Wednesday January 3 2007 | |||||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:25 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) Welcoming Remarks | ||||
| 7:30 | Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University (Advances in Coherent Soft X-Ray Sources) ‘‘Advances in Coherent Soft X-Ray Sources’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | H. Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology (Quantum Information, Computation, and Communication) ‘‘Quantum Networks in Quantum Optics’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Peter Drummond, University of Queensland, Australia (Quantum dynamics in ultra-cold atom systems) ‘‘Quantum dynamics in phase-space: From coherent states to the Gaussian representation’’ | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Advances in Coherent Soft X-Ray Sources | Quantum Information, Computation, and Communication | Quantum dynamics in ultra-cold atom systems | Semiconductor Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Jorge J. Rocca, Coloroda State University ‘‘Recent developments in high repetition rate soft x-ray lasers’’ |
Howard Brandt, Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Positive-Operator and Projection Valued Measures in Quantum Key Distribution’’ |
Gora Shlyapnikov, Universite de Paris Sud, Orsay, France ‘‘Strongly interacting ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixtures’’ |
Lu J. Sham, University of California, San Diego ‘‘Density functional theory for entanglement and quantum phase transition’’ |
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| 9:30 | Carmen S. Menoni, Colorado State University ‘‘Nanoscale imaging with soft x-ray lasers’’ |
Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley ‘‘A measurement-based measure of Schrodinger cat state size’’ |
Rob Ballagh, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand ‘‘Bragg scattering of correlated atom pairs from a Fermi gas in a BCS state’’ |
Steven Cundiff, JILA ‘‘Optical Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductors’’ |
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| 9:50 | Bedrich Rus, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ‘‘Development and Applications of a 10-mJ Soft X-Ray Laser’’ |
Joshua Bienfang, NIST ‘‘Broadband quantum cryptography’’ |
Lincoln D. Carr, Colorado School of Mines ‘‘Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Entangled States in Bose-Einstein Condensates’’ |
Kent D. Choquette, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘‘Gain Localized Photonic Crystal Light Emitting Diode’’ |
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| 10:10 | Talk rescheduled to next session |
Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California ‘‘Quantum Error Correction beyond Completely Positive Maps’’ |
Walter Rantner, University of Innsbruck ‘‘Thermodynamics of the BCS-BEC crossover’’ |
Diane L. Huffaker, University of New Mexico ‘‘Facet-controlled QD nucleation’’ |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Andre Mysyrowicz, ENSTA, école polytechnique, Palaiseau (BEC of excitons) ‘‘On Bose-Einstein condensation in CuCl and Cu2O’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Victor S. Batista, Yale University (Coherent Control with Multiple Pulses) ‘‘Coherent Control with Multiple Pulses’’ | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Novel Optics | From EIT to Quantum Computing | BEC of excitons | Coherent Control with Multiple Pulses | ||
| 12:00 | Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University ‘‘Toward Soft X-Ray Laser Without Inversion’’ |
Min Xiao, University of Arkansas ‘‘Controlled nonlinear dynamical effects with EIT medium inside an optical cavity’’ |
Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, University of Tokyo ‘‘Study on the collision effects of cold excitons in Cu2O by excitonic Lyman spectroscopy’’ |
Michael Spanner, University of Toronto ‘‘New insights into the coherent control of reactive scattering’’ |
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| 12:20 | Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut ‘‘Tunable negative refraction and electromagnetically induced chirality’’ |
Jonathan P. Dowling, Louisiana State University ‘‘Optical Quantum computing’’ |
Heinrich Stolz, Universität Rostock ‘‘On Bose-Einstein condensation of Excitons in Cuprous Oxide’’ |
