Monday, January 5 2009 | ||||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||||
| 7:25 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) ‘‘Welcoming Remarks’’ | |||
| 7:30 | Bernhard W. Adams, Argonne National Laboratory (Nuclear Gamma-Ray Superradiance) ‘‘Nuclear Gamma-Ray Superradiance’’ | |||
| 8:00 | Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego (Exciton Condensates) ‘‘Indirect Excitons’’ | |||
| 8:30 | Barry C. Sanders, University of Calgary (Quantum Process Tomography) ‘‘Complete Characterization of Quantum-Optical Processes’’ | |||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||||
| Nuclear Gamma-Ray Superradiance | Exciton Condensates | Quantum Process Tomography | ||
| 9:10 | Ralf Röhlsberger, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY ‘‘Directional Emission of X-rays from Rotating Matter: The Nuclear Lighthouse Effect’’ |
Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University ‘‘Quantum Hall States seen as Quantum Liquids’’ |
Masoud Mohseni, Harvard University ‘‘Correlation-enhanced quantum process tomography’’ |
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| 9:30 | Yuri Shvyd’ko, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘X-Ray Free Electron Laser Oscillator: a Future Fully Coherent X-ray Source’’ |
Tomoyuki Horikiri, National Institute of Informatics, Japan and Stanford University ‘‘Second order coherence of exciton-polariton condensates’’ |
Krister Shalm, University of Toronto ‘‘The Symmetry of Spin-Squeezing: Quantum State Tomography on a Sphere’’ |
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| 9:50 | Jun-Tao Chang, Texas A&M University ‘‘Cooperative Spontaneous Emission of N atoms: many-body eigenstates and their decay’’ |
Rafi Bistritzer, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘High Tc superfluidity in bilayer graphene’’ |
Alexander Lvovsky, University of Calgary ‘‘Process tomography of quantum-optical memory’’ |
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| 10:10 | Eyob A. Sete, Texas A&M University ‘‘The Lamb Shift in Single photon Dicke Superradiance’’ |
Michael P. Lilly, Sandia National Laboratories Coulomb drag in the exciton regime in electron-hole bilayers’’ |
Martin Plenio, Imperial College London ‘‘Measuring Measurement and Quantitative Entanglement Verification’’ |
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| Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Harvard University (Medical and Bio-Physics) ‘‘Single Molecule and Nonlinear Raman Microscopy for Biology and Medicine’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Weng W. Chow, Sandia National Laboratories (Advances in Semiconductor Optics) ‘‘Update on our understanding of semiconductor-laser gain: from quantum well to quantum dots’’ | ||||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Medical and Bio-Physics | Quantum Mechanics and Number Theory | Advances in Semiconductor Optics | Quantum Coherence Effects | ||
| 12:00 | Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University ‘‘Flapless FemtosecLASIK’’ |
Vincenzo Tamma, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‘‘Exponential Sums Algorithm based on Optical Interference: Factorization of arbitrary large numbers in a single run’’ |
Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Terahertz studies of collective excitations and microscopic physics in semiconductor magneto-plasmas’’ |
Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University ‘‘Quantum coherence effects in solids: New applications’’ |
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| 12:20 | Markus Pollnau, University of Twente ‘‘Monitoring of DNA molecules in a lab on a chip with femtosecond laser written waveguides’’ |
Mark Sadgrove, CREST project, Japan Science and Technology Agency ‘‘Computing exponential sums with a Bose-Einstein condensate’’ |
Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University ‘‘Interface roughness and ionized impurity broadening -is it homogeneous or not?’’ |
Holger Schmidt, University of California at Santa Cruz ‘‘Atomic spectroscopy and quantum interference on a chip’’ |
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| 12:40 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University ‘‘CARS and FAST-CARS detection of biological molecules such as glucose and cholesterol’’ |
Elmar Haller, Experimental Physik University of Innsbruck ‘‘From an ideal gas to the super-Tonks-Girardeau regime with tunable interactions’’ |
