Monday January 3 2005 | |||||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:25 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) Welcoming Remarks | ||||
| 7:30 | Herbert Walther, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik (Cavity QED) ‘‘Recent Advances in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Federico Capasso, Harvard University (Quantum Cascade Laser Physics and Applications) ‘‘New frontiers in quantum cascade laser research’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego (Exciton Condensation in Semiconductors) ‘‘Experiments on Exciton Condensation and ‘‘Pattern Formation in Coupled Quantum Wells’’ | ||||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Cavity QED | Quantum Cascade Laser Physics and Applications | Exciton Condensation in Semiconductors | Vibrational and Infrared Molecular Spectroscopy | ||
| 9:10 | Thomas Becker, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ‘‘Cavity QED with the Micromaser: From Fock-State Generation to Phase Diffusion’’ |
Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Coherent nonlinear optics with quantum-cascade structures’’ |
Ronen Rapaport, Bell-Labs, Lucent Technologies ‘‘Excitons in luminescent rings and artificial traps’’ |
Paul Champion, Northeastern University ‘‘Exploring Low-Frequency Modes in Biomolecules Using Femtosecond Coherence Spectroscopy’’ |
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| 9:30 | Axel Scherer, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Photonic crystals - basics and prospects’’ |
Claire Gmachl, Princeton University ‘‘Intersubband transitions beyond QC lasers’’ |
Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, University of Tokyo ‘‘Optical manipulation of cold excitons in a quantum degenerate regime’’ |
Nikolai Kalugin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Multi-phonon Infrared Spectra of thin polycrystalline films and monocrystals of dipicolinic acid’’ |
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| 9:50 | Chris Search, Stevens Institute of Technology ‘‘Quantum Atom Optics: Non-classical Dynamics of Matter-Waves Coupled to Light Fields’’ |
Cun-Zheng Ning, NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology ‘‘Possibility of two-photon lasing using intersubband transitions in semiconductor nanostructures’’ |
Jim Wolfe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘‘Excitons in Cu2O, To BEC or not to BEC?’’ |
Aleksander Rebane, Montana State University ‘‘1-2-3 photon spectroscopy of NLO chromophores’’ |
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| Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | David Hyland, Texas A&M University (Novel Optics) ‘‘Quantum Optics and Exosolar Planet Detection’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Stanford University (Exciton Condensation in Semiconductors) ‘‘Condensate of Polaritons in Microcavities’’ | ||||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Novel Optics | Quantum Cascade Laser Physics and Applications | Exciton Condensation in Semiconductors | Entanglement, Correlations, and Complementarity | ||
| 11:40 | Michael G. Littman, Princeton University ‘‘Beating Diffraction with a Binary Mask -- Shaped Pupil Coronagraph and the Optical Search for Planets about Nearby Stars’’ |
J. Barry McManus, Aerodyne Research, Inc. ‘‘Trace gas measurements using pulsed QC lasers: atmospheric and environmental applications’’ |
Leonid Levitov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘theory of exciton condensation and pattern formation in coupled quantum wells’’ |
Alfred U’Ren, CISESE ‘‘Applied Photon Entanglement with Multi-Element Sources’’ |
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| 12:00 | Joe Mait, U.S. Army Research Laboratory ‘‘A Historical Perspective of Imaging’’ |
Tanya L. Myers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ‘‘Quantum Cascade Laser Transmitters for Sensors and Other Applications’’ |
Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Excitonic Bose Condensation in Quantum Hall Bilayers’’ |
John Howell, University of Rochester ‘‘Time-Energy EPR Entanglement’’ |
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| 12:20 | Elena Kuznetsova, Texas A&M University ‘‘Solitary waves in amplifying media with excited-state absorption’’ |
Gottfried Strasser, Technical University of Wien ‘‘Surface emitting quantum cascade lasers’’ |
Loren Pfeiffer, Bell Laboratories ‘‘Design considerations of GaAs samples intended to demonstrate excitonic BEC’’ |
Mark Hillery, Hunter College, CUNY ‘‘Discriminating multipartite states’’ |
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| 12:40 | Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ‘‘Time-Frequency Evolution of the Quantum Langevin Equation’’ |
Margaret Reid, University of Queensland, Australia ‘‘Criteria for entanglement of macroscopic superpositions’’ |
