Tuesday January 3 2006 | |||||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:25 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) Welcoming Remarks | ||||
| 7:30 | Frank K. Tittel, Rice University (Optoelectronics) ‘‘Semiconductor laser based trace gas sensor technology: advances and opportunities’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University (Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale) ‘‘Toward coherent control in the nanoscale’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Hans Schuessler, Texas A&M University (Measurements on Cold Molecules) ‘‘Sympathetic cooling of molecular ions in rf-ion traps’’ | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Optoelectronics | Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale | Measurements on Cold Molecules | Negative Index Materials 1 | ||
| 9:10 | Claire Gmachl, Princeton University ‘‘Multi-wavelength and nonlinear Quantum Cascade lasers’’ |
Norbert F. Scherer, University of Chicago ‘‘Ultrafast Nonlinearities, Spatially Localized Responses and Optical Manipulation of Single Nanoparticles and Clusters’’ |
Jochen Küpper, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin ‘‘Deceleration and trapping of neutral molecules for spectroscopic applications’’ |
Evgenii E. Narimanov, Princeton University ‘‘Surface states in non-magnetic materials with negative refractive index’’ |
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| 9:30 | Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Quantum cascade structures: from lasers to detectors’’ |
Atsushi Kubo, University of Pittsburg ‘‘Femtosecond microscopy and coherent control of surface plasmons on a silver film’’ |
Wes Campbell, Harvard University ‘‘Loading a Magnetic Trap from a Molecular Beam of NH Radicals’’ |
Gennady Shvets, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Optical Metamaterials: from Antireflective Coatings to Molecular Spectroscopy’’ |
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| 9:50 | Andrew J. Steckl, University of Cincinnati ‘‘Rare Earth Doped Gallium Nitride - At Long Last Lasing’’ |
Geoff Steeves, University of Victoria ‘‘Ulltrafast Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Quantum Electronic Systems’’ |
Edward Eyler, University of Connecticut ‘‘Formation, Trapping, and State-Specific Detection of Ultracold Polar KRb Molecules’’ |
Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania ‘‘Metamaterials for nanoelements and nanodevices in optics’’ |
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| 10:10 | Richard Ziolkowski, University of Arizona ‘‘Subwavelength-thin optical sources’’ |
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| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Yanhua Shih, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (‘‘Ghost’’ Imaging and Quantum Imaging) ‘‘Can two-photon correlation of chaotic light be considered as correlation of intensity fluctuations?’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Zeno and Anti Zeno) ‘‘Was Zeno right after all?’’ | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| ‘‘Ghost’’ Imaging and Quantum Imaging | Zeno and Anti Zeno | Measurements on Cold Atoms and Molecules | Quantum Superposition and Entanglement | ||
| 12:00 | Giuliano Scarcelli, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‘‘Quantum magic mirror’’ |
Akira Shimizu, University of Tokyo ‘‘Quantum Zeno effect by general measurements’’ |
Thomas Udem, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ‘‘Spectroscopy with frequency combs and the possible variation of the fundamental constants’’ |
Francesco De Martini, Università ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Rome ‘‘Realization of a Decoherence-free, optimally distinguishable mesoscopic quantum superposition. A Schroedinger Cat.’’ |
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| 12:20 | Milena D’Angelo, European Lab of Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Florence ‘‘Remotely prepared single-photon time-encoded ebits: homodyne thomography and Bell’s inequality test’’ |
Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Experimental study of quantum tunneling; from single-atom to many-body physics’’ |
Mark D. Havey, Old Dominion University ‘‘Time dependent population and polarization dynamics in ultra cold atomic Rb’’ |
Dzmitry Matsukevich, Georgia Institute of Technology ‘‘Entanglement of remote atomic qubits’’ |
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| 12:40 | John Howell, University of Rochester ‘‘High Information Bandwidth Quantum Communication’’ |
Saverio Pascazio, Università di Bari, Italy ‘‘Quantum Zeno dynamics and control of decoherence’’ |
Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Nonequilibrium BEC’’ |
Andrew N. Jordan, University of Geneva and Texas A&M ‘‘Continuous quantum measurement in the solid state’’ |
