Biography

Dr. Durfee teaches physics and studies optical, atomic, and laser physics. He attended graduate school at MIT where he worked with Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle on laser-cooled atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation. He contributed to the work which won Dr. Ketterle the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics. After completing his doctoral thesis on the dynamics of Bose condensates, Dr. Durfee spent two years in a postdoctoral position at Yale University developing an atom interferometer under the direction of Dr. Mark Kasevich. He then spent 18 years at BYU teaching physics and researching atomic clocks, ion interferometry, laser instrumentation, and laser imaging before coming to UVU in 2019.

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