Fred McGehan (NIST)
(303) 497-3246

Peter Caughey (CU-Boulder)
(303) 492-4007

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder), partners in the JILA research institute, will hold a joint news conference to announce a major scientific first in the field of ultracold quantum physics.

The work, scheduled for publication in the Jan. 24-30 online edition of Physical Review Letters, complements another JILA achievement, the creation of the Bose-Einstein condensate, a long-sought novel state of matter whose discovery in 1995 earned its researchers the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.

Researchers Deborah S. Jin of NIST, and Markus Greiner and Cindy A. Regal of CU-Boulder, with Nobel Laureate Eric Cornell of NIST

Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004
11 a.m. Mountain Time (MST)/ 1 p.m. Eastern Time (EST)

10th floor conference room
JILA
University of Colorado at Boulder campus

Phone Link for Reporters Only: NIST and CU-Boulder are offering a toll-free telephone line for reporters who cannot attend the news conference but who wish to listen in on the event. U.S. reporters should call toll-free (800) 857-0401. To receive the passcode call the contacts above.

Reporters outside the United States may call (773-756-0181) to be connected to the news conference; however, this is not a toll-free call. A passcode will be needed to be connected. Call the contacts above for this code.

Reporters on the phone line for the news conference will be able to ask questions of the researchers. Those wishing to schedule interviews with Deborah Jin afterward should call the media contacts listed above.

Embargoed Copy of Press Release/Paper: Reporters may obtain an embargoed copy of the NIST/CU-Boulder press release and/or the Physical Review Letters paper by calling the media contacts listed above by 5 p.m. MST (7 p.m. EST) on Tuesday, Jan. 27. Both items will be available online at the NIST (www.nist.gov) and CU-Boulder (www.colorado.edu) Web sites at the time of the news conference. The embargoed press release, as well as the passcode needed to listen to the press conference by phone are also available to reporters only on the science news service Web site, Eurekalert.