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These are the news (old and new) for the Wolverhampton Light-Matter group at the University of Wolverhampton:

(News that are not new anymore become part of the timeline)

Timeline

(We're day 3260 today)

Day 1343 (9-09-2020), We reach and pass 100 twitter followers.
Day 1259 (18-06-2020), Our paper on Tuning photon statistics with coherent fields is published in Phys. Rev. A.

Day 1256 (15-06-2020), Our paper Finite-energy accelerating beam dynamics in wavelet-based representations is published in Phys. Rev. Res.

Day 1256 (15-06-2020), Our review of Conventional and Unconventional Photon Statistics is published in Laser Photonics Rev. and makes the cover of the journal:

Day 1223 (13-05-2020), Our paper on the Quantum hydrodynamics of a single particle is published in Light.

Day 1165 (16-03-2020), Our contribution to the Roadmap on quantum light spectroscopy in Journal of Physics B, closes the issue.
Day 1123 (3-2-2020), Our paper on N-Phonon Bundle Emission via the Stokes Process is published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Day 1106 (17-01-2020), Elena gives her Lecture on Music in Stafford.
Day 1063 (5-12-2019), Fabrice speaks about "The most important (simplest yet most unfathomable) experiment in Physics: the double slit experiment" at Keele's Physics Centre (IOP event).
Day 1013 (16-10-2019), Fabrice gives his Nobel Lecture.
Day 1011 (14-10-2019), Fabrice gives the première of his Nobel Lecture at the University of Wolverhampton in Stafford.
Day 1000 (3-10-2019), We celebrate 1000 days of Physics in Wolverhampton (at the Mystic Grill Dosa).
Day 999 (2-10-2019), Our Lecture series start for this 2019/20 with Carlos Sánchez's tiniest sound.
Day 977 (10-9-2019), The Physics team welcomes two internationally leading Lecturers (Staff News)

Day 885(10-06-2019), Our paper on Formation of nonlinear X-waves in condensed matter systems is published in Phys. Rev. B.

Day 880 (27-5-2019), Camilo, Elena and Fabrice attend the TeraMetaNano-4 conference in Lecce, Italy

Day 861 (17-5-2019), 7th Physics (and first Tea-) seminar: Nalitov seminar.
Day 851 (8-5-2019), We address Telford college's A-level Math & Physics students.
Day 845 (1-5-2019), Dr. Anton Nalitov joins us as Lecturer of Condensed Matter Physics.
Day 826 (12-4-2019), First blog post on the University website, on Sagittarius A*.
Day 824 (10-4-2019), We host our 3rd IOP seminar (7th Physics seminar): Newsam seminar.
Day 818 (4-4-2019), We welcome A-level Physics students from Oldburywells to speak about free fall (and terminal velocity).
Day 805 (22-3-2019), Physics settles in its new whereabouts (in MA104).
Day 804 (21-3-2019), Fabrice gives a talk on conservation of momentum for the mathsoc.
Day 791 (8-3-2019), we celebrate the International Women's Day.

Day 773 (18-2-2019), we write a News & Views in Nature Materials for a milestone of quantum polaritonics: the observation of polariton blockade (sought since at least 2006):

Day 768 (13-2-2019), we host our first Astronomy Workshop with the Wolverhampton Astronomy Society, on astronomical interactive imaging via the Faulkes Telescope Project.

Day 762 (7-2-2019), our paper Quasichiral Interactions between Quantum Emitters at the Nanoscale is published in Physical Review Letters.

Day 757 (2-2-2019), We welcome the public at the University Open Day, talking about free fall.
Day 754 (30-1-2019), we host our 2nd IOP talk, the Cross Seminar on Friction, Stiction and Areo-constriction: How Formula one racing cars cheat the laws of physics.
Day 749 (25-1-2019), new research available at arXiv:1901.09030 on conventional & unconventional photon statistics.

Day 740 (16-1-2019), we welcome high-school students for the SciExplore event, to discuss how Physicists describe the Word around us.
Day 732 (8-1-2019), our paper Impact of detuning and dephasing on a laser-corrected subnatural-linewidth single-photon source is published in J. Phys. B: Atom. Mol. Opt.

