JILA News

The Baur-SPIE Endowed Chair in Optics and Photonics is thanks to a $2.5 million gift from private donors, SPIE and CU.

Welcome our new NIST Quantum Physics Division Chief, Andrew Wilson.

JILA Fellow Konrad Lehnert has been awarded the Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award.

The Office of Naval Research program rewards early career scientists “who show exceptional promise for doing creative research”—and JILA's Adam Kaufman's work with optical tweezers has earned that recognition.

JILA Fellow Jason Dexter has been selected for a 2020 Sloan Fellowship. 

Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn are the third married couple to win the coveted award from The Franklin Institute.

JILA Quantum Physics Division Chief Thomas O'Brian passed away on Thursday, November 21 at the age of 64.

JILA Fellows Deborah Jin and Jun Ye were named Most Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics for 2019.

This month on CU on the Air we welcomed CU Boulder Professor Ana Maria Rey, a theoretical physicist and fellow at JILA. Professor Rey has earned multiple awards for her groundbreaking research, including the coveted MacArthur Genius Fellowship and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She earned the Alexander Cruickshank Award in 2017 and 2019, and became the first Hispanic woman to win the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. Professor Rey studies the interface between atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, and quantum informational science.

With a super-steady laser, JILA has improved the way we keep time around the world. 

Shimon Kolkowitz, a former JILA research associate, won the 2019 Packard Fellowship.

Dexter is one of the 347 scientists who worked on the Event Horizon Telescope.

Chris Kiehl, a graduate student in the Regal Group, won a prize for his poster on quantum sensing and metrology at a conference in Germany this summer. 

"You can't understand a planet without studying its host star."

JILA Fellow Adjunct Peter Conti gets his name in on a minor planet.

Late JILA Fellow Deborah Jin's life and work continues to influence science around the world. Now she's being honored with a new fellowship in her name.

NIST NRC postdoctoral fellow in the Ye Group won the poster competition at a recent conference.

NASA hoped the experiments from Apollo 11 would last a decade. One has outlasted all the others. Fifty years later, the Laser Ranging Retroreflector is the last working experiment on the moon from Apollo 11. Dr. James Faller reflects on its legacy.

It's been 50 years since Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The last operating experiment from that mission was developed at JILA by Dr. James Faller. 

Known as the "young Nobels", JILA's own Ana Maria Rey has won a Blavatnik National Award.