After 5 weeks in the lab, Aiswarya Edakkandiyil is close to the end of her stay among us. She is a visiting phD student from Pr. K.George Thomas group who came to characterize her chiral molecules on our polarimetry experiment.

10 years after his departure from the lab, where he was working as a postdoctoral researcher, we are also hosting Atef Shalabney, but for a longer time. Indeed, Atef will be with us till next summer, in detachment from Ort Braude College. He is staying in room 131.

In the framework of the CAPES COFECUB program, we are welcoming since one week Felipe Rosa, assistant professor from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for 2 months in our lab. Felipe is a specialist of Casimir forces. He will be in office 104. Don’t hesitate to pass by if you wish to meet him !

To finish, our former student, Shahana Nizar, now in postdoc in University of Parma, was missing the Mueller setup and she is back this week for some more experiments. You can find her behind the black curtain in room 121.

Welcome to all of you !

We had the pleasure to welcome Dr Kalaivanan Nagarajan, who was a postdoc in our lab from 2017 to 2022, for a few days this week. He naturally reinvested his office 108 shared with Dr Eloïse Devaux, as his name is still on the door, and gave us a nice talk entitled “Perturbing a Chemical Equilibrium through Vibrational Strong Coupling”, about the latest research that he is conducting in his group at TIFR (Tata Institute of Fudamental Research), Mumbai.

Since almost two weeks, we have the pleasure to welcome back Luis Pires, now assistant professor at the Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil), for one month in the lab. And next week, Atef Shalabney, from Braude College (Karmiel, Israel), will also come back for a shorter one week stay. Who else is missing the lab and Strasbourg winter cold ?

Since the end of last week, Pr Paulo Maia Neto, from Physics Institute of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is back in Strasbourg for a one month stay, as last year, in the context of the CAPES COFECUB project we are sharing together.

Moreover, he will give a the seminar entitled

The Casimir Interaction in Electrolyte Solutions

on Thursday December 19th at 10.30 am, at ISIS (meeting room, ground floor). If you wish to meet him, don’t hesitate to contact Dr Cyriaque Genet.

We will have the pleasure to host in our lab Pr Paulo Maia Neto, from Physics Institute of UFRJ, Brazil, for a full month from December 6. He is a specialist in quantum optics, Casimir physics, quantum optomechanics and optical tweezers. During his stay, he will give two lectures in the framework of the Physics Doctoral School

– Lecture 1 (December 11, 4pm) : Decoherence of massive particles by radiation pressure

– Lecture 2 (December 20, 4pm) : Dynamical Casimir effects with atoms

You can find more details about the lectures, that will take place in the auditorium of IPCMS, Cronenbourg Campus, on this page.

If you wish to meet Pr Maia Neto during his stay, don’t hesitate to contact Dr Cyriaque Genet.