Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Advances in Quantum Optomechanics
Discussion Leader: Albert Schliesser (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:00 pm - 8:35 pm
Michael Vanner (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Measurement-Based Quantum Optomechanics"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm
Thomas Purdy (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
"Optomechanical Quantum Correlations for Metrology"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nonclassical States of Motion
Discussion Leader: Konrad Lehnert (JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:20 am - 9:55 am
Dietrich Leibfried (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
"Nonclassical States of Motion of Single Atoms"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Peter Rabl (TU Wien, Austria)
"What Can Leggett-Garg Inequalities Tell Us About Macroscopic Superposition States?"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:55 am
Sungkun Hong (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Microfabricated Optomechanical Resonators: A New Building Block for Quantum Information Processing"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Massimiliano Rossi (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
"Tailoring the Dynamics of a Mechanical Resonator via Phase-Sensitive Feedback"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Fundamental Physics and Gravitational Waves
Discussion Leader: Igor Pikovski (ITAMP, Harvard University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm
Nergis Mavalvala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Optomechanics in Gravitational Wave Detectors"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Francesco Marin (INFN Sezione di Firenze, Italy)
"Testing Quantum Gravity Models with Optomechanical Experiments"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nonreciprocity in Light Matter Interactions
Discussion Leader: Ewold Verhagen (AMOLF, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:20 am - 9:55 am
Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Reservoir Engineering of Mechanical Oscillators for Amplification and Nonreciprocal Devices"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Arno Rauschenbeutel (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
"Nonreciprocal Quantum Optical Devices Based on Chiral Interaction of Confined Light with Spin-Polarized Atoms"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:55 am
Gaurav Bahl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Chirality and Nonreciprocity in Optomechanical Resonator Systems"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Sunil Bhave (Purdue University, USA)
"The Best Reciprocal Resonators Make the Best Nonreciprocal Systems"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Novel Theory and Applications
Discussion Leader: Florian Marquardt (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm
Amir Safavi-Naeini (Stanford University, USA)
"Using Electromagnetic Degrees of Freedom to Generate Novel States of Mechanical Resonators"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Paul Barclay (University of Calgary, Canada)
"Nano Spin-Optomechanics"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Hybrid Mechanical Systems
Discussion Leader: Cindy Regal (JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:20 am - 9:55 am
Tobias Kippenberg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Quantum Effects in Interferometric Position Measurements of Nanomechanical Oscillators"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Tracy Northup (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
"Quantum Optomechanics with Nanospheres and Ions"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:55 am
Oskar Painter (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Microwave Acoustodynamics in Optomechanical Crystals at MilliKelvin Temperatures"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Jonathan Cripe (Louisiana State University, USA)
"Broadband Measurement of Quantum Radiation Pressure Noise in an Optomechanical Cavity at Room Temperature"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Ultra-Weak Force Measurements
Discussion Leader: Oriol Romero-Isart (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) / University of Innsbruck, Austria)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm
Andrew Geraci (Northwestern University, USA)
"Precision Sensing and Hybrid-Optomechanics with Optically Trapped Nanospheres"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Jens Gundlach (University of Washington, USA)
"Torsion Balance Experiments to Probe for Physics Beyond Gravity"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Coupling Qubits to Mechanical Systems
Discussion Leader: Andrew Cleland (University of Chicago, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:20 am - 9:55 am
Jan Gieseler (Harvard University, USA)
"Levitated Nano-Magnets as Quantum Transducers"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Peter Leek (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Circuit Quantum Acoustodynamics with Surface Acoustic Waves"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:55 am
Yiwen Chu (Yale University, USA)
"Quantum Acoustics with Superconducting Qubits"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
James Millen (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Levitated Optomechanics"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Quantum Measurement and Tomography
Discussion Leader: Eugene Polzik (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm
Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico, USA)
"Quantum Gerrymandering: Positivity, Bias, and Anisotropy Among Quantum States"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi (Aalto University, Finland)
"Evidence for Stabilized Entanglement of Mechanical Oscillators"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure