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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!