Valeria D. Kleiman, University of Florida ‘‘Coherent Control of Fluorescence Quantum Efficiency’’ |
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| 12:40 | Josef Feldhaus, DESY ‘‘13.8 nm Soft X-Ray FEL’’ |
Mikhail D. Lukin, Harvard University ‘‘Quantum register based on individual electron and nuclear spin qubits’’ |
Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego ‘‘Phenomena in cold exciton gases’’ |
Viatcheslav Dobrovitski, Ames Laboratory ‘‘Dynamical decoupling protocols for the electron spins in quantum dots’’ |
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| 19:00 | Frank Stienkemeier, Universität Freiburg (Helium Droplet Spectroscopy) ‘‘Dynamics and Coherence in Doped Helium Nanodroplets’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Elisabeth Giacobino, Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS, Paris (Building blocks for quantum information) ‘‘Quantum memories’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Ilya Averbukh, Weizmann Institute of Science (Laser Control in Multicomponent Systems) ‘‘Spinning molecules selectively’’ | ||||
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| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Helium Droplet Spectroscopy | Building blocks for quantum information | Ultra-Cold Systems | Laser Control in Multicomponent Systems | ||
| 20:50 | Kevin Lehmann, Princeton University ‘‘Phonons and spontaneous symmetry breaking in helium droplets doped with spherical atoms calculated with Time Dependent Helium Density Functionals’’ |
Gerd Leuchs, University of Erlangen, Germany ‘‘Quantum communication with coherent states’’ |
Ofir Alon, Heidelberg University ‘‘Pathway to fermionization of cold bosonic systems’’ |
Albrecht Lindinger, Freie Universität Berlin ‘‘Optimal control methods applied on small molecules’’ |
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| 21:10 | Curt Wittig, University of Southern California ‘‘Closely spaced vibronic levels in helium droplets’’ |
Antoine Browaeys, CNRS - Institut d’Optique ‘‘Coherent manipulations of atomic qubits in moving optical tweezers’’ |
Marvin Girardeau, University of Arizona ‘‘Exact Properties of Strongly Correlated Ultracold Gases in Tight Waveguides’’ |
Robert J. Levis, Temple University ‘‘Control of Multicomponent Systems with Strong Laser Fields: A New Paradigm for Sensing’’ |
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| 21:30 | Pierre-Nicholas Roy, University of Alberta ‘‘Theoretical studies of dopant rotations in helium quantum nano-clusters’’ |
Francesco De Martini, Università ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Rome ‘‘High gain Parametric Amplification, the Schroedinger Cat and the transition from quantum to classical physics’’ |
Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Master equation analysis of fluctuations in interacting BEC’’ |
Robert Gordon, University of Illinois at Chicago ‘‘Controlling Molecular Processes in Gaseous and Condensed Phases’’ |
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| 21:50 | Takamasa Momose, University of British Columbia ‘‘Non-rigidity of hydrogen clusters at 0.4 K’’ |
Hanna Krauter, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University ‘‘Quantum teleportation between light and matter’’ |
Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Non-perturbation in fluctuations theory of BEC and theorem on non-polynomial averages in statistical physics’’ |
Monika Leibscher, Freie Universität Berlin ‘‘Toward separation of nuclear spin isomers with coherent light’’ |
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Thursday January 4 2007 | |||||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Wolfgang Schleich, Universität Ulm (Memorial Session) ‘‘A tribute to two pioneers of quantum optics: Herbert Walther and Lorenzo Narducci’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Nanoscale Far-Field Fluorescence Microscopy) ‘‘Far-field fluorescence microscopy with diffraction-unlimited resolution’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State University (Propagation, localization, and lasing in random media) ‘‘Random lasers: so simple and so complicated’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Memorial Session | Nanoscale Far-Field Fluorescence Microscopy | Propagation, localization, and lasing in random media | Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Ludger Wöste, Freie Universität Berlin ‘‘Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere: From DIAL-Systems Inspired by Herbert Walther to Femtosecond LIDAR’’ |
