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Postdoctoral positions available

Postdoc positions are currently available to work on the strontium Rydberg experiment and the RbCs BEC experiment. More details can be found here.

PhD position available

Joint EU funded Durham/Toptica PhD studentship available, for more details click here.

Atmol Open day 2011

Undergraduate summer students

Summer 2011

This summer we have hosted several summer students: Emily Barnard spent eight weeks working in the soliton project funded by a Nuffield Foundation undergraduate research bursary

S. Cornish's group also hosted two visitors from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, Isaac Fan and Chun-Jen Chen

Toryn Dalton (Cambridge University) held an Ogden Trust research internship and worked with Dr Ifan Hughes and Lee Weller on the Slow Light project.

Chris Wade (Cambridge University) worked with Dr Ifan Hughes, Dr Kevin Weatherill and Adam West on the Nanowire experiment and Tom Morgan (Durham University) worked with Dr Ifan Hughes and Dr Marek Szablewski on the Level 1 Laboratory web page.

Fundamental Physics @ Low Energies

5-7th April 2011

This workshop will be held jointly by Durham Atmol and the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology. The aim is to bring together theorists and experimentalists to explore avenues for finding new physics at low energies, or in other words without colliders. Topics include searches for particle dipole moments, sensitive tests of gravity, precision atomic spectroscopy and searches for axion like particles. For information click here, or contact Simon Gardiner or Matt Jones.

National Science and Engineering Week 2010

15–19 March 2010

The group has been awarded a grant to carry out a workshop in National Science and Engineering Week. The project, called "Hard data on a hot topic: Studying climate change with lasers", is a two hour workshop for sixth formers, and will be presented to five schools in five days! It aims to introduce real research methods to the students, and the complexity of interpreting real data. The interactive website for the project can be found here. Contact James for further information, such as if you would like to use the workshop in the future.