CONFERENCE

Conference Report (DAMOP, Robin)

Robin attended the 55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (APS DAMOP Meeting 2024) held in Fort Worth, USA, from June 3 to 7. We have received a report from Robin, so please take a look!
当研究室のRobinさんが、6/3~6/7にアメリカ、フォートワースで開催されたthe 55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (APS DAMOP Meeting 2024)に参加しました。その様子がわかるレポートがRobinさんから届きましたので、どうぞご覧ください!

Founded in 1943 DAMOP has the distinction of being the oldest division in APS, it also ranks among the largest units at APS with approximately 3200 members with over 40% being students. This number emphasis the vibrancy of this rapidly developing field and reinforce the culture of sharing, support, openness, and scientific curiosity.
DAMOP take pride in its long-running annual meeting. Typically, 1000 to 1200 people attend it, providing a forum to discuss AMO physics. Besides a large selection of invited talks, this meeting also includes graduate student symposia career development events, and an annual workshop on precision measurement and fundamental concepts.

From June 3rd to 7th The 55th Annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Atomic, Molecular and optical Physics (DAMOP) took place at the Fort Worth Convention center in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
For this edition research assistant Hikaru Tamura, Postdoctoral fellow Vikas Singh Chauhan, and PhD Student Robin Rayane Kocik had the great opportunity to present their research work.
After a 12-hour flight we arrived at Fort Worth, Texas on the Sunday 2nd at 5 p.m. Exhausted from the travel and the jetlag we took a quick rest and decided to meet at 7 p.m. to eat together… a burger (of course!)

On the first day, Monday 3rd, was held the graduate student symposium on Frontiers of AMO Physics. This symposium offered 4 talks. This was exiting to get an introduction on thematic we do not see usually in our lab, such as ultracold molecules (weird for people working in an Institute for Molecular Science…).
The next days were split in three blocks of 2 hour with each 10 parallel sessions of 12-minute talks (some hard choice had to be made), a 2-hour poster presentation session with each day roughly 150 different posters! And lastly a 1 hour talk on specific subjects. The talk on the 4th of June was given by Anne L’Huillier, one of the physics Nobel prizes 2023 recipient!

Sadly, we had to leave before the end of the conference on Friday to get our plane, but until the last minute before going to the airport we were attending presentation and earing bout exciting research!

DAMOP is one of my favorite conferences for me. We can catch up various cold atom experiments recently discovered, and importantly this is the place where old friends can meet. – Hikaru Tamura

Physics was discussed from top notch researcher from the World. This was the opportunity to interact and discussed with them in a friendly environment.  The conference also held at nice location, we could enjoy nice walk around the water garden which was just besides the conference venue. -Vikas Singh Chauhan

This was my first international conference, it was nice to be able to put faces and discover the human behind the research paper that sometimes can feel impersonal and distant. It was also exiting and motivating to see how much was going in on in our field, and to feel we could participate in this effort – Robin Kocik

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