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| 19:00 | Erich P. Ippen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Femtosecond Optical Clocks and Arbitrary Waveforms) ‘‘Optical Clockworks and Arbitrary Electric Field Waveforms’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Victor S. Batista, Yale University (Coherent Quantum Control with Multiple Pulses) ‘‘Coherent Quantum Control of Electronic Excitations in Sensitized Semiconductors’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Esen E. Alp, Argonne National Laboratory (X-ray Optics) ‘‘Applications of nuclear resonant spectroscopy in nanoscience’’ | ||||
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| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Femtosecond Optical Clocks and Arbitrary Waveforms | Coherent Quantum Control with Multiple Pulses | Measurements on Cold Atoms and Molecules | X-ray Optics | ||
| 20:50 | Franz Kaertner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Octave-spanning lasers and optical phase control’’ |
Luis G. C. Rego, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil ‘‘Coherent quantum control of electronic states in functionalized semiconductors’’ |
Frank A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ‘‘Effects of Frequency Chirping in Electro-magnetically induced transparency’’ |
Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University ‘‘Laser Manipulations of Mossbauer Spectra: from theory to experiment’’ |
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| 21:10 | Jun Ye, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado ‘‘Optical atomic clock based on ultracold fermionic strontium atoms’’ |
Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College ‘‘Randomized Decoupling Techniques for Coherent Quantum Control’’ |
Daniel J. Heinzen, The University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Raman photoassociation of a Mott insulator’’ |
Eric Collet, University of Rennes 1 ‘‘Opportunities to probe photoinduced phase transition by ultra-fast x-ray diffraction’’ |
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| 21:30 | Kaoru Minoshima, AIST, Japan ‘‘Phase-locked widely tunable optical single-frequency generator based on a femtosecond comb’’ |
Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ‘‘Quantum wave-packet control on a two-dimensional potential energy surface’’ |
Moochan Kim, Texas A&M University ‘‘Approximate solution of the Condensate Master Equation in BEC’’ |
Jörg Maser, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘High-resolution X-ray Optics - where is the limit?’’ |
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| 21:50 | Alfred Leitenstorfer, University of Konstanz, Germany ‘‘Ultrabroadband femtosecond fiber systems and applications’’ |
Rogerio de Sousa, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Coherence control of solid state quantum bits’’ |
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Wednesday January 4 2006 | |||||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Biophotonics) ‘‘Breaking Abbe’s barrier: Far-field fluorescence microscopy with diffraction-unlimited resolution’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Moshe Shapiro, Weizmann Institute (Coherent Control) ‘‘Quantum Control on the Nanoscale’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Charles Townes, University of California at Berkeley (Chiaofest 1: From Nonlinear Optics to Superconductivity) ‘‘Early Non-linear Optics and Beyond’’ | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Chiaofest 1: From Nonlinear Optics to Superconductivity | Coherent Control | Biophotonics | X-ray Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico ‘‘From diphotons to diatoms’’ |
Ilya Averbukh, Weizmann Institute of Science ‘‘Isotope-selective alignment of molecules’’ |
Eric Mazur, Harvard University ‘‘Subcellular surgery and nanoneurosurgery’’ |
Jos Odeurs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ‘‘Change of polarization and delayed gamma radiation using nuclear level mixing induced transparency’’ |
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| 9:30 | Marc J. Feldman, University of Rochester ‘‘Superconducting Circuitry for Control of Quantum Systems’’ |
Michael Spanner, University of Toronto ‘‘The absence of coherent mechanisms in case studies of liquid phase adaptive feedback control’’ |
Rebekah A. Drezek, Rice University ‘‘Immunotargeted Nanoshells for Imaging and Therapy of Cancer’’ |
Klaus Spohr, University of Paisley ‘‘Laser Induced Nuclear Physics: The Quest for Isomer Population & Future Developments Towards Counter-propagating Beams’’ |
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| 9:50 | Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M and Princeton University ‘‘Quantum theory of the atom laser’’ |
Wolfgang Merkel, Universität Ulm ‘‘Factorization of numbers with chirped pulses’’ |
Peter So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘High Resolution Wide-Field Microscopy Based on Standing Evanescence Waves’’ |
Petr Anisimov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Mossbauer spectroscopy in a spinning magnetic field’’ |
