SW’s Short Profile
Samuel White grew up in Rochester in the south-east of England, a former city heavily featured in the books of Charles Dickens. In 2017 he moved to the north of England to complete a Masters’ degree in Natural Sciences at Durham University. He became interested in experimental Physics after participating in the YCCSA summer school 2019 at the University of York where he characterised thin films of graphene oxide and silicon carbide in order to evaluate their potential for use as reservoir computer substrates. After his plans to complete a summer research internship at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, he started working as a programmer on BellBoard (the world’s most popular website for English Change Ringing) in 2020. During the final year of his degree, Sam discovered his fascination with ultracold atoms whilst completing his project with Simon Cornish on finding methods to quickly and adiabatically merge optical tweezers containing single atoms in their motional ground states.
In September 2021, he moved to Innsbruck to begin a PhD within the T-REQS team.
SW’s CV at Glance
| September 2021 – Present | PhD Student in the T-REQS lab |
| July 2020 – Present | Digital Assistant at The Ringing World |
| October 2017 – July 2021 | MSci in Natural Sciences (Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics) at Durham University |
SW’s Dipolar Publications
| 2023 | |
| [1] | Glitches in rotating supersolids, , Phys. Rev. Lett., 131, 223401, 2023. |
Conferences, Schools & Workshops
| July 2023 | CATMIN III: Frontiers in Rydberg Physics, London (UK) | Poster |
| March 2023 | WE-Heraeus-Seminar on “Quantum Control of Light”, Bad Honnef (DE) | Poster |
| September 2022 | EMMI Workshop on Long-Range Ultracold Interactions, Innsbruck (AT) | |
| July 2022 | The 27th International Conference on Atomic Physics, Toronto (CA) | Poster |
| February 2022 | Winter School: Introductory Course on Ultracold Quantum Gases, Innsbruck, (AT) | |