Conference Program
 
ATOMIC PHYSICS

June 26 - July 1, 2005
Tilton School
Tilton, NH

Chair:
Eric Cornell

Vice Chair:
Chris Monroe

Acknowledgements:

Army Research Office
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc.
Department of Energy
ThorLabs, Inc.
New Focus, Inc.


SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmBOSE-CONDENSED GASES
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Cass Sackett (Virginia)
7:50 pm - 8:40 pm Massimo Inguscio (Florence)
"Quantum Gases in Optical Potentials"
8:40 pm - 9:30 pm David Weiss (Penn State)
"1-D Bose Gases from Thomas-Fermi to Tonks-Girardeau"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pmULTRAFAST AND HIGH-FIELD ATOMIC PHYSICS
9:00 am - 9:20 amDiscussion Leader: Todd Ditmire (Texas)
9:20 am - 10:10 amRobert Jones (Virginia)
"Using Wavepackets to Explore Non-Perturbative Dynamics in Atoms and Diatomic Molecules"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:30 amMargaret Murnane (JILA)
"Attophysics and Extreme Nonlinear Optics"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmAli Alnaser (Kansas State)
"COLTRIMS Studies of Strong Field Ionization of Atoms and Molecules"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCONDENSED MATTER SYSTEMS
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmDiscussion Leader: Anders Sorensen (Neils Bohr Institute)
7:50 pm - 8:40 pmLeonid Butov (UC San Diego)
"Condensation, Pattern Formation, and Coherence in Cold Exciton Gases"
8:40 pm - 9:30 pmRobert Schoelkopf (Yale)
"Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics on a Superconducting Chip"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmQUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE
9:00 am - 9:20 pmDiscussion Leader: Michael Chapman (Georgia Tech)
9:20 am - 10:10 am Dietrich Leibfried (NIST-Boulder)
"Small Quantum Algorithms Realized with Trapped Ions"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:30 amLuming Duan (Michigan)
"Efficient Probabalistic Quantum Computation and its Implementation"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmAlex Kuzmich (Georgia Tech)
"Quantum Networking with Atomic Ensembles"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFERMI-DEGENERATE GASES I
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmDiscussion Leader: Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)
7:50 pm - 8:40 pmChristoph Salomon (Ecole Normale Superiore)
"BEC-BCS Crossover in Ultracold Fermi Gases"
8:40 pm - 9:30 pm Eleanor Hodby (JILA)
"Production and Decay of Ultracold Feshbach Molecules in Bosons and Fermions"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPRECISION MEASUREMENTS
9:00 am - 9:20 pm Discussion Leader: Jun Ye (JILA)
9:20 am - 10:10 am Dmitry Budker (UC Berkeley)
"Crossing the P and T and dotting the alpha: an update on fundamental-symmetry tests at Berkeley"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:30 amEric Hessels (York)
"Producing and Studying Antihydrogen Atoms"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmLarry Hunter (Amherst)
"Adventures in GdIG: a search for the electron edm"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session II
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmATOMIC PHYSICS APPLICATIONS
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmDiscussion Leader: Kristian Helmerson (NIST-Gaithersburg)
7:50 pm - 8:40 pmDavid Pritchard (MIT)
"BEC Interferometry without Beamsplitters"
8:40 pm - 9:30 pm Nate Grady (Rice)
"Plasmon Hybridization: Mesoscopic Quantum Analogs of Atomic and Molecular Systems"
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmQUANTUM CONTROL
9:00 am - 9:20 pm Discussion Leader: Tom Weinacht (SUNY Stonybrook)
9:20 am - 10:10 amDavid Tannor (Weizmann Institute)
"Optimal Control, Quantum Computation, and Virtual Entanglement"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:30 amPaul Haljan (Michigan)
"Control of Quantum Gates in Ion Traps"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmDieter Meschede (Bonn)
"Engineering Quantum Processors Atom by Atom: A Neutral Atom Perspective"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFERMI-DEGENERATE GASES II
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmDiscussion Leader: Aurel Bulgac (U. Washington)
7:50 pm - 8:40 pmLene Hau (Harvard)
"BEC Vortex Rings"
8:40 pm - 9:30 pm Cindy Regal (JILA)
"Creating and studying fermionic atom pairs in the BCS-BEC crossover regime"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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