Mickey McDonald visits
12/18/2022
Former postdoc Mickey McDonald visited us for a group dinner and a lab tour!
Krutik and Kevin's graduation dinner
12/03/2022
We had Krutik and Kevin's graduation dinner at Nepal House in South Loop. They look dashing in their new lab coats. Best wishes to them in their next steps, and to Aditi who is also moving on soon!
Physics with a Bang!
12/03/2022
Group members helped run demonstrations and lab tours during the Physics with a Bang outreach event.
Kevin's defense
12/02/2022
Kevin successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations Dr. Yao!
Thanksgiving party
11/24/2022
Cheng hosted a Thanksgiving party at his house, and our recent graduate Dr. Zhendong Zhang visited from Stanford!
Krutik's Thesis Defense
11/04/2022
Krutik successfully defended his thesis and we went to dinner at Nella with Thomas Bourdel. Congratulations Dr. Patel!
Thomas Bourdel visits
10/31/2022-11/04/2022
Prof. Thomas Bourdel visited us from from Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institute d'optique in France for a week, giving a JFI seminar and lectures for PHY 452 Quantum Optics and Quantum Gases.
Jorg Schmiedmayer visits
10/18/2022
Jorg Schmiedmayer and two of his students visited us from TU-Wien in Austria. He gave a lecture for PHY 452 Quantum Optics and Quantum Gases.
Softball party
09/23/2022
We joined in a scrimmage of the Physics softball team, of which Lauren is one of the captains! Cheng also brought some cheesecakes.
DeMille Lab Joint BBQ
08/14/2022
We had a joint group barbecue with the DeMille Lab! It was very windy.
Group trip
07/04/2022
We had a field trip to the Stade’s Farm to pick berries, beets, beans, kohlrabi… the trip is joined by Evan, Jay, Frank, Cheng, Aditi, Stella, Zhendong, Jonathan, Henry, Shu, Tzuken, Andrew, Joao and Allen.
Graduations
06/04/2022
Zhendong and Huiting graduated today! Congratulations!
Physics department awards
05/19/2022
At the Physics Department Student Award Ceremony, we had many winners! Huiting received the John Haeseler Lewis prize, Jon the Winstein Prize in Instrumentation, and Krutik the Yodh Prize! Congratulations to all!
DAMOP travel awards
05/16/2022
Jiamei and Frank received the DAMOP Travel awards. Congrats!
Graduation dinner
05/13/2022
Graduation dinner party for Zhendong, Huiting, Aditi and Samir in Umai, downtown Chicago. They are in lab coats with our drawings and blessing.
Joao wins fellowship
05/13/2022
Joao received the Selove Prize Summer Research Fellowship! Congratulations, Joao!
Stella wins fellowship
05/12/2022
Stella received the EFI Summer Research Fellowship! Congratulations, Stella!
Zhendong's thesis defense
04/26/2022
Zhendong successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
Vladan Vuletic visits
4/14/2022
Prof. Vladan Vuletic (MIT) visited us and gave a colloquium talk in the Physics Department.
Tahereh Rezaei visits
4/7/2022
Ms. Tahereh Rezaei from the Kwiat group at UIUC visited our lab and had dinner with Lauren, Aditi and Cheng.
Callum in Paris
03/24/2022
Callum moved to Paris to study and work in J. Dalibard's group in College de France for 6 months.
Visitors
03/21/2022
Prof. Loh Huanqian, Prof. David Weiss and Sarah McCusker visited our group, and we had dinner together.
APS March Meeting
03/16/2022
We attended APS March meeting 2022 in Chicago! Cheng, Jon, Krutik and Kevin gave talks, and Callum gave a poster which won the soft matter poster competition!
Erich Mueller visits
03/12/2022
Prof. Erich Mueller visited us and we went to the river on Saint Patrick's day!
Workshop
02/24-02/25/2022
Cheng and Dr. David Mazziotti organized the JFI frontier workshop "Molecular Condensate in Physics and Chemistry". The videos of the tutorials and invited talks can be found here.
New Year celebration
01/29/2022
We had a small celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger with Lauren, Jonathan, Zhendong, Jiamei, Frank, Cheng and Annabelle. We had a potluck and made over 250 dumplings.
Huiting wins scholarship
01/28/2022
Huiting received the Quad Research Scholarship with research stipend from the College Center for Research and Fellowships. Congratulations!
Kevin gives talk
01/14/2022
Kevin gave a talk at Zwierlein Group Seminar at MIT on 'Domain-wall dynamics in Bose–Einstein condensates with synthetic gauge fields'.
Cheng wins award
01/07/2022
Cheng received the ’21–’22 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award!
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