Recent news

09/20/2021: Our works are featured in the National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery: Bose fireworks and Shooting quantum particles resembles pattern like a turtle.

09/18/2021: We went kayaking on Chicago river in downtown. The trip was attended by Shu, Krutik, Kelsey, Jiamei, Zhendong, Kevin, Callum, Kelsey, Cheng and Annabelle.

09/16/2021: Invited by Paivi Torma (Aalto University, Finland), Cheng gave an invited talk in the Bose-Einstein condensation meeting in Sant Feliu in Spain.

09/13/2021: Dr. Chen-Lung Hung visited us and gave a talk about his research on cesium BEC. He was the first graduate student from our group and is now a tenured professor in Purdue!! We went for a dinner in Medici.

09/11/2021: Another casual meeting at the promontory point where we shared food. The lunch was attended by Jiamei, Jonathan, Lauren, Cheng and Annabelle.

08/11/2021: We held a farewell party for Conner!!

08/07/2021: Group hiking at Starved Rock Ptate Park!

07/18/2021: We and Tian lab held a BBQ party together at the Promontory Point!

06/14/2021: Lauren presented a poster in the HQAN meeting!

06/01/2021: Our groups gave oral presentations and posters at DAMOP 2021!

05/28/2021: Zhendong was awarded the Grainger Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!

05/28/2021: Kevin, Krutik and Zhendong were awarded the DAMOP 2021 participation grant. Congratulations!

05/16/2021: We had our group BBQ together at the Promontory Point!

05/06/2021: Zhendong gave a seminar talk to Prof. Francesca Ferlaino's group at University of Innsbruck on "Transition from an atomic to a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate".

04/28/2021: Our recent paper "Transition from an atomic to a molecular Bose–Einstein condensate" was featured on UChicago News and The Academic Times!

04/02/2021: Lauren was awarded the 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

03/08/2021: Cheng gave a CMT Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany on "Mediated interactions of bosons mebedded in a Fermi gas"

02/15/2021: Cheng gave a Kadanoff Seminar at UChicago

02/08/2021: Jon gave a talk at the Quantum Information Science and Engineering Seminar, titled 'Experiments on a Quantum Matter Synthesizer'!

01/25/2021: Invited by Huiting Liu, Cheng gave a talk on our research to the Society of Physics Students at UChicago

01/24/2021: Huiting and Kelsey presented our Levitation poster at HCURA's National Collegiate Research Conference!

12/15/2020: Cheng gave a public lecture at the National Chung Hsing University

12/14/2020: Zhendong was rewarded the Plotnick Fellowship for winter quarter 2021!

12/10/2020: Cheng gave a colloquium talk in the Physics Department of National University of Singapore

12/3/2020: Cheng gave a Helen Diller Quantum Center weekly seminar at Technion Israel Institute of Technology on "The expected Observation of Bose Fireworks"

11/08/2020: Cheng gave a public talk and experimental demonstration of leviation techniques in the first Taiwan Science Festival - Explore.

11/07/2020: Huiting and Kelsey presented our Levitation poster at the Midstates Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Physical Sciences!

11/02/2020: Kevin gave a talk at the Quantum Information Science and Engineering Seminar, titled 'Pattern formation in a drive Bose-Einstein Condensate'!

10/10/2020: Liangchao is leaving us this December. We had a farewell dinner with him!

09/22/2020: Invited by Dongping Zhong, Cheng gave a Physics Colliquium talk in Ohio State University

08/31/2020: Invited by Victor Galitski, Cheng gave the Joint Quantum Institute Seminar at the University of Maryland

08/13/2020: Cheng gave a colloquium talk in the Physics Department of UChicago

07/27/2020: Cheng gave a presentation in the QSFS workshop.

07/23/2020: Cheng gave a seminar talk in the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science of Academic Sinica in Taiwan.

06/16/2020: Cheng gave a seminar talk in the Physics Department of National Sun Yat-Sen University.

06/04/2020: Cheng gave an invited talk in APS DAMOP.

03/23/2020: Our new paper, "Pattern formation in a driven Bose–Einstein condensate", is published in Nature Physics!

02/24/2020: Bertrand Evrard from College de France and ENS joined us today.

01/30/2020: Cheng presented our research work in the ARO review meeting.

01/26/2020: Chin lab stands behind Wuhan in the fight against the coronavirus!

01/26/2020: Cheng held a party to celebrate the Chinese New Year!

01/13/2020: Cheng attended the Quantum Foundry Workshop at the Discover Partners Institute.

01/03/2020: Huiting Liu and Shuwen Fang are awarded a Women in Physics Group Grant.