solar-energy harvests (local PDF).
• 2009, October: Riken Press Release, Quantum Simulators: One system to simulate another (local PDF).
• 2010, January: Riken Research, Emulation for understanding (local PDF).
• 2010, March: Riken Research, The geometry of randomness