Nikolai Stelmakh, University of Texas at Arlington ‘‘Lateral mode structure of wide-ridge Quantum Cascade lasers’’ |
Ben Varcoe, University of Leeds ‘‘Precision Test of Lorentz Invariance using EIT’’ |
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| Monday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science (Quantum Measurements, Decoherence and Dissipation) ‘‘Ultrafast Cooling of Quantum Bits Within the Bath Memory’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Universität Ulm (Cold Atoms and Solid State Physics) ‘‘A deterministic single ion source for nm-spatial deterministic doping of solid state devices’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Geoffrey Duxbury, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Quantum Cascade Laser Spectroscopy: Diagnostics to Non-Linear Optics) ‘‘Quantum cascade laser spectroscopy: Diagnostics to non-linear optics’’ | ||||
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| Monday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Quantum Measurements, Decoherence and Dissipation | Cold Atoms and Solid State Physics | Quantum Cascade Laser Spectroscopy: Diagnostics to Non-Linear Optics | Novel Optics | ||
| 20:50 | Howard Carmichael, University of Auckland ‘‘Quantum teleportation of the temporal correlations of light: squeezing and bandwidth requirements’’ |
Fedor Jelezko (talk delivered by Phil Hemmer), University of Stuttgart ‘‘Manipulating single electron and nuclear spin in diamond’’ |
Damien Weidmann, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ‘‘Broadband laser heterodyne spectroscopy using an external cavity quantum cascade laser’’ |
Chan Joshi, UCLA ‘‘Laser-Plasma Accelerators for Generating Directional X-ray beams’’ |
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| 21:10 | Hans J. Briegel, University of Innsbruck ‘‘Entanglement in biological systems? - A quantum thermodynamic perspective’’ |
József Fortágh, University of Tübingen ‘‘Meissner effect in superconducting microtraps’’ |
Grant Ritchie, University of Oxford ‘‘Applications of quantum cascade lasers in chemical kinetics and dynamics’’ |
Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ‘‘A phase space approach to scattering’’ |
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| 21:30 | Niels Kjaergaard, Niels Bohr Institute ‘‘Squeezing of Atomic Quantum Projection Noise’’ |
Björn Butscher, University of Stuttgart ‘‘Observation of ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules’’ |
Rainer Martini, Stevens Institute of Technology ‘‘High speed all-optical modulation of a Quantum Cascade Laser’’ |
Patrick Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh ‘‘Local phase space moments of a pulse propagating with dispersion and damping’’ |
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| 21:50 | Nir Bar-Gill, Weizmann Institute of Science ‘‘Dynamic Decoherence Control in BEC Setups’’ |
Hans Peter Büchler, University of Stuttgart ‘‘Quantum critical behavior in strongly interacting Rydberg gases’’ |
James F. Kelly, DOE; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ‘‘Empirical studies of swept gain effects in molecular lambda transitions’’ |
M. Howard Lee, University of Georgia ‘‘Ergodicity and Chaos in a system of harmonic oscillators’’ |
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Tuesday, January 6 2009 | |||||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M and Princeton University (Willis Lamb Memorial) ‘‘The Lamb Shift Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Paolo Tombesi, University of Camerino, Italy (Cavity Quantum Optomechanics) ‘‘Cooling and Entanglement in Cavity Optomechanics’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Henry C. Kapteyn, JILA -- University of Colorado at Boulder (Attosecond Physics) ‘‘Ultrafast Tabletop Diffractive Microscopy and Nanothermal Imaging using Coherent High Harmonic Beams’’ | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Novel Nonlinear Optics | Cavity Quantum Optomechanics | Attosecond Physics | Novel Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Shaul Mukamel, University of California at Irvine ‘‘Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Entangled Photons; Manipulating Quantum Pathways of Matter’’ |
Jack Harris, Yale University ‘‘Improved ‘position squared’ readout of a mechanical oscillator using degenerate cavity modes’’ |
John Miao, University of California at Los Angeles ‘‘Lensless Diffraction Microscopy: Seeing the Invisible with Computational Algorithms’’ |
