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Our annual Schawlow-Townes Symposium is today. I’m looking forward to hearing some great talks by the world’s leading photonics researchers!

Our Quantum Photonics Group Retreat on Golden Lake was so much fun!

Great rainbow sun dogs this morning. These happen when certain-sized hexagonal ice crystals orient themselves vertically as they fall through the air. They then act like prisms, all aligned. It typically happens when it is numbingly cold, which it is this morning.

Group skate on the Rideau Canal! Kudos to all the beginners, particularly those from countries without snow.

A fantastic lineup for this year’s Schawlow-Townes Symposium in Ottawa today.

The annual meeting for our Max Planck-uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics. Great talks, posters, and discussions (and food!).

Congratulations to Guillaume on passing his defence with flying colours! Good luck at Oxford.

Goodbye lunch at our favourite dive bar for our excellent summer student, Xinyuen, from Nankai, China.

Tyler and Josh spelled out the CERC (Canada Excellence Research Chair) group name with the solar eclipse and a multi-pinhole camera!

Our paper on quantum cloning to measure complementary properties (eg position and momentum) was covered on PhysOrg! phys.org/news/2017-08-p…

Just published: how to transform polarization in complete generality using liquid crystal spatial light modulators. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Our paper demonstrating complementary measurements via quantum cloning has come out in PRL! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Our inaugural Quantum Photonics curling evening. The most physicsy of sports!

Our Nature review on quantum coherence in biological and chemical systems is out. Can we measure coherence? nature.com/nature/journal…

Our paper is out in Phys Rev Lett! It shows how weak measurement can amplify signals when using saturable detectors: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

Students love Ottawa. We were the top-rated city for students in world, as scored by students themselves. topuniversities.com/university-ran…

Our "Weak-value measurements can outperform conventional measurements", is Physica Scripta's Paper of the Week! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

The group's winter potluck. Thanks go to Zahir for the delicious roast turkey. Happy holidays!

Group outing to Star Wars Rogue One! It was great.

Congrats to Rebecca for successfully defending her thesis!