Program — PQE-2011

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 3 2011
Monday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:25	George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) ‘‘Welcoming Remarks’’
7:30	Aleksei Zheltikov, Moscow State University (Ultrafast Photonics) ‘‘Nonlinear optics of fast-ionizing media: From the nanosecond to attosecond time scale’’
8:00	Lihong Wang, Washington University in St. Louis (Photoacoustics) ‘‘Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Breaking through the Optical Diffusion Limit’’
8:30	J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois (Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Plasmonics) ‘‘Three Body Photoassociation in the Pumping of Atomic Lasers by Free-Free Optical Transitions’’
Monday Morning Invited Session 1
	Ultrafast Photonics	Photoacoustics	Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Plasmonics
9:10	Takao Fuji, Institure for Molecular Science, Japan ‘‘Time resolved photoelectron imaging of polyatomic molecules with 15 fs UV pulses’’	Hao F. Zhang, Northwestern University ‘‘Imaging the retina with multiple optical contrasts’’	Eric Shaner, Sandia National Laboratories ‘‘Strong Coupling Between Surface Plasmons and Conduction State Transitions in InAs Quantum Dots’’
9:30	Joseph W. Haus, University of Dayton ‘‘Unusual Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Metallodielectrics’’	Tak Buma, University of Delaware ‘‘Wavelength agile photoacoustic microscopy with a pulsed supercontinuum source’’	Alexander Carmele, Technische Universität Berlin ‘‘Theory of quantum dot cavity-QED: LO-phonon induced antibunching of thermal radiation and cavity feeding’’
9:50	Igor Lednev, University at Albany, SUNY ‘‘Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy for Structural Characterization of Amyloid Fibrils’’	Shai Ashkenazi, University of Minnesota ‘‘Photoacoustic lifetime imaging (PALI) of dissolved oxygen using Methylene Blue’’	Julia Kabuss, Technische Universität Berlin ‘‘Theory of quantum emission from semiconductor quantum dots: coherently controlled photon statistics’’
10:10	Jinghua Sun, Heriot-Watt University, UK ‘‘Phase-coherent ultrafast sources spanning from the UV to the mid-infrared’’	Vladislav V. Yakovlev, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee ‘‘Stimulated Raman excitation with ultrasound detection’’	Dan Wasserman, University of Massachusetts Lowell ‘‘Enhanced transmission through subwavelength apertures using ENZ metamaterials’’

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Monday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:50	Alberto Bramati, Lab. Kastler Brossel, UPMC, Paris (Polaritons: Fundamentals and Applications) ‘‘Propagation of Polariton Quantum Fluids’’
11:20	Wolfgang Schleich, Universität Ulm (Inertial and Gravitational Mass in Quantum Mechanics) ‘‘Inertial and gravitational mass in quantum mechanics’’
Monday Morning Invited Session 2
	Ultrafast Photonics	Polaritons: Fundamentals and Applications	Inertial and Gravitational Mass in Quantum Mechanics	Atom Interferometers
12:00	Ming-Lie Hu, Tianjin University ‘‘From the ultraviolet to terahertz and from white- to black-light generation with photonic-crystal fiber sources of ultrashort pulses’’	Pavlos Savvidis, University of Crete / FORTH ‘‘A New Generation of Electrically Driven Polariton Devices’’	Ernst Maria Rasel, Leibniz Universität Hannover ‘‘Testing the Equivalence Principle with degenerate quantum matter’’	Frank A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ‘‘Raman Resonances in Magnetic Fields’’
12:20	Tenio Popmintchev, JILA ‘‘Ponderomotive energy scaling with a 0.1-TW peak power mid-IR few-cycle source’’	Yoan Léger, LOEQ - EPFL ‘‘Multi-valued spin switching, towards novel spin-optronic devices’’	Hartmut Abele, Atominstitut-TU Wien ‘‘The Quantum Bouncing Ball and Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy’’	Holger Müller, University of California, Berkeley ‘‘Precision tests of General Relativity with matter waves’’
12:40	Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Controlled femtosecond laser filaments for remote sensing’’	Maria Vladimirova, CNRS - University Montpellier 2, FRANCE ‘‘Polariton-polariton interaction in microcavities’’	Philippe Bouyer, CNRS-Institut d’Optique ‘‘Underground and airborne matter-wave inertial sensors: towards fundamental tests of gravitation’’	Evan Salim, JILA/University of Colorado ‘‘High Resolution Through-Chip Imaging for Atomtronics’’

