HatLab

Holiday season in the hatlab.

Congratulations to Dr. Chao Zhou on his successful thesis defense today! We wish him the best as a postdoc in the Schoelkopf group.

The mighty Pinlei Lu is defending his thesis! The other Hatlab students bought him his good luck boutonniere, maybe a new lab tradition?

Big congratulations to Boris Mesits of Hatlab who won an NSF graduate fellowship today, and to Evan McKinney who is a joint member of the Hatlab and the Jones group in ECE and received an honorable mention!

Congrats Dr. Lanes! Apologies to her friend Robin who joined during the private portion and I ruthlessly kicked as a potential zoombomber. We wish you the best in your new job!

Congrats to Dr. Chien! We are glad to have you around for a few months Klinger before you launch the next phase of your career.

Agreed

My kids new flash cards are just taunting me about closed lab :(

The Hatlab is a tomb. But it is unquiet. Mice chase bright pixels around screens as the ghosts dream their quantum dreams. So that someday we can roll the stone away and stoke the fires of the plassys and parametrically control the world once more.

When the students haven't found time to install the ram but want to ward off the demons of computational failure

The glass jar was for in case we were wrong about them not over heating ;)

For various sad reasons we really need 48 volts dc tonight. After a search of our and neighbor labs we realized we had the solution in our drawer all along!

Professor me sees this as a bad bridge dose. Fairly punch drunk w fatigue me sees a nano scale high 5🙏! And crazy science me thinks mechanically compliant JJ?! And then: How would we make a nano fist bump👊? One student is rolling eyes the other dares to dream :).

Pizza robot hard at work in the rain last night. 'Wichita lineman' definitely the soundtrack for this little guy. He appears to be resigned to his sorrow.

Yesterday I saw a lone pizza robot wandering along 5th avenue. At first I thought this represented an advance for automation. Now I'm not so sure...