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: Can the Denver, Boulder area be an epicenter for the next great tech boom?
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A recent article in the Denver Post highlights a possible technology boom happening right here in the Denver and Boulder area. 

: Jun Ye Interviewed by Buff Innovator Insights Podcast
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JILA Fellow Jun Ye is interviewed for the Buff Innovator Insights Podcast hosted by the CU Boulder Research & Innovation Office. 

: Jun Ye wins 2020 Micius Quantum Prize
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The Micius Quantum Prize recognizes significant scientific advances ranging from the early conceptual contributions to the recent experimental breakthroughs. The Micius Quantum Prize 2020 focuses on the broadly defined field of quantum metrology, recognizing scientific advances ranging from early conceptual contributions to experimental breakthroughs. The laureates this year are Carlton Caves, Hidetoshi Katori, and Jun Ye.

: OSTP Quantum Division Highlights Q-SEnSE Leadership in Quantum Sensing
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Led by CU Boulder and designed to push the frontiers of quantum sensing, Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and Engineering (Q-SEnSE) involves 37 researchers from 11 institutes located in 6 different states (and one collaborating from Europe). 

: Jun Ye named 2020 Highly Cited Researcher
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JILA fellow Jun Ye has been named Highly Cited Researcher for 2020 by Clarivate Analytics. Ye has been awarded the Highly Cited Researcher in the field of physics every year since 2014.

: JILA’s Jun Ye named to National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
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Quantum science has the potential to further revolution technology in several fields, from computing to communication. As a world-renowned leader in the field, JILA Fellow Jun Ye will advise U.S. leaders on ways to bring these advances out of the lab and into real-world applications.

: New $115 Million Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Quantum Technologies for Discovery Science
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A new national quantum research center draws on JILA Fellows' and their expertise to make the United States an international leader in quantum technology.

: Jun Ye to Lead New $25 Million Quantum Science and Engineering Institute
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JILA Fellow Jun Ye will head new science and engineering institute to bring quantum discoveries out of the lab and into real-world applications.

: JILA Helps Design Alarms for Ventilators in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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In the midst of a global pandemic, researchers and engineers find partnerships in unexpected places.

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

: JILA team demonstrates model system for distribution of more accurate time signals
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With a super-steady laser, JILA has improved the way we keep time around the world. 

: Former JILA research associate wins 2019 Packard Fellowship
Shimon Kolkowitz, former JILA research associate in the Ye group, won the 2019 Packard Fellowship

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

: JILA postdoctoral researcher Marissa Weichman wins poster prize
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NIST NRC postdoctoral fellow in the Ye Group won the poster competition at a recent conference.

: Thinh Bui wins Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize
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Thinh Bui, a postdoctoral researcher in Jun Ye's group, won an early career prize from the journal Molecular Physics.

: CUBit meets with Congress
Dr. Jun Ye meets with the Office of Science and Technology in DC

Delegates from the University of Colorado Boulder went to Washington, D.C. to discuss the CUBit Quantum Initiative.

: Marit Fiechter wins SPIN prize for best undergraduate physics thesis
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Marit Fiechter, an undergraduate at the University of Groningen and former JILA student, won the SPIN prize for best undergraduate thesis project.

: Anna McAuliffe wins APS CUWiP Poster Award
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CU Boulder student and JILA undergraduate researcher Anna McAuliffe won the poster competition at the 2019 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics held at Utah State University.

McAuliffe’s poster detailed the build and installation of a cryogenic hexapole designed to mitigate clog issues in an OH decelerator. This work was the latest effort of researchers working under JILA Fellow Jun Ye to increase the density of the molecular beam.

: Jun Ye and Deborah Jin named 2018 Highly Cited Researchers
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JILA Fellows Jun Ye and Deborah Jin (1968 to 2016) have been named Highly Cited Researchers for 2018 by Clarivate Analytics.The list of Highly Cited Researchers, published annually since 2014, recognizes scientists across the world who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.

: Jun Ye awarded APS Ramsey Prize
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The American Physical Society announced JILA Fellow Jun Ye as the recipient of the 2019 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries. Ye was recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to precision measurements and the quantum control of atomic and molecular systems, including atomic clocks.

: Sara Campbell wins 2018 Laser Dissertation Award
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Former JILAn Dr. Sara Campbell won the 2018 American Physical Society’s Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award for her doctoral work on the world’s most precise atomic clock. Campbell’s thesis, entitled “A Fermi-degenerate three-dimensional optical lattice clock”, detailed how the high densities of a degenerate Fermi gas held in an optical lattice could be used to prevent interaction shifts. In this thesis, Campbell demonstrated an unprecedented level of atom-light coherence.

Sara Campbell was a JILA graduate student in the Ye group  until May 2017. She is now studying phase contrast electron microscopy as a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley. Earlier this month, Campbell was named a HHMI Hannah Gray Fellow.