Program — PQE-2010

Note: all plenary talks are 30 minutes including questions, and all invited talks are 20 minutes including questions.
(Posters are listed at the end of this program.)

Monday, January 4 2010
Monday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:25	George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) ‘‘Welcoming Remarks’’
7:30	Colin McKinstrie, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent (Recent advances in fiber-based devices) ‘‘Recent advances in fiber-based devices’’
8:00	Andy Kung, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Attosecond Pulses and Arbitrary Waveforms via Molecular Modulation) ‘‘Waveform Synthesis using Frequency Combs Generated by Molecular Modulation’’
8:30	Ralf Röhlsberger, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY (Nuclear Gamma-ray Superradiance) ‘‘The collective Lamb shift in Nuclear Resonant Scattering’’
Monday Morning Invited Session 1
	Recent advances in fiber-based devices	Attosecond Pulses and Arbitrary Waveforms via Molecular Modulation	Nuclear Gamma-ray Superradiance
9:10	Stojan Radic, University of California San Diego ‘‘Distributed Mixer Engineering with Molecular-Scale Accuracy’’	Deniz D. Yavuz, University of Wisconsin at Madison ‘‘Continuous-Wave Raman Generation in Molecules’’	Adriana Palffy, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg ‘‘X-ray single-photon entanglement via coherent control of nuclei’’
9:30	Takayuki Kurosu, National Insititute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ‘‘Parametric Delay Dispersion Tuner’’	Fetah Benabid, University of Bath ‘‘Towards a CW photonic intensity waveform synthesizer’’	Jörg Evers, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics ‘‘Yoctosecond photon pulses from quark-gluon plasmas’’
9:50	Andreas O. J. Wiberg, University of California San Diego ‘‘Polychromatic Parametric Processing of Ultrafast Fields’’	Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro- Communications, Japan ‘‘Efficient generation of Raman-type otptical frequency comb in an enhancement cavity’’	Bernhard Adams, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Manipulation of nuclear γ-ray superradiance’’

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Monday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:30	Jun Ye, JILA/NIST, and University of Colorado (Cold Molecules) ‘‘Polar molecules - dipolar collisions and ultracold chemistry’’
11:00	Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Metamaterials) ‘‘Towards 3D photonic metamaterials’’
Monday Morning Invited Session 2
	Recent advances in fiber-based devices	Attosecond Pulses and Arbitrary Waveforms via Molecular Modulation	Cold Molecules	Metamaterials
11:40	Michael Vasilyev, University of Texas at Arlington ‘‘Multichannel all-optical regeneration’’	Miaochan Zhi, Texas A&M University ‘‘Broadband light generation in CVD single crystal diamond’’	Samuel Meek, Max Planck Berlin ‘‘Taming molecular beams; towards a molecular laboratory on a chip’’	TBA [Title Not Entered]
12:00	Nathan Newbury, NIST ‘‘Fiber-based frequency combs and some precision measurement applications’’	Chao-Kuei Lee, NSYSU ‘‘Measurement of Octave-spanning Raman Generated Ultrafast Pulses’’	Johann Georg Danzl, University of Innsbruck ‘‘An ultracold, high-density sample of rovibronic ground-state molecules in an optical lattice’’	Costas Soukoulis, Ames Laboratory [Title Not Entered]
		Novel Optics
12:20	Brian J. Smith, University of Oxford ‘‘Photon-pair generation in birefringent fibers’’	Vaclav Spicka, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ‘‘Fast dynamics of mesoscopic systems’’	William C. Stwalley, University of Connecticut ‘‘The electronic spectroscopy of ultracold KRb molecules’’	Herbert O. Moser, National University of Singapore ‘‘THz meta-foil – a platform for practical applications of metamaterials’’
12:40	Jingyun Fan, University of Maryland and NIST ‘‘High-brightness and -fidelity photon sources’’		Matthias Weidemüller, University of Heidelberg ‘‘Ultracold Polar Molecules in the Rovibrational Ground State’’	Nick Fang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘‘Molding the Flow of Light and Sound With Metamaterials’’

