Preliminary Program
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| Monday, March 27 | |
| 16:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 | Welcome buffet at MPIPKS |
| Tuesday, March 28 | |
| 08:15 - 08:30 | Peter Fulde (director of MPI PKS) |
| Opening | |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Steven M. Girvin (Yale University) |
| Atomic physics with electrical circuits | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | John Doyle (Harvard University) |
| Prospects for a Polar Molecule to Mesoscopic Interface for Quantum Information | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Peter Rabl (University of Innsbruck) |
| Molecular ensemble qubits as longlived quantum memories and optical interfaces for solid state qubits | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Jürgen Stuhler (University of Stuttgart) |
| Experiments with ultra-cold dipolar chromium atoms | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Serge Haroche (École Normale Supérieure Paris) |
| Cavity QED in perspective: atom and photon in a box as a model for various effects in atomic and condensed matter physics | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University) |
| Quantum control of single spins in solid state | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Ignacio Cirac (MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching) |
| Quantum simulations in many-body systems | |
| 18:00 | Dinner |
| 18:30 | Poster session (incl. beverages) |
| Wednesday, March 29 | |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Wolfgang Ketterle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Observation of high-temperature superfluidity in a gas of fermionic atoms | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Rudolf Grimm (University of Innsbruck) |
| Pairing phenomena in ultracold quantum gases and beyond | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zürich) |
| Controlling, detecting and manipulating quantum gases | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Simon Fölling (University of Mainz) |
| The bosonic Mott insulator in an inhomogeneous trap | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zürich) |
| Knight field enabled quantum dot nuclear spin polarization | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Jakob Reichel (ENS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris) |
| Atom chips: An experimental interface between cold atoms and solid-state nanodevices | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Claus Zimmermann (University of Tübingen) |
| Bose-Einstein chips and micro atom optics | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Päivi Törmä (University of Jyväskylä) |
| Superfluidity of density-imbalanced Fermi gases in traps and optical lattices | |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner at the restaurant Schillergarten |
| Thursday, March 30 | |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Dirk Bouwmeester (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| Optical cooling of micro-mechanical systems & solid-state cavity QED | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Keith Schwab (Cornell University) |
| Cooper-pair molasses: Cooling a nanomechanical resonator with quantum backaction | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Khaled Karrai (University of Munich) |
| Laser cooling of the Brownian motion of a microlever | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Tobias Kippenberg (MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching) |
| Radiation pressure induced mechanical oscillations in ultra-high Q chip-based microcavities | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Jean Dalibard (ENS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris) |
| Condensates in flat land : Bose gases in reduced dimensionality | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Gora Shlyapnikov (Université Paris Sud) |
| Ultracold Fermi gases in the molecular and unitarity regimes | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Luis Santos (University of Stuttgart) |
| Chromium Bose-Einstein Condensates | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge) |
| Vortex lattices in rotating atomic Bose gases with dipolar interactions | |
| 18:00 | Dinner |
Last update: March 27, 2006
