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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.

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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)

 

 



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