Randy A. Bartels, a doctoral researcher at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder, was selected by the Department of Energy to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany, from June 25 to June 29. An electrical engineering doctoral student from the University of Michigan, Bartels is pursuing his doctoral dissertation research at JILA in the field of ultrafast optics. JILA is a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology based on the CU-Boulder campus.