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| 19:00 | William G. Unruh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space) ‘‘Dumb Holes and Slow light-- Testing Black Hole Physics in the Lab’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Daniel J. Gauthier, Duke University (Ultra-Low-Light Level Nonlinear Optics) ‘‘New techniques for ultra-low light-level nonlinear optics’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Peter S. Pershan, Harvard University (X-ray optics of liquid surfaces) ‘‘X-ray optics of liquid surfaces’’ | ||||
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| Monday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space | Ultra-Low-Light Level Nonlinear Optics | Novel Optics | Femtosecond Dynamics | ||
| 20:50 | Leonard Parker, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee ‘‘Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory in the Curved Spacetime of General Relativity’’ |
Danielle Braje, Stanford University ‘‘Nonlinear Optics Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cold Atoms’’ |
Kevin Lehmann, Princeton University Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy |
Stefanie Gräfe, Wuerzburg University, Germany ‘‘Instanteneous dynamics and quantum control fields: principle and numerical applications’’ |
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| 21:10 | Stephen A. Fulling, Texas A&M University ‘‘Review of some recent work on acceleration radiation’’ |
Jeff Lundeen, University of Toronto ‘‘Applications of a nonlinear photon switch to Hardy’s Paradox and Bell-state determination’’ |
George R. Welch, Texas A&M University ‘‘Enhanced coupling between optical and sound waves in the forward direction via ultra-slow light’’ |
Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ‘‘Real-time wave-packet dynamics and wave-packet engineering’’ |
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| 21:30 | Chris Adami, Keck Graduate Institute/Caltech ‘‘Black holes conserve information in curved-space quantum field theory’’ |
Min Xiao, University of Arkansas ‘‘All-optical switching with enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in EIT system’’ |
Raanan Tobey, University of Colorado ‘‘Nonlinear High-Frequency Photoacoustic Spectroscopy using EUV Light |
Jaan Laane, Texas A&M University ‘‘Spectroscopic Investigations of Molecular Structures in Electronic Excited States’’ |
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| 21:50 | Paul M. Alsing, Air Force Research Laboratory ‘‘Ion Trap Simulation of theUnruh Effect’’ |
Alex Kuzmich, Georgia Institute of Technology ‘‘Quantum networking with atomic ensembles’’ |
Kyungsun Na, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Chaos Assisted STIRAP’’ |
Roland E. Allen, Texas A&M University ‘‘Response of benzene and dipicolinic acid to ultrafast laser pulses’’ |
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Tuesday January 4 2005 | |||||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Sune Svanberg, University of Lund, Sweden (Laser Medical Diagnostics) ‘‘Diagnostics and treatment of tumours using laser techniques’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Gérard Mourou, U. of Michigan and LOA ENSTA/Ecole Polytechnique Fr. (Relativistic Optics) ‘‘Relativistic Optics’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Stephen E. Harris, Stanford University (Laser Optics) ‘‘Fourier Synthesis of Optical Waveforms’’ | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Laser Medical Diagnostics | Relativistic Optics | Laser Optics | Femtosecond Dynamics | ||
| 9:10 | Hans Hertz, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm ‘‘Sources and optics for table-top biomedical x-ray imaging’’ |
Michael Key, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ‘‘Physics of the fast Ignitor’’ |
Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Toward powerful single-cycle laser pulses’’ |
Manjusha Mehendale, Princeton University ‘‘All UV time resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering’’ |
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| 9:30 | Gordon Cates, University of Virginia ‘‘Progress using Laser Polarized Noble Gases for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’’ |
Kim Ta Phuoc, LOA ENSTA/Ecole Polytechnique Fr. ‘‘Generation of X-ray beams using lasers from the accelaration of energetic electrons’’ |
Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro-Communications, Japan ‘‘Ultrashort pulse generation using coherent molecular oscillation’’ |
Joseph Giordmaine, Princeton University ‘‘Slowing the dephasing of molecular coherence’’ |
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| 9:50 | Irving Bigio, Boston University ‘‘Optical biopsy: noninvasive detection of cancer with elastic-scattering spectroscopy’’ |
Frank Caroll, Vanderbilt U. Medical Center ‘‘Applications of High Intensity laser-based X-ray imaging and therapy’’ |
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri, University of Connecticut ‘‘Measuring properties of superposed light beams carrying different frequencies’’ |
Barak Dayan, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel ‘‘Nonlinear interactions with entangled photons and high-power down-converted light’’ |
