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Hui Zhai
Jan. 2005: Doctor of Science, Physics, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Thesis title: Quantum Many-body Theory of Ultracold Atomic Gases
Advisor: Professor Chen-Ning Yang
Jun. 2002: Bachelor of Science, Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
August 2012-Present: Permenent Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University
July. 2009-July 2012: Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University
Sep. 2007-June 2009: Postdoc Scholar,Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
Jun. 2005-May 2007: Postdoc Scholar, Department of Physics, the Ohio-State University
Editorial Board Member, of Journal of Physics B
My research focuses on quantum many-body problems in ultracold quantum gases, and my recent research projects include:
1. Quantum gases in synthetic gauge field: spin-orbit coupling, quantum gases in lattices with synthetic magnetic field or non-abelain gauge field.
2. Strongly interacting Fermi gases: resonance models, narrow resonance, ferromagnetism
3. Dipolar quantum gases
4. Quantum gases in optical lattices
5. Multi-component quantum gases
6. Quantum gases in cavity
My full publications: ResearchID
Selected publications:
1. Strong Interaction Effects and Criticality of Bosons in Shaken Optical Lattices
Wei Zheng, Boyang Liu, Jiao Miao, Cheng Chin and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 113, 155303 (2014)
2. Floquet Topological States in Shaking Optical Lattices
Wei Zheng and Hui Zhai
Physical Review A, (Rapid Communications) 89, 061603 (2014)
3. Superradiance of Degenerate Fermi Gases in a Cavity
Yu Chen, Zhenhua Yu and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 112, 143004 (2014)
4. Experimental Determination of the Finite-Temperature Phase Diagram of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose Gas
Si-Cong Ji, Jin-Yi Zhang, Long Zhang, Zhi-Dong Du, Wei Zheng, You-Jin Deng, Hui Zhai, Shuai Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan
Nature Physics, 10, 314 (2014)
5. Production of Feshbach Molecules induced by Spin-Orbit Coupling in Fermi Gases
Zhengkun Fu, Lianghui Huang, Zengming Meng, Pengjun Wang, Long Zhang, Shizhong Zhang, Hui Zhai, Peng Zhang and Jing Zhang
Nature Physics, 10, 110 (2014)
6. Universal Trimers Induced by Spin-Orbit Coupling in Ultracold Fermi Gases
Zhe-Yu Shi, Xiaoling Cui and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 112, 013201 (2014)
7. Synthetic Gauge Field with Highly Magnetic Lanthanide Atoms,
Xiaoling Cui, Biao Lian, Tin-Lun Ho, Benjamin L. Lev and Hui Zhai,
Phys. Rev. A. 88, 011601(Rapid Communication), (2013)
8. Fermion Pairing across a Dipolar Interaction Induced Resonance,
Ran Qi, Zhe-Yu Shi and Hui Zhai,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045302 (2013)
9. Stability of excited dressed states with spin-orbit coupling,
Long Zhang, Jin-Yi Zhang, Si-Cong Ji, Zhi-Dong Du, Hui Zhai, Youjin Deng, Shuai Chen, Peng Zhang and Jian-Wei Pan,
Phys. Rev. A 87, 011601(Rapid Communication) (2013)
10. Superfluidity of Bosons in Kagome Lattices with Frustration,
Yi-Zhuang You, Zhu Chen, Xiao-Qi Sun and Hui Zhai,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 265302 (2012)
11. Interaction Induced Hall Response in a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate,
Zhu Chen and Hui Zhai,
Phys. Rev. A, 86, 041604(Rapid Communication), (2012)
12. Spin-Orbit Coupled Degenerate Fermi Gases,
Pengjun Wang, Zeng-Qiang Yu, Zhengkun Fu, Jiao Miao, Lianghui Huang, Shijie Chai, Hui Zhai and Jing Zhang,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 095301 (2012)
(Highlighted by "Physics " and " Physics World ")
13.Collective Dipole Oscillation of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate,
Jin-Yi Zhang, Si-Cong Ji, Zhu Chen, Long Zhang, Zhi-Dong Du, Bo, Yan, Ge-Sheng Pan, Bo Zhao, You-Jin Deng, Hui Zhai, Shuai Chen, Jian-Wei Pan,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 115301 (2012)
14. Searching for Non-Abelian Phases in the Bose-Einstein Condensate of Dysprosium,
Biao Lian, Tin-Lun Ho and Hui Zhai,
Phys. Rev. A 85, 051606 (Rapid Communication) (2012)
15. Highly polarized Fermi gases across a narrow Feshbach resonance,
Ran Qi and Hui Zhai,
Phys. Rev. A 85, 041603(Rapid Communication) (2012)
16. s-wave-scattering Resonances induced by Dipolar Interactions of Polar Molecules,
Zhe-Yu Shi, Ran Qi and Hui Zhai
Phys. Rev. A 85, 020702 (Rapid Communication) (2012)
17. Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi gases across a Feshbach Resonance,
Zeng-Qiang Yu and Hui Zhai,
Physical Review. Letters. 107, 195305 (2011)
18. Paired Superfluid and Fractionalized Vortices in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bosons,
Chao-Ming Jian and Hui Zhai,
Physical Review B, (Rapid Communication), 84, 060508 (2011)
19. Bound States and Scattering Resonances Induced by Spatially Modulated Interactions,
Ran Qi and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 106, 163201 (2011)
20. Stability Condition of a Strongly Interacting Boson-Fermion Mixture across an Inter-species Feshbach Resonance
Zeng-Qiang Yu, Shizhong Zhang and Hui Zhai
Physical Review A, (Rapid Communication), 83, 041603 (2011)
21. Spin-Orbit Coupled Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
