The newest member of ITAMP, beautiful baby boy Alex Pabst of Stefan and Cassi Hunt. Congratulations!
ITAMP News
ITAMP is pleased to announce that Misha Lukin is a co-recipient of the Lamb Award for 2017, with Rainer Weiss (MIT) and Naomi Halas (Rice). We congratulate Misha for this special prize.
We wish to present the newest members of ITAMP, beautiful baby girl Yashi Adheeta of Swati Singh and husband, and handsome baby boy Kepler of Tony Lee and wife. Congratulations!
Ed Eyler, a well-known AMO experimentalist at UConn passed away on Monday, September 19, 2016, after a long battle with cancer. He was an exceptional high precision experimentalist. His obituary is here: http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Edward-Eyler-103959274.
We are greatly saddened to learn that Debbie Jin at JILA, a towering figure in atomic physics and a pioneer in the studies of ultracold Fermi gases, passed away on September 15, 2016. Our condolences go to her family and to John Bohn, a friend and colleague.
It's with great sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Katharine Blodgett Gebbie (1932-2016) on August 19. She was 84. For many years, she led the NIST Physical Lab (later Physical Measurement Lab) with grace and dedication. During her tenure, the Lab produced four Nobel prizes in physics. An amazing record. She was also a friend of ITAMP. From 2008-2011, she sat on the Advisory Board for ITAMP. We benefited tremendously from experience and insightful ideas on best move ITAMP forward. She will be greatly missed.
Dr. Igor Pikovski has been selected as one of nine recipients of a 2016 Branco Weiss Fellowship, a fellowship for outstanding postdoctoral researchers awarded by the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). The fellowship grant is unique in that it can be used at any research institution throughout the world. As a Branco Weiss fellow, Pikovski will study novel quantum devices and methods to manipulate and control their quantum properties. His main goal is to explore how such systems can help probe the interplay between quantum physics and gravity. (For more details see the CfA announcement.)
See presentations from the latest ITAMP conference, "Connecting Few-body and Many-body Pictures of Fractional Quantum Hall Physics."
View here.
Several ITAMP members presented invited and contributed talks and posters at the 47th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP).
The list by speaker can be found here.
An ITAMP sponsored research on large carbon-containing molecules has been featured for the Center for Astrophysics Science Update ("Simulating the formation of carbon-rich molecules on an idealized graphitic surface," David W. Marshall and H. R. Sadeghpour, MNRAS; 455, 2889, 2016.)
ITAMP is proud to announce the creation of a new lecture series, honoring Alex Dalgarno. The Dalgarno Lecture Series will inaugurate in Spring 2016. A committee to select a prominent lecturer has formed. The first lectures will be given in May 2016 by Prof. Tilman Pfau at Harvard and MIT. Nominations for this lecture series are welcomed and should be sent to H. Sadeghpour at hrs@cfa.harvard.edu.
The deadline for submission of all application materials for the ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellowship, including letters of reference, is Monday, November 23, 2015. For the application and more information see the ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellowship site.