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Elena wins the UIBK Best Student Paper Award!

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Congratulations to Elena for winning the UIBK Best Student Paper Award in the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics! This prize was awarded for her paper, “Glitches in Rotating Supersolids” published in the journal Physical Review Letters. You can find a general overview of this research about the connection between glitches in the supersolid and neutron stars in our writeup, and the press releases by UIBK and Phys.org.

The ceremony for this award took place on Friday, June 28, 2024 in the Auditorium, at Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck. You can find more details about the ceremony and the other award winners here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/events/info/2024/sommerfestakt-vizerektorat-fuer-forschung.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrea L. awarded PhD Thesis prize

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Andrea Litvinov, postdoc in the Er-Dy lab,  has won the 2024 USPN Thesis Prize for his thesis “Manipulation of nuclear spins of strontium 87 in degenerate Fermi gases in SU(N) symmetry”. Andrea completed his PhD at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord under the direction of Bruno Laburthe-Tolra and Olivier Gorceix, and co-supervised by Martin Robert de Saint Vincent. Congratulations Andrea!

You can find more information about 2024 USPN Thesis Prizes here: https://erasme.univ-paris13.fr/laureats-des-prix-de-these-uspn-2024/

Dr. Matthew Norcia, former postdoc in the Er-Dy LAB, wins IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in AMO Physics!

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Congratulations to former postdoc in the Er-Dy LAB, Dr. Matthew Norcia, who was awarded the IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize In Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics 2024. Dr. Norcia was presented this award “for his seminal contributions to cavity-QED, optical tweezers, and dipolar quantum gases, specifically, the realization of an optical tweezer clock and of two dimensional supersolids in dipolar quantum gases”.

Arfor and Elena win the DK ALM Science Slam 2024!

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Congratulations to Arfor and Elena who, along with Alberto from the Grimm group, were crowned the winners of the DK ALM Science Slam 2024!  In a 6-minute skit entitled “Theoretical Dreams, Experimental Realities: How to combine them?”, they showed how experimentalists and theorists work together to make new scientific discoveries! 🔬⚛️

DK-ALM (Doctoral Programme (Doktoratskolleg) Atoms, Light, and Molecules) is a collaborative programme funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) that provides research and training for excellent national and international students. The 2024 Science Slam took place in front of a sold-out crowd at Treibhaus  and was hosted by Bernhard Weingartner, a science slam professional.

 

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