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Monday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro- Communications, Japan (Molecular Modulation) ‘‘A Raman approach for ultrafast optical technology’’
19:30	Leonid Butov, University of California, San Diego (Exciton Condensates) ‘‘Spin Texture in a Cold Exciton Gas’’
20:00	Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University (Quantum Information Processing) ‘‘Quantum Computation for the Simulation of Chemical Systems’’
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Monday Evening Invited Session
	Molecular Modulation	Exciton Condensates	Semiconductor Lasers	Quantum Information Processing
20:50	Andy Kung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ‘‘Multiple harmonics generation: molecular modulation vs cascaded generation by QPM’’	Jacqueline Bloch, LPN/CNRS, France ‘‘Spontaneous formation and optical manipulation of polariton condensates’’	Mikhail Belkin, The University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Lambda~2.6-3.6um InGaAs/AlInAs quantum cascade laser sources based on intra-cavity second harmonic generation’’	Franco Wong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Defeating Passive Eavesdropping using Quantum Illumination’’
21:10	Deniz D. Yavuz, University of Wisconsin - Madison ‘‘Continuous Wave Light Modulation at Molecular Frequencies’’	Dmitriy Krizhanovskii, Sheffield University, UK ‘‘Role of interactions on the properties of collective polariton states in strongly coupled microcavities’’	Kent Choquette, University of Illinois ‘‘Leaky-Mode Coherent Vertical Cavity Laser Arrays’’	Ari Mizel, Laboratory for Physical Sciences ‘‘On Fault-tolerant Ground-state Quantum Computation’’
21:30	Fetah Benabid, University of Bath ‘‘Quantum fluctuation initiated coherence in multi-octave Raman frequency comb’’	Na Young Kim, Stanford University ‘‘An Exciton-Polariton Laser Diode’’	Claire F. Gmachl, Princeton University ‘‘Spectral innovations for mid-infrared Quantum Cascade lasers’’	Frank Gaitan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences ‘‘Robust high-fidelity universal quantum gates’’
21:50	Miaochan Zhi, Texas A&M University ‘‘Pulse-shaper-assisted phase optimization of an ultrabroadband spectral comb’’	Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, The University of Tokyo ‘‘Stability of an ensemble of excitons in a quantum degenerate regime in a bulk semiconductor of Cu2O - Search for Bose-Einstein Condensation of excitons’’	Gottfried Strasser, TU Vienna ‘‘InGaAs/GaAsSb/InP Quantum Cascade Lasers’’	Howard E. Brandt, Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Warp-Speed Causal Connectivity’’


