CMQM conf in St And brought diverse experts together, from hard CM to polaritons. Hopefully this will result in collaborations between traditionally non-overlapping fields. Thanks to Peter Wahl for heavy lifting.⁦@wahl_group⁩ ⁦@univofstandrews⁩ ⁦@PhysAstroStAnd⁩

A very clear and honest talk on quantum computers by Oliver Brown from Edinburgh at the start of Quantum ARC kickoff meeting ⁦@QCSHub⁩ ⁦@QT_Alliance⁩

Our @cdtap students are talented in poetry as well as physics!

Sara and Anindya had fun explaining the working principles of a Michelson interferometer with a live demo in our public outreach day on Saturday.

In Scotland our air is so clean that we could do thin film deposition ouside.

Congratulations to Dr Konstantinos Orfanakis for passing his PhD viva today. It only took 4 hours 😱, I think he deserved that Champagne. @KOrfanakis @PhysAstroStAnd

Our first group social after almost two years. It’s nice to be normal (ish). From right to left: Kostas, Hamid, Sai, Anindya, Cory and Tomasz. Thanks to Sai for organising it!

We're welcoming (mostly virtually) Anindya Paul after a long self-isolation for his PhD. He is a joint student between our group and Thomas Volz at Macquarie University in Sydney, and will be working on the strong coupling of Rydberg excitons!🥳

Donatella introduced a cool method for fixing intensity and phase of a beam using an SLM by the method of conjugate gradient minimisation at the Non-equilibrium Phenomena Conference in Newcastle arxiv.org/abs/1408.0188 @UltracoldStAnd @jqcDurNew @PhysAstroStAnd

Really enjoyed the talk on cold atoms in quasicrystals by Ulrich Schneider from Cambridge in Newcastle ⁦@CaMBQD⁩ ⁦@jqcDurNew⁩

Helpful and relevant interview with our students and staff on Mental Well-being in Academia youtube.com/watch?v=UOXpaBx5…