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| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | Eric Mazur, Harvard University (Nanophotonics I) ‘‘Wrapping light around a hair’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | Lute Maleki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Quantum Metrology) ‘‘Hyper parametric oscillation and squeezing in crystalline whispering gallery mode resonators’’ | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Nanophotonics I | Relativistic Optics | Quantum Metrology | Microcavity enhancements in Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs | ||
| 11:40 | Naomi Halas, Rice University ‘‘Plasmonic Nanosensors’’ |
John Nees, University of Michigan ‘‘Relativistic Optics: A route to high intensity attosecond pulses’’ |
Derek Kimball, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Can a Quantum Nondemolition Measurement Improve the Sensitivity of an Atomic Magnetometer?’’ |
Connie Chang-Hasnain, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘50GHz VCSEL - no speed limit in sight’’ |
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| 12:00 | Michal Lipson, Cornell University ‘‘Manipulating light using highly confining nanophotonic structures’’ |
Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘Laser Plasma-based accelerators: their potential for High Energy Physics’’ |
Eugeniy Mikhailov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Development of a stable low-frequency squeezed vacuum source for precision position measurement’’ |
Dennis G. Deppe, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Lithographically defined all epitaxial grating confined VCSELs and their applications to quantum-optics experiments’’ |
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| 12:20 | Kerry Vahala, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Q > 100-million optical micro-resonators on silicon and applications’’ |
Jean-Claude Kieffer, INRS Canada ‘‘Phase contrast radiography with Ultrafast laser based X-ray source alser baser’’ |
Alexander Korotkov, University of California at Riverside ‘‘Quantum feedback control in solid-state mesoscopics’’ |
Kent Choquette, University of Illnois ‘‘Vertical Cavity Photonic Crystal Lasers’’ |
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| 12:40 | Elinor Irish, University of Rochester ‘‘Quantum Electro-Mechanics: Cavity QED beyond the rotating-wave approximation’’ |
Irina Novikova, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ‘‘Study of the three-photon absorption resonances as a challenger for the atomic clock’’ |
Ihab El-kady, Sandia National Laboratory ‘‘Thermal emission from photonic crystals: Does it exceed blackbody radiation?’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Tuesday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Paul Brumer, University of Toronto (New Directions in Coherent Control) ‘‘Coherent Control of Radiationless Transitions’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Wolfgang Schleich, Universität Ulm (Relativity and Optics) ‘‘New Frontiers in General Relativity’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University (Slow Light Applications) ‘‘Parametric Slow Light Structures’’ | ||||
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| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| New Directions in Coherent Control | Relativity and Optics | Slow Light Applications | Nanophotonics II | ||
| 20:50 | Ioannis Thanapoulos, University of British Columbia and ‘‘Coherent Control of Nucleotide Base Pair Mutations’’ |
Ernst Rasel, Universität Hannover ‘‘Atom optics on ground and in space’’ |
Yifu Zhu, Florida International University ‘‘Nonlinear wave mixing with EIT in cold atoms’’ |
Evgenii E. Narimanov, Princeton University ‘‘Chaotic Microlasers Based on Dynamical Anderson Localization’’ |
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| 21:10 | Matthais Wollenhaupt, Universität Kassel ‘‘Quantum Control Using Intense Shaped Pulses’’ |
Ignazio Ciufolini, Universita’ di Lecce, Italy ‘‘Accurate measurement of frame-dragging using the LAGEOS satellites and the GRACE Earth gravity models’’ |
Art Smirl, University of Iowa ‘‘Stopping, Trapping and Releasing Light in Doubly-Resonant Nanostructures’’ |
Viktor A. Podolskiy, Oregon State University ‘‘Nanostructured non-magnetic left-handed composites’’ |
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| 21:30 | Victor S. Batista, Yale University ‘‘Creating and Manipulating Electronic Coherences in Functionalized Seminconductor Nanostructures’’ |
Francis Everitt, Stanford University ‘‘Gravity Probe B On-Orbit: Processing the Science Data’’ |
De-Kui Qing, Texas A&M University ‘‘Delay-Time-Bandwidth Product in Slow Light’’ |
Jean-Pierre Leburton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘‘Charge stability and exchange engineering in coupled quantum dots’’ |
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| 21:50 | Petr Kral, University of Illinois at Chicago ‘‘Control of catalytic activity of proteins in vivo’’ |
Ulrich Schreiber, Universität Essen ‘‘Beyond the 6th decimal -- High Precision Sagnac Interferometry’’ |
Alexander Gaeta, Cornell University ‘‘Slow Light in Optical Fibers’’ |
