Outreach

Information about our work intended for a broad audience:

• A popular account of our work on Bose-Einstein condensation has appeared on February 5, 1998 in the periodical of Utrecht University, i.e., the U-blad. For more detailed information you can also look at the inaugural address of Henk Stoof.
• A contribution to the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde [NTvN 69, 286 (2003)] on the topic of atom-molecule oscillations can be found here.
• There have appeared both a News Focus in Science and a News Feature in Nature on the race to achieve superfluidity in an atomic Fermi gas. The national newspaper the Volkskrant was interested as well.
• Our proposal to create a nonrelativistic supersting with ultracold atoms was noticed by PhysicsWeb and KennisLink. Also the national newspaper the Volkskrant reported on our work. We have written a contribution to the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde [NTvN 71, 248 (2005)] on this topic.
• A summary of our work on imbalanced Fermi gases appeared on the FOM website. A Physics News Update was devoted to related work in collaboration with the experimental group of Randy Hulet. You can also look at a News Focus in Science.
• Koos Gubbels has written a contribution to the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde [NTvN 75, 144 (2009)] on the famous Renormalization Group paper of Kenneth Wilson.
• A summary of our proposal to observe spin transport ('spin drag') in ultracold Bose gases has recently appeared on the FOM website. Our proposal was also discussed by Marco Polini and Giovanni Vignale in a Viewpoint Commentary in Physics [Physics 2, 87 (2009)]. In addition, it was noticed by ScienceGuide and blikopnieuws.nl. We have also written a contribution to the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde [NTvN 76, 292 (2010)] on this topic.
• The observation of preformed Cooper pairs in a semiconductor by the group of Jaap Dijkhuis was noticed by KennisLink and a summary of this work appeared on the FOM website.

On Tuesday March 26, 2002 Randy Hulet received an honorary doctorate from Utrecht University. See also the U-blad of March 21, 2002.

In 2003 Henk Stoof received the prestigious VICI (Innovative Research Incentive Scheme) award from NWO.

In 2006 Henk Stoof was elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society. The citation of the Council of the American Physical Society reads as follows: "For pioneering contributions to the many-body theory of ultracold atomic gases, and especially for the development of the theory of Feshbach resonances in strongly interacting Bose and Fermi gases."

In 2007 Rembert Duine received the prestigious VIDI award from NWO. In 2008 he received an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant.

In 2007 Henk Stoof was added to the Utrecht University Gallery of Honor.

In 2008 Usama Al Khawaja received the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers.

In 2008 Michiel Snoek received a VENI award from NWO.

In 2009 Dries van Oosten received the prestigious VIDI award from NWO.

The lecture notes of the course on Statistical Field Theory are presently being used in the Master's programme in Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University. These lecture notes have evolved into the textbook Ultracold Quantum Fields jointly published by Canopus Publishing and Springer. A review of this book by Peter McClintock appeared in Contemporary Physics. There exists also a customer review at Amazon.com and a list of errata.

In 2010 Koos Gubbels received the annual award given by the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde for the best paper written by a PhD student in Physics. A summary of his thesis on Exotic Superfluidity in Imbalanced Fermi Gases appeared on the NWO website and on PhysOrg.com.

On April 1-2, 2010 the 60th birthday of Steve Girvin was celebrated at the High Magnetic Field Lab in Tallahassee, Florida.

In 2011 Koos Gubbels received a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.

In 2012 Henk Stoof was elected as an Outstanding Referee of the Americal Physical Society.