{"id":2303,"date":"2025-09-21T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:39:17","slug":"the-cheng-group-hosted-a-distinguished-lecture-by-nobel-laureate-professor-steve-chu-from-stanford-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/2025\/09\/21\/the-cheng-group-hosted-a-distinguished-lecture-by-nobel-laureate-professor-steve-chu-from-stanford-university\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheng Group hosted a distinguished lecture by Nobel Laureate Professor Steve Chu from Stanford University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 18, 2025, the Cheng Group had the great honor of hosting Nobel Laureate <strong data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"350\">Professor Steven Chu<\/strong> from Stanford University for a distinguished lecture. Prof. Chu, renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms, shared his insights with faculty, students, and researchers at Boston University.<\/p>\n<table width=\"851\" height=\"574\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/2025\/09\/21\/the-cheng-group-hosted-a-distinguished-lecture-by-nobel-laureate-professor-steve-chu-from-stanford-university\/poster1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Poster1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"634\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2306 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Poster1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Poster1-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Poster1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"852\" height=\"409\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/2025\/09\/21\/the-cheng-group-hosted-a-distinguished-lecture-by-nobel-laureate-professor-steve-chu-from-stanford-university\/talk2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Talk2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"358\" class=\"wp-image-2307  aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Talk2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Talk2-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Talk2-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/2025\/09\/21\/the-cheng-group-hosted-a-distinguished-lecture-by-nobel-laureate-professor-steve-chu-from-stanford-university\/chu_and_cheng\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Chu_and_Cheng.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" class=\"wp-image-2304  aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Chu_and_Cheng.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Chu_and_Cheng-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/files\/2025\/09\/Chu_and_Cheng-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 18, 2025, the Cheng Group had the great honor of hosting Nobel Laureate Professor Steven Chu from Stanford University for a distinguished lecture. Prof. Chu, renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms, shared his insights with faculty, students, and researchers at Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cheng-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}