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April 30: A recent paper by Dr. Steven Choi and Prof. Bala Sundaram in Physical Review A, predicting that intense atom lasers will be "multicolored", is covered by AIP Physics News Updates (article here) April 29: The recent Nature paper by Rigol, Dunjko and Olchanyi is covered by USC News (article here) and by a newspaper in Croatia (article here). April 22: Physics major Terri Williams is accepted to the graduate program at Brown. April 17: Dr. Marcos Rigol, Dr. Vanja Dunjko and Prof. Maxim Olchanyi publish a Letter in Nature, shedding new light on the question of how isolated quantum systems thermalize. The article may be found here. March 30: Gopal Rao & Chandra Yelleswarapu were awarded a $30,000 CVIP (Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property) grant to help the commercial development of their innovative research on the Fourier Phase Contrast Microscope. The award is one of only eight made throughout the UMass system. March 14: Prof. Rao organises a session at the APS March Meeting on controlling light with Bacteriodopsin. The schedule of the session may be found here. Below is a photo of the invited speakers (Left to right: Chandra Yelleswarapu, Frank Vollmer, Gopal Rao, Robert Birge, Sukhdev Roy and Jian Xu.)  Jan 9: The Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts voted to appoint Gopal Rao as a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts. |