Aaron Leanhardt, University of Michigan ‘‘An Electron Electric Dipole Moment Search in the 3Δ1 Ground State of Tungsten Carbide Molecules’’ |
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| 9:30 | Kevin K. Lehmann, University of Virginia ‘‘Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy with a Supercontinuum Source’’ |
Simon Gröblacher, IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences ‘‘Laser-Cooling of Micromechanical Resonators in a Cryogenic Cavity’’ |
Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University ‘‘Nanometer scale imaging with extreme ultraviolet lasers’’ |
Anatoliy Savchenkov, OEwaves Inc. ‘‘Low repetition rate all-optical frequency comb’’ |
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| 9:50 | Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University ‘‘Atomic coherence excited by off-resonant strong laser pulses: theory and experiment and the role of absolute phase’’ |
Antoine Heidmann, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS ‘‘Optomechanical correlations between light and mirrors’’ |
Alexander A. Zholents, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘Array of free electron lasers for science with soft x-rays’’ |
Eugeniy Mikhailov, The College of William & Mary ‘‘Low-frequency vacuum squeezing in Rb vapor’’ |
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| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | Kohzo Hakuta, University of Electro- Communications, Japan (Nano-Quantum Optics) ‘‘Manipulating Atoms and Photons Using Optical Nanofibers’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | Robin Kaiser, INLN, CNRS, UNSA (Quantum Multiple Scattering) ‘‘Quantum Multiple Scattering’’ | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Nano-Quantum Optics | Quantum Multiple Scattering | Attosecond Recollision and Gating | Quantum Information | ||
| 11:40 | Dieter Meschede, Unversity of Bonn ‘‘Controlling neutral atoms for quantum information processing in a 1D optical lattice’’ |
Mark Havey, Old Dominion University ‘‘Near-resonance light scattering in high density and ultracold 87Rb’’ |
Ladan Arissian, Texas A&M University ‘‘Intracavity phase measurement, sensor based on carrier to envelope frequency (CEO)’’ |
Margaret Reid, Swinburne University of Technology ‘‘EPR, Steering and Bell inequalities’’ |
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| 12:00 | Misha Sumetsky, OFS Labs ‘‘Optical microcoil resonator’’ |
Thomas F. Gallagher, University of Virginia ‘‘Superradiance in the Frozen Rydberg Gas’’ |
Eugene Frumker, Texas A&M University ‘‘Two-dimensional phase-only spatial light modulators for dynamic phase and amplitude pulse shaping’’ |
Hannes Hübel, University of Vienna ‘‘Entanglement based Quantum Cryptography: From intra city links to inter island quantum communication’’ |
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| 12:20 | Takao Aoki, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Strong coupling between one atom and a microtoroidal resonator’’ |
Sebastian Slama, University of Tübingen, Germany ‘‘Collective light scattering from ultracold atoms in optical cavities’’ |
Carlos Trallero, National Research Council, Canada ‘‘Multiphoton transitions in the strong field limit: From atoms to molecules’’ |
Michael Mehring, Universität Stuttgart ‘‘Phase Control of Quantum States’’ |
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| 12:40 | Michal Bajcsy, Harvard University ‘‘All-optical switch inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber’’ |
John Page, University of Manitoba ‘‘Localization of ultrasonic waves in a three-dimensional elastic network’’ |
David Grojo, National Research Council, Canada ‘‘Multiphoton Ionization and Nanoscale Modifications inside Transparent Solids’’ |
Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University ‘‘Do Experimental Violations of Bell Inequalities Imply a Non-Local Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Tuesday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | John Thomas, Duke University (Interacting Fermi Gases) ‘‘Fermi Gases with Tunable Interactions’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Eric Akkermans, Yale university and Technion-Israel (Superradiance) ‘‘Dicke superradiance and Anderson localization of photons’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Jorge J. Rocca, Colorado State University (Advances in Coherent Soft X-ray Sources) ‘‘Phase-coherent injection-seeded soft x-ray lasers’’ | ||||
