So happy and grateful! 🙏🎉

👏 A huge thank you to all the speakers, sponsors, organizers, and participants of YAO 2025! ⚛️ 📆 Last week was packed with insightful talks, poster sessions, social events, a startup panel, industry presentations, and lab tours — what an amazing experience! 🤩 📸 Photo credit: D. Jordan / IQOQI

▶️ Today, the 2025 edition of the Young Atom Opticians Conference (YAO) has started here in Innsbruck! 🙋‍♀️We thank Clemens Ulm and @evacasotti.bsky.social, PhD students from our group, and Johanna Hennebichler and Alberto Canali, PhD students from Rudi Grimms group, for orgnanizing the event!

YAO 2025 started! Having a great time and enjoying the rainy view on top of the famous Bergisel ski jump! #YAO2025 @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Eva Casotti for winning the “Best Student Paper Award 2025” of the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social! 🏆 The prize was awarded for her excellent paper, “Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid” published in the Nature journal. Photo Credit: Universität Innsbruck

⚡The future begins now⚡ Innsbruck at the center of quantum research #ORF documentary (in German) with @ferlainogroup, Gregor Weihs, Gerhard Kirchmair, Rainer Blatt, Peter Zoller, Thomas Monz, Serge Haroche, and many more. 👉🏻 on.orf.at/video/142763...

📽️Our group is featured in the ORF Tirol documentary “The Future Begins Now – Innsbruck at the Center of Quantum Research” (in German)! Éric Berdaguer explores Innsbruck’s rise in quantum science, from Zeilinger’s work to today's cutting-edge research.🏆 📺 Sun, May 18, 18:25, ORF 2 – Don’t miss it!

Lasers, lasers, lasers, lasers 🎵 🎉 Congratulations to Arfor Houwman for winning the #physics category and the extra AI/quantum prize in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition. Watch the entire video and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

💡 We’re featured in today’s Quantum Snapshot by QuantA! ⚛️ The spotlight is on IQOQI Innsbruck @iqoqi.bsky.social and the atom*innen initiative @atominnen.bsky.social. Pictured (left to right): Our PhD students Sarah Embacher, Elena Poli, and Eva Casotti. 📸 Photo credit: IQOQI | D. Jordan

Less than a week left to register for YAO 2025! ⌛️ Join us in Innsbruck from July 6–11 for talks, lab tours, an industry panel, and networking with fellow young researchers in AMO and quantum physics. Register by March 31: yao.iqoqi.at #YAO2025 @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Exciting to see our research featured in @profil.at! 🚀🔬 Our @ferlainogroup.bsky.social , led by Francesca Ferlaino, shares insights alongside Thomas Monz, Gregor Weihs & Hannes Pichler—plus a glimpse into our lab!

🚀Quantum Computing Panel at #YAO2025 with experts from Alpine Quantum Technologies, IonQ, and planqc discussing: 🔹 Strengths & challenges of each platform 🔹 Real-world applications 🔹 Industry & academia collaboration 📅 Register by March 31st → yao.iqoqi.at #quantumcomputing #quantum #QuantumTech

If you haven't done it yet, go register for #YAO2025 now!

🚀 TIQIT 2025 (Trento-Innsbruck Quantum Information Tour) has officially started! See you all tomorrow for the first lectures. Huge thanks to @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, @iqoqi.bsky.social, AISF, and Euregio for making this possible! #TIQIT25 #euregiomobilityfund #Quantumphysics #Quantuminformation

🔬 Exciting opportunities at IQOQI-INNSBRUCK!🌟 We are looking for an Academy Scientist + Post-docs to join Prof. Ferlaino's team to work on cutting-edge research in dipolar quantum gases! ⚛️ 🔗Apply now: erbium.at/FF/join-us/ #QuantumScience #ResearchJobs #Physics

‪Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience!! ⚛️ Today, we celebrate the women in science who inspire us every day with their work, perseverance and determination - despite persistent patriarchal challenges. Thank you for empowering so many of us! 👏 youtu.be/zN7jMEgN9e8?...

🚀Big news! The #YAO2025 invited speaker lineup is now live on our website!🎉🎉 Check out the amazing researchers joining us in Innsbruck this July. Don't miss out—registration is still open! 🔗: yao.iqoqi.at #QuantumScience #AtomOptics @iqoqi.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

🎉 Registrations for YAO 2025 are OPEN! 📅 Join us July 6–11, 2025 in Innsbruck, Austria for talks, poster sessions, industry talks & networking! 🔗 Register by the 31st of March: yao.iqoqi.at Don’t miss out! 🌍⚛ #YAO2025 #QuantumPhysics #AMO @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social