Vlad Ivanov
Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases
at the University of Washington
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- PI
- Subhadeep Gupta
- Post Docs
- Daniel Allman
- Graduate Students
- Tahiyat Rahman
- Cole Williams
- Emmett Hough
- Harini Ravi
- Undergraduate Students
- Richard Kim
- Ian Wang
- Forest Tschirhart
"Joe Cool, in person"
Vlad is actually a machine from the future, cunningly disguised as a Post-Doc. His original mission may have been to prepare the earth for a robot apocalypse, but, luckily, he was captured by Deep and reprogrammed to care most strongly about ultra-cold Ytterbium experiments.
Thus, Vlad works daily on creating sufficient blue and green light to slow and trap Ytterbium atoms. For some reason he thinks this is incredibly important, and we don't wish to dissuade him.
In order to trick the machines of the future and avoid what would surely be gruesome revenge, we have devised a completely believable backstory for Vlad's arrival, including an undergrad in Odessa, Ukraine, Ph.D at the University of Amsterdam and a previous Post-Doc position at LENS in Florence. What, that's believable, right?
Vlad telekinetically aligning the laser optics.