Due to an initial interest in sympathetic cooling of Lithium-6 with Ultra-Cold Rubidium isotopes our lab in Vancouver Canada found itself dealing with multi-species traps and being drawing into a wide variety of studies of collisions with cold atoms. I will provide an overview of our collision experiments...

Motion of cells, and motion within cells, often entails fluctuations that have a strongly Brownian character.  However, these motions are driven by the molecular motors within the cells, rather than by thermal motion.  This talk will describe the use of simple optical methods to measure this motion,...

In 1696 Isaac Newton left Cambridge ‘ his home and workplace for thirty five years ‘ to move to a new job in London as Warden of the Royal Mint.  It was supposed to be a sinecure, a no-show job.  It wasn’t.  Instead, Newton found himself in charge of remaking England’s entire...

On March 3 – 5, 2011, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, will host the Spring 2011 Joint Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students. The...

In this talk I will present two ultracold atom experiments, one exploring 6Li-40K Fermi mixtures and the other quantum degenerate gases of strontium. The first experiment has the goal to create a new class of strongly interacting many-body quantum systems. After careful characterization of the interspecies...