Chunji Wang, Chao Gao, Chao-Ming Jian and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 105, 160403 (2010)
22. Degeneracy of Many-body Quantum States in an Optical Lattice under a Uniform Magnetic Field
Jian Zhang, Chao-Ming Jian, Fei Ye and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 105, 155302 (2010)
23. Pairing and Vortex Lattices for Interacting Fermions in Optical Lattices with a Large Magnetic Field
Hui Zhai, R. O. Umucali lar and M. O. Oktel
Physical Review Letters, 104, 145301 (2010)
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24. Stability of a Fully Magnetized Ferromagnetic State in a Repulsively Interacting Ultracold Fermi Gases
Xiaoling Cui and Hui Zhai
Physical Review A (Rapid Communication), 81, 041602 (2010)
25. Correlated versus Ferromagnetic State in Repulsively Interacting Two-component Fermi Gases
Hui Zhai
Physical Review A (Rapid Communication), 80, 051605 (2009)
26. Functional Renormalization-Group Study of the Pairing Symmetry and Pairing Mechanism of the FeAs-Based High Temperature Superconductor
Fa Wang, Hui Zhai, Ying Ran, Ashvin Vishwanath and Dung-Hai Lee
Physical Review Letters, 102, 047005 (2009)
27. Trapped Fermi Gases in Rotating Optical Lattices: Realization and Detection of the Topological Hofstadter Insulator
R. O. Umucali lar, Hui Zhai and M. O. Oktel
Physical Review Letters, 100, 070402 (2008)
28. Quantum Hall Transition near a Fermion Feshbach Resonance in a Rotating Trap
Kun Yang and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 100, 030404 (2008)
29. Superfluid-Insulator Transition of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases in Optical Lattices
Hui Zhai and Tin-Lun Ho
Physical Review Letters, 99, 100402 (2007)
30. Criterion for Bosonic Superfluidity in an Optical Lattice
Roberto B. Diener, Qi Zhou, Hui Zhai and Tin-Lun Ho
Physical Review Letters, 98, 180404 (2007)
31. Superfluidity in Three-species Mixture of Fermi Gases across Feshbach Resonances
Hui Zhai
Physical Review A, (Rapid Communication), 75, 031603 (2007)
32. Critical Rotational Frequency for Superfluid Fermionic Gases across a Feshbach Resonance
Hui Zhai and Tin-Lun Ho
Physical Review Letters, 97, 180414 (2006)
33. Vortex Lattice in Planar Bose-Einstein Condensates with Dipolar Interactions
Jian Zhang and Hui Zhai
Physical Review Letters, 95, 200403 (2005)


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Frieze group
A frieze group is a mathematical concept to classify designs on two-dimensional surfaces which are repetitive in one direction, based on the symmetries in the pattern. Such patterns occur frequently in architecture and decorative art. The mathematical study of such patterns reveals that exactly 7 different types of patterns can occur.
Frieze groups are two-dimensional line groups, from having only one direction of repeat, and they are related to the more complex wallpaper groups, which classify patterns that are repetitive in two directions.
As with wallpaper groups, a frieze group is often visualised by a simple periodic pattern in the category concerned.
Formally, a frieze group is a class of infinite discrete symmetry groups for patterns on a strip (infinitely wide rectangle), hence a class of groups of isometries of the plane, or of a strip. There are seven different frieze groups. The actual symmetry groups within a frieze group are characterized by the smallest translation distance, and, for the frieze groups 4–7, by a shifting parameter. In the case of symmetry groups in the plane, additional parameters are the direction of the translation vector, and, for the frieze groups 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, the positioning perpendicular to the translation vector. Thus there are two degrees of freedom for group 1, three for groups 2, 3, and 4, and four for groups 5, 6, and 7. Many authors present the frieze groups in a different order.[1][2]
A symmetry group of a frieze group necessarily contains translations and may contain glide reflections. Other possible group elements are reflections along the long axis of the strip, reflections along the narrow axis of the strip and 180° rotations. For two of the seven frieze groups (numbers 1 and 2 below) the symmetry groups are singly generated, for four (numbers 3–6) they have a pair of generators, and for number 7 the symmetry groups require three generators.
A symmetry group in frieze group 1, 3, 4, or 5 is a subgroup of a symmetry group in the last frieze group with the same translational distance. A symmetry group in frieze group 2 or 6 is a subgroup of a symmetry group in the last frieze group with half the translational distance. This last frieze group contains the symmetry groups of the simplest periodic patterns in the strip (or the plane), a row of dots. Any transformation of the plane leaving this pattern invariant can be decomposed into a translation, (x,y) → (n+x,y), optionally followed by a reflection in either the horizontal axis, (x,y) → (x,−y), or the vertical axis, (x,y) → (−x,y), provided that this axis is chosen through or midway between two dots, or a rotation by 180°, (x,y) → (−x,−y) (ditto). Therefore, in a way, this frieze group contains the "largest" symmetry groups, which consist of all such transformations.
