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Colloquium – Jeffery Sherman – Atomic timekeeping
Colloquium – Jeffery Sherman – Atomic timekeeping
Speaker: Dr. Jeffery Sherman (NIST) Title: Atomic timekeeping Abstract: At present, our best recipe for measurement of time calls for keeping a continuous count of a stable, periodic process, such as oscillations of an isolated naturally-occurring quantum mechanical system. Atomic clocks and frequency references underpin essential technologies like global positioning, telecommunications, and effectively all dimensional