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Monday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Nat Fisch, Princeton University (Wave compression in various media) ‘‘Compressing Waves in Plasma’’
19:30	Richard Mathies, University of California Berkeley (Stimulated Raman Scattering in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology) ‘‘Femtosecond Time-Resolved Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy’’
20:00	Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton (Metamaterials 2 -- Nonlinear Metamaterials) ‘‘Nonlinear and Switchable Metamaterials’’
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Monday Evening Invited Session
	Wave compression in various media	Stimulated Raman Scattering in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology	Cold Molecules	Metamaterials 2 -- Nonlinear Metamaterials
20:50	Robert Kirkwood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ‘‘Using non-linear Raman amplification in a plasma to increase laser power and improve coupling to fusion targets at large laser facilities’’	Satoshi Takeuchi, RIKEN ‘‘Capturing structural snapshots of reacting molecules by femtosecond time-domain Raman spectroscopy’’	Lincoln D. Carr, Colorado School of Mines ‘‘Tunable Molecular Quantum Many Body Dynamics’’	Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania ‘‘Nonlinear Nanostructures in Metactronics’’
21:10	Nikolai Yampolsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory ‘‘Demonstration of detuning and wavebreaking effects on laser amplification by means of backward Raman scattering in plasma’’	Valery Milner, University of British Columbia ‘‘Narrow-band correlation spectroscopy with broad-band laser pulses’’	Robin Cote, University of Connecticut ‘‘Coherent manipulation of ultracold polar molecules’’	Steven M. Anlage, University of Maryland ‘‘Smaller, Faster, Colder: Superconducting Metamaterials’’
21:30	Ilya Dodin, Princeton University ‘‘Compressing linear waves trapped in plasma’’	Vladislav V. Yakovlev, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee ‘‘Biomedical applications of stimulated Raman scattering’’	Roman Krems, University of British Columbia ‘‘Collision dynamics of molecules and rotational excitons in an ultracold gas confined by an optical lattice’’	Willie Padilla, Boston College ‘‘Infrared Metamaterials for Controlling Blackbody Emission’’
21:50	Tenio Popmintchev, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder ‘‘Laser Pulse Self-Compression and Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation at 0.5 keV’’	George R. Welch, Texas A&M University ‘‘Heterodyne Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for spectral phase retrieval and signal amplification’’	Paul Julienne, NIST Joint Quantum Institute ‘‘Universal reaction rates for ultracold molecular collisions’’	Steve Brueck, University of New Mexico ‘‘Large-Area Linear and Nonlinear Nanophotonics’’


Tuesday, January 5 2010
Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:30	Naomi Halas, Rice University (Frontiers of plasmonics) ‘‘Optically responsive complexes for nanomedicine’’
8:00	Shaul Mukamel, University of California, Irvine (Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Shaped Pulses and Entangled Photons) ‘‘Stimulated CARS Resonances Revisited: Double-slit Interference of Two-photon Pathways’’
8:30	Leonid Butov, University of California San Diego (Exciton Condensates) ‘‘Exciton Condensates’’
Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1
	Frontiers of plasmonics	Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Shaped Pulses and Entangled Photons	Exciton Condensates	Localization of Light
9:10	Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Plasmonics at the dielectric/metal transition and plasmonic networks’’	Valentyn Prokhorenko, University of Toronto, Canada ‘‘Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopies with Coherent Control Capabilities’’	Michael Lilly, Sandia National Laboratories ‘‘Electrical transport techniques to probe the ground state of closely spaced electron-hole bilayers’’	Mark D. Havey, Old Dominion University ‘‘Light scattering in high density and ultracold Rb’’
9:30	Jonathan Fan, Harvard University ‘‘Fano Interference in Self-Assembled Plasmonic Nanoparticle Clusters’’	Ted Goodson, University of Michigan ‘‘Entangle Photon Spectroscopy of Organic Molecules’’	Alexey Kavokin, University of Rome II ‘‘Superconductivity mediated by a Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton-polaritons’’	Igor M. Sokolov, State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg ‘‘Light scattering from high density ultracold atomic clouds’’
9:50	Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology ‘‘Alignement, Rotation and Spinning of Plasmonic Nanoparticles using Polarization Dependent Optical Forces’’	Scott Papp, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Characterizing multipartite entanglement with uncertainty relations’’	Barbara Pietka, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland ‘‘Condensation of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity’’	Sergey Skipetrov, CNRS and Joseph Fourier University ‘‘Self-consistent theory of Anderson localization’’
10:10	Stefan Maier, Imperial College London ‘‘Concepts for spectral and spatial mode tailoring of optical plasmonic nanocavities and THz plasmonic metamaterials’’	Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University ‘‘Strategies for coherent spectroscopy based on a single broad bandwidth shaped pulse’’	Vittorio Pellegrini, NEST CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (Italy) ‘‘Seeing inter-layer excitonic coherence in the excitations of electron double layers’’	Andrey Chabanov, University of Texas at San Antonio ‘‘Statistics of Fluctuations and Correlation of Localized Waves’’