The inclusion of the discrete condition is to exclude the group containing all translations, and groups containing arbitrarily small translations (e.g. the group of horizontal translations by rational distances). Even apart from scaling and shifting, there are infinitely many cases, e.g. by considering rational numbers of which the denominators are powers of a given prime number.
The inclusion of the infinite condition is to exclude groups that have no translations:
- the group with the identity only (isomorphic to C1, the trivial group of order 1).
- the group consisting of the identity and reflection in the horizontal axis (isomorphic to C2, the cyclic group of order 2).
- the groups each consisting of the identity and reflection in a vertical axis (ditto)
- the groups each consisting of the identity and 180° rotation about a point on the horizontal axis (ditto)
- the groups each consisting of the identity, reflection in a vertical axis, reflection in the horizontal axis, and 180° rotation about the point of intersection (isomorphic to the Klein four-group)
Descriptions of the seven frieze groups[edit]
There are seven distinct subgroups (up to scaling and shifting of patterns) in the discrete frieze group generated by a translation, reflection (along the same axis) and a 180° rotation. Each of these subgroups is the symmetry group of a frieze pattern, and sample patterns are shown in Fig. 1. The seven different groups correspond to the 7 infinite series of axial point groups in three dimensions, with n = ∞.[3] They are identified using Hermann–Mauguin notation or IUC notation,[4] orbifold notation, Coxeter notation, and Schönflies notation:
|(hop): Translations only. This group is singly generated, with a generator being a translation by the smallest distance over which the pattern is periodic. Abstract group: Z, the group of integers under addition.
|(sidle): Translations and reflections across certain vertical lines. The group is the same as the non-trivial group in the one-dimensional case; it is generated by a translation and a reflection in the vertical axis. The elements in this group correspond to isometries (or equivalently, bijective affine transformations) of the set of integers, and so it is isomorphic to a semidirect product of the integers with Z2. Abstract group: Dih∞, the infinite dihedral group.
|(jump): Translations, the reflection in the horizontal axis and glide reflections. This group is generated by a translation and the reflection in the horizontal axis. Abstract group: Z × Z2
|(step): Glide-reflections and translations. This group is generated by a glide reflection, with translations being obtained by combining two glide reflections. Abstract group: Z
|(spinning hop): Translations and 180° rotations. The group is generated by a translation and a 180° rotation. Abstract group: Dih∞
|(spinning sidle): Reflections across certain vertical lines, glide reflections, translations and rotations. The translations here arise from the glide reflections, so this group is generated by a glide reflection and either a rotation or a vertical reflection. Abstract group: Dih∞
|(spinning jump): Translations, glide reflections, reflections in both axes and 180° rotations. This group requires three generators, with one generating set consisting of a translation, the reflection in the horizontal axis and a reflection across a vertical axis. Abstract group: Dih∞ × Z2
- p1: T (translation only, in the horizontal direction)
- p1m1: TV (translation and vertical line reflection)
- p11m: TH (translation and horizontal line reflection)
- p11g: TG (translation and glide reflection)
- p2: TR (translation and 180° rotation)
- p2mg: TRVG (translation, 180° rotation, vertical line reflection, and glide reflection)
- p2mm: TRHVG (translation, 180° rotation, horizontal line reflection, vertical line reflection, and glide reflection)
As we have seen, up to isomorphism, there are four groups, two abelian, and two non-abelian.
The groups can be classified by their type of two-dimensional grid or lattice:[5]
|Lattice type
|p1, p2
|p1m1, p11m, p11g, p2mm, p2mg
The lattice being oblique means that the second direction need not be orthogonal to the direction of repeat. The groups' order in this table is their order in the International Tables for Crystallography,[6] which differs from orders given elsewhere.
See also[edit]
Web demo and software[edit]
There exist software graphic tools that create 2D patterns using frieze groups. Usually, the entire pattern is updated automatically in response to edits of the original strip.
- Kali, a free and open source software application for wallpaper, frieze and other patterns.
- Kali, free downloadable Kali for Windows and Mac Classic.
- Tess, a nagware tessellation program for multiple platforms, supports all wallpaper, frieze, and rosette groups, as well as Heesch tilings.
- FriezingWorkz, a freeware Hypercard stack for the Classic Mac platform that supports all frieze groups.
- ^ Coxeter, H. S. M. (1969). Introduction to Geometry. New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 47–49. ISBN 0-471-50458-0.
- ^ Cederberg, Judith N. (2001). A Course in Modern Geometries, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 117–118, 165–171. ISBN 0-387-98972-2.
