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OLD NEWS
June 2009
NOIs project receives funding from NanoSci-E+ and SFI.   Vacancy for postdoc through NOIs.  See Vacancies link for more details.

May 2009

Jonathan Ward wins Second Prize in the BOC Student Award run by Tyndall National Institute based on his research outputs.  Congratulations, Jonathan!
April 2009
Kieran Deasy wins Third Prize in the Rosse Medal Student Prize at the Institute of Physics in Ireland Sping Weekend.  Well done, Kieran!  His work can be seen  here.


IOP President, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell presenting the third prize to Kieran Deasy.

Mary Frawley joins the group as a postgraduate student.  Regine Schmidt joins as an ESF exchange researcher.  Welcome to both our new group members.
March 2009
We are co-organising 
in Kinsale, Ireland from 14-16 September 2009. 

We are co-organising  in the University of Leeds, UK from 7-11 September 2009. 
February 2009
POSTGRADUATE VACANCY:  MSc Position on "Manipulation Schemes for Cold Atoms"- fully funded by Science Foundation Ireland.  Click here for details.
January 2009
Mark Daly, Frances Lordan and Alex Petcu join the group for 4th year honours projects.
November 2008
QUANTUM FAIR  - ask the experts everything you ever wanted to know about quantum mechanics!  5.30pm-7pm 10th November, outside Boole 4, UCC.

PUBLIC LECTURE by Prof. Anton Zeilinger on "Quantum Puzzles and their Applications in Future Technologies", 7pm 10th November, Boole 4, UCC. 


Prof. Anton Zeilinger in UCC, Cork .


Thejesh Bandi awarded MSc degree for his thesis on "Cold atom physics: trapping methods and detection schemes".


October 2008

Amy Watkins and Laura Russell join the group as Embark Scholars.

The
1st North-So
uth Quantum Information Meeting sponsored by Science Foundation Ireland took place from 29th to 31st October in Rosscarbery.


   Participants at the 1st North-South Quantum Information Meeting.


August
2008
Resonance fluorescence from trapped Rb atoms coupled into an optical fibre.  For details contact Michael Morrissey.

 
July 2008
Patrick Kelleher joins the group as a summer project student from University College Cork's Physics Department.

Shrabana Chakrabarti joins the group as a Research Assistant from the University of Calcutta, India.


June 2008

Síle Nic Chormaic wins the President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning 2007-2008 for her work on "Benefitting the student experience through e-based learning". 

Juan Yi (Beijing University of Technology, China) joined the group on the SFI-funded Tyndall UREKA site on 16th June for 11 weeks.

Earlier news
Quantum Engineering Workshop  PHOTOS





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