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Research group hopes to win fans to science at Polyfest
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The eighth Asia Pacific Conference on Optical Sensors
The eighth Asia Pacific Conference on Optical Sensors (APOS) was held in Auckland over the 19-22 November in 2019. This conference bought together 175 Asian and Pacific researchers with a…
Lab In A Box will be at Polyfest 2020!
Look out for Lab In A Box at Polyfest 2020! The Dodd-Walls Centre has teamed up with Otago Museum to take the shipping container come science lab for a four…
Juggling three atoms
Dodd Walls researchers lead by Mikkel Andersen have achieved the first bottom-up assembly of three atoms held in an optical trap. A myriad of equipment including lasers, mirrors, a vacuum chamber,…
Julius von Haast Fellow Prof Gerd Leuchs visits Otago
The Julius von Haast Fellow, Prof Gerd Leuchs of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, visits DWC PI and host Harald Schwefel for a month…
Review in Advanced Quantum Technologies hits the cover
DWC Investigators Schwefel and Lambert publish their invited review on “Coherent Conversion Between Microwave and Optical Photons–An Overview of Physical Implementations” in Advanced Quantum Technologies and are featured on the…
No storm in a teacup
What happens when you stir a superfluid? Able to flow without resistance, superfluids respond by forming quantized vortices – tiny storms that interact with each other to create quantum turbulence….
Koala Student Conference
In early December, Otago Dodd-Walls students hosted the 12th Conference on Optics, Atoms and Laser Applications, known as KOALA. This is an annual, international student conference supported under the International…
Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi 2019 Research Honours
Last night, two of our industry-facing research stars were recognised for their research at the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi 2019 Research Honours. Professor Cather Simpson was awarded…
Amita Deb awarded 2019 MBIE Endeavour Round Smart Ideas funding
Our Dodd Walls Member Amita Deb has been awarded 2019 MBIE Endeavour Round Smart Ideas funding Dr Amita Deb from Otago’s Department of Physics has been awarded a 2019 MBIE…
The Super-Fridge arrives
The Dodd-Walls Center helium-3 dilution refrigerator has arrived and been commissioned. The fridge is the only one of it’s type in New Zealand. It enables objects to be cooled down…
DPC Conference
Dodd Walls researchers Mike Reid, Jon Wells and Jevon Longdell hosted the 20th International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids (DPC19) at the Chateau on the Park,…
New findings on Fluid Turbulence
Bryan Crump stirs a cup of tea with Dr. Ashton Bradley from Otago University. He’s part of a research collaboration with the University of Queensland which has just published a…
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell who discovered new state of matter
Eric Cornell is an American physicist who, with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the…
ICOLS 2019
The International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy is a biennial conference concerning developments and applications of precision measurement and control in atomic systems. The 24th ICOLS was held in Queenstown from…
ICAVS 2019
Over 300 people (290 from overseas and from 34 countries) collected in Auckland the week of 8 July 2019 to discuss the latest developments and applications of vibrational spectroscopy. The…
Nature Photonics published Octave-spanning parametric oscillators
Today DWC investigators Stuart Murdoch, Miro Erkintalo, Stéphan Coen and Harald Schwefel publish an article on generating an Octave-spanning tunable parametric oscillationin crystalline Kerr microresonators in Nature Photonics. This work…
Quantum jumps not so random after all
An atom in the ground state subject to weak illumination will jump up, in an instant, to the excited state at some random time. At least this is a standard…
Red Sock Award for DWC Member
DWC member Andrus Giraldo was one of the seven winners of the famous Red Sock Award for best poster at the biennial SIAM Conference on Applied Dynamical Systems, held with…
Techweek 2019
The DWC ran a highlight event in Auckland this year for Techweek19. It was a lively event with speakers including Hon Megan Woods, Prof Cather Simpson, and Charlotte Walshe. The…
Breakthrough research to revolutionise internet communication
A team of University of Otago/ Dodd-Walls Centre scientists have created a novel device that could enable the next generation of faster more energy efficient internet. Their breakthrough results have…
Breakthrough research to revolutionise internet communication
A team of University of Otago / Dodd-Walls Centre scientists have created a novel device that could enable the next generation of faster more energy efficient internet. Their breakthrough results…
Congratulations to Dodd-Walls Centre Board Member, Ian Taylor, on being named New Zealand Innovator of the Year for 2019
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/taylor-wins-innovator-year-award
Nature Communications Publication – Observation of bound state self-interaction in a nano-eV atom collider
Congratulations to Ryan Thomas, Matthew Chilcott, Amita Deb and Niels Kjaergaard on another Nature Communications publication.
Dodd-Walls Centre Members success in 2018 Marsden Round
Huge congratulations to Dodd-Wall Centre Members who were successful in the latest round of Marsden Grants for 2018. Computing with Walls of Light – Associate Professor Stephane Coen (PI) &…
Chair of the DWC’s Industry Advisory Board wins Australian Prime Minister 2018 Prize for Innovation
Congratulations to Dr Simon Poole and his team at Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) for winning the Australian Prime Minister Prize for Innovation for 2018. Simon is the Chair of the…