Jakub Zakrzewski

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Jakub Zakrzewski is a Full Professor and the Head of the Atomic Optics Department at the Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He also leads QuantLab at the Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Centre. Over the years his research has explored quantum optics, laser theory, quantum chaos in atomic systems, and cold gases in optical lattices, especially in the presence of disorder. He worked at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and spent several years at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel of the École Normale Supérieure and University of Paris 6. For more information visit http://chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~kuba


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Crystals of Time

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