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| 10:10 | Paul Kelley, Tufts University ‘‘Self-trapping and the Myriad of Other Self-Action Effects’’ |
Pete Christopher, University of Toronto ‘‘Control of internal conversion in pyrazine: the overlapping resonances perspective in quantum control’’ |
Brian Pogue, Dartmouth College ‘‘Imaging human tissues with photons: Integration of near-infrared tomography with high field MRI’’ |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Peter D. Keefe, Keefe & Associates (Intellectual Property) ‘‘Intellectual Property for Scientists’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Peter Milonni, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Chiaofest 2: Photons in Matter) ‘‘Photon Momentum in Dielectrics’’ | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Chiaofest 2: Photons in Matter | Correlation and Emission | Gravity | Excitons and electron-hole plasma | ||
| 12:00 | Mohammad Mojahedi, University of Toronto ‘‘Dispersion Engineering: the Principles and Applications’’ |
Aristide Dogariu, CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida ‘‘Polarimetry of random electromagnetic fields’’ |
Lijun Wang, Max-Planck Research Group, Erlangen ‘‘Gravity aberration and its precise measurement’’ |
David Reitze, University of Florida ‘‘Superfluorescence from a quantized high density electron-hole system’’ |
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| 12:20 | Michael Stenner, University of Arizona ‘‘Information and communication in fast and slow light’’ |
Ashok Muthukrishnan, Texas A&M University ‘‘Quantum microscopy beyond the Rayleigh limit: Exponential resolution using N-photon correlation’’ |
David Ottaway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Radiation-pressure induced optomechanical dynamics in suspended optical cavities’’ |
Hyatt M. Gibbs, University of Arizona ‘‘Excitonic photoliminescence in semiconductor quantum wells: Plasma versus excitons’’ |
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| 12:40 | Robert W. Boyd and Gershon Kurizki ‘‘Superluminal Propagation of Light: The Contributions of Ray Chiao and Some Recent Results’’ |
Eugeniy Mikhailov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘EIT applications to GW detection’’ |
Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego ‘‘Coherence of the macroscopically ordered exciton state’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Jonathan Wurtele, University of California at Berkeley (Cooling of Beams and Phase-space Manipulations) ‘‘Phase Space Manipulation and Cooling in Beams and Plasmas’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University (Photonic Metamaterials) ‘‘Optical Metamaterials with Negative Refractive Index’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Carlton M. Caves, University of New Mexico (Chiaofest 3: Entanglement -- When Two Photons are Better than One) ‘‘GHZ correlations are just a bit nonlocal’’ | ||||
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| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Chiaofest 3: Entanglement -- When Two Photons are Better than One | Cooling of Beams and Phase-space Manipulations | Photonic Metamaterials | Coherence Effects and EIT | ||
| 20:50 | Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘‘Hyperentanglement: When One Degree of Freedom Isn’t Enough’’ |
Dan Dubin, University of California at San Diego Anti-Hydrogen ‘‘Formation rates of antihydrogen in a Penning trap: the long march to the ground state via three body collisions and radiation’’ |
Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK ‘‘Planar, nano-structured photonics meta-materials’’ |
Irina Novikova, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ‘‘Optimization of slow and stored light efficiency in Rb vapor cells’’ |
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| 21:10 | Colin McCormick, NIST, Gaithersburg ‘‘EIT enhancement of forward four-wave mixing in atomic vapor’’ |
Hiromi Okamoto, University of Hiroshima ‘‘Crystal beams’’ |
Xiang Zhang, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Photonic metamaterials, nano-plasmonics, and superlens’’ |
Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ‘‘Solving the time-bandwidth problem in slow light’’ |
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| 21:30 | Morgan Mitchell, ICFO, Barcelona ‘‘Atom-ready photons for cold-atom light storage’’ |
Nat Fisch, Princeton Plasma Physics ‘‘Phase space control in plasmas’’ |
Igor Smolyaninov, University of Maryland ‘‘Super-resolution microscopy using surface plasmon polaritons’’ |
Elena Kuznetsova, Texas A&M University ‘‘Coherent population trapping with a train of pulses and its application to excited-state absorption suppression’’ |
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| 21:50 | Aephraim M. Steinberg, University of Toronto ‘‘Quantum tomography of atoms, photons, biphotons, and triphotons’’ |
Will Bertsche, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘Persistent Spatially-Driven Kinetic Waves in Pure Electron Plasmas’’ |
Mark I. Stockman, Georgia State University ‘‘Extreme Nanoplasmonics: Spatio-Temporal Limits of Optical Processes in Nanostructured Systems’’ |
Anil Patnaik, Texas A&M University ‘‘Coherence effects on the Raman two-photon correlation and applications’’ |
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Thursday January 5 2006 | |||||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | David Reis, University of Michigan (Ultrafast, Short-Wavelength Physics) ‘‘Ultrafast X-ray Science’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Award Lamb Medal (Lamb Medal) ‘‘The presentation of the 2006 Willis E. Lamb medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Ultrafast, Short-Wavelength Physics | EPR | Novel Optics | Femtosecond CARS of DPA | ||
| 8:40 | Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Probing optical strong-field processes with x-rays’’ |
Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University ‘‘EPR: How subtle is the Lord and how is the Lord subtle?’’ |
Nikolai Kalugin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Efficient generation of THz radiation in gases via quantum coherence’’ |
Arthur Dogariu, Princeton University ‘‘Femtosecond Ultraviolet CARS for discrimination of Dipicolinic Acid’’ |
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| 9:00 | Andrea Cavalleri, Oxford University ‘‘Phase transition dynamics in complex solids viewed with femtosecond x-rays’’ |
Gregg Jaeger, Boston University ‘‘Exploring multipartite entangled states’’ |
C. H. Raymond Ooi, Texas A&M University ‘‘Physics of Excimer Cornea Ablation’’ |
John Reintjes, Naval Research Laboratory ‘‘Fs-CARS of Dipicolinic Acid: Effect of Two-Photon Absorption’’ |
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| 9:20 | Martin Richardson, CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida ‘‘High power EUV light sources and lithography - laser micro-plasmas’’ |
Christopher A. Fuchs, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies ‘‘Why I Never Understood Bohr’s Reply to EPR, But Still Liked It’’ |
Andrea Burzo, Texas A&M University ‘‘Interplay of Raman molecular modulation technique and Stimulated Raman Scattering for generation of ultra-broadband radiation’’ |
Dmitry Pestov, Texas A&M University ‘‘UV-probe Coherent Raman Spectroscopy of DPA and its salts’’ |
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| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||||
| 10:00 | Raymond Chiao, University of California at Berkeley (Chiaofest 4: The 21st Century) ‘‘The Interface of Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity: Generation and Detection of Gravity Waves via Planck-mass Superfluid Systems with Electron Attachment’’ | |||
| 10:30 | Roy Glauber, Harvard University (Foundations of Quantum Optics) ‘‘Foundations of Quantum Optics’’ | |||
| 11:00 | Manfred Kleber, Technische Universität München (Tunneling and Quantum Interference) ‘‘On the interplay between waves and trajectories in quantum dynamics’’ | |||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||||
| Chiaofest 4: The 21st Century | Foundations of Quantum Optics | Tunneling and Quantum Interference | ||
| 11:40 | Roland Winston, University of California at Merced ‘‘Paradigm for a wave description of optical measurements’’ |
Ennio Arimondo, Università di Pisa ‘‘Quantum Optics with Bose-Einstein condensates’’ |
Wolfgang Schleich, Universität Ulm ‘‘The quantum Ulm sparrow’’ |
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| 12:00 | Thierry Chaneliere, Georgia Institute of Technology ‘‘Storage and retrieval of single photons transmitted between remote quantum memories’’ |
Fritz Haake, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen ‘‘Decoherence bypass of Schrödinger cat states in quantum measurement’’ |
Christophe Blondel, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS ‘‘Images of a photoelectron interfering with itself: the photodetachment microscope’’ |
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| 12:20 | Onur Hosten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘‘Counterfactual Quantum Computation via Quantum Interrogation’’ |
Hans J. Briegel, University of Innsbruck ‘‘Entanglement in open and noisy quantum systems’’ |
Dieter Bauer, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg ‘‘Emergence of Classical Orbits in Few-Cycle Laser Ionization of Atoms’’ |
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| 12:40 | Heidi Fearn, California State University at Fullerton ‘‘No signals faster-than-c, or The Anti-Scharnhorst effect’’ |
Elisabeth Giacobino, Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS, Paris ‘‘Quantum optics with continuous variables: from Glauber coherent states to non classical and entangled states’’ |
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| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University (D-scaling and Chemical Physics) ‘‘D-scaling, Bohr model and Chemical Physics’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | David Cory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Quantum Information, Computation, and Communication) ‘‘Quantum Information Processing with Nuclear Spins’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Sergey Bozhevolnyi, University of Aalborg, Denmark (Negative Index Materials 2) ‘‘Plasmon-Polaritonic Crystals - Metasurfaces for Nanophotonics’’ | ||||
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| Thursday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| D-scaling and Chemical Physics | Quantum Information, Computation, and Communication | Negative Index Materials 2 | Nano-plasmonics, Nano-particles, Nano-droplets, and Nano-cavities | ||
| 20:50 | Gordon Chen, Texas A&M University ‘‘The Dimensional Scaling Method for the Excited States of the Helium Atom’’ |
James Franson, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ‘‘Entangled Photon Holes’’ |
Viktor A. Podolskiy, Oregon State University ‘‘Photonic funnels: Using anisotropy to compress and propagate light beyond diffraction limit’’ |
Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State University ‘‘Mutual enhancement of optical gain and surface plasmon in composite metal-dielectric media’’ |
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| 21:10 | Sabre Kais, Purdue University ‘‘Entanglement as a measure of electron-electron correlation’’ |
Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester ‘‘Quantum Imaging’’ |
Alexei L. Efros, University of Utah ‘‘Left-Handed Materials based upon Photonic Crystals’’ |
Sang-Kee Eah, RPI ‘‘Modification of a single metal nanoparticle’s light scattering rate by a remote mirror’’ |
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| 21:30 | John Rui-Hua Xie, Texas A&M University ‘‘Simple three-parameter model potential for diatomic systems’’ |
Howard Brandt, US Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Entangled Eavesdropping on Quantum Key Distribution’’ |
Wounjhang Park, University of Colorado ‘‘Photonic Crystal Approach for Tunable Negative Refraction’’ |
Kevin Lehmann, University of Virginia ‘‘Excitations of superfluid helium nanodroplets’’ |
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| 21:50 | Robert Murawski, Texas A&M University ‘‘First order corrections to quantum number dimensional scaling for the excited states of atoms’’ |
Daniel Felinto, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Measurement-Induced entanglement between remote atomic ensembles’’ |
Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona ‘‘Double resonance in nonlinear nanostructured materials: negative refraction and solitary waves’’ |
Josh Hendrickson, University of Arizona ‘‘Quantum optics in photonic crystal cavities’’ |
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Friday January 6 2006 | |||||
| Friday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Jean-Claude Diels, University of New Mexico (Coherent Interaction with Ultrashort Pulses) ‘‘Coherent interaction with ultrashort pulses’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Protein Physics: From Quantum Mechanics to Biology) ‘‘Protein Physics-Concepts and Promises’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Lu J. Sham, University of California, San Diego (Coherence in Exciton Systems) ‘‘Restoring coherence lost’’ | ||||
| Friday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Coherent Interaction with Ultrashort Pulses | Protein Physics: From Quantum Mechanics to Biology | Coherence in Exciton Systems | Novel Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Jens Biegert, ETH, Switzerland ‘‘Coherent control of higher order haromonic generation with intense fs pulse’’ |
Peter Hamm, Universität Zürich ‘‘Do nonlinear vibrational excitations exist in proteins?’’ |
Hailin Wang, University of Oregon ‘‘Exciton coherence and EIT’’ |
Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ‘‘Wigner distribution for operators at two different times’’ |
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| 9:30 | George Gibson, University of Connecticut ‘‘Adiabatic passage and coherent interactions on high-order multiphoton transitions’’ |
Robert H. Austin, Princeton University ‘‘Narrow States and Energy Trapping in Proteins?’’ |
David Citrin, Georgia Institute of Technology ‘‘Phase coherence effects on radiative lifetimes of excitons in QWs’’ |
Pat Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh ‘‘Wigner distribution approximation for filtered signals and waves’’ |
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| 9:50 | Leo Hollberg, NIST, Boulder ‘‘Precisions Measurements with Femtosecond Optical Frequency Combs’’ |
José Onuchic, University of California at San Diego ‘‘The energy landscape for protein folding and function’’ |
Maxime Richard, EPFL, Switzerland ‘‘The trapped polaritons’’ |
Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘‘Surface Plasmons and Photon Statistics’’ |
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| 10:10 | Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Toward generation of isolated single-cycle optical pulses by parametric beating with Raman coherence’’ |
Charles Munnerlyn, Visx Inc. ‘‘Characteristics of corneal ablations with the 193 nm excimer laser’’ |
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| Friday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Herschel A. Rabitz, Princeton University (Coherent Quantum Control) ‘‘Exploring the Systematics of Controlling Quantum Systems with Photonic Reagents’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Alexander Zholents, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Free Electron Lasers) ‘‘X-ray free electron lasers demystified’’ | ||||
| Friday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Coherent Quantum Control | Free Electron Lasers | Intense Fields | Femtosecond CARS | ||
| 12:00 | Alexei N. Markevitch, Temple University ‘‘Manipulating Hilbert Space for Fun and Profit’’ |
John Arthur, Stanford University ‘‘Applications of intense coherent x-ray pulses from LCLS’’ |
Alexander Litvak, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS ‘‘Self-focusing of ultra-short laser pulses in a dispersive medium’’ |
Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University ‘‘Nonlinear scattering in coherently prepared media: Manley-Rowe relations’’ |
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| 12:20 | Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University ‘‘Systematic Chemical Recognition Using Shaped Laser Pulses’’ |
John Corlett, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘Proposals and Concepts for Future FELs’’ |
Wilhelm Becker, Max Born Institut Berlin ‘‘Attosecond electron thermalization by laser-driven electron recollision in atoms’’ |
Martin Fischer, Duke University ‘‘Multiphoton Microscopy with Shaped Laser Pulses’’ |
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| 12:40 | Thomas Weinacht, SUNY Stony Brook ‘‘Understanding learning control of molecular dynamics: The importance of dynamic resonances’’ |
Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘Transverse-Longitudinal Correlations: FEL Performance and Emittance Exchange’’ |
Miaochan Zhi, Texas A&M University ‘‘Application of ultra-short and super-intense laser field -- molecular approach to fusion?’’ |
Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, Texas A&M University ‘‘Femtosecond Spectroscopy on Molecular Solutions’’ |
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| Friday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Lute Maleki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (High-Q Photonic Resonators) ‘‘Low contrast whispering gallery mode resonators and their applications’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Highly Tailored Radiation Pulses Using Laser Plasma Interactions) ‘‘Intense beams produced by laser-plasma interactions’’ | ||||
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| Friday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| High-Q Photonic Resonators | Highly Tailored Radiation Pulses Using Laser Plasma Interactions | Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy | Photonics | ||
| 20:20 | Dmitry V. Strekalov, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘‘The progress of EIT-based clock and magnetometer at JPL’’. |
Thomas Cowan, University of Nevada ‘‘Laser Generated Ion Beams’’ |
Jaan Laane, Texas A&M University ‘‘A Chemist’s view of the vibrational spectra of DPA and its calcium salts’’ |
Kent Choquette, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘‘Tunable and coherent coupling of multiple defect photonic crystal vertical cavity lasers’’ |
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| 20:40 | Nan Yu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘‘Coupled optoelectronic oscillator: from ultra-low phase noise to ultra-high frequency stability’’ |
Yoav Avitzour, Princeton University ‘‘Feasibility of X-Ray Laser within the ‘‘Water Window’’ at 3.4 nm’’ |
Roland Allen, Texas A&M University ‘‘Vibrational modes of dipicolinic acid, and their role in the response to femtosecond-scale laser pulses’’ |
Weng W. Chow, Sandia National Laboratory ‘‘Active photonic lattices: is greater than blackbody intensity possible?’’ |
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| 21:00 | Anatoliy Savchenkov, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘‘Raman lasing and four wave mixing in ultrahigh-Q fluorite whispering gallery mode resonators’’ |
Alexander Kolomenski, Texas A&M University ‘‘Two-photon absorption of DPA observed via stimulated Raman scattering’’ |
Jason Fleischer, Princeton University ‘‘Random-phase solitons in nonlinear photonic lattices’’ |
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| 21:20 | Robert P. Lucht, Purdue University ‘‘Electronic resonance CARS’’ |
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