Thanksgiving dinner
11/22/2023
Thanksgiving dinner with Zhendong's turkey, Lambert's salmon, Annie's brownie and Annabelle's vegi.
Eric Cornell visits
11/09/2023
Nobel Laureate Eric Cornell toured our lab during his visit to campus to speak at the colloquium today.
AFRL Art of Science Showcase
11/09/2023
Three images from Shu are adopted in the 2023 Basic Research Art of Science Showcase by Air Force Research Laboratory.
MCAW 2023
11/06/2023
We hosted the Midwest Cold Atom Workshop at UChicago this year. We heard some great talks from our colleagues across the Midwest, and had lots of exciting discussions!
Lauren in France
08/26/2023
We wish Lauren well as she will be spending the next 6 weeks in Dr. Thomas Bourdel’s group in CNRS, France. "French people do physics too," she reports. Fascinating!
DeMille/Yan/Chin BBQ
08/13/2023
Summer is moving fast and we need to BBQ right away. Thus, we had a BBQ at the point with the DeMille group and the newly-minted Yan group.
SMART Program 2023
07/18/2023
We had the priviledge of working with some excellent local high school students during the SMART program this year.
Goodbye Michael and Youjia
06/10/2023
Michael and Youjia must sadly return to their home institutions. They will live on in our memories.
DAMOP
06/04/2023
The group attended the DAMOP conference in Spokane, WA. Shu, Lauren, and Geyue gave excellent talks.
Convocation
06/03/2023
Congratulations to Callum, Kevin, and Jon on their formal graduation at the convocation ceremony!
Congratulations Dr. Trisnadi!
05/30/2023
Jon has become Dr. Trisnadi after successfully defending his thesis today. Afterwards we went to Nepal house to celebrate. Callum is also graduating, and Youjia and Michael will be leaving us soon to return to their home institutions. So Jon and Callum received the traditional decorated lab coats bestowed upon graduating members, and Youjia and Michael got decorated hats which came out looking pretty sweet. They will all be missed, although thankfully Jon will still be here this summer!
Oh take me out to the ball game...
05/20/2023
White sox win and now we have matching (free) jackets. Mohit also snuck along. It was cold in the shade and Evan regretted wearing shorts.
Climbing trip
04/01/2023
We did a group trip to climb at First Ascent Block 37! Jay and Evan briefly became spin down instead of spin up.
Yunpeng Ji visits
2/10/2023
Yunpeng Ji, former Chin lab undergrad and current Yale graduate student in the Navon group, visited us and gave a talk in our Friday group meeting, before we had a grilled fish group dinner!
Prof. Kenji Ohmori visits
2/2/2023
Prof. Kenji Ohmori visited us from Japan and gave a talk on his work with ultrafast control of cold atoms!
Dr. Peter Jeglic visits
1/23/2023
Dr. Peter Jeglic from Ljubljana, Slovenia and his graduate student Tadej Mežnaršič visited our group and gave a talk on their recent work with quasi-1D BEC's! Dr. Jeglic gave an excellent talk and an excellent tourism pitch for Slovenia.
Michael Rautenberg arrives
1/06/2023
Michael Rautenberg from the Weidemüller group at Universität Heidelberg will be visiting us until June this year. He works on their Lithium-Cesium mixture experiment, and will be lending his expertise on our Lithium-Cesium mixture experiment!
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