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| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Interacting Fermi Gases | Superradiance | Advances in Coherent Soft X-ray Sources | Ghost Imaging | ||
| 20:50 | Aurel Bulgac, University of Washington ‘‘The incredible many facets of a unitary Fermi gas’’ |
Eugene M. Chudnovsky, CUNY Lehman College and Graduate Center ‘‘Cooperative Effects and Possibility of Superradiance in Crystals of Molecular Magnets’’ |
Margaret Murnane, JILA -- University of Colorado at Boulder ‘‘Observing the Coupled Motions of Electrons and Atoms in Polyatomic Molecules’’ |
Yan Hua Shih, University of Maryland at Baltimore County ‘‘Thermal ghost imaging: What is quantum? What is classical?’’ |
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| 21:10 | Peter D. Drummond, Swinburne University of Technology ‘‘Theory of strongly interacting Fermi gases’’ |
Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Cooperative spontaneous emission of N atoms: effect of virtual photons and classical analogy with N harmonic oscillators’’ |
Matthew Zepf, Queen’s University Belfast ‘‘High harmonics from relativistically oscillating plasma surfaces -- a high brightness attosecond source at keV photon energies’’ |
Baris I. Erkmen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘‘Unified theory of classical and quantum ghost imaging’’ |
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| 21:30 | Ken O’Hara, The Pennsylvania State University ‘‘Experiments with an ultracold three-component Fermi gas’’ |
Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory ‘‘Synchronization and Dephasing of Many-Body States’’ |
Anne Sakdinawat, University of California, Berkeley ‘‘X-ray Imaging with Specialized Diffractive Optics’’ |
Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University ‘‘Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect and thermal light ghost imaging’’ |
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| 21:50 | Cheng Chin, University of Chicago ‘‘Novel Quantum Phases and Scalable Quantum Control of Two Atomic Species in Optical Lattices’’ |
Karyn Le Hur, Yale University ‘‘Entanglement and Decoherence of Two level Systems in a Boson bath: A unified Approach for solid-state devices, cold atomic systems, and photons’’ |
John Arthur, SLAC ‘‘Startup of the LCLS Free Electron Laser and plans for soft X-ray science in 2009’’ |
Ronald Meyers, Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Thermal Ghost Imaging Experiments’’ |
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Wednesday, January 7 2009 | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||||
| 7:30 | Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Surface Plasmons) ‘‘Nonlinear plasmonics and some applications’’ | |||
| 8:00 | Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester (Slow Light) ‘‘Slow and Fast Light: Fundamentals and Applications’’ | |||
| 8:30 | Robert L. Byer, Stanford University (Laser Acceleration) ‘‘Laser Compression and Acceleration of Electrons’’ | |||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||||
| Surface Plasmons | Slow Light | Laser Acceleration | ||
| 9:10 | Anatoly Zayats (talk delivered by Viktor Podolskiy), The Queen’s University of Belfast ‘‘Controlling Surface Plasmons on Nanostructured Surfaces’’ |
John Howell, University of Rochester ‘‘Applications of Slow And Stopped Light’’ |
Ronald D. Ruth, Lyncean Technologies, Inc. and SLAC ‘‘Accelerator-Laser Compton X-rays for medical applications’’ |
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| 9:30 | Francesco Intravaia, Universität Potsdam Surface Plasmons and the Casimir Effect’’ |
Daniel J. Gauthier, Duke University ‘‘Room-Temperature Spectral Hole Burning via SBS’’ |
Eric R. Colby, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ‘‘The E-163 Advanced Accelerator Research Program at SLAC’’ |
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| 9:50 | Peter Dombi, Hungarian Research Inst. for Solid-State Physics and Optics ‘‘Surface Plasmon Enhanced Electron Acceleration with Few-Cycle Laser Pulses’’ |
Irina Novikova, The College of William & Mary ‘‘Optimal control of light pulse storage and retrieval in atomic vapor’’ |
Christopher McGuinness, Stanford University ‘‘Accelerating Electrons with Lasers and Photonic Crystals’’ |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:30 | Lamb Award (Lamb Award) ‘‘The presentation of the 2009 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics’’ | ||||
