Herb
Bernstein at the Santa Barbara Physics Department, 2004
Dr. Herbert J Bernstein is a visiting professor at UCSB, on sabbatical leave from Hampshire College. There he holds positions as Professor of Physics and President of the ISIS Institute for Science & Interdisciplinary Studies (see below). Funded in part by a Kellogg Foundation Trustee's grant to ISIS, Bernstein will be at UCSB until the end of the 2004 spring quarter. The American Physical Society has cited Herb's work at ISIS as well as contributions to neutron interferometry (starting with the proposal of the 2p spinor-rotation experiment) and to quantum information, especially his work on concentrating entanglement. His sabbatical plan addresses a combination of Quantum Information Theory, Science & Society, and Innovative Education efforts. In quantum information Herb will work out new ideas on what's called superdense teleportation, including experimental details necessary to implement it by remote state preparation. Superdense teleportation uses less classical information to send more quantum state parameters than ordinary quantum teleportation.
For more about Herb Bernstein's work on science
& society -- and about ISIS -- see the review of his second book,
"Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the Twenty-First
Century" on p.47 of the March 2000 issue of Physics World
(electronic version at http://physicsweb.org/article/review/13/3/3).
Bernstein loves to teach. He was delighted last
quarter (winter 2004) when a bright enterprising undergraduate found him and
posed questions about classical mechanics: two-particle elastic scattering. She
seemed satisfied with his response. We hope she learned how to do the problem
set!
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