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Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:50	Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University (New Directions in Coherent Alignment) ‘‘Spinning Tops in External Fields. From High Harmonic Generation to Control of Transport in the Nanoscale’’
11:20	Wolfgang Schleich, Universität Ulm (Free-Electron Lasers) [Title Not Entered]
Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2
	Frontiers of plasmonics	New Directions in Coherent Alignment	Free-Electron Lasers	Novel Optics
12:00	Peter Nordlander, Rice University ‘‘Quantum descriptiuon of plasmons in strongly coupled metallic nanostructures’’	Yehiam Prior, Weizmann Institute of Science ‘‘Molecular Alignment – Small And Large, Slow And Fast’’	Roland Sauerbrey, Research Centre Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) ‘‘High Intensity Lasers as Undulators for FEL’s’’	Martin Richardson, CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics ‘‘A new kid on the block - the thulium fiber laser’’
12:20	Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester ‘‘‘Free-Space Excitation of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons’’	Edward Hamilton, Grand Valley State University ‘‘Control of the alignment dynamics of asymmetric top molecules by means of laser pulses’’	Paul Preiss, Universität Ulm ‘‘On the Quantum Theory of the FEL’’	M. Howard Lee, University of Georgia ‘‘Superstable 3-cycle in the logistic map and Sharkovskii’s theorem’’
12:40	Mark I. Stockman, Georgia State University ‘‘New Horizons of Nanoplasmonics: from SPASER to Attoseconds’’	See Leang Chin, Laval University ‘‘Femtosecond laser filamentation and molecular rotation’’		Theo Nieuwenhuizen, University of Amsterdam ‘‘Black holes with hair as a normal state of matter’’

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Tuesday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Paolo Nussenzveig, Instituto de Fisica -- USP, Brazil (Quantum Information with Continuous Variables) ‘‘Three-color entanglement: generation characteristics and robustness’’
19:30	Ron Folman, Ben-Gurion University (Spatial interferometry on atom chips) ‘‘Atom chips: one decade of ultra cold atoms microns from a surface’’
20:00	Ralf Schützhold, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Unruh Effect) ‘‘Fundamental effects from a quantum optics perspective’’
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Tuesday Evening Invited Session
	Plasmonics 2	Quantum Information with Continuous Variables	Spatial interferometry on atom chips	Unruh Effect
20:50	Alexandra Boltasseva, TU Denmark / Purdue University ‘‘Searching for Better Plasmonic Materials’’	Ulrik Andersen, Technical University of Denmark ‘‘Quantum coherence of continuous variable systems can survive complete loss’’	Romain Long, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel ‘‘Transition from atom number bunching to antibunching in a double-well potential on an atom chip’’	Serge Reynaud, Ecole normale supérieure Paris ‘‘Dynamical Casimir radiation and analogues’’
21:10	Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘‘Multiplasmon processes in enhanced laser fields’’	Alexander Gaeta, Cornell University [Title Not Entered]	Peter Krüger, University of Nottingham ‘‘A radio-frequency based integrated atom interferometer and the 1d Bose gas’’	Eric Akkermans, The Technion, Israel ‘‘Casimir effect and other QED vacuum properties from the viewpoint of Shannon information’’
21:30	Mikhail A. Noginov, Norfolk State University ‘‘Loss Reduction and Stimulated Emission in Nanoplasmonic Systems’’	Peter van Loock, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light ‘‘A note on quantum error correction with continuous variables’’	Max Riedel, LMU and MPQ Munich ‘‘Atom chip based generation of entanglement for quantum metrology’’	Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut ‘‘The Schwinger Effect: Nonperturbative Pair Production from Vacuum’’
21:50	Gennady Shvets, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Slow light in plasmonic metamaterials: the double-Fano resonance approach’’	Stephen P. Walborn, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ‘‘Non-Gaussian Entanglement with Spatial Variables of Photons’’	TBA [Title Not Entered]	Miles P. Blencowe, Dartmouth College ‘‘Analogue Hawking Radiation in a Superconducting Circuit’’