Joerg Bewersdorf, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ‘‘4Pi microscopy - 3D biological imaging with 100 nm axial resolution’’ |
Aristide Dogariu, CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida ‘‘Variable coherence sensing’’ |
M. Howard Lee, University of Georgia ‘‘How valid is Boltzmann’s ergodic hypothesis?’’ |
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| 9:30 | Gerhard Paulus, Texas A&M University ‘‘Above-threshold ionization: An oddity finds applications’’ |
Harald F. Hess, Howard Hughes Medical Institute ‘‘Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution’’ |
Andrey A. Chabanov, University of Texas at San Antonio ‘‘Dynamics of localized wave in disordered media’’ |
Xinyong Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ‘‘Realization of Maxwell’s Hypothesis’’ |
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| 9:50 | Thomas Walther, Technische Universität Darmstadt ‘‘Prospects of Trapping Neutral Mercury’’ |
Kohzo Hakuta, University of Electro- Communications, Japan ‘‘Optical Nanofibers for Manipulating and Probing Single-Atom Fluorescence’’ |
Christof Aegerter, Universität Konstanz ‘‘Observation of Anderson localization of light in 3D’’ |
Jason Fleischer, Princeton University ‘‘Dispersive, superfluid-like shock waves in nonlinear optics’’ |
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| 10:10 | Frank A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ‘‘Phase dynamics in EIT’’ |
Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University ---Talk Cancelled--- |
Michael Scalora, AMSRD-WS-ST ‘‘Negative refraction, subwavelength focusing, and super-resolution in one-dimensional, transparent, metallo-dielectric photonic band gap structures’’ |
Roman Kolesov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Ramsey Interference in Coherent Population Trapping Spectrum of Ruby at Room Temperature’’ |
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| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Artem Rudenko, MPI Heidelberg (Laser ionization) ‘‘Time-resolved measurements with intense ultrashort laser pulses’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Nat Fisch, Princeton University (Phase Space Manipulation of Ions and Atoms) Phase Space Manipulation of Ions and Atoms | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Laser ionization | Phase Space Manipulation of Ions and Atoms | Entanglement, Erasure, and Dissipation | Semiconductor lighting and uv laser diodes | ||
| 12:00 | Anthony F. Starace, University of Nebraska at Lincoln ‘‘Initial State Symmetry Effects on ATD Plateau Enhancements’’ |
Edvardas Narevicius, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Coherent Slowing of Supersonic Beams’’ |
Jens Eisert, Imperial College London ‘‘A plethora of novel measurement-based schemes for quantum computing’’ |
Robert M. Biefeld, Sandia National Laboratories ‘‘Recent Advances in GaN-based Emitters’’ |
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| 12:20 | Alfred Maquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris ‘‘Resonances and Re-Collisions in Strong Field Atomic Processes’’ |
Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘One-Photon Cooling’’ |
Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University ‘‘Prediction, Repetition, and Erasure in Classical and Quantum Physics: Experiment, Theory, and Philosophy’’ |
Dennis Deppe, University of Central Florida ‘‘All-Epitaxial Single Quantum Dot Quantum Semiconductor Light Source’’ |
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| 12:40 | Wilhelm Becker, Max Born Institut Berlin ‘‘Resonant enhancements in intense-laser atom processes’’ |
Benjamin Lev, JILA/NIST/University of Colorado ‘‘Prospects for cavity-assisted laser cooling of Stark decelerated OH’’ |
Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist College ‘‘Atom decay in one dimensional photonic crystals composed of dispersive left handed materials’’ |
Weng W. Chow, Sandia National Laboratory ‘‘Many-body modifications to group-velocity slowdown’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | John Briggs, University of Freiburg (Atoms and Matter in Strong Fields) ‘‘Atoms for Attoseconds’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Reinhold Walser, Universität Ulm (Cold atoms, precision measurements, and gravitational tests in outer space.) ‘‘Dropping cold quantum gases on Earth over long times and large distances’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Hans Schuessler, Texas A&M University (Coherent Oscillations) ‘‘Coherent oscillations of nano structures’’ | ||||
