The annual meeting of the COLLAPS collaboration took place at TU Darmstadt on 26.-27.02.2014 with 17 participants from CERN/ISOLDE, Leuven, Liverpool, Heidelberg, Mainz and Darmstadt. go

The IVth volume of the “Euroschool Lectures on Exotic Beams” has appeared. It includes a chapter on “Nuclear Charge Radii of Light Elements and Recent Developments in Collinear Laser Spectroscopy” by W. Nörtershäuser and Ch. Geppert. go

On Monday January 27th, a new high-voltage divider was delivered to the Institute of Nuclear Physics at TU Darmstadt. The divider of the company Ohm-Labs is supposed to measure high voltages up to 250 kV at the electron cooler of the ESR storage ring with an anticipated accuracy of better than 10^-4. go

The last issue of the journal “Reviews of Modern Physics” exhibits a figure from our colloquiums article go

Michael Hammen has successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title “Spins, Moments and Radii of Cd isotopes”. go

Nadja Frömmgen has successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title “Kollineare Laserspektroskopie an radioaktiven Praseodymionen und Cadmiumatomen” (Collinear Laser Spectrsocopy of radioactive Praseodymium ions and Cadmium atoms). go

Recently the last components of the low energy beamline at HITRAP have been assembled and first tests of transporting highly charged ions towards the SpecTrap Penning trap have been performed. go

The latest issue of the journal “Reviews of Modern Physics” contains a colloquium article entitled “Laser probing of neutron-rich nuclei in light atoms” go

An eperimental run was carried out in July to determine the trap parameters systematically and to study the laser cooling of magnesium ions in detail. go

First results of laser spectroscopy on Cd isotopes are published in Physical Review Letters with the title “Spins, Electromagnetic Moments, and Isomers of ^107-129Cd”. There we report about an interesting trend in the quadrupole moments of 11/2- isomers along the isomeric chain. go