Podcast Episode 15: The Hidden Space Race With China

Professor Vally Vardeny explains how we are in a new space race with China, not to the moon but to the quantum level.

August 16, 2019

University of Utah Physics Professor Valy Vardeny explains how we are in a new space race with China, not to the moon but to the quantum level.

physics topics discussed include:

How and why the United States isn’t attracting enough top minds to study physics
A comparison of the space race of fifty years ago with the technology race with China today
Why Israel produces so many top physicists and scientists (including Vardeny)
Women in STEM
Quantum computing
The field of Spintronics and the impact Organic Spintronics has had on technology that we use everyday
Why Utah is a gem (such a wonderful place to live and work)

Utah Stories

China, Physics, Technology

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