- ^ Fisher, G.L.; Mellor, B. (2007), "Three-dimensional finite point groups and the symmetry of beaded beads" (PDF), Journal for Mathematics and the Arts
- ^ Radaelli, Paolo G., Fundamentals of Crystallographic Symmetry (PDF)
- ^ Hitzer, E.S.M.; Ichikawa, D. (2008), "Representation of crystallographic subperiodic groups by geometric algebra" (PDF), Electronic Proc. of AGACSE (Leipzig, Germany) (3, 17–19 Aug. 2008)
- ^ Kopsky, V.; Litvin, D.B., eds. (2002), International Tables for Crystallography, Volume E: Subperiodic groups E (5th ed.), Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1107/97809553602060000105, ISBN 978-1-4020-0715-6

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If you haven't tried Google Instant yet, you're either not much of a Net surfer or you live outside the U.S. (where it seems Instant is slow to roll out). It's impressive, intuitive, and a little annoying, almost as if Google is trying to guess what's going on inside your head. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt hinted, back at the launch of real time Twitter integration, that Google's ultimate goal was to achieve search at the speed of the mind—and Instant is pretty much as close as they'll get for the moment.
Still, Google has one disadvantage when it comes to matching your brain. It relies on millions of slices of silicon to do its basic search tasks. And Google Instant just makes its server burden much worse.
The idea is that you'll save many thousands of seconds every year—a couple each time you access Google to look for something. Google serves up countless millions of search matches every second. Multiply that by a few seconds per user, and Google is potentially saving the world billions of dollars worth of work-hours.
But this effort inevitably costs Google. It costs a lot. Its entire search system has to work more swiftly, and serve up dynamically-changing lists of search results as you type into its query box—not only does it have to dig them out of its archive, but it also has to format them and push them to your browser in a time fast enough to be relevant (before you type the next letter is a good measure of this speed.) During the Instant presentation Ben Gomes explained that the server burden has risen by somewhere between 10 and 20 times.
That's likely to increase Google's carbon footprint, not to mention its electricity bill. All that server power has to come from somewhere, even while Google uses tricks (like biasing its guesses towards words that're more likely than others—guessing "snow" is more likely to follow when you type "s" than "syzygy").
As for all those spare seconds that've just been given to you, you may well end up spending them on Google anyway. Why? Two reasons. Firstly, as Google Instant "guesses" search results that match your incomplete query, you're likely to notice sites popping up that you wouldn't have seen before (even if they're only tangentially linked to your intended phrase).Human curiosity being what it is, you may well click on one of them.
Secondly, now that Google delivers things so very swiftly—often beating you to the punch—you do get a genuine feeling of satisfaction from using it. And that may be a gentle prompt for you to try out a few clicks on Google that you may never have tried beforehand—such as a quick image search.
If Instant does cause that kind of halo effect, Google's server burden may be yet higher than the company suspects. And that's not even accounting for any new Internet memes based around the real-time search results. Will Instant be the straw that broke the back of Google's server farms?
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Google Instant is abysmally slow. I always turn it off, and I'm in the U.S. Epic fail.
It's presumptuous to assume that instant search actually uses any more resources than the traditional search product. It might use less.
Pushing data to the client (browser) can be an efficient way to offload processing from the server farm, and it would not surprise me if the new architecture *reduces* the load on google's servers and network. I seriously doubt Google would implement instant on top of the old architecture and release it at scale -- this is appears to be running just fine on google's existing infrastructure for the bulk of their traffic.
Must be a slow tech news day...are you really saying Google should not be doing instant search because it might require more electricity? I am not sure the kind of economics you are penciling out but this seems to be a really forced and stretched out topic that barely covers the column inches you might be required to write. You know what might save electricity? No internet. How about we eliminate cell phones because every night when we charge our phones that requires electricity. Fast Company should be happy to know that I stumbled upon your article when I was searching for news story regarding Google's instant search.


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|Amniotic fluid composition responds to changes in maternal dietary carbohydrate and is related to metabolic status in term fetal rats.
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|PMID: 1732479 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|The objective of this study was twofold: 1) to determine whether amniotic fluid composition responded to differences in the level or source (glucose vs. fructose) of maternal dietary carbohydrate, and 2) to establish whether any dietary-induced changes in amniotic fluid composition correlated with maternal or fetal metabolic status at term. Pregnant rat dams were fed graded levels (0, 4, 12 and 60%) of glucose or fructose in a triglyceride-based diet (Experiment 1) or isoenergetic low carbohydrate diets having 4% glucose equivalents as glucose, fructose, or lipid-glycerol (Experiment 2) throughout pregnancy. Amniotic fluid and maternal and fetal samples were collected at term (d21). Results demonstrated a significant increase in amniotic fluid glucose and a significant decrease in amniotic fluid uric acid as the level of carbohydrate increased in the maternal diet. Pearson correlation coefficients showed amniotic fluid glucose to be positively associated with maternal and fetal liver glycogen and fetal weight; amniotic fluid uric acid and urea nitrogen were negatively correlated with these same measures. Regression analysis indicated that amniotic fluid glucose was predictive of fetal body weight and fetal liver glycogen at term. The findings show that amniotic fluid can be modified by maternal diet and suggest that composition of amniotic fluid might be used as an accessible nutritional indicator of carbohydrate status in the developing fetus.
|K G Koski; M A Fergusson
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Greek Mastiha
My real love of Greece besides the intoxicating yogurt is the mastiha (pronounced "mahs-TEEKH-hah") liqueur. Oh this is a real beauty. From 6000 BC, mastiha has been used as a precious digestive. It is made from sap of the Mastic tree. The tree "cries" sap tears, which fall to the ground and become crystallized nuggets. The ancient Greeks chewed the eucalyptus-scented mastic to freshen breath and clean teeth.
