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Tue January 1, 2013

Jennifer Schloss wins Hertz Foundation Fellowship

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...
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Awards
Tue September 4, 2012

Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi gas

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).
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CUA in the News
Sat September 1, 2012

Vinay Ramasesh received the 2012 Malcolm Cotton Brown Award from the MIT Physics Department

Hongkun Park and Wolfgang Ketterle have been chosen as the 2016 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows,
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Awards
Mon June 11, 2012

Observation of Topological Bound States in Photonic Quantum Walks published in Nature Communications

A research collaboration including CUA investigators at Harvard.
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Fri June 8, 2012

2012 DAMOP thesis award to Waseem Bakr

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Awards
Wed February 15, 2012

Paola Cappellaro wins AFOSR Young Investigator Award

A research collaboration including CUA investigators at Harvard.
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Awards
Wed February 15, 2012

Microscopy of the Superfluid to Mott transition wins the 2011 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize

The Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) has named Martin Zwierlein, an MIT assistant professor of physics, as one of its 17 new Young Investigators.
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Awards
Fri January 27, 2012

Monika Schleier-Smith wins the Hertz Thesis Prize and is selected as Finalist for the DAMOP Thesis Award

To recognize and encourage outstanding research in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics by investigators who have held a Ph. D. for 10 years or less. The prize consists of $7,500 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. An allowance will be provided for travel expenses of the recipient to the Society meeting...
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Mon January 23, 2012

Viewpoint: Fermion Pairing in Flatland

Hongkun Park and Wolfgang Ketterle have been chosen as the 2016 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows,
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Wed January 18, 2012

“Revealing the Superfluid Lambda Transition in the Universal Thermodynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas” published in Science, Jan. 12, 2012

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