| 11:00 | Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California at Berkeley (Ultra-cold Dynamics) ‘‘Magnetic phases of a dipolar spin-1 quantum gas’’ | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Surface Plasmons | Slow Light | Ultra-cold Dynamics | Raman Route to Attoseconds | ||
| 11:40 | Miklos Lenner, Hungarian Research Inst. for Solid-State Physics and Optics ‘‘Nonlinear STM Plasmonics’’ |
David A. B. Miller, Stanford University ‘‘Limits to Dispersive and Slow Light Optical Devices’’ |
Han Pu, Rice University Dynamics of vector solitons in two-species atomic condensate’’ |
Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Novel Light Sources Utilizing Maximal Quantum Coherence in Molecular Gasses and Solids’’ |
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| 12:00 | Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi, University of Alberta ‘‘Spinplasmonics: Controlling Plasmon Propagation via Electron Spin’’ |
Herbert G. Winful, University of Michigan ‘‘Tunneling time in photonic structures’’ |
Peter Schmelcher, University of Heidelberg ‘‘Correlated Tunneling and Interferences in Strongly Interacting Low-Dimensional Bosonic Systems’’ |
Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro- Communications, Japan ‘‘Octave-spanning Raman comb stabilized to an optical frequency standard’’ |
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| 12:20 | Viktor A. Podolskiy, Oregon State University ‘‘Eliminating Losses and Out-of-Plane Scattering of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Active Metamaterials’’ |
Deniz Yavuz, University of Wisconsin at Madison ‘‘Refractive index enhancement with vanishing absorption in an atomic vapor’’ |
Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines ‘‘Many Body Entangled Quantum Dynamics of Ultracold Molecules’’ |
Andy Kung, Academia Sinica, Taiwan ‘‘Controlling the carrier-envelope phase of Raman generated single-cycle pulses’’ |
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| 12:40 | Andrey Krayev, AIST-NT Inc ‘‘SPM+Raman - Integrated Solution for Modern Photonics and Plasmonics’’ |
Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California ‘‘Trapping Light in Optical Microcavities via Dynamic Tuning’’ |
Hui-Chun Chien, Stanford University ‘‘Observation of the Superfluid Deconfinement Crossover From 2D Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Layers to a 3D Anisotropic Superfluid’’ |
Fetah Benabid, University of Bath ‘‘What Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber brought to Coherent Stimulated Raman Scattering’’ |
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| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Galina Khitrova, University of Arizona (Nonperiodic Nanophotonics) ‘‘Nonperiodic Nanophotonics’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Alan Migdall, NIST Gaithersburg (Quantum Information Processing) ‘‘Fiber-Based Entangled Photon Source Progress and Applications (a 2500 year history)’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Hiro-o Hamaguchi, The University of Tokyo (Raman Spectroscopy) ‘‘Can Raman spectroscopy measure and quantify life?’’ | ||||
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| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Nonperiodic Nanophotonics | Quantum Information Processing | Condensate Physics | Raman Spectroscopy | ||
| 20:50 | Alexandra Ledermann, Institute of Nanotech., Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe ‘‘Optical properties of three-dimensional photonic quasicrystals and their periodic approximants’’ |
Alexander Korotkov, University of California at Riverside ‘‘Quantum uncollapsing: theory and experiment’’ |
Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Mesoscopic BEC phase transition’’ |
George J. Thomas, University of Missouri - Kansas City ‘‘Mechanisms of Virus Assembly Probed by Raman Spectroscopy’’ |
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| 21:10 | Joshua R. Hendrickson, The University of Arizona ‘‘Exciton Polaritons in 1D Fibonacci Quasicrystals’’ |
John M. Myers, Harvard University ‘‘Contingent choice of states to simplify a quantum decision problem of light detection’’ |
Randall G. Hulet, Rice University ‘‘Exploring transport of a weakly-interacting BEC in a random potential’’ |
Jaan Laane, Texas A&M University ‘‘Spectroscopic investigations and potential functions for pyridine and 1,3-butadiene in ground and excited electronic states’’ |
