Tanaka attended 5th Student Research Council in Cold Atom Region (Atom no Kai), Nagoya, Japan, from 2-3 August. We have received a report from him, so please take a look!
当研究室の田中さんが、8/2～3に邦和セミナープラザ(名古屋)で開催された第5回冷却原子研究会「アトムの会」に参加しました。その様子がわかるレポートが田中さんから届きましたので、どうぞご覧ください！

5th Student Research Council in Cold Atom Region (Atom no Kai)

The Atom no Kai is a private research meeting on the cold atom region. It was initiated
by Prof. Inoue in Osaka Metropolitan University, and holds several lectures a year inviting
prominent professors from Japan and abroad, as well as annual workshops mainly for master
and doctoral students. The workshop I attended this time was later one, which is unique in that
it not only presents published papers and accomplished research results, but also provides an
overview of the latest topics and discussion of research plans, with the main focus on fostering
young researchers and revitalizing the community.
This year, two graduate students from the Omori Group, Aito and Masato, were sent to
present their previous research results.
We headed to Nagoya on the morning of the 2nd to attend lectures by professors from around
Japan on their research. Prof. Kawasaki of AIST and Prof. Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo
were invited speakers at this meeting. In fact, the day before the meeting, Prof. Kawasaki gave
a seminar at the Institute for Molecular Science and we had a chance to talk about various topics
at the reception, etc. Prof. Mochizuki was in the department when I was an undergraduate
student, so I had attended his lectures before. He pioneered new Engineering and topological
phenomena in the Flocke system with external input by theoretically analyzing optical systems
consisting of various optical elements.

Other interesting projects are about precise measurement of the permanent electric dipole
efficiency of Francium including the development of a magnetometer that references rubidium
and cesium trapped in an optical lattice , and the study of Bose gases in frustrated triangular
lattices using a quantum gas microscope.

In the afternoon, there were 45-minute oral presentations by master and doctoral students
and a two-hour poster session. Masato and I participated in the poster session and presented our
work on performance evaluation of CMOS cameras and non-destructive quantum state measurements.
We received many questions about our experimental setup, especially the introduction
of a high NA objective lens and Raman sideband cooling.

On the evening of the first day, a BBQ was held, allowing the participants to deepen exchanges
with other students in the same field and to hear valuable discussions from the professors
about recent trends in this field.

On the second day, oral presentations and lectures by students were held as well, and
finally, the best student presentation award was given to Mr. Satoshi Kinase, M2 student at the
University of Tokyo, who constructed his own experimental apparatus and presented ”Normal
Mode Coupling of Cooled Ions Trapped in a Vacuum”. I was very much stimulated by the
wonderful knowledge of the professors and students at this workshop.
I would like to thank Prof. Omori, Tomita-san, Sylvain-san, and everyone at IMS for giving
me this opportunity!