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Old News

4/9/10 - 4/11/10 "Spooky" computing display at UW Huskies Weekend in Pacific Science Center.

03/24/10 "Efficient Fluorescence Collection from Trapped Ions with an Integrated Spherical Mirror," G. Shu, N. Kurz, M. R. Dietrich and B. B. Blinov, [arXiv:0911.4958] Phys. Rev. A 81, 042321 (2010).

Ba ion now tweets (or does it twitter?)

11^th annual SQuInT workshop and IAS2 workshop (February 18 - 22 2009, Seattle, WA).

9/9/9 Single Ba ions imaged together with the linear trap apparatus. The tiny bright dot in the center of the image is the ion; the dark horizontal lines are the trap electrodes. The spherical mirror is in the background.

11/26/2008
Aaron receives prestigious Mary Gates Research Scholarship

5/16/2008
Peter, Nathan and Aaron give talks at the 11^th Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium

4/30/2008
Aaron receives a 2008 Washington Space Grant Summer Undergraduate Research Program stipend. He is also inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society.

4/29/2008
Matt takes first Hans G. Dehmelt Prize
Joanna gets the Higgs-Osborn Prize

4/25/2008 Two new papers on

"Precision measurement of the branching ratio in the 6P_3/2 decay of BaII with a single trapped ion" [arXiv:0804.4173] (accepted to PRA)

and

"Nuclear magnetic octupole moment and the hyperfine structure of the 5D_3/2,5/2 states of the Ba⁺ ion" [arXiv:0804.4317] (published in PRA).