Nathan Lundblad Welcome to my homepage! work I'm an NRC postdoctoral fellow in the Laser Cooling & Trapping Group at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. Specifically, I'm working with a rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) machine, and studying novel optical lattices with an eye toward applications in quantum information and the physics of strongly correlated atoms. I'm also associated with the Joint Quantum Institute. I did my PhD at the California Institute of Technology, in the Quantum Sciences & Technology group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studying spinor BEC in a built-from-scratch all-optical setup. I was advised there by Lute Maleki and Rob Thompson, and at Caltech by Ken Libbrecht. In previous lives I worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and was an undergrad in the physics and astronomy departments at UC Berkeley. bio I was born in Utah, but upon my arrival my family promptly moved to Jerusalem. We lived there for seven years; the name of this domain springs from that time. Upon returning to the United States we lived in southern California; briefly Los Angeles but mainly the northern reaches of San Diego. I graduated from Vista High School. I have an older sister and a niece. In my spare time I like to camp and backpack, read, and think about playing rugby again. I currently live in Washington, DC. links The archived copy of my thesis [pdf]. My entering class at Caltech. Me at ADSABS. Grad-school papers: laser building,dual-species,spinor BEC. Postdoc papers: ringlike lattices [pdf]. Recent appearances: DAMOP 2008, Union College physics colloquium, SQuInT 2008, DAMOP 2007 contact I can be reached at lundblad@gmail.com. This page was last updated April 25, 2008