Visits to Paris, ICAP, Durham et al

Nils and I presented recent work at several meetings and caught up with developments in quantum fluids of atoms and light.

Also, a vortex was spotted in King’s Cross Station.

Nils’ conference marathon

Nils may have covered almost every relevant meeting in Europe in June/July, a great opportunity to absorb recent advances and present the JRS work to a wide audience of theory and experimental researchers.

• 813 WE-Hereus Seminar on Advances in Quantum Simulation and Sensing with Ultracold Gases in Bad Honnef.
• YAO2024, Young Atom Opticians conference in Strasbourg.
• ICAP2024 summer school held at St John’s College, Oxford.
• ICAP2024 at Imperial College London.

Paris etc

I had a fascinating visit to Labs in Paris, the ICAP 2024 conference in London, and the Dipolar Quantum Matter workshop in Durham.

Paris

Visited Aurélien Perrin and group at the CNRS Laser Physics Laboratory to learn more about their work on vortex lattice melting.

During several days with Quentin Glorieux group I learned a lot about the state of the art for quantum fluids of light experiments, and was even allowed to do things in the lab! Actually, this was closely supervised and I didn’t touch anything important, but we worked on high fidelity injection of superfluid excitations and their imaging. Great fun!

ICAP 2024

A great meeting, ICAP2024, was held at Imperial College London. The big news was BEC of dipolar molecules at Sebastian Will group, New York.

There was also some 600 posters running over 3 days and 4 buildings. Thirsty work!

Dipolar Quantum Matter Durham

This ICAP satellite meeting explored frontiers of dipolar quantum matter in theory and experiments.