A group party at Wolfgang’s house

4 people, graduate students Zitian, Mohid and Cicely and postdoc Will, joined us in September. So we had a party at Wolfgang’s house. Welcome again! BTW, Any pictures of the magnetic toys?:
2024 ICAP and DAMOP conferences

2024 ICAP and DAMOP conferences

We mainly attended two conferences in 2024. Wolfgang gave talks in both conferences, and we also presented posters. Posters at ICAP, London. Wolfgang at the Nobel laureate talk at ICAP, London. Group dinner at ICAP, London. Poster at DAMOP Group night at DAMOP,...

BEC2 official retirement

BEC2 was shut down in 2022, but not cleaned. We spent several Fridays working together during the summer, before new students came. Now, BEC2 is (still messy but better than this picture) an extra room to have fun and do optics benchmark. We ordered food afterwards...
Dave & Wolfgang Alumni Fest

Dave & Wolfgang Alumni Fest

To celebrate the official retirement of Prof. Prtichard and the 65th birthday of Prof. Ketterle, we hosted an alumni festival during the summer of 2024 at MIT (schedule). The event began with current students leading lab tours for alumni in the morning. Then people...
Eclipse

Eclipse

We took our instruments together to observe the eclipse on Campus!
A special hotpot party

A special hotpot party

02/09/24 -- Special Hotpot Party We had a special hotpot party on 02/09/2024 to warmly welcome our new students: Andrew Winnicki (BEC5 intern), Hyo Sun Park (BEC3) and Yaashnaa Singhal (Dypole)… and to celebrate Chinese/ Lunar New Year– the dragon...