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| Thursday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Atoms and Matter in Strong Fields | Coherent Oscillations | Cold atoms, precision measurements, and gravitational tests in outer space. | Semiconductor Optics | ||
| 20:50 | Olga Smirnova, NRC Canada ‘‘Attosecond XUV probing of strong-field electron dynamics’’ |
Tobias Kippenberg, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ‘‘Radiation pressure self-cooling of a micro-mechanical oscillator |
Kai Bongs, Universität Hamburg ‘‘Quantum gases under microgravity’’ |
Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Creating and utilizing intersubband quantum coherence in semiconductor quantum wells’’ |
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| 21:10 | John Delos, College of William and Mary ‘‘Atoms in electric and magnetic fields’’ |
Tobias Schaetz, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ‘‘Towards an ion-trap as an analog quantum simulator’’ |
Ernst M. Rasel, Universität Hannover ‘‘Atomic quantum sensors on ground and in space’’ |
Claire Gmachl, Princeton University ‘‘Novel active region designs for Quantum Cascade Lasers’’ |
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| 21:30 | Tobias Kramer, Harvard University ‘‘2D-matter waves in strong crossed electric and magnetic fields’’ |
Peter J. Mohr, National Institute of Standards and Technology ‘‘Fundamental Constants and the International System of Units’’ |
Nan Yu, NASA Jet Propultion Laboratory ‘‘Physics and applications with cold atom interferometer’’ |
Christopher J. Stanton, University of Florida ‘‘Coherent Phonons in Semiconductor Heterostructures’’ |
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| 21:50 | Andreas Becker, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden ---Talk Cancelled--- |
Margaret Reid, University of Queensland, Australia ‘‘Signifying macroscopic superpositions in squeezed and entangled field’’ |
Ron Folman, Ben Gurian University ‘‘Interference with cold atoms’’ |
David Reitze, University of Florida ‘‘Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells in High Magnetic Fields: Creating and Probing Coherence’’ |
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Friday January 5 2007 | |||||
| Friday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory (From Quantum Mechanics to Biology) ‘‘Molecular tunneling in proteins’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Moshe Shapiro, University of British Colombia and the Weizmann Institute (Coherent Control) ‘‘Proof of the [q,p] commutation relations based on canonical invariance, and the quantum theory of slow light’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Sunney Xie, Harvard University (CARS) ‘‘CARS Microscopy’’ | ||||
| Friday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| From Quantum Mechanics to Biology | Coherent Control | CARS | |||
| 9:10 | Martin A. Hunter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Fractal composition of biological tissue: Facts, implications, open questions’’ |
Albert Stolow, National Research Council of Canada ‘‘Quantum Control via the Non-resonant Dynamic Stark Effect’’ |
Eric Potma, University of California at Irvine ‘‘Spatial phase shaping in nonlinear coherent microscopy’’ |
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| 9:30 | Eric Mazur, Harvard University ‘‘Using short bursts of photons to manipulate biological matter at the nanoscale’’ |
Mikhail Ivanov, National Research Council of Canada ‘‘Fighting ‘decoherence’ in rotationally hot diatomic molecule’’ |
Arthur Dogariu, Princeton University ‘‘Time-resolved CARS spectroscopy using a photonic crystal fiber source’’ |
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| 9:50 | Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ‘‘Femtosecond isomerization of all-trans retinal triggered with a phase-locked pulse pair’’ |
Ioannis Thanopulos, University of British Colombia ‘‘Coherently Controlled Adiabatic Passage to Multiple Continuum Channels’’ |
Dmitry Pestov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Detection of Bacterial Spores by means of Multiplex CARS spectroscopy’’ |
