Congratulations to Dr. William Cole (August 2014), Dr. Eric Duchon (December 2013), Dr. Nganba Meetei (August 2014), and Dr. Mason Swanson (August 2014) for successfully completing their Ph.D.s! Will is doing post-doctoral research with Sankar das Sarma at the University of Maryland, Eric is working at BAE systems, Nganba is doing a post-doctoral position with Craig Fennie and Eun-ah Kim at Cornell University, and Mason will be working at Epic Systems. We wish all of them luck in their future endeavors!

Undergraduate students Robert Ivancic and Natalie Zeleznik presented their research projects at the annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Congratulations guys!

Several group members recently presented their research at the 2014 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver, CO.

Graduate Students
William Cole: Spin-orbit coupled bosons in optical lattices
Nganba Meetei: Novel magnetic state in d4 Mott insulators
Mason Swanson: Dynamical conductivity across the superconductor-insulator transition

Undergraduate student
Robert Ivancic: Spectral functions in the 1D and 2D Bose-Hubbard model

Congratulations to the following students for winning the 2013 Department of Physics Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarships:

Robert Ivancic
Nickolas Sedlock
Nathan Turner