Zetong Xue, a JILA undergraduate researcher and recent CU Boulder Honors graduate, was awarded the Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award at the CU Physics graduation ceremony in December.
Xue completed his Honors thesis by working with JILA Fellows Agnieszka Jaron-Becker and Andreas Becker for over a year on an ultrafast AMO theory project. He was also a co-author on two papers which were published in Physical Review A earlier this year. Xue’s work at JILA was supported by the PFC.
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