Tuesday, January 4 2011
Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:30	Aaron Slepkov, National Research Council of Canada (CARS) ‘‘Facile integration of CARS spectro-microscopy with traditional nonlinear optical microscope platforms’’
8:00	Yanhua Shih, University of Maryland Baltimore County (Quantum Imaging) ‘‘Multi-photon Interferometry with Incoherent Thermal Light - simulation of multi-photon entangled states’’
8:30	Jorge J. Rocca, Colorado State University (X-ray Lasers) ‘‘Advances in compact high brightness soft x-ray lasers: sub-10 nm wavelengths and smaller size’’
Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1
	CARS	Quantum Imaging	X-ray Lasers	Novel Optics
9:10	Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University ‘‘Imaging Reactive Flows and Trace Quantities of Hazardous Substances Using Single Beam Cars’’	Ron Meyers, Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Turbulence-free ghost imaging	Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University ‘‘Movies of nanoscale dynamics by extreme ultraviolet microscopy’’	Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Microscopic theory of phase transitions’’
9:30	Evgeny Shapiro, The University of British Columbia ‘‘CARS spectroscopy by interfering noisy broadband light’’	Giuliano Scarcelli, Harvard University ‘‘Towards ghost imaging with cosmic ray muons’’	Sergei V. Bulanov, APRC-JAEA, Japan ‘‘Relativistic Mirrors in Laser Plasmas - Novel Path towards Compact Source of Coherent X-Rays’’	Holger Schmidt, University of California, Santa Cruz ‘‘Slow light and EIT on a hollow-core waveguide spectroscopy chip’’
9:50	Chris Lee, University of Twente ‘‘Sub-Diffraction-Limited-Resolution CARS Microscopy via incoherent saturation of vibrational transitions’’	Sanjit Karmakar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‘‘The first ghost image from Sun light	Nina Rohringer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ‘‘Photoionization Based Atomic Inner-Shell X-Ray Laser in Neon at 850 eV Realized at the Linac Coherent Light Source’’	Harald Kübler, Universität Stuttgart ‘‘Coherent Rydberg Excitation in Thermal Microcells’’
10:10	Norihiko Hayazawa, RIKEN ‘‘Towards Tip-enhanced Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy & Nanoscopy’’	Hui Chen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‘‘Two-photon Anti-correlation and Interference with Incoherent Thermal Radiations’’	Pankaj Kumar Jha, Texas A&M University ‘‘Lasing Without Inversion in XUV-Regime’’	Eric Van Stryland, CREOL, University of Central Florida ‘‘Extreme Nondegenerate Two-Photon Absorption in Semiconductors’’

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Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:50	Phillip Sprangle, Naval Research Laboratory (Laser Filamentation) ‘‘Remote Atmospheric Lasing and Lasing without Inversion in the XUV’’
11:20	Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University (Coherence in Complex Systems) ‘‘Coherence in complex systems. The case of molecular electronics’’
Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2
	CARS	Laser Filamentation	Coherence in Complex Systems	Whispering-Gallery Resonators
12:00	Eric Potma, University of California, Irvine ‘‘Four-wave mixing in gold films’’	Daniel Gordon, Naval Research Laboratory ‘‘Computer Modeling of Photoionization’’	Maxim Sukharev, Arizona State University ‘‘Ab initio electrodynamics of multi-level media optically coupled to metal nanostructures’’	Dmitry Strekalov, MPL, JPL ‘‘Triple-resonant whispering gallery mode resonators for THz photons visualization by upconversion’’
12:20	Marcus Cicerone, NIST ‘‘Broadband coherent Raman microscopy: chemical imaging for biology’’	Martin Richardson, Townes Institute, UCF ‘‘Air filamentation – today and in the future’’	Greg Engel, The University of Chicago ‘‘Imaging Excited State Dynamics: Uncovering Design Principles behind Quantum Biology’’	Anatoliy Savchenkov, OEwaves Inc. ‘‘Non-collinear all-optical comb produced by crystalline whispering gallery mode resonators’’
12:40	Hyunmin Kim, NIST ‘‘Imaging of four-wave-mixings from sub-micrometer scale structures’’	Pavel Polynkin, University of Arizona ‘‘Filamentation of beam and pulse shaped femtosecond laser pulses’’	Victor Batista, Yale University ‘‘Tunneling Under Control by Sequences of Unitary Pulses’’	Christoph Marquardt, MPI for the Science of Light ‘‘Quantum light from a whispering gallery disk resonator’’

