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International Workshop on
Cold Atoms Meet Condensed Matter
March 27 - 31, 2006
Scientific coordinators:
Immanuel Bloch (Universität Mainz, Germany)
Christoph Bruder (Universität Basel, Switzerland)
Wilhelm Zwerger (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Organisation:
Claudia Poenisch (MPI PKS Dresden, Germany)
The last couple of years have witnessed an exciting development: clouds of ultracold atoms have been structured by optical lattices or by magnetic traps generated e.g. in micro-chips to form solid-state-type systems and nanostructures. The resulting confined cold atom configurations exhibit interesting novel behaviour like strong correlation effects or the controlled generation of entangled states. They have attracted a lot of interest on the theoretical and experimental side, both in the condensed-matter and atomic physics communities. A number of recent proposals have considered combinations of cold atoms or ion-trap configurations with solid state devices like single electron Cooper-pair boxes or with nanomechanical resonators. Active cooling techniques adopted from Laser-cooling may be possible for nanostructures. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the atomic physics and condensed-matter communities to discuss the latest progress in this area.
List of invited speakers:
I. Cirac (Garching, Germany), J. Dalibard (Paris, France),
T. Esslinger (Zürich, Switzerland), S.M. Girvin (New
Haven, USA),
R. Grimm (Innsbruck, Austria), S. Haroche
(Paris, France), A. Imamoglu (Zürich, Switzerland), K. Karrai (München, Germany),
W. Ketterle (Cambridge, USA),
M. Lukin (Cambridge, USA), J. Reichel (Paris, France and München, Germany), R. Schoelkopf (New Haven, USA),
K. Schwab (College Park, USA), G. Shlyapnikov (Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Orsay, France), C. Zimmermann (Tübingen, Germany), P. Zoller (Innsbruck, Austria)
Applications for participation and poster contributions are welcome
and should be made by using the application form
on the workshop web page (see web page below). The number of attendees is
limited. The registration fee for the workshop is 100 Euro. Costs for
accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute.
In exceptional cases, limited funding is available to partially cover
travel expenses.
Deadline for applications is December 31, 2005.
For further information please e-mail to: catcom06
mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
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