Day 698 (5-12-2018), our paper Impact of detuning and dephasing on a laser-corrected subnatural-linewidth single-photon source has been accepted for publication at J. Phys. B: Atom. Mol. Opt.
Day 686 (23-11-2018), Eduardo Zubizarreta joins our group for 10 days.
Day 680 (17-11-2018), We welcome the public at the University Open Day.
Day 670 (7-11-2018), Fabrice joins the IOP branch of the West Midlands.
Day 662 (30-10-2018), Guillermo Diaz Camacho integrates our group for two months.

Day 656 (24-10-2018), Fabrice gives the 3rd Physics Seminar.
Day 649 (17-10-2018), Plamen Petrov gives the 2nd Physics Seminar.
Day 649 (17-10-2018), The University opens a Lecturer position in Condensed Matter.
Day 648 (16-10-2018), Fabrice is appointed external examiner of the Ph.D thesis of Giuseppe Buonaiuto.
Day 645 (13-10-2018), We speak about waves at the University Open Day.
Day 635 (03-10-2018), We now have a YouTube channel.
Day 635 (03-10-2018), We meet teachers and exhibit our Physics lab for the Black Country GCSE science conference in Wolverhampton.
Day 634 (02-10-2018), Our applet on polariton and Jaynes-Cummings Blockade is published as a Wolfram demonstration.
Day 632 (30-09-2018), we now have a blog!
Day 626 (24-09-2018), We welcome our second generation of Wulfrunian physicists, the Jaynes cohort: welcome to Dilem, Luke, Amin, Govind, Humza, Nathaniel, Praneet, Mitchell, Joel and Dylan.
Day 621 (19-09-2018), Fabrice graduates as the Chair of Light-Matter interactions.

Day 619 (17-09-2018), Camilo joins the group as Teaching Associate (permanent).
Day 607 (05-09-2018), The University opens a Senior Lecturer position in Quantum Physics.
Day 565, our paper Photon-Number-Resolved Measurement of an Exciton-Polariton Condensate is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and is featured in File:PhysicsAPS.png.
Day 550, our paper Joint subnatural-linewidth and single-photon emission from resonance fluorescence is published in Quantum Science and Technology.

Day 535, New reseach sibmitted: Impact of detuning and dephasing on a laser-corrected subnatural-linewidth single-photon source.
Day 521, We speak about our research at the "Annual Research Conference" at The University of Wolverhampton.

Day 497, We explore Research collaborations on "Quantum Biology" with colleagues from the Biology department.
Day 496, Andrew coordinates the school of mathematics and computer science final year project poster exhibition.

Day 494, We explore Research collaborations on "Quantum Engineering of Light" with colleagues from the Engineering School.
Day 487, New research submitted: Photon number-resolved measurement of an exciton-polariton condensate.
Day 482, our paper Frequency-resolved Monte Carlo is published in Scientific Reports.

Day 470, We participate in the University's Open Day, talking about the polarization of light.
Day 469, our paper First observation of the quantized exciton-polariton field and effect of interactions on a single polariton is published in Science Advances.

Day 403, New research submitted: Joint subnatural-linewidth and single-photon emission from resonance fluorescence.
Day 403, we submit a popular science paper about Photon correlations in both time and frequency to Quantum Leaps.
Day 374, New research available: Negative-mass effects in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates.
Day 367, New research submitted: Ultrafast topology shaping by a Rabi-oscillating vortex.
Day 367, our paper Filtering multiphoton emission from state-of-the-art cavity quantum electrodynamics is published in Optica.

Day 343, We host our first poster session, on Optics, with Chloë (burning lenses), Jac (camera obscura), Robert (polarisation) and Stephanie (width of a hair) presenting their work to a large panel.

Day 332, Topological order and thermal equilibrium in polariton condensates is published in Nature Materials, doi:10.1038/nmat5039
Day 316, We participate to the University's Open Day, talking about Colours and showing how they mix.
Day 299, We welcome IOP Education Dept. members from the Midlands areas and introduce them to our course of Physics.
Day 297, Fabrice talks about spoons at the Bright Club in Wolverhampton, Arena Theatre.