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Tuesday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Ralf Schützhold, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Fundamental Effects From a Quantum (Optics) Perspective) ‘‘Squeezing in fundamental quantum phenomena and quantum optics’’
19:30	Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado/JILA (Extreme Light) ‘‘Capturing Electron Dynamics in Materials using Bright Coherent X-Rays’’
20:00	Jörg Evers, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (X-ray Quantum Optics) ‘‘X-ray and gamma-ray quantum optics’’
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Tuesday Evening Invited Session
	Fundamental Effects From a Quantum (Optics) Perspective	Extreme Light	X-ray Quantum Optics	Theoretical Optics
20:50	William Unruh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ‘‘Measurement of Thermal Spectrum of Hawking radiation in an Analog system’’	Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘Advances in laser plasma accelerators at LBNL’’	Steve Southworth, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Optical control of excitation and decay of core-excited states’’	Hakan Tureci, Princeton University ‘‘Collective Multi-mode Effects in Quantum Optics’’
21:10	Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut ‘‘The Schwinger Effect (Pair Production from Vacuum): Interference Effects and Laser Pulse Shape’’	Chris Barty, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ‘‘Nuclear Photonics with Mono-Energetic Gamma-rays (MEGa-rays)’’	Eric R. Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles ‘‘A thorium doped solid-state optical frequency reference’’	Viktor Podolskiy, University of Massachusetts Lowell ‘‘Analytical technique for subwavelength far field imaging’’
21:30	Daniele Faccio, Heriot-Watt University ‘‘Hawking radiation and horizon physics in ultrashort laser pulse filaments’’	Henry Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado/JILA ‘‘Ultrahigh resolution imaging using Tabletop Coherent EUV Light Sources’’	Kei Sawada, RIKEN ‘‘Enhanced translation of x-rays by a Berry-phase effect’’	P. Scott Carney, University of Illinois ‘‘Coherence theory for pulse trains’’
21:50	Dietrich Habs, LMU Munich ‘‘QED cascades at the Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)’’	Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University ‘‘Few-cycle attosecond pulses via periodic resonance interaction with hydrogen-like atoms’’	Hui Xia, TAMU/Princeton ‘‘Observing population of HeI excited states during recombination after optical field ionization with ultra-fast spectroscopy’’	Shiyao Zhu, Beijing Computational Research Center ‘‘The role of Lamb shifts in the quantum interference of spontaneous emission’’


Wednesday, January 5 2011
Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:30	Mark A. Kasevich, Stanford University (Quantum Metrology) ‘‘Quantum metrology with cold atoms’’
8:00	Randall G. Hulet, Rice University (Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena) ‘‘Propagation of Bose Condensates and Matter-Wave Solitons Across Disordered or Barrier Potentials’’
8:30	Ron Folman, Ben-Gurion University (Possible Realization of Quantum Computers with Atoms) ‘‘Engineering the environment of quantum information processing on atom chips: where material science meets quantum optics’’
Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1
	Quantum Metrology	Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena	Possible Realization of Quantum Computers with Atoms
9:10	James K. Thompson, JILA/NIST/University of Colorado ‘‘Spin-Squeezing of a Large Ensemble via the Vacuum Rabi Splitting’’	Simon Cornish, Durham University ‘‘Bright matter wave solitons: formation, dynamics and quantum reflection’’	Roman Schmied, University of Basel ‘‘Multiparticle Entanglement on an Atom Chip’’
9:30	Murray Holland, JILA ‘‘Prospects for a superradiant laser’’	Alexej I. Streltsov, Heidelberg University, Germany ‘‘Non-equilibrium dynamics of fragmented states in attractive BECs’’	Dana Z. Anderson, University of Colorado ‘‘Atom Chips, Atomtronics, and Quantum Signal Processing’’
9:50	Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC Berkeley ‘‘Collective atomic motion and spin in an optical cavity’’	Christoph Weiss, University of Oldenburg ‘‘Spatial mesoscopic quantum superpositions generated via scattering of bright solitons’’	Eric Charron, Université Orsay, France ‘‘Towards realistic schemes for quantum logic gates on atom chips’’
10:10	John Close, Australian National University ‘‘High Visibility Gravimetry With a Bose Einstein Condensate’’	Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University ‘‘Suppression of the quantum-mechanical collapse by repulsive interactions’’	Robert J. C. Spreeuw, University of Amsterdam ‘‘Magnetic mictrotrap arrays as a platform for quantum information science’’