Sang-Kee Eah, The University of Chicago and Argonne ‘‘Scattered light interference of a single metal nanoparticle and its mirror image’’ |
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Wednesday January 5 2005 | |||||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University (Plasmonic Nanophotonics) ‘‘Plasmonic Nanophotonics: Coupling Light to Nanoscale via Plasmons’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | John Pendry, Imperial College (Plasmonic Nanophotonics) ‘‘Metamaterials Open New Vistas in Optics’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Mike Romalis, Princeton University (Magnetometry) ‘‘High-density alkali-metal magnetometers and their applications’’ | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Plasmonic Nanophotonics | Electron Waveguides | Magnetometry | Biophysics and Biochemistry | ||
| 9:10 | Gennady Shvets, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Band engineering using electrostatic resonances: applications to super-lensing’’ |
Linda Reichl, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Electron waveguide quantum computers’’ |
Peter Schwindt, NIST, Boulder ‘‘Microfabricated Atomic Magnetometers’’ |
James Weaver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Transport, sources and sinks: A multiscale, modular approach to modeling systems in biology and medicine’’ |
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| 9:30 | Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Strong Coupling in Plasmonic Materials’’ |
Jonathan Bird, SUNY at Buffalo ‘‘Electron Waveguides for Quantum Computing: Spin & Wave-Based Approaches’’ |
Frank Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ‘‘Atomic Magnetometry with Laser-Trapped Atoms’’ |
Timothy F. Havel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Some Connections between Protein NMR Spectroscopy and NMR Quantum Computing’’ |
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| 9:50 | Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona ‘‘Nonlinear electrodynamics of ultrashort pulses in a medium with negative refractive index’’ |
Charles Stafford, University of Arizona ‘‘Spontaneous formation of nanoscale electron waveguides’’ |
Chris Hovde, Southwest Sciences ‘‘Earth-Field Atomic Magnetometry with Frequency-Modulated Light’’ |
Eric O. Potma, Harvard University ‘‘Biology seen through the window of CARS’’ |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | Award Lamb Medal (Lamb Medal) ‘‘The presentation of the 2005 Willis E. Lamb medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin (Low Dimensional Quantum Gases) ‘‘Quantum Dynamics and Transport in Low-Dimensional Bose Gases’’ | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Plasmonic Nanophotonics | Low Dimensional Quantum Gases | Magnetometry and Quantum Metrology | Laser Microtexturing | ||
| 11:40 | Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State University ‘‘Effect of silver nanoparticles on luminescence of Eu3+ ions in organic and inorganic materials’’ |
David S. Weiss, Pennsylvania State University ‘‘Observation of a 1D Tonks-Girardeau gas’’ |
Antoine Weis, Université de Fribourg ‘‘The human heart beat seen by cesium magnetometers’’ |
Andreas Ostendorf, Laser Zentrum Hannover ‘‘Patterning of silicon surfaces by ps and fs laser pulses’’ |
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| 12:00 | Mark I. Stockman, Georgia State University ‘‘Coherent, nonlinear, and quantum nanoplasmonics’’ |
Maxim Olshanii, University of Southern California ‘‘Interatomic Interactions and Interference’’ |
Andrey Matsko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘‘Magnetometer based on the opto-electronic microwave oscillator’’ |
Peter Herman, University of Toronto ‘‘Ultrafast laser processing: controlling heat accumulation effects with variable repetition rate’’ |
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| 12:20 | Sergey Bozhevolnyi, University of Aalborg, Denmark ‘‘Polaritonics: photonics based on surface plasmon polaritons’’ |
Daniel J. Heinzen, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Superfluid and insulating states of a Bose gas in an optical lattice’’ |
Dmitry Budker, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Selective addressing and applications of high-order atomic polarization moments’’ |
Stephen Jesse, Oak Ridge National Lab / UTK ‘‘Modelling the evolution of surface micro-structures on laser irradiated silicon’’ |
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| 12:40 | Michael Scalora, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command ‘‘Negative Refraction of Ultrashort Electromagnetic Pulses’’ |
Peter Drummond, University of Queensland, Australia ‘‘Atoms in optical lattices and the Fermi sign problem’’ |
Dmitry V. Strekalov, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘‘Quantum-correlation metrology with biphotons: where is the limit?’’ |
Steve Yalisove, University of Michigan ‘‘Ultrafast laser interaction with Si-SiO2 interfaces’’ |
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| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Peter D. Keefe, Keefe & Associates (Thermodynamics and the Second Law) ‘‘Does the Adiabatic First Order Phase Transition of a Type I Superconductor Particle Pose a Quantum Limit to the Second Law?’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University (Gamma-ray Optics) ‘‘Laser manipulations of nuclear transitions’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | James Franson, Johns Hopkins University (Quantum Crypto/Comp) ‘‘Linear Optics Quantum Computing’’ | ||||
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| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Plasmonic Nanophotonics | Gamma-ray Optics | Quantum Crypto/Comp | Novel Optics | ||
| 20:50 | Mark Brongersma, Stanford University ‘‘Towards CMOS Compatible Nanophotonics and Plasmonics’’ |
Esen E. Alp, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Techniques and Their Applications’’ |
Jonathan P. Dowling, Louisiana State University ‘‘Quantum Optical Sensing, Imaging, and Computing’’ |
Xinyong Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ‘‘Realization of Maxwell’s Hypothesis’’ |
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| 21:10 | Vladimir P. Drachev, Purdue University ‘‘Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Metal Quantum Dots’’ |
David Reis, University of Michigan ‘‘Picosecond resolved x-ray scattering’’ |
Todd B. Pittman, Johns Hopkins University ‘‘Heralding single photons from pulsed down-conversion’’ |
Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University ‘‘Using Quantum Mechanics to Exorcise Maxwell’s Demon’’ |
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| 21:30 | Peter G. Kik, CREOL, University of Central Florida ‘‘Resonant near-field excitation of surface plasmons for applications in imaging and optical interconnects’’ |
Ian McNulty, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘X-ray coherence and microscopy’’ |
Howard Brandt, ARL ‘‘Design for a Quantum Cryptographic Entangling Probe’’ |
Goong Chen, Texas A&M University ‘‘Generalized Two-Centered Orbitals in the Modeling of Diatomic Molecules and Relevant Asymptotics’’ |
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| 21:50 | Karl L. Kompa, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ‘‘Molecules as Nanoscopic Information Devices’’ |
John Miao, University of California at Los Angeles ‘‘Coherent Imaging and Its Applications’’ |
Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ‘‘VLSI quantum computer in diamond’’ |
Mark D. Havey, Old Dominion University ‘‘Mesoscopic Wave Dynamics in Ultracold Atomic Rb’’ |
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Thursday January 6 2005 | |||||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University (What’s New in Field of X-Ray Lasers) ‘‘X-Ray Lasers via Optical Field Ionization’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Joseph W. Haus, University of Dayton (Nanophotonics III) ‘‘Nanophotonics’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University (Semiconductor Optoelectronics) ‘‘Interband Nonlinear Mixing Lasers for Mid/Far-Infrared Generation’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| What’s New in Field of X-Ray Lasers | Nanophotonics III | Semiconductor Optoelectronics | Entanglement, Correlations, and Complementarity | ||
| 9:10 | Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University ‘‘High repetition rate table-top and desk-top size soft x-ray lasers’’ |
Edward (Ted) Sargent, Univeristy of Toronto ‘‘Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dots: Electroluminescent, Photovoltaic, and Modulation Devices’’ |
Henryk Temkin, Texas Tech University ‘‘Semiconductor Light Sources for the Ultraviolet’’ |
Vincenzo Savona, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne ‘‘Quantum complementarity of microcavity polaritons’’ |
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| 9:30 | Jonathan S. Wurtele, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Ultra-high intensity femtosecond laser via Raman Amplification for X-Ray Lasers’’ |
Steve Blair, University of Utah ‘‘Molecular detection and nonlinear optics with metallic nanocavities’’ |
Junichiro Kono, Rice University ‘‘Optical Signatures of the Aharonov-Bohm Phase in Carbon Nanotubes’’ |
Arthur Dogariu, NEC Laboratories America ‘‘Correlated photons via cascaded four-wave mixing in microstructured fiber’’ |
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| 9:50 | Yoav Avitzour, Princeton University ‘‘Possibility for compact recombination XRLs using Optical Field Ionization’’ |
Mark Baldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Molecular circuits from Photosynthetic complexes’’ |
Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory ‘‘Imaging electron spin flows in semiconductors in the presence of electric, magnetic, and strain fields’’ |
Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University ‘‘Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics’’ |