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| Friday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | Lamb Award (Lamb Award) ‘‘The presentation of the 2007 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | James J. Carroll, Youngstown University (X-ray optics) ‘‘Studies of induced isomer depletion using intense photon sources’’ | ||||
| Friday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| X-ray optics | Surfaces and plasmons | Localization and Disorder in Ultracold Gases | Molecular and Chemical Physics | ||
| 11:40 | Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University ‘‘Level mixing induced transparency: theory and experiment’’ |
Rogerio de Sousa, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Coherent control of magnetic noise at semiconductor surfaces’’ |
Mark D. Havey, Old Dominion University ‘‘Time-dependent electromagnetic wave dynamics in ultracold, high-density Rb vapor’’ |
Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M and Princeton University ‘‘Bohr’s 1913 Molecular Model Revisited’’ |
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| 12:00 | Esen E. Alp, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Inelastic x-ray scattering under extreme conditions’’ |
Naomi Halas, Rice University ‘‘Plasmonic design: combining surface enhanced spectroscopies on the same substrate’’ |
Randall G. Hulet, Rice University ‘‘Pairing of Atomic Fermions with Unequal Spin Populations’’ |
Shaul Mukamel, University of California at Irvine ‘‘Coherent Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Molecules: Femtosecond Analogues of Multidimensional NMR’’ |
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| 12:20 | Uwe van Bürck, Technische Universität München ‘‘Coherence in Nuclear Resonant Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation’’ |
Peter Nordlander, Rice University ‘‘Plasmon hybridization: understanding and designing the energy landscape of plasmonic geometries’’ |
Eric Akkermans, Technion, Israel ‘‘Photon correlations induced by disorder in a mesoscopic gas of cold atoms’’ |
Bertrand Girard, Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS ‘‘Coherent control with atoms and molecules’’ |
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| 12:40 | Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University ‘‘Directed Spontaneous Emission from an Extended Ensemble of N Atoms: Timing Is Everything’’ |
Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘‘Quantum metal optics’’ |
Leonardo Fallani, LENS European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy ‘‘Ultracold bosons in disordered optical lattices’’ |
Robert Murawski, Texas A&M University ‘‘Wavepacket Oscillations In Cs-2’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Friday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Georg Raithel, University of Michigan (Cold Rydberg Atoms and Cold Plasmas) ‘‘Cold Rydberg Atoms and Cold Plasmas’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Peter D. Keefe, Keefe & Associates (Intellectual Property) ‘‘Patents and Copyrights’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Robert P. Lucht, Purdue University (Femtosecond Sensors) ‘‘Femtosecond CARS Measurements of Gas-Phase Properties’’ | ||||
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| Friday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| X-ray optics | Femtosecond Sensors | Cold Rydberg Atoms and Cold Plasmas | Intellectual Property | ||
| 20:50 | Douglas Cline, University of Rochester ‘‘Nuclear structure of high-K isomers: implications for controlled energy release’’ |
James Gord, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ‘‘Femtosecond Ballistic Imaging of Optically Dense Sprays’’ |
Jim Martin, University of Waterloo, Canada ‘‘Use of microwave dressing fields to enhance Rydberg atom interactions’’ |
William D. Blackman, Carrier, Blackman & Associates ‘‘Patent Strategy’’ |
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| 21:10 | Nino Pereira, Ecopulse, Inc., Springfield, VA ‘‘A single-crystal X-ray spectropolarimeter’’ |
Tom Settersten, Sandia National Laboratory ‘‘Time-resolved wave-mixing spectroscopy as a probe of gas-phase collisional kinetics’’ |
James P. Shaffer, University of Oklahoma ‘‘Cold Rydberg Atom Interactions and Energy Transfer’’ |
Dave Morrison, University of Utah ‘‘Patent Searching’’ |
