Nemi won the award for her poster presented at Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Poster Session. She worked on developing power control and image acquisition software for MAGIS-100 Distributed Imaging System (DIS) over the summer.
Congrats, Nemi!
We had an in-person MAGIS-100 Collaboration Meeting at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois!
We have very exciting updates from many people, yet a lot more exciting work to be done in the next several years.
Our recent paper, "Novel Light-field Imaging Device with Enhanced Light Collection for Cold Atom Clouds", is accepted for publication on Journal of Instrumentation. The team's work on this device also got a public article published by SLAC News, and the article got shared across many other web pages, including on Phys.org.
Congratulations, team!
Murtaza successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled "A Novel Search for Exotic Decays of the Higgs Boson with the ATLAS Detector and Enhancing the Physics Potential of the LHC and Atom Interferometers with New Techniques." As the name indicates, his PhD covered a wide range of very exciting, very hard work! Congrats, Dr. Safdari!
Murtaza will continue his physics career as a post-doc at Fermilab.
Sanha got invited to give an introductory lecture at the US ATLAS Machine Learning Training Event held at LBNL.
Sanha got invited to give a talk at the APS DSECOP workshop, held at University of Maryland, College Park. The talk was based on the experience designing, developing, and teaching PHYSICS 166/266 at Stanford, along with Prof. Ariel Schwartzman.
The pre-print for our new paper, "Novel Light Field Imaging Device with Enhanced Light Collection for Cold Atom Clouds", is up on arXiv!
This new imaging device demonstrates spatially multiplexed, light-field imaging technique for cold atom clouds and other minuscule objects. The device utilizes mirrors to collect multiple views of the target object in a single shot. This approach collects more light and also 3D information inaccessible in conventional imaging. The paper also demonstrates a full 3D reconstruction, using a NeRF-like deep-learning-based computer vision tool.
After years of hard work, Prof. Ariel Schwartzman got promoted to a full professor, from an associate professor! Congratulations! Well deserved!
A new Snowmass review paper, "New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter", is up on arXiv!
Sanha and Murtaza from the group contributed with a dedicated section on long-baseline atom interferometers, highlighting the potential of MAGIS and other atom interferometers for ultra-light, wave-like dark matter searches.