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Lost world: How Canada missed its moment of glory
In June 2007, the Nobel Foundation sponsored a symposium in Stockholm, Sweden on the physics of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. For the world-leading astrophysicists in attendance, the event was a nudge-nudge, wink-wink indication from the secretive Nobel folks that one of its annual prizes in physics would be awarded, perhaps as early as this October, for one of the greatest accomplishments of 20th century astrophysics—the discovery of the first exoplanet. That much is certain. What's uncertain is who will get the prize.
Will the committee take the obvious route and award the duo of Swiss astronomers who announced the global headline-making discovery of exoplanet 51-Pegasus in 1995? Or, will they side with the American astronomer whose university press releases claim he discovered the first exoplanet three years earlier?
Or will the committee members have an empathetic eye for the vagaries of scientific fate and award the prize, at least in part, to the dark horses in this Nobel race: Canadian astronomers Gordon Walker and Bruce Campbell. After all, the pair of British Columbia-based astronomers' pioneered the world's most succesful exoplanet search technique. In the 1970s and 80s they devoted the core of their careers to a quest that many of their colleagues thought was akin to UFO-ology. They even published the first scientific paper that accurately reported the detection of an exoplanet.
But, on this last point it's certain that a Nobel-committee member will point-out the odd twist to this scientific paper and its history making claim. In a case of scientific self-doubt, Professor Walker retracted the exoplanet claim. But only after his colleague Campbell quit astronomy in frustration and professional heartbreak.
In this the 2009 International Year of Astronomy as we stand on the historic brink of the possible discovery of the first alien Earth, Campbell and Walker's story is emerging as the centerpiece of the other space race of the past half-century, the search for other worlds.
"Gordon Walker and Bruce Campbell were the real true pioneers of (exoplanet) detection," says Alan Boss, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. and author of the new book The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets, which recounts the history of the modern search for exoplanets.
But to many, theirs is an untold Canadian story of enormous promise, near victory and eventual heartbreak. As compelling a tale of the physical and psychological challenges of the scientific journey as any in history. A story of reaching into the vast unknown of space to behold a magical star, but be uncertain of its true message.
"Bruce Campbell is the father of all of the exoplanet work that is happening in the world right now," says University of California at Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, the world's leading exoplanet hunter. "There are several thousand people working on exoplanets, and it all goes back to Bruce Campbell."
Marcy has co-discovered 170 of the approximately 360 exoplanets found to date. Most importantly, he's done it using a technique pioneered by Campbell and Walker.
"(They) invented the technique that we stole," says Marcy, who in the cast of characters involved in the exoplanet search plays the role of a central witness, having worked in the field since 1982. "If it wasn't for Bruce Campbell, you wouldn't be talking to me."
On the August evening I speak with him by phone, he's at the UC Berkeley campus remotely directing the giant 10-metre Keck Telescope, atop Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano. He's trying to verify new exoplanet sightings as a member of NASA's Kepler space telescope mission.
Kepler, launched this past March, is the first telescope capable to spotting Earth-sized rocky planets around stars like our Sun. In mid-August, the Kepler team announced that the telescope is working perfectly and is on-target to reach its ambitious goal: conducting a census of possible nearby Earth-sized planets, due to be completed by 2012. To do this it's staring at approximately 100,000 stars in the Milky Way, watching for planetary transits. A transit occurs when a planet passes in front of its star resulting in a mini-eclipse, a temporary dimming of the star's light as seen from Earth.
"Kepler will not find ET, it's hoping to find ET's home," said Bill Borucki, the NASA visionary leading the Kepler mission, on the occasion of Kepler's launch. "Whether we show that there are lots of Earth-like planets, or very, very few, we'll answer a question that has been asked by mankind for millennia: Are there other worlds, or are we alone? We should get that answer."
The current excitement over the search for alien worlds belies a huge shift in our view of the cosmos. While by 1980 movie goers were accustomed to a Star Wars menagerie of fictional other worlds, from desert Tatooine to icy Hoth, astronomers counted only nine real planets in the entire cosmos—those of our solar system.
"It is quite hard nowadays to realize the atmosphere of skepticism and indifference in the 1980s to proposed searches for exoplanets," writes Gordon Walker in a recent scientific article chronicling his exoplanet search.
The skepticism was fuelled by almost a half-century of amazing exoplanet false alarms, as recounted in the new book Pluto Confidential: An insider account of the ongoing battles over the status of Pluto. (It was the discovery of hundreds of exoplanets that reshaped astronomers thinking about the nature of planets and demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status.)
The grand challenge in finding exoplanets is that the planet is hidden in the glare of its star. It's still only possible to detect an exoplanet indirectly by looking for the minute ways it changes the light coming from its star.
In 1967, a seeming exoplanet discovery around Barnard's star famously made it into astronomy text books, only to ingloriously fade-out in 1973 when it was shown to be not a planet, but a telescope problem. In another case of mistaken exoplanet identity, a venerable American astronomer arrived at what was planned to be the announcement of an alien world he'd found, only to announce that what he thought was a planet was in truth a mathematical error. (He was none-the-less hailed by his colleagues for having been brave enough to break the news himself.)
