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YAO 2022 Stuttgart visit

Mahesh Tirumalasetty Panduranga, February 28, 2022

About conference: YAO 2022 conference organised by university of Stuttgart this year. This conference is tradationally organised by local PhD students of the host university aimed for young PhD students working on atomic and molecular physics. I got opportunity to participate in YAO 2022 on site conference where I presented poster and gave a talk. This conference structured in three sessions for 5 days where we had talk session , discussion during poster session and lab visits. There were invited professor speakers from different universities and we can also have discussion with them during coffee breaks. This helps me to intereact more with other students as well as professors which helps me to understand about wide range of research works.

Benefit from this conference: I personally enjoyed the talk about Rydberg physics using atoms and molecule. Its interesting to know about the idea for making molecular quantum simulator because in our group itself we are aiming for ultrafast quantum simulators using atoms. This helps me to understand about my resarch work in wider picture.

Venue place: Stuttgart is very beautiful city to explore natures and a fancy car museums. During conference break we went to eat local city food and beer which is one of the best part.  

Lab-visit: I also did lab visit of Prof. Tilman Pfau in university of Stuttgart. Its really interesting to see there home made ion-microscope setup and technique to resolve closely spaced atoms. Now they can make Rydberg-ion molecule and also compute the bond length using there ion-mircoscope. I really enjoyed to see this advanced version of quantum gas microscope experiment.

Cold Atom Predoc School in Les Houches 2022 “Quantum Mixtures”

Rene Villela, September 26th to October 7th, 2022

About the school: The Cold Atom Predoc School in Les Houches, Francce, is a yearly school held in the alps region close to the border with Switzerland. The objective of the school is to give students at an early stage of their graduate studies in the cold atoms field the necessary knowledge on laser cooling and trapping, ultracold collisions, quantum gases and optical lattices. The school lasts for two weeks with two poster sessions where the participating students have the opportunity to present and discuss their results with other students and lecturers.

How this school benefitted me: I had the amazing opportunity to meet and befriend many talented young students doing research on cold atoms from various parts of the world. The lectures helped me reinforce my knowledge about laser cooling and trapping. Thanks to the lectures, I also discovered new research interests like periodically driven systems and topological effects. On a personal level, I was enamored by the breathtaking views of the alps, happily gained a few kilos eating baguette and fromage bleu and enjoyed sightseeing in my free time.

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