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| 21:30 | Marie-Madeleine Aléonard, Université de Bordeaux I, CENBG ‘‘Characterisation of the hard X-rays absolute energy distribution obtained with a kHz femtosecond laser and tantalum targets’’ |
Sukesh Roy, Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. ‘‘High repetition rate gas-phase temperature measurements in reacting flows using femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy’’ |
Edward Eyler, University of Connecticut ‘‘Nonlinear optics in an ultracold gas of Rydberg atoms’’ |
Donald J. Ersler, Donald J. Ersler, S.C. ‘‘Intellectual Property Workshop’’ |
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| 21:50 | Ian McNulty, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘X-ray Vortices and Orbital Angular Momentum’’ |
Thilo Kraetschmer, University of Wisconsin at Madison ‘‘Hyperspectral Absorption Spectroscopy Based on Femtosecond Lasers’’ |
Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut ‘‘Feshbach resonant atoms in an optical lattice: a superfluid?’’ |
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Saturday January 6 2007 | |||||
| Saturday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Jeffrey Hangst, Aarhus and CERN (Antihydrogen) Status and Prospects for Antihydrogen Research | ||||
| 8:00 | Howard Wiseman, Griffith University, Australia (Quantum-Limited Measurement and Control) ‘‘Achieving Heisenberg-limited interferometry: can quantum control help?’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado at Boulder (Attosecond Science) ‘‘Attosecond Science - Latest Developments and Expanding Opportunities’’ | ||||
| Saturday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Antihydrogen | Quantum-Limited Measurement and Control | Attosecond Science | Novel Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Neil Russell, Northern Michigan University ‘‘Tests of Lorentz symmetry using antihydrogen’’ |
J.M. Geremia, University of New Mexico ‘‘Optical Coherent State Discrimination via a Real-Time Closed-Loop Quantum Measurement’’ |
André Dieter Bandrauk, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada ‘‘Attosecond Science in Molecules’’ |
Lute Maleki, NASA Jet Propultion Laboratory ‘‘Novel scheme for Bessel beam generation with WGM structure’’ |
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| 9:30 | Ryu Hayano, University of Tokyo ‘‘ASACUSA experimental results and plans’’ |
Kurt Jacobs, University of Massachusetts at Boston ‘‘Feedback Control and Quantum Jumps’’ |
Nick Wagner, University of Colorado at Boulder ‘‘Monitoring Molecular Dynamics using Attosecond Electrons Recollisions’’ |
Anatoliy Savchenkov, NASA Jet Propultion Laboratory ‘‘Parametric conversions in lithium niobate resonator’’ |
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| 9:50 | Jerry Gabrielse, Harvard University ‘‘Atrap experimental results and plans’’ |
Kenneth Pregnell, Imperial College, UK ‘‘Time Symmetry and Signatures of Quantum Metrology’’ |
Guido Saathoff, University of Colorado at Boulder ‘‘Attosecond Science on Surfaces’’ |
Deniz Yavuz, University of Wisconsin ‘‘All optical femtosecond switch using two photon absorption’’ |
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| Saturday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Intense Particle Beams: Uses, Needs, Desires, and Limitations) ‘‘Intense Particle Beams: Uses, Needs, Desires, and Limitations’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Multipartite Entanglement and Disentanglement) ‘‘Multipartite entanglement and disentanglement’’ | ||||
| Saturday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Intense Particle Beams: Uses, Needs, Desires, and Limitations | Quantum-Limited Measurement and Control | Attosecond Science | Multipartite Entanglement and Disentanglement | ||
| 11:40 | Swapan Chattopadhyay, Jefferson Laboratory ‘‘Intense Beams -- Generation, Transport and Cooling’’ |
Daniel Steck, University of Oregon ‘‘Continuous Measurement of Atomic Motion’’ |
Zenghu Chang, Kansas State University ‘‘Precision control of carrier-envelope phase in grating-based chirped amplifiers for attosecond research’’ |
Ting Yu, University of Rochester ‘‘Entanglement Sudden Death in Mixed Bipartite Systems’’ |
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| 12:00 | Vladimir Litvinenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory ‘‘Rings (Coherent phenomena like electron cloud)’’ |
