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2020

  • Mar 30, 2020, Toshiaki's recent work "Torque and Angular Momentum Transfer in Merging Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates" has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. See news report [ Maglab News] and [ FSU News]
  • Apr 1, 2020, our collaborative work "Imaging Fluorescence of He2 Excimers Created by Neutron Capture in Liquid Helium II", which Dr. Shiran Bao made significant contribution, has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and selected as an Editor's Suggestion article. See [ FSU News]

2019

  • May 2, 2019, Dr. Shiran Bao received the Peter Kapitza Award from International Institute of Refrigeration. Congratulations! [Link]
  • Apr 1, 2019, Dr. Shiran Bao's recent work "Quench spot detection for superconducting accelerator cavities via flow visualization in superfluid helium-4" has been published in Phys. Rev. Applied.
  • Mar 15, 2019, Prof. W.F. Vinen comes to visit us this week. Welcome!
  • Feb 7, 2019, Brian Mastracci's recent work "Characterizing vortex tangle properties in steady-state He II counterflow using particle tracking velocimetry" has been published in Phys. Rev. Fluids and is selected as Editor's Suggestion.

2018

  • Feb 8, 2018, Brian Mastracci received the Bernard Michel scholarship. Congratulations!
  • Feb 3, 2018, Prof. Humphrey Maris comes to visit us this week. Welcome!
  • Jan 16, 2018, our collaborative work (with Prof. Tsubota's group) on flows in BECs with fractional quantum circulation has been published on Phys. Rev. C.
  • Jan 3, 2018, Brian Mastracci's recent work "An apparatus for generation and quantitative measurement of homogeneous isotropic turbulence in He II" has been published on Rev. Sci. Instrum.

2017

  • Oct 1, Dr. Shiran Bao jointed our group as a postdoc associate. Welcome!
  • Sep 13, Jian Gao and Emil Varga’s recent work “Energy spectrum of thermal counterflow turbulence in superfluid helium-4” has been published on Phys. Rev. B.
  • June 14th, Dr. Guo recieved a JSPS Invitation Fellowship award to conduct collaborative research work at Osaka City University with Prof. M. Tsubota. More details can be found here - ME News Report.
  • April 10-12, Dr. Guo together with Dr. Vinen organized an international workshop on Quantum Turbulence at the Maglab in Tallahassee. About 50 participants attended this meeting. More details can be found here - Quantum Turbulence Workshop.

2016

  • Oct 21, our cryogenics group successfully organized a special symposium event for celebrating Dr. Van Sciver's retirement. Welcome to Tallahassee, all the guests!
  • Aug 13, Jian Gao’s recent work “Determination of the effective kinematic viscosity for the decay of quasiclassical turbulence in superfluid 4He” has been published on Phys. Rev. B.
  • Aug 10, Brian Mastracci and Jian Gao gave poster and oral presentations at the International Conference on Quantum Fluids and Solids 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • July 13, Andrew Wray defended his Master Thesis on the study of magnetic levitation cryogenics.
  • May 10, our recent work “Decay of Counterflow Turbulence in Superfluid 4He” has been published on JETP Letters.
  • April 26, Dr. Guo presented an invited talk at the Workshop on Very Cold Neutrons at the Oak Ridge National Lab.
  • April 8, Prof. Vinen from Birmingham University in UK came to visit us. Welcome!
  • Mar 30, Department of Energy grant renewal has been approved. Cheers!
  • Mar 14, Dr. Guo presented an invited talk on imaging quantized vortices at the 2016 APS Marching Meeting in Baltimore.
  • Jan 15, Emil Vargas from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic joined us and will work with us for one year as a visiting Ph.D. student. Welcome!
  • Jan 7, Prof. Suguru Takada from the National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan came to visit us. Welcome!

2015

  • Sept 24, Dr. Guo presented an invited talk at the Workshop on Interpretation of measurements in 4He superfluid turbulence in Saclay, France.
  • Aug 24, our recent work “Producing and imaging a thin line of He2 molecular tracers in helium-4” has been published on Rev. Sci. Instrum.
  • Aug 9, Dr. Guo presented an invited talk at the International Conference on Quantum Fluids and Solids 2015 in Niagara Fall, NY.
  • April 15, National Science Foundation has awarded our new project on helium drop levitation. Cheers!
  • Jan 9, our recent work “Visualization of the normal-fluid turbulence in counterflowing superfluid 4He” has been published on Phys. Rev. B.

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April 10-12: Our cryogenics group hosted an international workshop on Quantum Turbulence.