Crystalline coatings: from cavity optomechanics to ultrastable interferometers  Garrett D. Cole, Ph.D.   President & CEO Crystalline Mirror Solutions LLC & GmbH Vienna Center for Quantum  Science and Technology Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna  Cavity optomechanics has recently emerged as…

Double-diffusive Sedimentation Dr. Eckart Meiburg Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering UC Santa Barbara When a layer of particle-laden fresh water is placed above clear, saline water, both double-diffusive and Rayleigh-Taylor  instabilities may arise.  We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of  these…