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Sierra Jubin and Sarah Stevenson ’17 as well as Ashay Patel ’18 joined Charlie at DAMOP 2017 in Sacramento, CA.

Ashay Patel ’18 starts his senior thesis, and Kirby Gordon ’20 joins as a summer research assistant.

Prof. Doret has been recognized as a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

Sarah Stevenson ’17 has joined the lab as a senior thesis student, joining continuing lab member Sierra Jubin ’17.   Will Fung ’19 will be spending the summer as a research assistant.

Ariel Silbert ’16 and Sierra Jubin ’17 joined Prof. Doret in presenting a poster at DAMOP 2016 in Providence, RI.  We met plenty of other Ephs in attendance!

For the first time we’ve put lasers and atoms together in the lab: Here the “cloudy” looking rectangle is a beam of calcium ions fluorescing as the come through the loading slot into the trapping region of our surface electrode … Continue reading →

Welcome new thesis student Ariel Silbert ’16 to the lab!  She will be joined this summer by Sierra Jubin ’17, Owen Kay ’17, and Elena Polozova ’17.

After several years of work, we (finally) trapped our first calcium ions over spring break: Poorly focused and dim, but a relief all the same!

Prof. Doret has been awarded a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

After quite a bit of hard work by Will Kirby ’17, our setup and software for transferring the frequency stability of a commercial stabilized HeNe laser on to our diode lasers is up and running.  Fine work, Will!