Wednesday, January 6 2010
Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:30	John Pendry, Imperial College London (Metamaterials 3 -- Transformation Optics) ‘‘Transformation Optics & the Control of Electromagnetic Radiation’’
8:00	Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University (Metamaterials 4 -- New Concepts in Metamaterials) ‘‘Transforming Light with Metamaterials’’
8:30	Aleksei Zheltikov, Moscow State University (Plenary Session) ‘‘Ultrafast guided-wave photonics: Colorful ways to tailor ultrashort optical field waveforms’’
Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1
	Metamaterials 3 -- Transformation Optics	High Frequency and High Energy Lasers	Semiconductor Lasers 2	Coherent Spectroscopy and Quantum Control
9:10	Xiang Zhang, University of California Berkeley ‘‘Optical cloaking and Plasmon lasers’’	Jorge J. Rocca, Colorado State University ‘‘Table-top soft x-ray lasers with shorter wavelengths and smaller size’’	Claire Gmachl, Princeton University ‘‘Highly power-efficient Quantum Cascade lasers’’	Anita Goel, Nanobiosym ‘‘Quantum Frontiers of Nano-Bio-Physics’’
9:30	Che-ting Chan, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology ‘‘Illusion effects created using transformation optics’’	Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University ‘Nanoscale imaging and patterning using bright beams of soft x-ray light from table-top lasers’’	Cun-Zheng Ning, Arizona State University ‘‘More Gain with More Loss: Metals as Gain Enhancers and Plasmonic Nanolasers’’	Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Backward mirror-less lasing achieved through pump pulse shaping’’
9:50	Michal Lipson, Cornell University ‘‘Transformational optics in the optical regime using nanophotonic structures’’	Eyob A. Sete, Texas A&M University ‘‘Transient XUV lasing without inversion via He triplet states’’	Vassilios Kovanis, Air Force Research Laboratory ‘‘Nonlinear dynamics of photonic circuits: gain lever, optical injection and coupled lasers’’	Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ‘‘Sensitive detection of inhalational anesthetic molecules by heterodyne-detected single-beam CARS using adaptively phase-modulated femtosecond pulses’’
10:10	David Smith, Duke University ‘‘Controlling light with transformation optical metamaterials’’	Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University ‘‘Coherently Driven Transitions in He atoms and He-Like Ions for XUV and X-Ray Lasing: Approach to Experiments’’	Mike Wanke, Sandia National Laboratory ‘‘THz transceivers’’	Svetlana Malinovskaya, Stevens Institute of Technology ‘‘Adiabatic Raman Passage Using an Optical Frequency Comb’’

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Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:50	Lamb Award (Lamb Award) ‘‘The presentation of the 2010 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics’’
11:20	Mark A. Kasevich, Stanford University (Bose-Einstein condensates) ‘‘Quantum Simulation with Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms and High Finesse Optical Cavities’’
Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2
	Metamaterials 4 -- New Concepts in Metamaterials	Quantum Information, Computing, and Imaging	Bose-Einstein condensates	Novel Optics
12:00	Eugeni Narimanov, Purdue University ‘‘Infinite at Any Frequency: the photonic density of states in (meta)materials with hyperbolic dispersion and related phenomena’’	Claude Fabre, Université Pierre et Marie Curie ‘‘Quantum information processing and clock synchronization beyond the standard quantum limit using quantum frequency combs’’	Vanderlei S. Bagnato, IFSC/ Univeristy of Sao Paulo ‘‘Emergence of Turbulence in a BEC’’	Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ‘‘The propagation of noise fields in a dispersive medium’’
12:20	Ivdar Gabitov, University of Arizona ‘‘Coherent loss compensation in optical metamaterials’’	Walter C. Daugherity, Texas A&M University ‘‘Quantum-Type Reversible Circuits and Algorithms’’	Yu-Ju Lin, NIST Gaithersburg and Univeristy of Maryland ‘‘Optically synthesized magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms’’	Patrick Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh ‘‘Local duration-bandwidth product of a propagating pulse’’
12:40	Natalia Litchinitser, University at Buffalo ‘‘Transition Metamaterials’’	Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester ‘‘New Results in Quantum Imaging’’	Juan Pino, JILA ‘‘Counting phonons: a new window into strongly interacting superfluid’’	Koryun Oganesyan, Yerevan Physics Institute ‘‘Theory of Smith-Purcell Radiation from Rough Surfaces’’