Day 283, Fabrice gives a talk on "Differences and similarities between classical and quantum processing units" at the University of Southampton.
Day 275, We participate to the World Space Week and launch a rocket.
Day 262, We start the first Physics course at the UoW, with 6 students (Chloe, Jac, Jamie, Robert, Ryan & Stephanie).
Day 256, our paper Kinetic Monte Carlo approach to nonequilibrium bosonic systems by T. Liew et al. is published as Phys. Rev. B 96, 125423 (2017).
Day 252, our Wolfram demonstration Dispersion Properties of a Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate is available online (play with it here).
Day 251, our paper Topological order and equilibrium in a condensate of exciton-polaritons is accepted for publication in Nature Materials.
Day 243, our paper Kinetic Monte Carlo approach to nonequilibrium bosonic systems by T. Liew et al. is accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B.
Day 235, Fabrice gives a one hour tutorial at the Resonator QED conference, 31 August-1 September, in Munich, Germany (and chairs the closing session).
Day 207, Our paper Photon Correlations from the Mollow Triplet is published in Laser & Photonics Review.

Day 202: Ogden trust's CEO, Clare Harvey, visits us to tread the grounds of the future playgrounds of Physics in Wolverhampton.
Day 200: Mariam and Anji join the group (with support from the Nuffield Foundation) to work on the characterisation of quantum sources of light from their photon emission:

Day 193: Fabrice gives an invited talk at the Light Conference 2017 in Changchun, China.
Day 192: Fabrice wins the Best Reader travel award from the Light: Science & Applications journal of the Nature publishing group.
Day 187: New research submitted: Filtering Multiphoton Emission from State-of-the-Art Cavity QED.
Day 184: Fabrice attends the PLMCN18 in Würzburg, Germany, with an invited talk and session chairing:

Day 174: Our paper Photon Correlations from the Mollow Triplet is accepted for publication in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
Day 172: Our paper Structure of the harmonic oscillator in the space of n-particle Glauber correlators is published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics, 58, 062109 (2017).

Day 154: POLAFLOW is transferred to the UoW, with a dotation of 29,373.29€.
Day 152: Camilo arrives to Daniele Sanvitto's advanced photonics lab in Lecce, Italy, to closely collaborate with our experimental colleagues.

Day 151: Our paper Structure of the Harmonic Oscillator in the space of $n$-particle Glauber correlators is accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.
Day 145: New research paper submitted, "Frequency-resolved Monte Carlo": arXiv:1705.10978.

Day 140: Our paper Macroscopic Two-Dimensional Polariton Condensates is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. (and makes the cover of the journal):

Day 130: Fabrice gives an invited talk at the Physics of Exciton-Polaritons in Artificial Lattices Workshop of the Institute of Basic Science, at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Daejeon, South Korea. Camilo gives a contributed talk.

Day 125: The 2nd edition of Microcavities is now available.

Day 123: Fabrice gives a plenary talk at the Conference on Applications in Optics and Photonics (AOP2017), in Faro. Camilo gives a contributed talk.

Day 117: First demonstration, with our $\gamma$ radiosource: studying the inverse square law with the Dudley college.
Day 115: Our contributed talk "N-photon emission from resonance fluorescence" to the 18^th International Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures (PLMCN18) got upgraded to an Invited Talk.
Day 113: Our paper "Macroscopic two-dimensional polariton condensates" by Ballarini et al. is accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Day 104: Updated version of our experiment entangling a polariton with a photon: arXiv:1609.01244v2.
Day 95: New Research paper submitted, Photon Correlations from the Mollow triplet: arXiv:1704.03220

Day 87: We made an outreach video for the quickly approaching Physics course.
Day 82: bits of a Fabrice's interview pop up in an article of .

Day 82: First paper published: A new way to correlate photons (News & Views in Nature Materials):

Day 80: Microcavities's 2nd edition has been submitted for production.
Day 68: Our proposal "quopp" is submitted (QuantERA).
Day 46: Camilo joins the group.
Day 34: Our proposal ȹ is submitted (ERC).
Day 7: First talk (for the UK Quantum Dot day of the IOP).

Day 1 (6th of January 2017): We arrive in Wolverhampton.