Presidential Lecture Series: Thomas Rosenbaum

Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for a conversation as part of the Presidential Lecture Series. 

The Purdue appearance by Rosenbaum, also the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics at Caltech, is at 6:30 p.m. April 10 in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall. The event, titled “A Second Quantum Revolution: Harnessing Quantum Technology for the Future,” is free and open to the public, but a general admission ticket will be required. 

A pioneer in quantum mechanics of materials, Rosenbaum also was the James Franck Professor of Physics and the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and director of the National Science Foundation’s Materials Research Laboratory. He was director of the James Franck Institute, and vice president for research at the University of Chicago and for Argonne National Laboratory.