Session KP01 - Poster Session III.
POSTER session, Tuesday afternoon, March 23
Exhibit Hall, GWCC
We have observed Bose-Einstein condensation of ^87Rb in a baseball Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap. The atoms are first collected from a vapor in a multiply-loaded double magneto-optic trap, then further cooled in optical molasses and transferred to the magnetic trap, and finally evaporatively cooled to the BEC transition temperature. We will describe recent experiments with the condensate, including attempts to manipulate it using time-dependent magnetic fields.