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| 21:30 | Dagmar Gerthsen, University of Karlsruhe ‘‘Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nonperiodic InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Well Structures’’ |
Patrick Rebentrost, Harvard University ‘‘The role of quantum coherence in excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes’’ |
Moochan Kim, Texas A&M University ‘‘Condensation and Fluctuation for the weakly interacting N-Boson System’’ |
Lawrence Ziegler, Boston University ‘‘Barcoding bacteria by surface enhanced Raman microscopy: rapid pathogen detection at the single cell level’’ |
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| 21:50 | Alexander N. Poddubny, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the RAS ‘‘Theory of Light Coupled Exciton Polaritons in Nonperiodic Quantum Wells’’ |
Howard Brandt, U.S. Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Quantum computational geodesics’’ |
Ron Folman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel ‘‘Atomchips: where material engineering meets atom optics’’ |
Vladislav V. Yakovlev, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee ‘‘Stimulated Raman scattering: old physics, new applications’’ |
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Thursday, January 8 2009 | |||||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Ofir E. Alon, Heidelberg University (Optical Lattices) ‘‘Quantum Dynamics of Attractive Bose Gases’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin (Measurement, Cooling, and Maxwell’s Demon) ‘‘Maxwell’s Demon near Maximal Efficiency’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Pierre Pillet, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud (Quantum Coherence Effects) ‘‘Broaband laser for detection and cooling of molecules.’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Optical Lattices | Measurement, Cooling, and Maxwell’s Demon | Quantum Coherence Effects | Novel Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Ian Spielman, NIST, Gaithersburg ‘‘Realization of the Bose-Hubbard model in non-standard lattice potentials: tools, experiments, and a simple model’’ |
Daniel Steck, University of Oregon ‘‘All-Optical One-Way Barrier for Alkali Atoms’’ |
Dmitry Budker, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘The joy and utility of high-order atomic and nuclear polarization moments’’ |
Kent D. Choquette, University of Illinois ‘‘Decimated Cavity Photonic Crystal Membrane Laser’’ |
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| 9:30 | Congjun Wu, University of California at San Diego ‘‘Novel quantum phases in orbital systems with cold atom optical lattices’’ |
Irfan Siddiqi, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Non-linear Dispersive Measurement with Superconducting Circuits’’ |
Chris O’Brien, Texas A&M University ‘‘Coherent Enhancement of Refractive Index in Solids using Excited State Absorption’’ |
V. Ara Apkarian, University of California at Irvine ‘‘Nonlocal mechanics, environment induced coherence, and decoherence free states of an oscillator strongly coupled to the bath’’ |
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| 9:50 | W. Vincent Liu, University of Pittsburgh ‘‘Crystalline superfluidity of cold atoms in lattice p-bands’’ |
Nathaniel J. Fisch, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory ‘‘Cooling Particles with Waves: from 10^6 eV to 10^5 eV or from 10^-8 eV to 10^-9 eV’’ |
Philippe Goldner, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie ‘‘Rare earth doped crystals for quantum memories’’ |
Eric Mazur, Harvard University ‘‘Optically hyperdoped semiconductors’’ |
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| 10:10 | Nimrod Moiseyev, Technion, Israel ‘‘Photo induced conical intersections in molecular optical lattices: the phenomenon and its consequence’’ |
Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, JILA / University of Colorado at Boulder ‘‘Exorcizing Maxwell’s Demon via Quantum Mechanics’’ |
John J. L. Morton, University of Oxford ‘‘Solid state quantum memory using nuclear spins’’ |
Koryun Oganesyan, Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia ‘‘Detection of Casimir Photons with Electrons’’ |
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| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Martin Richardson, Townes Institute, College of Optics, UCF (Laser Plasmas) ‘‘Playing with plasmas’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Frank A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command (Measurements With Cold Atoms) ‘‘Useful Diagnostics in the construction of a Gradient Magnetometer Atom Interferometer’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Novel Nonlinear Optics | Measurements With Cold Atoms | Quantum Coherence Effects | Novel Optics | ||