Jeremy O’Brien, Bristol University ‘‘Beating the standard quantum limit with four photons’’ |
Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro- Communications, Japan ‘‘Optical synthesis with broad Raman sidebands - Toward subfemtosecond regime’’ |
Masahito Ueda, Tokyo Institute of Technology ‘‘Quantum measurement and the second law of thermodynamics’’ |
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| 12:20 | Gennady Stupakov, SLAC ‘‘Beam cooling and phase space manipulations’’ |
Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ‘‘Progress toward scalable quantum computers in diamond’’ |
Andy Kung, Academia Sinica, Taiwan ‘‘Single cycle optical pulses with constant carrier envelope phase’’ |
Vladimir Akulin, Université Paris-Sud ‘‘Multipartite Entanglement: Exhaustive Description and Control’’ |
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| 12:40 | Alexander Zholents, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘How ideas of intense transport and manipulation of high-quality beams apply to future FEL light sources’’ |
Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester ‘‘Slow, fast, and backwards light propagation’’ |
Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Toward subfemtosecond pulses by molecular modulation in gasses and solids’’ |
Hideomi Nihira, University of Rochester ---Talk Cancelled--- |
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| Saturday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Selim M. Shahriar, Northwestern University (Applications of Quantum Optics) ‘‘Fast-Light for Astrophysics: Testing Alternate Theories of Gravity and Detecting Gravitational Waves’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Theo Nieuwenhuizen, University of Amsterdam (On Some Foundations of Physics) ‘‘Einstein versus Maxwell: is gravitation a curvature of space, or a field in flat space, or both?’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Jens Rauschenberger, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik (Frequency Combs and Enhancement Resonators) ‘‘Frequency Combs and Enhancement Resonators’’ | ||||
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| Saturday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| On Some Foundations of Physics | Applications of Quantum Optics | Frequency Combs and Enhancement Resonators | Novel Optics | ||
| 20:50 | Vaclav Spicka, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ‘‘Some Quantum Experiments from the Point of View of Stochastic Electrodynamics’’ |
Baris I. Erkmen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Coherence Propagation of Phase-sensitive Light and Applications to Ghost Imaging’’ |
David Jones, University of British Columbia ‘‘Coherent Buildup Cavities for Generating High-Flux, Spectrally Pure EUV Radiation.’’ |
Rebecca Olson Knell, University of Maryland ‘‘Photon Burst Detection of Multi-Level Atoms in Cavity QED’’ |
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| 21:10 | Gregg Jaeger, Boston University ‘‘Quantum coding, entanglement, and decoherence’’ |
Ron Meyers, Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Chaotic Laser Quantum Ghost Imaging’’ |
Thomas R. Schibli, JILA / University of Colorado ‘‘Femtosecond enhancement cavities’’ |
Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Amplitude correlations of coupled optical fields in EIT experiments’’ |
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| 21:30 | Andrew Jordan, University of Rochester ‘‘Quantum Undemolition - Undoing quantum measurement by erasing information’’ |
Jun-Tao Chang, Texas A&M University ‘‘Measurement of the separation between atoms beyond diffraction limit’’ |
Tara Fortier, National Institute of Standards and Technology ‘‘Optical frequency combs for optical measurements and comparisons’’ |
Elena Kuznetsova, Texas A&M University ‘‘Coherent generation of THz pulses in molecular gases and optical crystals’’ |
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| 21:50 | Al F. Kracklauer, University of Weimar ‘‘The Semiclassical theory of optical ‘Quantum’ eraser experiments’’ |
Christoph Gohle, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics ‘‘Cavity enhanced broad band spectroscopy’’ |
George R. Welch, Texas A&M University ‘‘Nonlinear Magneto-optic Polarization Rotation with Intense Laser Fields’’ |
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