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September 2011
Yuqiang Wu has successfully defended
his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
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June
2011
Kevin O'Keeffe joins the group through the Tyndall
UREKA site.
April
2011
Group leader, Síle Nic Chormaic, has been
made an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of
Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
March
2011
Congratulations to Laura Russell for winning UCC's
Science for All Postgraduate Public Presentation Competition, speaking
on her research topic "The coldest place in Ireland".
January
2011
Kieran Deasy successfully defends his PhD
thesis. Well done, Dr. Deasy!
Malehoholono
(Poppy) Semonyo, a
doctoral student from UKZN, Durban, South Africa joins the group
for one month skills training. |
November
2010
Ashling Creedon and
Galvin Khara join
the group for their final year projects.
Don
O'Neill joins the group as an intern for one year. |
June 2010
Norma
O'Mahony (UCC) joins the group as an undergraduate summer
student.
May 2010
Well done to Laura Russell who won
the Shell &
Institute of Physics Award for the Very Early Career Woman Physicist
in Ireland and UK.
March
2010
Congratulations
to Mark
Daly for winning the Institute of Physics in Ireland Rosse Medal
for postgraduate research.
Congratulations to Jonathan Ward who has won an IRCSET Inspire Fellowship to work in
the Humboldt University Berlin and UCC.
November 2009
Michael
Morrissey and Jonathan Ward
graduate from Cork Institute of Technology with PhDs.
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October 2009
Mark
Daly joins the group for his MSc.
Evan Ryan joins the group for his final year undergraduate project. |
September
2009
Well done to Laura
Russell for winning
1st Prize in the Student Poster Competition
at Photonics Ireland 2009.
Congratulations to Michael Morrissey
and Jonathan Ward for successfully
defending their PhD theses. |
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.
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February 2009
POSTGRADUATE
VACANCY: MSc
Position on "Manipulation Schemes for Cold Atoms"- fully funded by
Science Foundation Ireland. Click here
for details.
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January
2009
Mark
Daly, Frances Lordan and Alex
Petcu join the group for 4th year honours projects. |
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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-South
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.
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