| 12:00 | Jason Fleischer, Princeton University ‘‘Nonlinear Self-Filtering via Dynamical Stochastic Resonance’’ |
Fredrik Fatemi, Naval Research Laboratory ‘‘Imaging magnetic fields using stimulated Raman transitions in a cold atom cloud’’ |
Selim Shahriar, Northwestern University ‘‘Putting Superluminosity to Work: From Data Buffering to Ultraprecise Magnetometry’’ |
Andrii Sizhuk, Texas A&M University ‘‘Fluctuations of Particle Number in Two-component Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate’’ |
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| 12:20 | Alberto M. Marino, NIST ‘‘Entangled Images from Four-Wave Mixing’’ |
Anthony Miller, Stanford University ‘‘Magnetometry with Cold Atomic Ensembles’’ |
Yifu Zhu, Florida International University ‘‘Atomic coherence and interference in a coupled atom-cavity system’’ |
Rina Kanamoto, Ochanomizu University, Japan ‘‘Quantum phase transition, symmetry breaking, and entanglement in one-dimensional Bose gas’’ |
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| 12:40 | Douglas Stone, Yale University ‘‘Ab Initio Theory of Novel Micro and Nano Lasers’’ |
Andy Geraci, NIST ‘‘Cold atoms coupled to a magnetic micro-cantilever’’ |
Dmitry Strekalov, JPL/Caltech ‘‘Optical combs via cascaded four-wave mixing in a bichromatically pumped whispering gallery mode resonator’’ |
Sabine Wölk, Universität Ulm ‘‘Factorization with Gauss sums’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Andreas Volkmer, Universität Stuttgart (Challenges in Imaging) ‘‘Coherent Raman microscopy: Exploring the chemical and physical structure of individual biopolymers, living cells, and tissue’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Ernst M. Rasel, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Gravity and Relativity) ‘‘Bose-Einstein condensates in extended free fall’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Thomas Becker, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Atom-Photon Interactions) ‘‘Cavity QED and Spectroscopy with Rydberg Atoms’’ | ||||
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| Thursday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Challenges in Imaging | Gravity and Relativity | Quantum Nucleonics and Atomic-Nuclear Interactions | Atom-Photon Interactions | ||
| 20:50 | Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian, Universität Stuttgart ‘‘Super-resolution imaging using single spins in diamond’’ |
Jason Hogan, Stanford University ‘‘Precision gravimetry and test of the Equivalence Principle with a 10-meter atomic fountain’’ |
James J. Carroll, Youngstown State University ‘‘Search for induced depletion of nuclear isomers’’ |
Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics ‘‘Two-photon gateway in one-atom cavity quantum electrodynamics’’ |
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| 21:10 | Keith Kastella, SRI International ‘‘Selective detection of entangled photons’’ |
Arnaud Landragin, SYRTE-Observatoire de Paris ‘‘Inertial sensors with cold atoms’’ |
Marc Litz, U.S. Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Potential of electron-beam ionization for accelerated decay of radioisotopes’’ |
Barak Dayan, Weizmann Institute of Science ‘‘Routing single photons with single atoms coupled to chip-based microcavities’’ |
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| 21:30 | Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ‘‘Practical limits to sub-wavelength imaging’’ |
Pacôme Delva, ESA/ACT ‘‘Atom interferometric detection of gravitational waves on ground and in space’’ |
Nino R. Pereira, Ecopulse ‘‘Cost Estimates for Power or Energy from Nuclear Isomers’’ |
Sanjit Karmakar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‘‘Can two-photon interference of thermal light be considered as statistical correlation or anti-correlation of intensity fluctuations?’’ |
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| 21:50 | Alexander A. Govyadinov, University of Pennsylvania ‘‘Phaseless 3D Optical Tomography with Subwavelength Resolution’’ |
Holger Müller, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Large area atom interferometry’’ |
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