Towards Ultracold Mixtures of Lithium and Cesium

Ultracold mixtures hold the promise of understanding new phases of matter and collisions at very low energies. We are setting up an experiment for bose-fermi mixtures of ${}^6$Li and ${}^{133}$Cs, which are especially well suited to study impurities, transport, solitons or mixtures in optical lattices. Here we present the current status of our experiment. We detail the cooling schemes for the two atom species and include the recent development of implementing evaporative cooling to produce a molecular BEC of ${}^6$Li. We discuss our contribution to the Quantum Integrated Light and Matter Interface European collaboration (QuILMI) about coupling cesium atoms to waveguides in a test-chip.