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Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:50	Lamb Award (Lamb Award) ‘‘The presentation of the 2011 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics’’
11:20	Jönåthán P. Døwlîng, Louisiana State University (Quantum Sensors) ‘‘Quantum Optical Computing, Imaging, and Metrology’’
Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2
	Quantum Sensors	Applications of the Wigner Distribution	Possible Realization of Quantum Computers with Atoms	Novel Optics
12:00	Christopher Wildfeuer, Louisiana State University ‘‘Techniques for enhancing the precision of measurements with photon number resolving detectors’’	Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ‘‘Propagation and Spread of Non-Stationary Noise in a Dispersive Medium’’	Xianli Zhang, University of Wisconsin ‘‘A neutral atom quantum gate and entanglement using Rydberg blockade’’	Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University ‘‘Integrating Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy’’
12:20	Petr M. Anisimov, Louisiana State University ‘‘Squeezing the Vacuum and beating Heisenberg: Limits? Where we’re going we do not need any limits!’’	Justin Peatross, Brigham Young University ‘‘Quantum behavior of free-electron photoemission in strong laser fields’’	Trey Porto, Joint Quantum Institute ‘‘Control of Neutral Atoms in Optical Lattices’’	Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘‘Hanbury Brown and Twiss type correlations with surface plasmons’’
12:40	Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, College of William and Mary ‘‘Generation of squeezed vacuum with hot and ultra-cold Rb atoms’’	Patrick Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh ‘‘Detection with the Wigner Distribution’’	Tom Stace, University of Queensland ‘‘Scalable quantum computing with atomic ensembles’’	Sándor Varró, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘‘On the question of the existence of needle radiation. The 100 years old experiment on wide-angle interference by Pál Selényi and the modern concept of photons’’


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Wednesday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Quantum Solar Energy) ‘‘Thermal Radiation Transport in Nanostructures’’
19:30	Ralf Röhlsberger, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY (Cooperative Emission) ‘‘Cooperative Emission in the X-ray Regime’’
20:00	Robert W. Boyd, Universities of Ottawa and Rochester (Information on a Photon) ‘‘Information in a Photon’’
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Wednesday Evening Invited Session
	Quantum Sensors	Quantum Solar Energy	Cooperative Emission	Information on a Photon
20:50	Geoff Pryde, Griffith University ‘‘Optimal multiphoton phase sensing and measurement’’	Zhengdong Cheng, Texas A&M University ‘‘Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production from Water/Methanol Decomposition Using Nanocomposites’’	Alexander Poddubny, Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia ‘‘Collective radiance from semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots’’	John Howell, University of Rochester ‘‘Mutual Information Characterization of Tranverse Entanglement’’
21:10	Jonathan C. F. Matthews, University of Bristol, UK ‘‘Entangled Multi-Photon States in Waveguide for Quantum Metrology’’	Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Surpassing Conventional Light Trapping Limits in Photovoltaics’’	Vasily Temnov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Photon statistics in superradiance’’	Anand Kumar Jha, University of Rochester ‘‘Orbital Angular Momentum: Interference, Entanglement, and Precision Measurement’’
21:30	Kevin McCusker, University of Illinois ‘‘Efficient Quantum Optical State Engineering’’	T. S. (Willie) Luk, Sandia National Laboratories ‘‘Anomalous enhanced emission from PbS quantum dots in photonic crystal microcavities’’	Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Cooperative spontaneous emission of N atoms: collective non-local effects’’	Jonathan Leach, University of Glasgow / University of Ottawa ‘‘Full-field quantum correlations and the efficient sorting of quantum states of light’’
21:50	Xi Wang, Texas A&M University ‘‘Self-Implemented Heterodyne CARS by Using Its Intrinsic Background’’	Gregory N. Nielson, Sandia National Laboratories ‘‘Toward high efficiency and low cost solar power systems through independent solar cell junctions and scale effects’’	Arthur Dogariu, Princeton University ‘‘High Gain Backward Lasing of Oxygen in Air’’	Dan Gauthier, Duke University ‘‘High rate quantum key distribution’’


