Professor Brian Odom to receive the Fundamental Physics Innovation Award from the American Physical Society

Professor Brian Odom, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy,  will receive a Fundamental Physics Innovation Award from the American Physical Society.

These awards have been given out over the last three years and are funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. By bringing people together to collaborate on ideas and explore new cost-effective approaches, the awards stimulate innovative ways to explore how emerging technologies can be used to address pressing problems in fundamental physics.

Odom will receive a Convening Award to examine how atoms and molecules trapped inside cryogenic matrices can be optically pumped and probed, and he will also offer the potential for many orders of magnitude statistical gains over gas-phase experiments. He will participate in the CFP Workshop on Fundamental Physics with Doped Cryogenic Crystals, which will bring together experimenters and theorists to discuss this novel platform for probing physics beyond the Standard Model.

Odom’s research focuses on quantum manipulation, precision spectroscopy, and quantum-controlled chemistry of trapped atoms and molecules. He has received a number of awards throughout his career, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, and the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award.