The QSE Roadmap and Journal is undergoing a major upgrade this week (Dec. 18-25) to a new graphical interface. Some of the Roadmap entries may be temporarily truncated: they will return after they have been converted. Happy Holidays to all!

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Entry #6: Friday, December 1, 2006

Welcome to the UW QSE Group's Roadmap and Journal. Each entry first comments upon our (working) QSE Roadmap, and then describes our recent activities.

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QSE Roadmap Comments

Innovation and Enterprise Avert Flattening

The main theme of today's QSE Roadmap is technological “flattening,” by which we mean, loss of vitality in the research, engineering, and technological sectors of society.

In North American physical sciences, flattening has been pervasive in the last forty years, with today's graduate student enrollments substantially lower than in 1964.

This long-term decline has been largely offset by exponential growth in the biomedical sectors of the economy. But now, biomedical flattening is beginning too.

High-resolution PDF versions: (top level), (lower level), (entire roadmap)

A major question for the QSE Roadmap and Journal is this: Can we restore growth to both the physical science and biomedical sectors of the economy, by finding—in the language of the NIH Roadmap—New Pathways to Discovery?

Or is “flattening” destined to be a grimly pervasive reality of the 21st Century; a reality that young people should simply accept as being inevitable?

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Journal entry for Friday, December 1, 2006

Completing the Science and Technology Stack

Today's QSE Journal entry will be brief, as we are rushing to submit our first SBIR and STTR proposals (these will also be our first electronic submissions; thence the nervousness).

Perhaps later today we will add some commentary on the three quantum microscopy “technology stacks” that we are proposing to complete. For now, the following figures will have to do!

Nanometer resolution tumor cell microscopy

Viral protein imaging by quantum spin microscopy

Tools and technology for quantum spin microscopy

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