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JQI fellow and University of Maryland physics professor Victor Galitski, has been awarded a Simons Foundation Investigator grant, entailing a million-dollar unrestricted research fund to be used over a ten-year period.

Work hard, play hard. That's what they say. Researchers from JQI went out for a little fun in Laurel. Check out the gallery to relive the fun of curling! (Photos courtesy of Trey Porto)

In early March, the NIST chapter of Sigma Xi held the 20th annual postdoc poster presentation. JQI/NIST postdoc Matthew Beeler, who works for Ian Spielman, received first prize. He presented results on the spin Hall effect in a BEC. Charles Clark's post doc Ryan Wilson earned second prize in the same category: Physics, Engineering and Mathematics. His poster focused on dipolar interactions in BEC. For more information on the event visit Sigma Xi's site.

JQI fellow and University of Maryland physics professor Victor Galitski, Jr. has just published a majesterial book called Exploring Quantum Mechanics. To be exact, the book has several additional authors: Victor Galitski (professor Galitski’s grandfather), Boris Karnakov, and Vladimir Kogan. The book consists of 700 problems in quantum mechanics along with worked-out answers. The problems have been collected over about 60 years, first by the lead author, the late Prof. Victor Galitski, Sr. Over the years, new problems were added and the material polished by Prof. Boris Karnakov.