"There was literally a gravesite with lots of tombstones of planets that had come to life erroneously and then laid to rest over the decades as false planets," says Berkeley's Geoff Marcy.
If other world's were out there, astronomers knew they were devilishly hard to detect, maybe impossible. Into this astronomical minefield walked Campbell and Walker.
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The two astronomers met forty years ago this month, when Campbell, a 21-year-old third year engineering student at the University of British Columbia walked into his first astronomy class. At the front of the lecture hall was Gordon Walker, a Cambridge-trained, 33-year-old recent immigrant from Scotland in his first year as a professor.
It was little more than a month after Neil Armstrong put humanity's first step on another world, and the cosmos suddenly seemed a little more accessible, that humans were capable of reaching further into the stars than most had imagined.
However, unlike the Apollo program, Walker and Campbell didn't initially deliberately set-out on the first dedicated search for alien worlds. They were astronomy tech geeks—Campbell scored top marks in Walker's class, 'Astronomical Measurements'—drawn together by a love and fascination for building better, faster telescopic equipment.
And in astronomy, the better you see, the more you see. Just as Galileo's radical insights were based on a better telescope, Campbell and Walker knew they were onto something when they created a radically better way of studying starlight.
"I heard myself say (to Bruce), We could start looking for planets," said
Walker from his home in Victoria, BC, where at 73 he's still very active in astronomy as an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. "I don't know where the idea came from. That's how these things happen in science, suddenly a light turns on. It's the art of the possible."
What they developed was an amazingly more accurate way of clocking a star's movement, or speed.
While we're used to thinking of stars as fixed points of light in the night sky, stars in fact move. A lot. They expand and contract due to their thermonuclear nature. A star rotates on its axis, just like Earth's rotation that gives us day and night. And just like a planet, a star has an orbit. Although we think of planets orbiting a stationary star, the star and any planets actually orbit a common centre of mass. It's like a large adult and small child on a teeter-totter—to make it work, the adult gets very close to the centre of mass, the child far away. The 'parent' star is very close to the centre of mass, giving it an orbit not much larger than its own diameter.
Measuring a star's speed around this orbit depends on a 150-year-old standard of astronomy, the doppler method. The doppler method is based on the same fundamental physics we experience when we hear changes in the pitch of an ambulance siren as it speeds towards us and then away.
In the case of stars, astronomers look for changes in the pitch, or frequency, of starlight to measure a star's speed towards or away from us. The technique is called the 'wobble method' because seen on a graph, the star's speed creates a wave, or wobble, as it appears to move faster when approaching Earth, and slower when moving away. The bigger the wobble, the bigger or closer the planet.
Astronomers had long known that the accuracy of the doppler method depends on the ability to tease apart light into its various colours, or wavelengths, a technique called spectroscopy.
"(Walker) was the Jedi knight of spectroscopy," says current UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews, who initially came to UBC in to conduct research with Walker.
Campbell was his Luke Skywalker, an "audacious, young astronomer," says Marcy, who brought their star-speed tracking up to exoplanet-finding speed. Campbell who'd graduated UBC in 1971, but returned to work with Walker as a post-doctoral researcher in 1976 after earning a PhD at the University of Toronto. With Walker, he developed a spectroscopy technique that was a spectacular 100 times more sensitive to the movement of stars.
"They were measuring the velocities of stars, for the first time in history, to plus or minus ten metres a second," says Marcy, who began his own exoplanet search after hearing a talk about the technique by Campbell in the early 1980s. "The best that anybody at any observatory in the world had done was plus or minus one kilometre per second."
They could use a telescope like a police speed radar gun to clock a distant star's velocity to within the accuracy of the speed of an Olympic sprinter. It was the magic number for planet-hunting. Astronomers knew that massive Jupiter causes our Sun to wobble at about 12 meters per second. Thus, Campbell and Walker's technique would be able to spot the wobble's induced by Jupiter-sized exoplanet's on their stars elsewhere in the Milky Way.
If they were out there.
After a trial run with their system on the telescope at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, north of Victoria, in 1980 Campbell installed their star speed system on the new, much larger Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, where he was now on staff.
Their exoplanet hunt plan was straightforward: assuming that other solar systems existed and were like ours, Jupiter-like exoplanets would take about 12 years to orbit their star, just as Jupiter does. So Walker and Campbell began a decadal search of 26 stars looking for Jupiter-sized exoplanets, ones large enough, they reasoned to tug at their stars to a degree visible with their telescope.
"Out of two dozen stars, and if you observed for a decade or longer, it seemed that it was a sure thing that you'd find something like Jupiter," says UBC's Matthews.
Three or four times a year Campbell, Walker, or University of Victoria astronomer Stephenson Yang the other long-term member of the team, would spend several nights atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea summit, 14 000 feet above the Pacific, searching for other worlds. They'd start just after dusk and work through the night in winter parkas, enduring high-altitude induced headaches, until dawn's light drowned-out the stars.