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Wednesday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Hui Cao, Yale University (Lasing in Random Media) ‘‘Recent Developments of Random Lasers’’
19:30	Howard Wiseman, Griffith University (Quantum Information Processing) ‘‘Platonic Love at a Distance’’
20:00	Chris Greene, University of Colorado (Mixtures and Spinors I) ‘‘Ultracold 4-body systems and the Efimov effect’’
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Wednesday Evening Invited Session
	Lasing in Random Media	Quantum Information Processing	Mixtures and Spinors I	Quantum Optics
20:50	Robin Kaiser, CNRS, France ‘‘Random Lasing with Cold Atoms’’	Bryan Jacobs, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab ‘‘Hybrid Information Processing’’	Eddy Timmermans, Los Alamos National Laboratory ‘‘Pseudo-spin-spin interactions, hysteresis and macroscopic tunneling in ultra-cold atoms’’	Sándor Varró, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘‘Correlations in single-quantum experiments. A note on wave-particle duality’’
21:10	Martin Weitz, Universität Bonn ‘‘Two-dimensional blackbody radiation from an optical microresonator’’	Louis H. Kauffman, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago ‘‘Topological Quantum Information Theory’’	Fei Zhou, University of British Columbia ‘‘Beyond mean-field spin dynamics’’	Thomas Becker, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics ‘‘New spectroscopic techniques for Rydberg atoms’’
21:30	Hakan Tureci, ETH Zurich ‘‘Nature of lasing modes in weakly scattering disordered media’’	Yaakov Weinstein, Mitre Corporation ‘‘Constructing Photonic Cluster States for Quantum Computattion’’	Ludwig Mathey, NIST, Gaithersburg ‘‘Supercritical superfluid and vortex unbinding following a quantum quench’’	Frank A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ‘‘Recoil-induced resonances for temperature measurements and all-optical switching’’
21:50	Johann Kroha, University of Bonn ‘‘Selfconsistent transport theory of diffusive random lasers’’	Howard E. Brandt, U.S. Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Jacobi Fields in Quantum Circuit Complexity Analysis’’	Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP/Harvard University ‘‘Cold dimer formation and other spin relaxation processes in a buffer-gas cooled magnetic trap’’	Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University ‘‘Ring-Down Spectroscopy in an Integrating Cavity’’


