SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | MACRO-opto-mechanics |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Tobias Donner (JILA) Overview |
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Jack Harris (Yale) "Strong quadratic and quartic coupling in ultralow-loss optomechanical systems" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna) "Towards Macroscopic Quantum Experiments - conceptual and experimental challenges" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | micro-opto-mechanics |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Khaled Karrai (Attocube Systems AG) |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Oskar Painter (Caltech) "Optomechanics in planar optomechanical crystals" |
9:55 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Hong Tang (Yale) "Circuit Cavity Optomechanical System" |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:15 pm | Ho Bun Chan (University of Florida - Gainsville) "Geometry dependent Casimir forces on a micromechanical oscillator" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Coupling Atoms to Mechanics |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Mukund Vengalattore (Cornell) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Phillip Treutline (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) "Interfacing ultracold atoms and mechanical oscillators on an atom chip" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona) "Cavity optomechanics with ultracold atoms" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Theory |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Aash Clerk (McGill) |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Florian Marquardt (University of Munich) "Dynamics of Optomechanical Arrays" |
9:55 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Ignacio Wilson-Rae (Technische Universität München) "Exciton-assisted optomechanics and quantum dissipation with suspended nanotubes" |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:15 pm | Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland) "Quantum measurement and control of nanomechanical and opto-mechanical resonators" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Entanglement with Mechanics |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Christoph Bruder (Basel) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Andrew Cleland (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Six billionths of a second" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Pierre-Francois Cohadon (Ecole Normale Supérieure) "Light-mirror correlations and entanglement induced by radiation pressure" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Gravitation and Mechanics |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico) |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | David Blair (University of Western Australia) "Acousto-Opto-Mechanics" |
9:55 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Sam Waldman (MIT) "Observing the signature of holographic spacetime using interferometry" |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:15 pm | Nergis Mavalvala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Quantum mechanics on giant scales" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular-scale Mechanics |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Jime Hone (Columbia) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Herre Van der Zandt (TU-Delft) "High-quality carbon nanotube mechanical resonators" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Adrian Bachtold (Institut Català de Nanotecnologia) "Nanotube resonator" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advances in Detection |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Raffi Budakian (University of Illinois- Urbana Champagne) |
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Jared Hertzberg (Cornell) "Back-action evading detection near the zero-point level" |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Alex Rimberg (Dartmouth) "A Macroscopic Mechanical Resonator Driven by Mesoscopic Electrical Backaction" |
10:25 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:05 am | Coffee Break |
11:05 am - 11:35 am | John Teufel (NIST) "Microwave Cavity Optomechanics" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Eva Weig (LMU Munchen) "Gradient Force transduction and self-oscillation of nanomechanical resonators" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dissipation and Decoherence |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Yuri Levin (University of Leiden) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Miles Blencowe (Dartmouth) "Damping and Decoherence of a Nanomechanical Resonator Due to a Few Two-Level Systems" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Jeevak Parpia (Cornell) "Stressed out nitride" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |