Old News: May.03: Renovations complete. Sept.03: Dr. Seth Aubin (postdoc) and Marcius Extavour (MSc) join lab. 23.Oct.03 Vacuum 12.Dec.03: Rb MOT Jan.04: Dr. Stefan Myrskog joins lab. 17.May.04: Magnetic trapping of Rb 15.July.04: Chip in vacuum; baking... Sept.05: Lindsay LeBlanc (MSc) joins lab. 27.Sept.04: Atoms (Rb) trapped on the chip! 26.Oct.04: K40 MOT 29.Jan.05: K40 on chip! 4.Feb.05: K40 and Rb87 simultaneously on chip 27.Apr.05: BEC! May.05: 500 TF 24.May.05: Marcius passes PhD qualifier 6.July.05: Sympathetic cooling! K40 @ 6 TF 12.July.05: 0.9 TF !!! 14.July.05: 0.6 TF 4.Aug.05: 0.2 TF October.05: 0.1 TF Nov-Dec05: K-Rb collision measurements Dec.05: First new chips 20.Dec.05: DFG preprint available. 17.Feb.06: Optical trapping of Rb Apr.06: Dr. Thorsten Schumm joins lab. 7.Apr.06: 107 A/cm2 in new chips 24.Apr.06: DFG paper accepted to Nature Phys! 9.May.06: Lindsay passes PhD qualifier 28.May.06: Nature Phys article appears online. 17.June.06: Matter wave intereference observation. 8.Sep.06: Double-well splitting of fermions 15.Sept.06: Seth leaves group-for faculty position! Sept.06: Amir Mazouchi joins the group. Dec.06: Pixis online. Nov.06: Dylan Jervis joins the group. Jan.07: Alma Bardon joins the group. 31.Jan.07: Selective lattice paper preprint online. 5.Feb.07: Dr. Jason McKeever joins the group. 13.Apr.07: Brian Shuve submits BASc thesis. 25.May.07: Selective lattice paper published. June.07: Brian wins the Centennial Thesis Award! August.07: Renovations complete for new lab. 26.Oct.07: See 40K Feshbach Resonance in dipole trap! November.07: Josefine Metzkes joins group. 22.Dec.07: 39K and 40K MOTs seen in new lab. 6.Feb.08: New chip in vacuum... 11.Mar.08: Nobel Laureate Roy Glauber visits 28.Mar.08: BEC with the new atom chip 25.Apr.08: DFG with the new chip May.08: Michael, Julie, & Tout start NSERC summer fellowships 24.June.08: Jason wins CQIQC fellowship! 1.July.08: Joseph gets tenure - now Assoc. Prof.! 9.July.08: Lattice chamber arrives from Kimball 1.Aug.08: Dylan passes qualifier. 5.Aug.08: Dave McKay joins lattice experiment 9.Nov.08: Chip chapter available online. Mar.09: Dr. Karl Pilch joins lattice experiment. Mar.09: Michael decides on Harvard for grad school; Julie decides on Cornell. 31.Mar.09: Ferromagnetism theory paper on arXiv. 10.Apr.09: Light scattering theory paper on arXiv. 14.Apr.09: Michael and Julie submit u/g theses! 17.Apr.09: Marcius passes departmental defense 4.May.09: John and Gabriello start NSERC summer fellowships. 10.June.09: Marcius defends thesis at SGS! "You can call me Dr. Extavour." July.09: Michael Sprague joins the group. 13.July.09: Ferromagnetism theory paper online @PRA. Aug.09: FM observation accepted to Science 23.Aug.09: Lab picnic on the Toronto islands! Sept.09: Hai-Jun Cho joins the group. 6-10.Sept.09: BEC meeting in Sant Feliu, Spain 18.Sept.09: Ferromagnetism paper appears in Science 21.Sept.09: Matthias Scholl arrives from Kaiserslautern for 6-month exchange 5-16.Sept.09: JHT visits KITPc in Beijing 30.Oct.09: MURI review at Harvard-MIT Center for Ultra-cold atoms 13.Nov.09: Marcius's graduation ceremony! 24.Nov.09: Light scattering paper accepted to J Phys B 29.Nov.09: Ana-Marie Rey visits and gives QO talk 30.Nov-6.Dec: Alain Aspect visits, gives IOS talks 2-3.Dec.09: OLE team review in Miami 7-9.Jan.10: JHT gives invited talk at NewSpin (Utrecht, Netherlands) 5-10.Mar.10: Bob Boyd (Rochester) gives IOS lectures 29.Mar.10: Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia) gives QO/AMO talk 31.Mar.10: Tilman Pfau starts a sabbatical visit from Stuttgart 5.Apr.10: Felix Stubenrauch arrives from Kaiserslautern for 6-month exchange 21,23,26.Apr.10: Tilman Pfau gives QO/AMO lecture series 6-8.May.10: CIfAR meeting, Montreal May.10: Nick Proukakis visits 12.May.10: Rajdeep Sensarma visits 6.June.10: Lab party (and scavenger hunt) at the Pfau's 6-10.June.10: CAP congress at UofT 7.June.10: Charles Townes gives Herzberg Lecture 15.June.10: Michael defends MSc report 20.July.10: Peter Kruger visits 25-30.July.10: Alma at ICAP in Cairns 6-12.Aug.10: Joseph lecturing at Michigan quantum summer school, Ann Arbor 16.Aug.10: Shunji Tsuchiya gives QO/AMO seminar 23.Aug.10: Ed Taylor gives QO/AMO seminar 30.Aug.10: Lab BBQ at Joseph's 9.Sept.10: Joon defends MSc report Sept.2010: Doctoral students Nathan Cheng, Graham Edge, and Dan Fine join the group. Also, Boris Braverman starts his senior thesis. Welcome! 24.Sept.10: Ivan Deutsch visits lab, and gives the CIQIC seminar. Oct.2010: Alumni news: Marcius in the US congress, on the Energy committee; Stefan now Director of Science at Morgan Solar; Thorsten wins a massive ERC Starting grant. Congratulations all! 18.Nov.10: (now-Dr.) LeBlanc defends her thesis at the SGS. Next stop, JQI... 22.Nov.10: Karyn Le Hur gives joint AMO-CMP seminar & visits the group. 29.Nov.10: Kirk Madison visits the lab. 13.Dec.10: Superfluid transport paper accepted to Physical Review Letters. Jan.2011: Kirby Schiemann joins the group. 12.Jan.11: Superfluid transport paper published in this week's issue of PRL. Feb.2011: Lindsay LeBlanc awarded the DAMPhi thesis prize of the Canadian Association of Physics Congratulations!