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JQI fellow and University of Maryland physics professor Victor Galitski, Jr. has just published a majesterial book called Exploring Quantum Mechanics. To be exact, the book has several additional authors: Victor Galitski (professor Galitski’s grandfather), Boris Karnakov, and Vladimir Kogan. The book consists of 700 problems in quantum mechanics along with worked-out answers. The problems have been collected over about 60 years, first by the lead author, the late Prof. Victor Galitski, Sr. Over the years, new problems were added and the material polished by Prof. Boris Karnakov.

Phil Schewe has recently completed another book--this time on Freeman Dyson. He previously authored "The Grid: A journey through the heart of our electrified world," as well as plays. He credits James Joyce's "Odysses" with turning him to writing. The Dyson biography, released earlier this week, was reviewed by Nature. 

JQI co-director Charles Clark organized not one but two sessions at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), February 14-18, 2013 in Boston.

The 2012 Nobel Prize for physics goes to two pioneers of quantum reality, David Wineland, who works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S, and Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Both performed important work with controlling and measuring qubits.