May 2021: Lely Tran, Pi2 scholar, joins group
Lely Tran will work as a researcher in the Ultracold group exploring ruthenium spectroscopy by setting up a vapor cell and characterizing transitions suited for various scientific purposes. Lely will be mentored by graduate student Diego Novoa.
For more information on the Pi2 scholar program, see here.
Jan 2021: Graduate student Justin Gerber graduates, joins Honeywell.
Justin Gerber has graduated from the Ultracold group and is headed to Boulder, Colorado to join Honeywell’s effort to build a quantum computer.
Oct 2020: Dr. Fang Fang leaves Ultracold, joins Harvard as postdoc
Dr. Fang Fang graduated from the Ultracold group in January 2020 and is now headed to Harvard as a postdoctoral scholar.
Oct 2020: Postdoc Charles Brown featured in Physics Today and Physics World as a part of #BlackinPhysics Week
Charles Brown, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Dan Stamper-Kurn’s Ultracold Atomic Physics Group, was featured in Physics Today’s and Physics World’s #BlackinPhysics Week essay series. Charles organized the collection of essays featured on the site and co-authored an essay on Black representation in AI and quantum information science and engineering. The organizers behind #BlackinPhysics Week created this essay series to highlight important issues Black physicists face and to diversify the image of what a physicist looks like.
Jul 2020: Postdoc Charles Brown featured on Fresh Professor Youtube channel
In a fun, relaxed and informal fashion, Berkeley Physics postdoc Charles Brown discusses his trajectory up to now, basic tenets of ultracold atomic physics, what he hopes to do after postdoc life, and an article he wrote for AIP's Physics Today magazine that illuminates bias in physics, and ways to combat this bias. This discussion takes place on the Fresh Professor YouTube channel, created by Yale/UC Berkeley Chemistry PhD candidate, Jonathan Tyson.