February 5, 2025
Elliott 014 now contains the coolest spot on campus. The MOT is operational baby!
December 3, 2024
Jamal Mohammad Khani successfully defended his thesis and becomes the first MSc graduate of the UVAMO group. HUGE!
November 12, 2024
Our paper 'Portable real-time polarimeter for partially and fully polarized light' was accepted for publication in Review of Scientific Instruments. Congrats team!
September 1, 2024
Yuyang Liu joins the Group as a new MSc Student. Welcome!
June 1, 2024
We welcome Akash Saji and Andres Felipe-Ramos as MITACS globolink international scholars.
May 6, 2024
We welcome Lauren Hall as a summer research intern.
May 1, 2024
Brendan Mackey and Owen Sandner will be working with us this summer as NSERC RTI scholars. Congrats Owen and Brendan!
February 29, 2024
Hayden Presents his work on the MOT at UVic's Honours Fest.
January 29, 2024
Andrew wins the University-Wide Gilian Sherwin Award for Teaching.
September 7, 2023
Hayden Snauwaert has been award a Jamie Cassels (JCURA) research award to build a cold atom trap in our lab. Incredibly ... cool. Congrats Hayden!
September 1, 2023
Another summer of research under our belt. We entangled some photons, locked some lasers, soldered some circuits, and blew a few things up. All good things.
April 18, 2023
We welcome another cluster of talented student for a summer of epic research! We welcome new members Max Brown, Will Stokes, Neelam Esmail, Ash Enefer, Zaina Siddiqui, Diana Gao, Owen Sandner, Hayden Snauwaert, Brendan Mackey, and Thomas Bourguois. Matt Newton is rejoining us!
March 12, 2023
Owen Sandner has been awarded a Valerie Kuhn research fellowship to work with the UVAMO lab this Summer. Welcome, and congrats Owen!
Feb 21, 2023
Maxwell Brown has joined the team and will be working on the polarimeter!
September 12, 2022
We've received a NSERC Quantum Alliance Catalyst grant for studying Quantum Memories with nonclassical light!
Aug 1, 2022
Jamal receives the CREATE scholarship for his MSc degree. Congrats!
July 15, 2022
Jamal Mohammad Khani will be joining the UVic AMO lab as a MSc Student. Welcome!
May 4, 2022
We welcome another cluster of talented student for a summer of epic research! We welcome new members Kje Rybar, Arsh Singh, Matt Newton, Nishith Eluri, and Charlie Squires. Kenny, Jake, and Ben are rejoining us!
February 15, 2022
Ben has been awarded a SURA grant for developing a laser stabilization system this summer. Congrats Ben!
September 1, 2021
Super productive and fun Summer. Now Kenny is writing his honours thesis with the lab!
June 20, 2021
Jake and Kenny are officially employed by the lab as Co-op students
May 3, 2021
We welcome 6 new team members: Ben, Jake, Kenny, Kevin, Sarah and Seth for the summer project of laser source creation!
April 15, 2021
We've received and NSERC discovery grant for studying Collective Spin Excitation in Rb Vapour!
April 1, 2021
The Uvic AMO Lab, Mark2 is officially happening, starting this summer. Stay Tuned!
March, 2020
2020 is not looking like a productive year. We're going into hibernation ... See you in 2021!
July, 2019
Swapnil has been awarded a JCURA scholarship for his work on making better Diode Lasers. Congrats Swapnil!
May 4, 2019
We welcome new summer lab members: Janay, Jakob, Afif, Scott, Aydan, Dezy, Sierra, and Noah. It's going to be a good summer!
May 4, 2019
Congrats to Alex, Joe, and Devon who crushed their undergraduate thesis presentations and are officially cleared to graduate.
March 22, 2019
Alex's poster won the physics and astronomy sections (and won a wad of cold, hard, cash) in this year's honours-fest. Congrats Alex!