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| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | Richard Miles, Princeton University (Stand Off Detection) ‘‘Spectral Methods for Imaging High-Speed Fluid Flow’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | Wolfgang Kiefer, Wuerzburg University, Germany (Femtosecond Spectroscopy) ‘‘Femtosecond coherent four-wave mixing spectroscopy and applications’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| What’s New in Field of X-Ray Lasers | Nanophotonics III | Femtosecond Spectroscopy | Quantum Imaging | ||
| 11:40 | Claudio Pellegrini, University of California at Los Angeles ‘‘Status of development of X-Ray FEL and some new ideas’’ |
Michael E. Crenshaw, US Army RDECOM ‘‘Quantum Electrodynamic Foundations of Continuum Electrodynamics’’ |
Torsten Siebert, Wuerzburg University, Germany ‘‘Optimizing population-transfer to excited vibrational states in femtosecond time-resolved coherent anti-stokes Raman Scattering for enhanced molecular recognition’’ |
Robert Boyd, University of Rochester ‘‘Progress in Quantum Lithography and Ghost Imaging’’ |
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| 12:00 | Marlan O. Scully et al., Texas A&M University ‘‘Charge-Exchange X-Ray Lasers’’ |
Edo Waks, Stanford University ‘‘Single Photon Sources’’ |
Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Texas A&M University ‘‘UV coherent absorption spectroscopy for anthrax’’ |
Giuliano Scarcelli, UMBC ‘‘Quantum imaging using thermal and Raman photon pairs’’ |
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| 12:20 | Geoffrey Hunter, York University ‘‘Experimental Confirmation of the Photon as an Ellipsoidal Soliton’’ |
Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University ‘‘Electromagnetically Induced Coherent Scattering (EICS) in Backward Direction’’ |
Fuli Li, Texas A&M University ‘‘Coherence induced entanglement’’ |
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| 12:40 | Nan Yu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘‘Ultra-low noise optical pulse generation through regenerative Q of the mode-locked laser’’ |
Guy Beadie, Naval Research Laboratory ‘‘CARS Detection: How Can We Optimize Sensitivity?’’ |
Manfred Kleber, Technische Universität München ‘‘Imaging Atoms with Evanescent Waves’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Gerd Leuchs, University of Erlangen, Germany (Quantum Algorithms) ‘‘Continuous Variable Quantum Algorithms’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Near Field Effects) ‘‘Near field microscopy with surface plasmons and their statistical properties’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Paul Corkum, National Research Council of Canada (What’s New in Field of X-Ray Lasers) ‘‘Attosecond Imaging: Using a Molecule’s own Electrons to Image Molecular Orbitals’’ | ||||
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| Thursday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Quantum Algorithms | Gamma-ray Optics | Novel Optics | CARS Spectroscopy | ||
| 20:50 | Oliver Gloeckl, University of Erlangen, Germany ‘‘From phase measurements on intense light beams to entanglement generation by spatial separation of quantum sidebands’’ |
James J. Carroll, Youngstown University ‘‘An experimental perspective on releasing energy from nuclear isomers’’ |
Gerard Wysocki, Rice University ‘‘Quantum cascade laser based trace-gas sensors for human breath analysis’’ |
Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, Texas A&M University ‘‘Femtosecond CARS on molecules: Gaining Insight from a Theoretical Analysis’’ |
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| 21:10 | Julien Niset, Ecole Polytechnique and Universite Libre de Bruxelles ‘‘Quantum cloning with continuous variables’’ |
Douglas Cline, University of Rochester ‘‘Nuclear structure studies of nuclear isomers and implications for controlled energy release’’ |
Fam Le Kien, University of Electro-Communications, Japan ‘‘Atom traps and waveguides using evanescent light fields around subwavelength-diameter fibers’’ |
Robert Lucht, Purdue University ‘‘Nonperturbative Modeling of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering with Ultrafast Lasers’’ |
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| 21:30 | Matt Eisaman, Harvard University ‘‘Quantum Control of Single Photons using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency’’ |
Roman Kolesov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Influence of electromagnetic radiation on the Mossbauer spectra through co-dopants.’’ |
Anil K. Patnaik, Texas A&M University ‘‘Raman Photon Pair Correlations Via the Onsager Regression Theorem’’ |
Dmitry Pestov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Femtosecond CARS on organic molecules’’ |
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| 21:50 | Petr Anisimov, Texas A&M University ‘‘ ‘‘Magic-angle’’ technique for suppression of inhomogeneous broadening of Mossbauer spectra’’ |
Michel de Haan, Université Libre de Bruxelles ‘‘Field theory reformulated without self-energy parts’’ |
Chong H. (Raymond) Ooi, Texas A&M University ‘‘Enhanced Nonlinear CARS Backscattering via Quantum Coherence for Remote Detection of Anthrax Spores’’ |
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Last updated: Tue Nov 15 09:06:04 CST 2005