Thursday, January 6 2011
Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1
7:30	A. Douglas Stone, Yale University (Coherent Perfect Absorbers and Parity-Time-Reversal Symmetric Optical Structures) ‘‘Coherent perfect absorbers, time-reversed lasing and PT-symmetric amplifier-absorbers’’
8:00	Robin Kaiser, INLN, CNRS, Nice (Superradiance and Cooperative Effects) ‘‘Cooperative Scattering with Cold Atoms’’
8:30	Adriana Pálffy, Max Planck Institute Heidelberg, Germany (Nuclear Gamma-Ray Optics) ‘‘Excitons, entanglement and coherent control with nuclei’’
Thursday Morning Invited Session 1
	NV Diamond Quantum and Bio Optics	Coherent Perfect Absorbers and Parity-Time-Reversal Symmetric Optical Structures	Superradiance and Cooperative Effects	Nuclear Gamma-Ray Optics
9:10	Jeorg Wrachtrup, Stuttgart University ‘‘Diamond defects: Sensitive probes for their magnetic and electric environment’’	Demetri Christodoulides, CREOL, University of Central Florida ‘‘PT-Symmetry in Optics’’	Cristiano Ciuti, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 ‘‘Ultrastrong coupling circuit-QED: vacuum degeneracy and quantum phase transitions’’	Sebastien Couet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ‘‘Directly probing the magnetic field inside a superconducting Nb film by nuclear resonant scattering’’
9:30	Paola Cappellaro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Ensemble diamond magnetometer’’	Wenjie Wan, Yale University ‘‘Time-reversed Lasing and Control of Absorption in a Two-channel Coherent Perfect Absorber’’	Kristian Baumann, ETH Zürich ‘‘The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity’’	Bernhard Adams, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Manipulation of nuclear gamma-ray superradiance’’
9:50	Alexei Trifonov, Harvard University ‘‘Some application of nanodiamonds in bio-imaging and neuroscience’’	Gregory Salamo, University of Arkansas ‘‘Observation of PT-Symmetry Breaking in Optics’’	Karyn Le Hur, Yale University ‘‘Quantum Phase Transitions of Light: From Superradiance to Circuit QED’’	Lee Bernstein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ‘‘Using NIF to study the interaction of hot nuclear matter with neutron-rich plasmas’’
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Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2
10:30	Godfrey Gumbs, Hunter College of CUNY (Photonics of Graphene) ‘‘Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Plasma Excitations and Electron Transport in Graphene’’
11:00	Mark Havey, Old Dominion University (Disorder Effects in Atomic Physics) ‘‘Disorderly Conduct in Ultracold Atomic Gases’’
Thursday Morning Invited Session 2
	Photonics of Graphene	Quantum Coherence Effects	Disorder Effects in Atomic Physics	Unruh, Hawking, and Casimir
11:40	Oleg Berman, New York City College of Technology of CUNY ‘‘Electromagnetic wave propagation through a graphene-based photonic crystal’’	Nina Meinzer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ‘‘Plasmonic Metamaterials Coupled to Single-Quantum-Well Gain’’	Gabriel Lemarié, SPEC - CEA Saclay ‘‘Critical State of the Anderson Transition: Between a Metal and an Insulator’’	Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M and Princeton University ‘‘Virtual Photons From Unruh Radiation and the Lamb Shift to Dicke’s Superradiance’’
12:00	Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories ‘‘Some recent experimental results in high quality epitaxial graphene films’’	Matthieu Bonarota, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton - CNRS ‘‘Efficiency and capacity of an Atomic Frequency Comb based quantum memory’’	Romain Pierrat, Institut Langevin, Paris ‘‘Photonic local density of states and coherent effets in cold atomic gas’’	Michael Duff, Imperial College London ‘‘Black holes and qubits’’
12:20	Danhong Huang, Air Force Research Lab ‘‘Enhanced mobility of semiconducting graphene nanoribbons in nonlinear transport regime’’	Alexey Kalachev, Texas A&M University ‘‘Quantum storage via refractive index control’’	Dmitriy V. Kupriyanov, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University ‘‘Coherent Control of Diffuse Light Dynamics in an Ultracold Atomic Gas’’	Eric Akkerman, Technion Israel Institute of Technology ‘‘Thermal radiation and photon statistics on fractals’’
12:40	Klaus Ziegler, Universitaet Augsburg ‘‘Optical properties of graphene mono- and bilayers’’	Chris O’Brien, Texas A&M University ‘‘Coherently Controllable Photonic Structures with Zero Absorption’’	Matt Pasienski, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ‘‘Disordered insulator in an optical lattice’’	Israel Klich, University of Virginia ‘‘Casimir, Entropy and Entanglement Entropy’’

