Dr Billam arrives
Dr Tom Billam has arrived from the University of Durham to start a postdoc position with Ashton studying superfluid turbulence.
May. 2012.
Funding Success
The Kjaergaard experimental group has been awarded a Marsden grant to produce an ultra-cold atomic collider for high precision collision spectroscopy. This work will involve theoretical calculations within the BTG group using DSMC methods. For relevant theoretical techniques developed by our group see here.
Oct. 2011.
Dr Martin arrives
Dr Andrew Martin has arrived from the University of Southampton to start a postdoc position with Blair studying dipolar systems.
Nov. 2010.
Funding Success
Ashton has been awarded a 5 year Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Related ODT article.
Nov. 2010.
Funding Success
Ashton has been awarded a Marsden Fast Start grant to study The Birth, Life, and Death of a Quantum Vortex Dipole. This work will be carried out in collaboration with Prof. Brian P. Anderson's group at the University of Arizona.
Sept. 2010.
Physics Viewpoint
Recent work by Ashton and collaborators in Queensland and Arizona on vortex anti-vortex pair formation has appeared in Physical Review Letters, and featured in the Physics Viewpoint article:
Observing the Dance of a vortex dipole, step by step, by Peter Engels.
April 2010.
Funding Success
Blair and Ashton have been awarded a JSPS-FRST IIOF grant for developing a finite temperature theory of spinor Bose gases in conjuncation with Yuki Kawaguchi's group at the University of Tokyo.
Dec 2009.
Funding Success
Blair has been awarded a Marsden grant to study The Quantum Dipole Gas. This project will develop new methods for simulating the dynamics of dipolar Bose gases at finite temperature.
Nov 2009.
Funding Success
Danny has been awarded a TEC Top Achiever Doctoral PhD Scholarship. Related ODT article.
Sept 2009.
