Maryland
Gazette: Although the inaugural
USA Science and
Engineering Festival does not officially begin until 10
October, the
Lunch
with a Laureate program, which is operating in conjunction
with the national festival, has. The lunches take place all
over the Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, area. On
Tuesday at Maryland’s Bladensburg High School, Nobel
Prize winner
William
Phillips gave a special demonstration involving liquid
nitrogen to illustrate concepts involved in his own work with
laser light used to slow down and cool atoms. Festival
organizers are promising that this month’s festival,
which culminates on the National Mall 2324 October, will
be the ultimate multicultural, multigenerational, and
multidisciplinary celebration of science in the US.