Thursday, January 7 2010
Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:30	Hyatt M. Gibbs, University of Arizona (Semiconductor Lasers 1) ‘‘Strongly Coupled Single-Quantum-Dot Nanocavity System: From Vacuum Rabi Splitting to Lasing’’
8:00	Stefan Kröll, Lund University (Quantum coherence effects in solids) ‘‘Coherent interactions in rare earth ion doped crystals for quantum memory and quantum computer development’’
8:30	Elisabeth Giacobino, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS, UPMC, ENS, Paris (Quantum coherence effects in solids) ‘‘Superfluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities’’
Thursday Morning Invited Session 1
	Semiconductor Lasers 1	Quantum coherence effects in solids	Mixtures and Spinors II	Matter Wave Localization
9:10	Mikhail Belkin, The University of Texas at Austin ‘‘THz quantum cascade laser sources for room-temperature operation’’	Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University ‘‘Study of ions interactions in solids by means of EIT’’	Li You, QingHua University ‘‘Mixtures for two spin-1 condensates’’	Giacomo Roati, LENS, University of Florence ‘‘A tunable Bose-Einstein condensate in disordered potentials’’
9:30	Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Instabilities, multimode dynamics, and ultrafast modulation of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers’’	Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ‘‘High resolution single spin imaging with NV diamond’’	Doerte Blume, Washington State University ‘‘s-wave interacting Fermi gas under harmonic confinement’’	Scott Pollack, Rice University ‘‘Interaction Effects in Anderson Localization of an Ultracold Atomic Gas’’
9:50	Daniel Wasserman, University of Massachusetts Lowell ‘‘Mid-infrared Plasmonics’’	Torsten Siebert, Freie Universitaet Berlin ‘‘Towards Supercontinuum Spectroscopy and Control of Ultrafast Molecular Processes’’	Klaus Ziegler, Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Augsburg ‘‘Anderson localization in fermionic mixtures’’	Pascal Szriftgiser, Laboratoire PhLAM, CNRS, USTL ‘‘The Anderson metal-insulator transition with atomic matter waves’’
10:10	Patrice Genevet, Texas A&M University ‘‘Experimental observation of Localized vortices in semiconductor Lasers’’	Victor Acosta, University of California Berkeley ‘‘Perfect defects? Spin-ensemble magnetometry with Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond’’	Ofir E. Alon, University of Heidelberg ‘‘Interferences with distinguishable BECs and more’’	Russell Hart, University of Innsbruck ‘‘Metal-Insulator Transitions and Transport of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices’’
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Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:50	Douglas Stone, Yale University (Novel and complex laser structures) ‘‘Novel Lasing Structures and Phenomena from Ab Initio Theory’’
11:20	Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M and Princeton University (Quantum Solar Energy) ‘‘The Quantum Solar Cell: Using quantum thermodynamics to mitigate recombination and enhance efficiency’’
Thursday Morning Invited Session 2
	Novel and complex laser structures	Quantum coherence effects in solids	Bose-Einstein condensates	Quantum Solar Energy
12:00	Marin Soljacic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Novel platforms for light sources’’	Philippe Goldner, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris ‘‘Coherent Collective Emission in a Random Medium’’	Christoph Weiss, University of Oldenburg ‘‘Mesoscopic quantum superpositions of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodically shaken double well’’	Ting Shan (Willie) Luk, Sandia National Laboratory ‘‘Enhanced spontaneous emission from photonic crystal microcavities’’
12:20	Lei Xu, Fudan University, Shanghai ‘‘Coupled Microcavities for Single Mode Lasing and Biosensing’’	Thierry Chanelière, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton - CNRS ‘‘Few photons storage in thulium doped crystals’’	Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Analytical solution for BEC critical phenomena’’	Oleksiy Roslyak, Hunter College, CUNY ‘‘Signatures of carrier multiplication in polariton fluorescence spectra’’
12:40	Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University ‘‘Directional emission from deformed microcavities’’	Sergey Polyakov, NIST ‘‘Towards DLCZ-type solid state quantum memory: tailored state preparation’’	Adilet Imambekov, Rice University ‘‘Exact Solution for 1D Spin-Polarized Fermions with Resonant Interactions’’	Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Design of a quantum dot (well) solar energy convertor utilizing wide solar spectrum’’

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Thursday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Kent D. Choquette, University of Illinois (Semiconductor Lasers 3) ‘‘ ‘Green’ Photonic Laser Sources’’
19:30	Yuri Rostovtsev, University of North Texas (Quantum systems and ultra short pulses: time and space) ‘‘Quantum coherence excited by far-detuned optical pulses: generation of X-ray and nuclear radiation’’
20:00	Peter D. Keefe, Keefe and Associates (Intellectual Property) ‘‘Intellectual Property’’
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Thursday Evening Invited Session
	Semiconductor Lasers 3	Quantum systems and ultra short pulses: time and space	Intellectual Property	Quantum Carpets
20:50	J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois ‘‘Microcavity Plasma Arrays and Coupling of Semiconductor and Gas Phase Plasmas’’	Thomas Pfeifer, Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics ‘‘Measurement and CEP control of isolated attosecond pulse contrast’’	William Blackman, Carrier, Blackman & Associates ‘‘Obtaining a Patent’’	Kenji Ohmori, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan ‘‘Spatiotemporal coherent control with picometer and attosecond precision; From cold molecules to bulk solids’’
21:10	Ravi Jain, University of New Mexico ‘‘Diode-pumped High-Power Mid-IR Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers’’	Hebin Li, Texas A&M University ‘‘Carrier-envelop phase effect of RF pulses: sine vs cosine’’	Dave Morrison, University of Utah ‘‘Searching U.S. And Foreign Patents For Related Technologies’’	William Case, Grinnell College ‘‘Optical Carpets from the Talbot and Talbot-Lau Effects’’
21:30	Weng Chow, Sandia National Laboratory ‘‘Solid-state lighting and the efficiency droop problem’’	Hichem Eleuch, Texas A&M University ‘‘Analytical Solutions of the Schrodinger Equation in time and space’’	Howard J. Brubaker ‘‘Marketing Intellectual Property’’	Ernst M. Rasel, Leibniz Universität Hannover ‘‘Giant Matterwaves’’
21:50	Nikolai Stelmakh, University of Texas at Arlington ‘‘Shaping spontaneous emission pattern by plasmonic nanocavity’’	Verònica Ahufinger , ICREA and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ‘‘Coherent patterning of matter waves with subwavelength localization’’		Lijun Wang, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light ‘‘Cooling and Stochastic Resonance of a Macroscopic Oscillator’’

