The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.

Five, four, three, two, one. Hold on.. Well, welcome everybody out there watching this all over the internet and those of you are friends of UCSD.

And we are pleased to welcome two alums of UC San Diego, Stefano-Spania, who's located at Quantum Design, as well as Ivy Phipps, who's also an alum of

UCSD.

In fact, they both have the same advisors.

Stefano for your PhD with Professor Brian Maple is now our chair and Ivy for your

master's degree and it's a pleasure to welcome you guys both back and

quantum design has been a huge supporter of friend and kind of resource for folks far and wide.

And quantum design plays a huge role in branches of physics as diverse as material science, quantum information, and even in cosmology, the stuff

that we study in our laboratory and they've been great partners and friends, so thank you guys coming

back.

Stefano is the chief technology officer and IV is in charge of Quantum Design's

dilution refrigeration technology.

And it's a tool that is used well beyond this campus and well beyond San Diego certainly and it has dramatic implications for technology

and what we call fundamental physics revealing the properties of matter

and energy at its coldest and most quantum state and it has vast applications perhaps in

a you know multi trillion dollar business of electronics eventually and and

perhaps even in quantum computing and things like that so we hope to talk about that in this and this little

discussion. So Ivy you're in charge of the dilution refrigeration as I said a technology

that enables ultra-low temperatures. I always think it's funny because you guys, you know, I remember looking at

Quantum Design's website a long time ago, but even before I came here, around the time I

came here and thinking about San Diego as a place I think of as really warm, nice balmy temperatures and then you have technology that gets down. How low, Ivy, can you get down?

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