ULTRACOLD

Group News

2011

• Ben Schwyn wins a UW Mary Gates Research Scholarship (Dec 11)
• Laser-driven Sisyphus cooling proposal paper submitted (Oct 11, PRA Dec 11)
• 173Yb cooled to below Fermi temp (Sep 11)
• Charlie Fieseler joins the group as a summer REU student (June 11)
• Alan gets an APS travel award for DAMOP 2011 (June 2011)
• Will wins the UW Physics Weis prize (May 11)
• Double degeneracy paper submitted (May 11, PRA(R) July 11)
• BEC of 174Yb in 1064nm trap (April 11)
• Vlad moves to new position in UW Madison (March 11)
• BEC interferometry theory paper submitted (March 11, PRA Oct 11)
• LiYb symp cooling paper submitted (Jan 11, PRL April 11)

2010

• Frank returns to Dusseldorf (Nov 10)
• PA resonances - Li*Li dimers in an ODT (Oct 10)
• We win a NIST Precision Measurement Grant (Sep 10)
• Frank Muenchow arrives for a 5 month visit (June 10)
• Jiawen and Jason present posters at the UW undergraduate symposium (May 10)
• Anders wins the UW Physics Weis prize (May 10)
• Our first quantum gas - Fermi degeneracy in 6Li achieved (April 10)
• Simultaneous optical trapping of Li and Yb achieved (March 10)

2009

• Optical Trapping of Li (Dec 09)
• First Yb green MOT (Sep 09)
• First Yb blue MOT (June 09)
• Alex wins an NSERC fellowship (April 09)
• First Li (red) MOT (Mar 09)
• Post-doc Vlad Ivanov joins group (Feb 09)