Ana Maria Rey

I graduated from Auburn University in 2013 with degrees in physics & philosophy, and subsequently started my graduate studies at CU Boulder. I joined Ana Maria Rey’s group in the fall of 2015 as an experimentalist working in the Ion Storage Group at NIST. I work on the Penning Trap quantum simulation experiment with John Bollinger (NIST). Our work is focused on engineering interactions between hundreds of ions in a 2D crystalline array to study quantum many-body dynamics and produce metrologically useful entangled states.

I obtained my B.Sc. in physics at Tsinghua University in 2018, and subsequently became a Ph.D. student in the Rey Theory Group at the University of Colorado Boulder. My research interests are mainly in the realization and characterization of exotic quantum many-body phenomena in highly controllable ultracold atomic systems. I'm currently focusing on the non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum spin model based on trapped bosonic gas platform and photon-mediated interactions of alkaline earth atoms in optical cavity.

I received my B.Sc. in physics at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2013 and received a M.Sc. degree in quantum optics at the same place in 2016. I enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017 and joined Professor’s Rey group at the end of the same year.

I graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) in Rajasthan, India with a double-major in Physics and Mechanical Engineering in 2019. I joined CU Boulder as a graduate student in 2019 and joined Prof. Rey's group in the summer of 2020. I am currently working towards understanding the effects of dipole-dipole interactions in multi-level atoms and drawing comparisons with the widely-studied case of two-level atoms in optical lattices.

I received my B.S. in physics and in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 2013 and my Ph.D. in physics at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2019. I joined Professor Rey's group as an NRC postdoc in 2020. 

I did my MSc and PhD at the University of Heidelberg, and I joined Rey's group as a Postdoc in the beginning of 2018. I am broadly interested in the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of many-body quantum systems, both from a fundamental point of view as well as for applications in quantum technologies. During my PhD I studied the emergence of universal dynamics in ultracold quantum gases and the quench dynamics of Rydberg gases in collaboration with an experimental group at Heidelberg.

Itamar Kimchi did his Ph.D. work with Prof. Ashvin Vishwanath at the University of California, Berkeley. His undergraduate studies, in physics and mathematics, were done at MIT. He then returned to MIT as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics before joining JILA as an NRC fellow. Itamar was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and grew up there and in Rockville, Maryland.  

I received my B.S. degree at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013, and then I enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado Boulder. I joined Professor Rey’s theory group at the beginning of 2014. My interests include cold atom systems and the super-radiance laser. I am currently working on exploring the synchronization phenomenon with three-level atoms coupled to a large decay cavity.

I obtained my MSc in 2013 at the University of Munich and my PhD in 2016 at the University of Cambridge.

My PhD Research focussed on the interplay of periodic driving (Floquet systems), e.g. to induce synthetic gauge fields, and many-body interactions, in cold atomic systems. It aimed to understand deleterious heating effects observed in experiment, and to design experimental protocols to avoid these opening up the possibility to access strongly interacting periodically driven many-body phases.