Luca Donini

Physics PhD student in quantum simulation with ultracold atoms at the University of Cambridge @CaMBQD

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

This morning at #DAMOP Dan and Mehedi @mhasan137 will be presenting our work on frustrated physics in the kagome and triangular lattices at negative absolute temperature - Session G05, starting at 10.30am in room 202AB @CaMBQD @APSMeetings

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

A team of SJV alumni have helpfully set up this new account to keep sharing our petition #SaveSJV

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

Please sign our petition - and thanks if you have done so already!

https://t.co/4HQK6Rxrwh

[In Quires and Places Where They Meme @QuireMemes]

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https://t.co/ycjVk9dU8w

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

@stjohnscam Would love to see even just one of these ideas delivered. But the immediate reality is that an example of choral excellence is being destroyed, over 30 singers will be left without an outlet & one brilliant director of music is being laid off. #saveSJV
https://t.co/R4P6qoHkxp

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

@QuireMemes This new James Bond has signed the open letter to save St John's Voices from being disbanded. Add your signature now! https://t.co/Qbm6FAG4I9

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

Share and sign our petition to #saveSJV! https://t.co/R4P6qoHkxp

[In Quires and Places Where They Meme @QuireMemes]

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Choristers grow up with a love of music, a love of singing. Since the 90s this privilege has increasingly been enjoyed by all, regardless of gender.

When the boys grow up, they can become basses, tenors - even countertenors for the really brave. When the girls grow up, they have limited options - to become altos, if their voice is so inclined - largely because the selfsame system in which they themselves became passionate about choral music employs the children they once were. It is something with frustratingly limited solutions.

St John's Voices, however, is - soon to be was - one of those solutions. A mixed voice choir enabling all people to continue to love the choral music they fell for.

And it is also a choir for all those who realised too late in life that they could have become choristers and felt they had missed that opportunity completely. With SJV, that opportunity was there. Not just the traditional cathedral/chapel choir setup of trebles and adults, but mixed voice adults enabling sopranos to flourish.

The choral community saved the BBC Singers. Can we save SJV?

[Multitude of Voyces @Multitudeofvoyc]

'What happens to the women the girl choristers become?' By now this should be an easy question to answer, but it isn't.
We are hugely dismayed to learn of the disbanding of @StJohnsVoices; a choir which enables talented young women (sopranos/mezzos/altos) to develop their gifts and to continue their education as equals among that choir. Opportunities for adult (18+) Sopranos at this level are too few and we have looked to @StJohnsVoices many times, for inspiration and affirmation of our own work and purpose. #singlikeagirl, yes, that's a great adage for girls, and huge strides have been made to support and enable girls to sit alongside or opposite their male peers for several decades now, but where are those looking to the future when those children will want to #singlikeawoman?

[Anna Lapwood @annalapwood]

I'm devastated to read this. What @salsachoirboy has achieved with @StJohnsVoices is simply extraordinary; why get rid of one of the best mixed voice choirs in Cambridge? Particularly sad given the strides they have made towards gender equality in @SJCChoir; accepting girl choristers doesn't eliminate the need for more opportunities for adult sopranos. It feels a bit like they're giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Please reconsider this decision, @stjohnscam.

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

What a shame. SJV was one of the finest UK mixed-voice choirs, set up to widen participation in choral music (esp. by women). Also offered unique combination of very high standard and low time commitment for busy students. I'll always treasure my time at SJV with @salsachoirboy

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

If you’re at #APSMarch come along to my talk this afternoon, where I’ll talk about loading ultracold bosons into the flat band of the kagome lattice. 3:36pm, room 204AB. I’ll also be presenting a poster on Thursday afternoon!

[Cambridge MBQD @CaMBQD]

Luca @lucad_96 is at #APSMarch to present our latest results from the #KagomeLattice lab! He'll discuss experiments on triangular and kagome optical lattices at positive and negative absolute temperature.

Check out his talk (Tuesday) and poster (Thursday) - details below!

[Cambridge MBQD @CaMBQD]

In our journal club today Luca @lucad_96 reviewed the highlights from his trip to #DAMOP! We have a long reading list now to catch up on all the interesting presentations he mentioned 📚

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

Session C.08 about to start - featuring some updates from our lab about work on the triangular lattice Superfluid-Mott insulator transition and our plans for flat-band physics in an optical kagome lattice with a quantum gas microscope! #DAMOP

[Cambridge MBQD @CaMBQD]

If you're at #DAMOP make sure you check out Luca's talk on our progress towards implementing an optical kagome lattice to study flat-band physics! Highlights include superlattice phase stabilisation and plans for a quantum gas microscope with single-site resolution.
@lucad_96

[Iain Farrington @IainFarrington]

The Radetzky March goes for an afternoon stroll.

[Nathan Goldman @GoldmanNathan2]

An ideal Aspect ratio ... Congratulations ! @NobelPrize

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

In case you missed it, we just went viral on tiktok with well over 1 million views... #jigglejiggle

[Luca Donini @lucad_96]

Having a great time at the Heraeus Quantum Gas Microscopy conference! @mhasan137 @CaMBQD

[Cambridge MBQD @CaMBQD]

Luca and Mehedi are having a great time at Frontiers Of Quantum Gas Microscopy this week!

[Cambridge MBQD @CaMBQD]

Exciting to see our work studying phase transitions in shaken optical lattices featured in @PhysicsWorld!

Congratulations to the optical #Quasicrystal team!

[Cambridge MBQD @CaMBQD]

Plenty of audience participation in Emmanuel's #JournalClub presentation on the Berry phase - can you solve the puzzle?

(Answer in the next post)

[Cambridge MBQD @CaMBQD]

Two of our team will present work at #QUAMP2021 this week - check out @lucad_96's poster on the optical #KagomeLattice on Tuesday, and the talk on the new AION #AtomInterferometry experiment by @UltracoldTiff at 4.45pm Thursday!

@qqq_iop
https://t.co/A6xbB4r5f7