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Thursday Evening Plenary Session
19:00	Fedor Jelezko, University of Stuttgart (NV Diamond Quantum and Bio Optics) ‘‘Towards scalable quantum registers in diamond’’
19:30	Nir Davidson, Weizmann Institute (Improved Coherence Times in Quantum Systems) ‘‘Spectral narrowing and dynamical decoupling in a dense ensemble of optically trapped atoms’’
20:00	Serge Reynaud, LKB CNRS ENS UPMC Paris (Casimir Physics) ‘‘Casimir effect : quantum optics in vacuum’’
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Thursday Evening Invited Session
	NV Diamond Quantum and Bio Optics	Improved Coherence Times in Quantum Systems	Artificial Gauge Fields in Cold-Atom Systems	Casimir Physics
20:50	Nick Melosh, Stanford University ‘‘Diamondoid as coatings for electron emission materials’’	Peter Rosenbusch, SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris ‘‘Spin self-rephasing and very long coherence times’’	Naceur Gaaloul, Leibniz Universität Hannover ‘‘Non-abelian Gauge-field simulators with cold atoms’’	Ho Bun Chan, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology ‘‘Geometry and material dependence of the Casimir force on nanostructured silicon surfaces’’
21:10	David Simpson, University of Melbourne ‘‘The NV centre as a fluorescent quantum probe in biology’’	Renbao Liu, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong ‘‘Control of solid-state qubit decoherence in spin baths’’	Brandon Anderson, University of Maryland ‘‘Interferometry with Synthetic Gauge Fields’’	Umar Mohideen, University of California, Riverside ‘‘Controlling the Casimir Force with Light and Shape’’
21:30	Victor Acosta, University of California Berkeley ‘‘Broadband magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond and related optical and spin-relaxation properties’’	John Bollinger, NIST, Boulder ‘‘Dynamical Decoupling Experiments with Ion Crystals in Penning Traps’’	Karina Jimenez-Garcia, NIST / Joint Quantum Institute ‘‘Artificial gauge fields for ultracold neutral atoms’’	Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Harvard/MIT ‘‘Computing Casimir Forces in Complex Nanosystems’’
21:50	Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ‘‘Subwavelength imaging with NV diamond’’	Kristiaan De Greve, Stanford University ‘‘Complete optical coherent control and spin echo of single InAs quantum dot spins.’’	Gergely Szirmai, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences ‘‘Layered Quantum Hall Insulators with Ultracold Atoms’’	Joël Chevrier, Institut Néel Grenoble ‘‘Casimir and heat transfer’’

