Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases, IExP and IQOQI, Innsbruck
Category for non scientific news
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a profile on group leader Francesca Ferlaino, Univ.-Prof. Dr., about her research, career and commitment to gender equality in Science. This interview was conducted by Emeline Ogereau from the French Embassy in Austria . Read the full article on the website of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs here.
Andrea Litvinov, postdoc in the Er-Dy lab, has won the “Disruptive Innovation – Early Career Seed Money” from the joint funding program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). This funding program facilitates the implementation of unconventional, innovative, and potentially high-risk ideas with an uncertain outcome.
Andrea’s project involves studying the connection between supersolid glitches in dipolar quantum gases and spin-ups in the rotation velocity in pulsars — highly magnetized and extremely rapidly rotating neutron stars. Read more about his project below. Congratulations Andrea!
Tag der MIP, the Day of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics took place on Thursday, February 22nd, 2024, demonstrating the science done at UIBK to ~400 high-school students. The FF Group took part by showcasing some ferrofluid and acoustic levitation experiments!
See the UIBK site for more information: Tag der MIP
Francesca Ferlaino will be featured in RadioKulturhaus’ “Was die Welt zusammenhält” program on March 6th 2024! Was die Welt zusammenhält (What holds the world together) invites leading scientists to meet personalities from culture, business and the media and exchange ideas about the future. Hosted by Günter Kaindlstorfer, this event’s guests are Francesca Ferlaino and Thomas Arnoldner, Deputy CEO of the A1 Group.
WED | 06 03 2024 | 7:30 p.m.
RadioCafe
Admission: FREE
Registration via the ORF RadioKulturhaus ticket office
More info can be found on the RadioKulturhaus Website: https://radiokulturhaus.orf.at/artikel/707984/Was-die-Welt-zusammenhaelt
Our PhD student Elena is visiting for one month the group of Professor Blair Blakie at Otago University in New Zealand, as part of her DK-ALM research stay abroad. She is working with him to learn how to investigate elastic properties of supersolids!
Our 2024 group dinner took place on the 18th of January at CasoinN da Giorgio restaurant, with a 1920’s Murder Mystery theme!