"It was deadly," says Walker, of the psychological challenge of searching for exoplanets no-one knew existed, or could even be found. "Of course, you never knew from one night to the next if you were observing anything. You could only tell when the data were reduced about once a year, whether we were seeing trends."
But by 1987, they believed they were seeing something no Earthling had ever seen before—stellar wobbles caused by orbiting planets.
That summer, at a press conference at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Vancouver, Campbell announced their preliminary results: they showed a half-dozen stellar wobbles indicative of possible exoplanets, but one star's motion was particularly intriguing: gamma Cephei.
It was a fitting star for the Canadian planet hunters. A bright star 45-light years away gamma Cephei is always visible from Canada in the night sky shining near Polaris, the pole star. Campbell described how from their detailed measurements they'd seen that gamma Cephei had a periodic 2.5 year-long wobble. As viewed from Earth the star moves towards us and then away over a two-and-a-half year cycle—evidence, they thought, of an exoplanet gravitationally tugging at the star.
"I presided over Campbell's press conference and remember to this day the charged atmosphere and excitement that greeted his announcement," says Steve Maran co-author of the book Pluto Confidential, who retired recently as the long-time press officer for the American Astronomical Society.
The New York Times headline read Planets Outside Solar System Hinted. "They were calling us planet hunters. We were on the track, " says Campbell, from Victoria where he now lives.
His professional colleagues weren't as impressed. In an arena of super-charged skepticism, their tentative announcement generated more doubt than accolade. An astronomer in the NYT's article said: I probably won't call it a planet until I can get out and walk on the surface of it. No researchers attempted to confirm the results.
Walker says the press conference, ironically, was more the beginning of the end, rather than a high point, increasing the pressure to deliver results from a project that was by its nature deeply long-term.
Two years later, Campbell, Walker and Yang still had nothing conclusive, and worse, Campbell didn't have a secure job.
A Vancouver-native, Campbell was determined to stay in the lower mainland. But a decade of effort hadn't earned Campbell a permanent position at either UBC, UVic, or the National Research Council's Victoria-based Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics.
"In my view (his not getting a job) had a lot to do with the fact that planet searching was still not above the radar," says Walker. "It all started to unravel."
Campbell further alienated those who controlled Canada's professional astronomy appointments by publicly bemoaning the state of astronomy funding in Canada.
Increasingly frustrated, disheartened and distanced from the academic community, Campbell took a final, renegade approach with the help of an influential supporter, the guru of astronomy popularizing, Carl Sagan.
"I remember telling Carl Sagan we think we're going to be able to do this," recounts Campbell, who met Sagan while the two were on a panel about the search for extraterrestrial life together at the University of Toronto in the late 1980s. "He was somewhat incredulous at first, but then I convinced him and he became a great friend and supporter after that."
Buoyed by Sagan's endorsement, Campbell raised $125, 000 in private funding to support an endowed planet-hunting chair at UVic. However, the federal government's university research funding guidelines at the time specified that only tenure-track professors could receive funding, disqualifying Campbell, an adjunct professor, from receiving the necessary matching federal funding for the position.
By 1991, at 42 years old, a salary and family stability were more important to him than the secrets of the stars.
"It had been so frustrating to try to secure some sort of position, and then to try to set up an endowed chair, that, when it all came to naught, I decided to walk away," says Campbell.
When he did, he went supernova. In a final burst of anger, and a major breach of research etiquette, Campbell erased his computer hard drives deleting a decade's-worth of compiled and analyzed data.
After the deep uncertainty of looking for other worlds, he turned his back on the stars for good and took-up one of life's great certainties: taxes.
"It was the advent of electronic filing of tax returns in Canada that got me involved," says Campbell who started work as a personal tax consultant in 1993 and continues today. "Many accountants were hesitant to get into computers and I pretty much knew how computers worked, so I had the edge there."
Stunned and bruised by the loss of his younger colleague, it was left to Walker to lead the finalizing of the exoplanet project. It took almost a year of painstaking work for Stephenson Yang, fortunately by then also the University of Victoria's computer systems manager, and University of Victoria colleague Alan Irwin, to recover the original data and re-analyze it.
In 1992, having re-assessed the data, Walker came to a conclusion about the most promising of the possible exoplanets, the one around gamma Cephei. In a scientific paper, Walker and several co-authors concluded that the star's 2.5 year 'wobble' was probably due to its own cyclical expansion and contraction. As the star expanded, it would appear to move towards Earth, and away as it contracted. There was no invisible exoplanet, just a turbulent star.
"Nobody argued with Gordon Walker at the time that the data did not warrant the proclamation of a planet being detected," says Berkeley's Geoff Marcy.
Nobody disputed the conclusion, that is, except Walker himself. In fact he'd quietly agonized over whether the wavy line in their data was in fact a star revealing the presence of another, mysterious world.
"I had written the paper as it being a planet," revealed Walker, in a recent interview. He was sitting in his office, when the then recently arrived post-doctoral student, now UBC professor Jaymie Mathhews, entered and looked at the data. Mathhews pointed-out that the supposed planet's 2.5 orbital period coincided with what appeared to be periods of the star's heightened surface, or chromospheric, activity.
"I think (Jaymie) had a very valid point," says Walker, who deferred to the dominant view and re-wrote his paper, changing an exoplanet into stellar rumblings.
