Fri, August 15, 2025

Professor Emeritus Daniel Kleppner, highly influential atomic physicist, dies at 92

Thu, October 19, 2023

Harvard-MIT CUA Receives Major Renewal Grant

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Physics Frontiers Centers program renewed a grant to the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) to fund exploring, understanding, and harnessing mysterious phenomena at the frontiers of physics. The CUA, which works to enable greater control and programmability of quantum-entangled systems of low-temperature atoms and molecules, will conduct experiments involving...

Fri, April 21, 2017

Prof Kleppner wins APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research

Prof Kleppner wins APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research

Thu, May 26, 2016

DAMOP CUA Billiards

DAMOP CUA Billiards

Wed, January 20, 2016

CUA researchers selected as 2015 Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters published their 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers.  It includes 8 physicists at Harvard and MIT, three of which are CUA researchers (Misha Lukin, Martin Zwierlein, Wolfgang Ketterle).

Mon, August 31, 2015

School of Science announces 2015 Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education

Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, was awarded a prize for graduate education for his courses 8.421 (Atomic and Optical Physics) and 8.422 (Atomic and Optical Physics II).

Fri, July 31, 2015

Kang-Kuen Ni wins Beckman Young Investigator Award

The 19th ICOLS conference takes place June 8-12 in Hokkaido, Japan, with CUA representation. Vladan Vuletic will report on a joint MIT-Harvard CUA experiment with Mikhail Lukin on switching of light with light using pulses containing only a few hundred photons. For a readable explanation of how to make light interact with light see the...

Wed, January 21, 2015

Kang-Kuen Ni wins AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award

The 19th ICOLS conference takes place June 8-12 in Hokkaido, Japan, with CUA representation. Vladan Vuletic will report on a joint MIT-Harvard CUA experiment with Mikhail Lukin on switching of light with light using pulses containing only a few hundred photons. For a readable explanation of how to make light interact with light see the...

Sun, January 11, 2015

CUA Retreat

The first (ever!) CUA Retreat was a great success, with many scientific talks and poster presentations

Wed, December 3, 2014

High-power frequency-converted fiber lasers for scientific applications

Investment in high-power fiber laser technology for industrial processing and military applications has enabled commercial lasers with hundreds of Watts of diffraction-limited output to come to market. These lasers are ideal pump sources for high-power (10s to 100s of Watts), widely tunable optical parametric oscillators which may be tuned from the visible to the mid-infrared...