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Adam Norrie  Adam Norrie might be a specialist in the finer
points of quantum mechanics, but on any given day he could be
writing reports on subjects ranging from Antarctica to
aerospace.  Since graduating from Otago with his PhD, Adam has
taken up a role as a physical sciences analyst in the Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, helping to inform policy-
makers on science-related matters.  But while some of Adam's
work might look at the warming of the planet, it's when
explaining what goes on at very cool conditions that he really
knows his stuff.  At Otago, Adam became part of one of the first
groups in the southern hemisphere to explore the behaviour of
certain kinds of atoms at very low temperatures, "as in
millionths of a degree above absolute zero". At these
temperatures some atoms can come together in their millions to
coalesce into a kind of super-atom known as a Bose-Einstein
condensate. Adam's research explored what happens when