The (temporary) lab is up(ish) and running

Unpacking boxes is fun - but it is more fun if you don’t know what is inside and you don’t have over 50 of them…! After many days of unwrapping our equipment we started setting up the first experiment at UVic and Deniz was able to obtain a signal with our fiber-optic vibration probe and test equipment. Now we just need an earthquake (no, not really)

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Adam obtains M.Sc. degree

On May 7, 2020 and under the most adverse circumstances. Adam Bernicky successfully defended his M.Sc thesis on Hadamard Transform Fluorescence EEM spectroscopy!

All examiners were connected through teleconferencing software since the pandemic would not allow us to hold a defense face-to-face. Examiners were in two different timezones and covered a vast range of topics, yet Adam delivered a masterclass on how to excel in an M.Sc. defense.. Congratulations, Adam!

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Turning droplets into lasers - Research Visit to Gagliardi's Group

Thank you to Dr. Gianluca Gagliardi and his group for welcoming Deniz and Peter to a 3-week stay in his lab to study brightly glowing liquid droplets! Our trip to the CNR – Istituto Nazionale di Ottica in Pozzuoli, Italy, included visits to Pompeii and Capri, lots of pizza, the best seafood on the planet, and some of the most “intense” traffic imaginable. Oh, and really awesome science, of course.

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We are moving to Victoria!

Almost the entire lab was boxed up and shipped across the country.

After 21 years at Queen’s University, Loock Laser Lab moves to the University of Victoria. For Peter it is wonderful (and weird) to return to the university where he graduated in 1996. The rest of the group is apprehensive. Are Victorians friendly? How is the new space? Can we afford living there? Only time will tell. But first we need to unpack a huge number of boxes..!

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