2022
Following Lev departure, the BEC Center becomes the Pitaevskii BEC Center
Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation
Trento, Italy
Timeline of the Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation
2022
BEC Center 20th anniversary conference
2021
Second Cover on Nature Physics
2021
Alberto Biella joins the team
2020
Gianluca Rastelli joins the team
2019
Philipp Hauke and Alessandro Zenesini join the team
2017
BEC Center joins the Quantum at Trento (Q@TN) initiative
2015
INFN Support for building a second laboratory
2013
First article of the lab on the cover of Nature Physics
2012
First condensate of sodium atoms produced in Trento
2011
Giacomo Lamporesi joins the team
2011
The lab construction starts
2010
Gabriele Ferrari joins the team
2010
The BEC Center decides to open an experimental laboratory on ultracold atoms, with start-up funds of the Autonomous Province of Trento
2010
Stringari is awarded with the Advance ERC Grant
2010
The BEC Center joins the Istituto Nazionale di Ottica of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2006
Alessio Recati joins the team
2005
Tommaso Calarco joins the center. In 2007 he will move to Ulm
2004
Chiara Menotti joins the team
2003
Augusto Smerzi e Iacopo Carusotto joined the Center. Augusto will move to Florence in 2011
March 2003
Official opening of the BEC Center, with talks given by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William Phillips, Lev Pitaevskii.
The BEC was created a few months before by the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM) with the strong support of the University of Trento and the Autonomous Province of Trento
Initial members are F. Dalfovo, S. Giorgini, S. Stringari e L. Pitaevskii
July 2002
The first conference organized by the BEC Center in July 2002
Summer 2002
The first picture of the BEC team when the Center was created in Summer 2002
2002
Successfull Application for INFM-BEC Research and Development Center
1999
Review paper on the Theory of trapped BEC published in Reviews of Modern Physics
1998
Lev Pitaevskii becomes professor at the University of Trento
1995
First Trento-Florence meeting on ultracold atoms
1995
First BEC of ultracold atoms observed at Jila and MIT
Summer 1993
First Conference on Bose-Einstein Condensation organized in Levico