Poster Session

Bernhard Adams, ANL
‘‘Quantum Optics with X-Rays’’

Verònica Ahufinger , ICREA and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
‘‘Nonlinear matter wave STIRAP: Coherent control of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a double well potential

Dan Allen, Sandia National Laboratories
‘‘Optical bi-stability in terahertz quantum cascade lasers’’

Ulrik Andersen, Technical University of Denmark
‘‘Squeezed light averaging’’

Steven M. Anlage, University of Maryland
‘‘‘Quantum Chaos’ With Classical Waves’’

Doerte Blume, Washington State University
‘‘Tuning the structural and dynamical properties of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate: Ripples and instability islands’’

Hui Cao, Yale University
‘‘Effects of Partial Pumping on Random Lasing Modes in Weakly Scattering Systems’’

Lincoln D. Carr, Colorado School of Mines
‘‘Metastable quantum phase transitions in a periodic one-dimensional Bose gas’’

Andrey Chabanov, University of Texas at San Antonio
‘‘Nonuniversal dynamic conductance fluctuations in turbid media’’

Yidong Chong, Yale University
‘‘Coherent perfect absorbers’’

Johann Georg Danzl, University of Innsbruck
‘‘An ultracold, high-density sample of rovibronic ground-state molecules in an optical lattice’’

J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois
[Title Not Entered]

Hichem Eleuch, Texas A&M University
‘‘New Analytical Solutions of the Schrodinger Equation’’

Claude Fabre, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
‘‘G2 measurements at the femtosecond scale using two-photon absorption’’

Li Ge, Yale University
‘‘Probing Random Lasers using Ab Initio Self-Consistent Theory’’

George N. Gibson, University of Connecticut
‘‘Dissipative Control in Thermal Ensembles using Tunneling Ionization’’

Ariunbold Gombojav, Texas A&M University
‘‘Fluctuations in Superfluorescence Delay Time’’

Russell Hart, University of Innsbruck
‘‘Metal-Insulator Transitions and Transport of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices’’

Adilet Imambekov, Rice University
‘‘Exact Solution for 1D Spin-Polarized Fermions with Resonant Interactions’’

Pankaj Kumar Jha, Texas A&M University
‘‘Coherent Control of Three-Photon Absorption under Bichromatic Excitation’’

Robin Kaiser, CNRS, France
‘‘Cooperative Radiation Pressure and Disorder’’

Peter D. Keefe, University of Detroit Mercy
‘‘Quantum Mechanics and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Can a Superconductor Heat Engine Break the Law?’’

Pavel Kolchin, University of California Berkeley
‘‘Single and Two-Photon Scattering on a Ladder-type Atom in 1D Waveguide’’

Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
‘‘Arbitrary vector field shaping of femtosecond pulses by a phase-locked Mach-Zehnder interferometer’’

Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
‘‘Vibrational wave-packet control in cyanine dye molecules with free and restricted conjugated backbones’’

Paul D. Nation, Dartmouth College
‘‘Evolution of a Trilinear Hamiltonian: Lessons for Hawking Radiation and Information Loss’’

Chris O’Brien, Texas A&M University
‘‘Coherent Control of Optical Fluorescence Channels in 3-Level Systems’’

Koryun Oganesyan, Yerevan Physics Institute
‘‘Coherent Smith-Purcell Radiation in Millimetre Wavelength Region’’

Thomas Pfeifer, Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
‘‘Attosecond control experiments in the quasi-classical and multiphoton regimes’’

Nitipat Pholchai, University of California Berkeley
‘‘Spontaneous Emission into Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide’’

Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University
‘‘Origin and implication of ellipticity in high harmonic generation from aligned molecules’’

Igor M. Sokolov, State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg
‘‘Light trapping in high-density, ultracold atomic ensembles applied to the quantum memory problem’’