Verònica was member of the PhD thesis commitee of Marco Cominotti.

Jordi gave the talk Spatial adiabatic passage with matter waves, Joan, Juan Luís and Verònica presented the posters Subwavelength localization via adiabatic passage: nanolithography, coherent patterning of matter-waves, single-site addressing in optical lattices, and nanoscopy,  Loading and transport of matter-waves in ring potentials via spatial adiabatic passage and Spatial adiabatic passage of light and sound waves, respectively.

Àlex receives the award to the “Outstanding contribution of a young researcher to RNO IX” by the Optical Society of America.

Àlex gave two talks Photophoretic trapping of absorbing particles with conical refraction and Reconstruction of conically refracted Gaussian beams after an obstruction. Verònica also a talk about Two-dimensional spatial adiabatic passage of matter waves: interferometry, angular momentum and geometric phases.

Àlex gave the talk Advances  in  optical  trapping  with  conical  refraction and Joan spoke about the Analysis beyond the Thomas-Fermi approximation of the density profiles of a miscible two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Our recently published paper Light propagation in biaxial crystals has been highlighted as Paper of the Week by Journal of Optics. 

http://iopscience.iop.org/2040-8986/17/6/065603/article

Do not miss the corresponding LabTalk! 

http://iopscience.iop.org/2040-8986/labtalk-article/61948

Àlex presented the poster A mesoscopic blue-detuned light ring for Bose-Einstein Condensates based on conical refraction.

Joan and Àlex presented a poster and Verònica gave the talk Dynamical control of matter-wave transport in tunnelling-coupled few-traps systems.