Tue, April 15, 2025

Prof. Vladan Vuletic Wins 2025 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

Prof Vuletic won the 2025 prize “for pioneering work on spin squeezing for optical atomic clocks, quantum nonlinear optics, and laser cooling to quantum degeneracy.”

Tue, April 1, 2025

Norman Yao Wins 2025 I.I. Rabi Prize

Congratulations to CUA researcher Professor Norman Yao for winning the 2025 I.I. Rabi Prize “for pioneering contributions to broad areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, including quantum information, metrology, and many-body physics.”

Wed, October 16, 2024

Vladan Vuletic wins the 2025 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

Full award information can be found here.

Wed, October 16, 2024

Norman Yao wins 2025 I. I. Rabi Prize

Full prize information can be found here.

Tue, October 17, 2023

Professor Kang-Kuen Ni Wins New Horizons in Physics Prize 2023

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded Professor Kang-Kuen Ni the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize for “the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.”

Tue, October 17, 2023

Professor Dirk Englund Awarded Humboldt Fellowship

Professor Dirk Englund received a Humbold Award in 2023 after being nominated by both the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.

Tue, October 17, 2023

Professor Richard Fletcher wins 2023 Packard Award

Fri, March 10, 2023

Ben Augenbraun wins 2023 Jankunas Award

This award recognizes doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in chemical physics. Three finalists will be invited to the APS March meeting to present 24-minute talks based on their thesis research.

Mon, November 21, 2022

Changhao Li Wins 2022 Peake Prize Award

Cappellaro Group member Changhao Li wins 2022 Peake Prize.

Fri, September 30, 2022

Edwin Eduardo Pedrozo Peñafiel is the winner of the 2022 Alejandro Angel Escobar National Award in Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences

Edwin Eduardo Pedrozo Peñafiel obtains this award among other reasons because the evaluating jurors considered that his research: The search for new Physics with Entanglement-Enhanced Optical Atomic Clocks is “a scientific advance in the frontier of physics that will revolutionize the precision of sensors and synchronization of computational processes.” They present this award “to a promising researcher who...