Poster Session

Victor Acosta, UC Berkeley
‘‘Broadband magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond and related optical and spin-relaxation properties’’

Bernhard Adams, Argonne National Laboratory
‘‘Manipulation of nuclear gamma-ray superradiance’’

Bernhard Adams, Argonne National Laboratory
‘‘Precise Orbital Tracking of an Asteroid with a Phased Array of Radio Transponders’’

Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University
‘‘Quantum Effects in Photosynthetic Energy Transfer’’

Matthieu Bonarota, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton - CNRS
‘‘Efficiency and capacity of an Atomic Frequency Comb based quantum memory’’

Yidong Chong, Yale University
‘‘The Steady-state Ab Initio Laser Theory And Its Application To Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers’’

Michael Cone, Texas A&M Univsersity
‘‘Measuring the Absorption Coefficient of Pure Water in the UV Using an Integrating Cavity Absorption Meter’’

Simon Cornish, Durham University
‘‘A Quantum Degenerate Mixture of 87Rb and 133Cs.’’

Sebastien Couet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
‘‘Probing internal fields and Ghz dynamics in thin film by nuclear resonant scattering’’

Konstantin Dorfman, Texas A&M University
‘‘Cooperative spontaneous emission of N atoms in spheroidal geometry’’

Pankaj Kumar Jha, Texas A&M University
‘‘Carrier-Envelope Phase Effects on Atomic Excitation’’

Karina Jimenez-Garcia, NIST / Joint Quantum Institute
‘‘Spin-Orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates’’

Robin Kaiser, INLN, CNRS, Nice
‘‘Random Lasing with Cold Atoms’’

Barnabas Kim, Texas A&M Univsersity
‘‘Wigner Function Method to Bose-Einstein Condensation’’

Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
‘‘Theoretical aspects of Hanbury Brown and Twiss type correlations mediated by surface plasmons’’

Jonathan Leach, University of Glasgow / University of Ottawa
‘‘Full-field quantum correlations and the efficient sorting of quantum states of light’’

Gabriel Lemarié, SPEC - CEA Saclay
‘‘Thermal Enhancement of Interference Effects in Quantum Point Contacts’’

Renbao Liu, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong
‘‘Revealing quantum dynamics by higher-order correlations of weak measurement’’

Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University
‘‘Splitting, recombination, and interferometry of matter-wave solitons in potential landscapes’’

Ron Meyers, Army Research Laboratory
‘‘Quantum Ghost Imaging Experiments in Turbulence and Obscurants’’

Frank A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command
‘‘Variations of Dispersion and Transparency in Four-Level N-Scheme Atomic Systems’’

Justin Peatross, Brigham Young University
‘‘Quantum behavior of free-electron photoemission in strong laser fields’’

Nicholas Proite, University of Wisconsin - Madison
‘‘Observation of Atomic Localization using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency’’

Oleksiy Roslyak, Hunter College, CUNY
‘‘Plasmon oscillations of dressed Dirac electrons in graphene.’’

Giuliano Scarcelli, Harvard University
‘‘Biomechanical Microscopy of Tissue and Biomaterials’’

Eyob A. Sete, Texas A&M University
‘‘Transient lasing without inversion in He-like Boron’’

Daniel Sikes, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
‘‘Negative Refraction in a Raman Chiral System’’

Robert J. C. Spreeuw, University of Amsterdam
‘‘Magnetic mictrotrap arrays as a platform for quantum information science’’

Dmitry Strekalov, MPL, JPL
‘‘Triple-resonant whispering gallery mode resonators for THz photons visualization by upconversion’’

Maxim Sukharev, Arizona State University
‘‘Ab initio electrodynamics of multi-level media optically coupled to metal nanostructures’’