Today, the BPS 2023 research-campaign white paper for NASA’s Decadal Survey appeared on the arXiv.
Read more → ShareToday we submitted a MAQRO whitepaper for a research campaign to the BPS 2023 Decadal Survey of NASA. Here is the PDF. For this purpose, we involved colleagues from the US, Europe and Australia to discuss possible updates of MAQRO, the possibility to address additional science objectives, and possible technology demonstrations, proof-of-principle experiments and in-orbit demonstrators in order to increase the technological maturity of MAQRO, to investigate the deep space environment and how we can harness it ...
Read more → ShareThere currently is an opening for a postdoctoral researcher for 12 months to perform research with Rainer Kaltenbaek at the IQOQI Vienna related on MAQRO. Here a PDF with details about the position opening.
Read more → ShareThis is very short notice, but R. Kaltenbaek is looking for a postdoc candidate to apply for a EUTOPIA fellowship to work with him and in collaboration with Animesh Datta (Warwick) on topics related to the MAQRO mission proposal.
In particular, candidates are invited to apply for a prestigious 2-year EUTOPIA-SIF Post Doctoral Fellowship (https://eutopia-university.eu/2020/09/24/eutopia-sif/) based in the group of Rainer Kaltenbaek at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Read more → ShareThermal shielding of macroscopic quantum experiments in space
Testing the relationship between quantum and classical physics and, in particular, quantum decoherence in space was identified by the European Space Agency (ESA) as an area of interest for future space missions in the course of ESA’s call for New Science Ideas. ESA is currently performing a detailed engineering study at its Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) to investigate the possible design and the required core technologies and challenges for potentially realizing ...
James Bateman from the Ulbricht group at the University of Southampton gave an interview for BBC aboutdark matter and how certai types of dark patter could possibly be detected by MAQRO. Link to Interview (verlinken), where the featured part starts at 2:17:30 onwards.
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