"Being Canadian we were much more cautious in announcing something like that," says Stephenson Yang. "Of course, no-one would believe you anyway."
But Walker had been right. Canada's planet hunters had found their prize. Yet it wasn't until 2003, after assessing almost 20-years of data, that exoplanet hunters finally concluded definitively that every 906 days a Jupiter-sized planet completes its orbit around gamma Cephei.
"I feel some responsibility for this," says Jaymie Matthews. "Had I not piped-up it might have gone forward and gone to a referee who wouldn't have discussed that and it could have gone forward as the detection of a planet. They could have gone out and had a press conference and said, We think we've found a planet. Nobody in the media would have asked if they'd checked the chromospheric activity. The headline would have been 'Canadians find the first planet'.
Within months of Walker's about-face, Polish-American astronomer Alexander Wolszczar announced the discovery of two Earth-sized bodies around a pulsar, the remnant of a supernovae. Completely unexpected—astronomers are still uncertain how planets survive or result from a star's detonation—they were the first planet-like objects found outside our solar system, earning Wolszczar, in 2002, the honour of a Polish postage stamp with his image.
Then in 1995, Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of 51-Pegasus b. A veteran astronomer, Mayor had led the definitive study of binary stars, those that occur in pairs, and was thus accomplished at studying stellar movements for the wobbles caused by unseen orbiting bodies. After only two weeks of observing 142 stars for exoplanets at the Haute Provence Observatory in France he and his graduate student Queloz scored an exoplanet game winner that stunned astronomers: a Jupiter-sized planet so close to its star that it orbited in only four days.
"Nobody, but nobody, suggested there were going to be Jupiters in few day orbits," says Walker. "In looking for the familiar you miss the obvious."
Like a hockey player watching the other team hoist the Stanley Cup after a grueling seven-game series, Gordon Walker was among the first to receive the news—he was one of the scientific referees for Mayor and Queloz's scientific paper on 51-Pegasus b that appeared in the journal Nature.
In retrospect, says Marcy, Walker, Campbell and Yang were thwarted by too small a sample of stars.
"They'd a technique that would have worked immediately, if only by luck they'd chosen the right stars," says Marcy. "We now know at least 200 stars that if they'd chosen them as their target stars, any one of them, they would have immediately seen the planet with their existing precision."
After all this, the final vindication of the detection of gamma Cephei in 2003 "was like a Eureka moment in tortuously slow motion," Walker recently wrote.
David Charbonneau, an Ottawa-native and now leading exoplanet hunter at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says that Walker's experience is a testament to the excruciating nature of the search to discover new worlds.
"We like to imagine that the scientist looking through the microscope or telescope sees something and then they know that this is the thing they've been looking for and it's just a matter of getting the news out," says Charbonneau. "But the point is that when you're actually involved in a true discovery it's a very uncomfortable process, because you really don't believe that this is the thing you saw and you want to make absolutely sure you're not being confused by some spurious signal and you start to question the date yourself."
In 2000, Charbonneau discovered the first exoplanet that transits its star, setting the stage for the Kepler space telescope mission in search of an alien Earth, of which he's a team member.
After a half-century of probing the night sky for ever dimmer and more distant as yet unseen truths, Gordon Walker is undeterred, still searching for answers and wondering. He's a core member of Canada's MOST space satellite team, a project that includes searching for and studying exoplanets.
"You can't help but be a little cynical that people (today) can't get money for big telescopes without mentioning (searching for) exoplanets," says Walker.
But there's sadness in his voice when it comes to his old stargazing buddy, Bruce Campbell. Until this past August they lived only several blocks away in the same Victoria, BC neighbourhood, exchanging pleasantries when passing, but not talking of the stars, the emotional pain of an old rupture never fully addressed.
While all agree that Walker and Bruce Campbell's contribution to the search for exoplanets is significant, will one or both get the nod for a Nobel Prize for leading the way in changing our view of the cosmos?
"In some sense they're worthy. Walker and Campbell began the field," says Crowded Universe author Alan Boss. "But my guess is that (the Noble prize) will go to the folks that actually find something in the end. This is a very competitive world. And the Nobel Prizes are as competitive as it gets in science."
At UC Berkeley, pointing one of the world's largest telescopes towards the night sky in search of alien worlds, and soon maybe an alien Earth, Geoff Marcy readily acknowledges the giants on whose shoulders he's standing.
"It's a real human tragedy, but it's the way science often goes," says Marcy. "Somebody has to stick their neck out and try a technique that everybody else thinks is wrong and then interpret the data very carefully, and that other people may not appreciate. You're not going to break a paradigm, you're not going to easily make one of the greatest discoveries of the century, the discovery of planets around other stars."


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Budget problems have forced Kansas to delay $73 million in aid payments due to public school districts at the
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It's the second time in a month that the payments were postponed.
Budget Director Duane Goossen said Wednesday that the state also delayed $31 million worth of tax refunds from June into next week.
Kansas ended its 2009 budget year Tuesday with tax collections falling about $126 million short of expectations.
The $73 million in aid to school districts was supposed to be distributed in the final 11 days of June. Goossen said he expects the payments to be made next week.
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