Agenda:
Monday, June 21, 2010
New Directions in Cold Atom and BEC Physics
8:40 am – 9:00 am Welcome by Robert Ecke (Director, LANL Center for Nonlinear Studies)
Opening Statements by Eddy Timmermans (Conference Organizer)
9:00 am – 9:45 am Jose D’Incao (JILA, University of Colorado and NIST)
Universality in Ultracold Quantum Gases: From Efimov Physics to Controllable Chemical Reactions
9:45 am – 10:30 am Nicholas Bigelow (Rochester University)
Cold Complex Gasses: Controlling a Many-Particle Spinor BEC with Complex Light
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am Cheng Chin (University of Chicago)
Quantum Phase Transition and Criticality of a Two-Dimensional Quantum Gas
11:45 am – 12:30 pm Wojciech Zurek (Los Alamos National Lab)
When Symmetry Breaks, How Big are the Pieces
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Weldon Wilson (University of Central Oklahoma)
Amplitude Quantization as a Fundamental Property of Coupled Oscillator Systems
2:50 pm – 3:25 pm Poster Spotlights
3:25 pm – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm John Chiaverini (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Near-Term Prospects for Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulation
4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico)
Quantum Control of Atomic Spins
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Ultra Cold Molecules and New Directions
9:00 am – 9:45 am Heather Lewandowski (JILA, University of Colorado)
Cold Molecular Interactions
9:45 am – 10:30 am Bogdan Damski (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Soliton Creation During a Bose-Einstein Condensation
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am Roman Krems (University of British Columbia)
A molecular crystal with tunable impurities
11:45 am – 12:30 pm Dima Mozyrsky (Los Alamos National Lab)
Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions in Cold Atom Systems
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Felipe Herrera (University of British Columbia)
Controlled Dissipation in a Molecular Crystal of Cold Polar Molecules
2:50 pm – 3:25 pm Poster Spotlights
3:25 pm – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm Bernard Zygelman (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Effective Gauge Potentials in Atomic System: A Route to Quantum Control
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Dajun Wang (JILA, University of Colorado)
Dipolar Collisions Between Ultracold Polar Molecules
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Poster Session
With desserts and coffee & tea service
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Disorder in Optical Lattices
9:00 am – 9:45 am Chen-Lung Hung (University of Chicago)
Scale Invariance and Universality of Interacting Two-Dimensional Bose Gases
9:45 am – 10:30 am Randall G. Hulet (Rice University)
Dissipation of Superfluid Transport by Disorder and Quantum Tunneling of a Matter-Wave Soliton
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am Robin Kaiser (Institut Nonlineaire de Nice)
Cold Atoms and Disorder: From Localization to Random Lasers
11:45 am – 12:30 pm Charles Reichhardt (Los Alamos National Lab)
Complex Matter with Competing Interactions
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Optical Lattice Route to Strongly Correlated Electron Models
and Casimir Physics
9:00 am – 9:45 am Jonathan Simon (Harvard University)
Single-Site Probing of the Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition with a Quantum Gas Microscope
9:45 am – 10:30 am Peter Milonni (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Casimir Forces: Truths and Consequences
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am Eugene Kolomeisky (University of Virginia)
Casimir Effect Due to a Single Boundary as a Manifestation of the Weyl Problem
11:45 am – 12:30 pm James Babb (Harvard University)
Casimir Effects in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Cristian Batista (Los Alamos National Lab)
Superconductivity in Strongly Repulsive Fermions: The Role of Frustration
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm Break
3:20 pm – 4:05 pm Shan-Wen Tsai (University of California, Riverside)
Correlated Phases of Fermion-Boson Cold Atom Mixtures and Effects of Retardation
4:05 pm – 4:50 pm Filip Ronning (Los Alamos National Lab)
Comparisons Between Different Classes of Unconventional Superconductors
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Dinner Banquet Session
Friday, June 25, 2010
Quantum Information at Ultra-low Temperatures
9:00 am – 9:45 am Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico)
Quantum-Limited Metrology: Dynamics vs. Entanglement
9:45 am – 10:30 am Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin)
Rydberg Blockade Mediated Quantum Computing with Cold Atoms
10:30 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am Jake Taylor (JQI - NIST)
Practical quantum information with open quantum systems
11:45 am – 12:30 pm Chih-Chun Chien (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Dynamics of a Quantum Quench in an Ultra-Cold atomic BCS Superfluid
12:30 pm Conference Closing
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Image Credits: Guernica by Pablo Picasso, Optical Lattice on Wikimedia.