Center for Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases, IExP and IQOQI, Innsbruck
Pramodh Yapa 
Goodbye to our Masters’ intern, Unai Trujols González, who worked in the ERBIUM lab starting in February 2024! Unai joined us for these 5 months under the Excellence Fellowship for incoming Master students, and will now return to ENS Paris for the rest of his Masters. Good luck with your studies, Unai!
Our 2024 Summer BBQ took place on the 24th of June and celebrated the many different achievements of the group!
We bid goodbye to Ferdinand Claude at the end of June 2024! Dr. Claude joined the Erbium team as Post-doc at the end of 2022, and will be moving to the MajuLab in Singapore as a research fellow. Good luck at your new position, Ferdinand!
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.
Congratulations to Arfor for winning the UIBK Early Stage Funding grant! This grant is awarded to doctoral candidates and recent graduates of UIBK doctoral programmes to carry out an independent, small research project at the beginning of their academic career.
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/
