Applications for this meeting must be submitted by February 28, 2010. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Applications will still be accepted for oversubscribed meetings. However, they will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
There has been a rapid increase in both interest and progress in the area of mechanical systems at quantum limits. This meeting will provide a snapshot of the most exciting experimental results and new theoretical ideas (and sometimes, a reminder of what has been explored by earlier generations.) The systems which will be considered span from single trapped atoms to macroscopic kilogram-scale device, coupled to quantum optical fields or quantum electronics. Applications of this work is far reaching: ultra-sensitive detection of microscopic forces, to gravitational waves, to studies of the foundations of quantum physics.
Tentative topics which will be covered are: experimental progress to prepare quantum states of mechanical structures (ground state, squeezing, entanglement, ect.) back-action evasion techniques, novel electro-mechanical and opto-mechanical structures, quantized motion of atomic systems, new theoretical ideas.
| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | MACRO-opto-mechanics |
| Discussion Leader: Tobias Donner (JILA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Jack Harris (Yale) "Strong quadratic and quartic coupling in ultralow-loss optomechanical systems" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Nergis Mavalvala (MIT) "Cooling LIGO" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | micro-opto-mechanics |
| Discussion Leader: Khaled Karrai (Attocube Systems AG) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Oskar Painter (Caltech) "Optomechanics in planar optomechanical crystals" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Hong Tang (Yale) "Circuit Cavity Optomechanical System" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ho Bun Chan (University of Florida - Gainsville) "Geometry dependent Casimir forces on a micromechanical oscillator" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Coupling Atoms to Mechanics |
| Discussion Leader: Mukund Vengalattore (Cornell) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Phillip Treutline (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) "Interfacing ultracold atoms and mechanical oscillators on an atom chip" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona) "Cavity optomechanics with ultracold atoms" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Theory |
| Discussion Leader: Aash Clerk (McGill) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Florian Marquardt (University of Munich) "Dynamics of Optomechanical Arrays" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Ignacio Wilson-Rae (Technische Universität München) "Exciton-assisted optomechanics and quantum dissipation with suspended nanotubes" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland) "Quantum measurement and control of nanomechanical and opto-mechanical resonators" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Entanglement with Mechanics |
| Discussion Leader: Eyal Buks (Technion) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Andrew Cleland (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Six billionths of a second" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Pierre-Francois Cohadon (Ecole Normale Supérieure) |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Gravitation and Mechanics |
| Discussion Leader: Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford) "Cantilever-based experiments to test inverse square low of gravity" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | David Blair (University of Western Australia) |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Sam Waldman (MIT) |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular-scale Mechanics |
| Discussion Leader: Jime Hone (Columbia) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Herre Van der Zandt (TU-Delft) "High-quality carbon nanotube mechanical resonators" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Adrian Bachtold (Institut Català de Nanotecnologia) "Nanotube resonator" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advances in Detection |
| Discussion Leader: Raffi Budakian (University of Illinois- Urbana Champagne) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Jared Hertzberg (Cornell) "Back-action evading detection near the zero-point level" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Alex Rimberg (Dartmouth) "A Macroscopic Mechanical Resonator Driven by Mesoscopic Electrical Backaction" |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | John Teufel (NIST) |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Eva Weig (LMU Munchen) "Gradient Force transduction and self-oscillation of nanomechanical resonators" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dissipation and Decoherence |
| Discussion Leader: Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Miles Blencowe (Dartmouth) "Damping and Decoherence of a Nanomechanical Resonator Due to a Few Two-Level Systems" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Jeevak Parpia (Cornell) "Stressed out nitride" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
Last Updated: December 9, 2009