| Sunday evening: Wavepacket Dynamics |
| Robert Jones(University of Virginia), Chair |
- Gustav Gerber (Universität Würzburg)
"Control of Chemical Reactions by Feedback-Optimized Phase-Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses"
- Philip Bucksbaum (University of Michigan)
"Quantum wavepacket sculpting, quantum control, and quantum algorithms"
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| Monday morning: Coherent Phase Control |
| Richard Bersohn (Columbia University), Chair |
- Moshe Shapiro (Weizmann Institute)
"Laser Acceleration and Suppression of Tunneling and the Formation of Dark Collisional States"
- John Sipe (University of Toronto)
"With a little help from the lattice: Coherent current control in the solid state"
- Dan Elliott (Purdue University)
"Two-pathway laser-phase insensitive coherent control of photoionization channels in atomic barium"
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| Monday evening: Wave Properties of Matter |
| Mara Prentiss (Harvard), Chair |
- David Pritchard (MIT)
"Longitudinal Atom Optics"
- Paul Julienne (NIST)
"Coherence and dynamics of matter waves from Bose-Einstein condensate sources."
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| Tuesday morning: Optimal Control |
| Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University), Chair |
- David Tannor (Weizmann Institute)
"Optical Paralysis, N-Level STIRAP, and Laser Cooling of Internal Degrees of Freedom of Molecules"
- Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University)
"Controlled Quantum Dynamics Phenomena"
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| Tuesday morning: Short talks |
- Yaron Silberberg (Weizmann Institute)
"Control of multi-photon absorption by femtosecond pulses"
- Yijin Yan (Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology)
"Optimal coherent control and some related spectroscopies"
- Martin Gruebele (Univ. Illinois)
"Vibrational dephasing and rephasing: mechanism and control"
- Dimitris Charalambidis (Hellas Institute for Electronic Structure and Laser, Crete)
"Observation of sub-fs beating in coherent superpositions of higher harmonics"
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| Tuesday evening: Quantum Computing |
| Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley) |
- David Wineland (NIST)
"Quantum-state engineering of trapped atomic ions"
- David Cory (MIT)
"Approaches to Quantum Computing Using NMR"
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| Wednesday morning: N-Level Systems |
| Lene Hau (Rowland Institute for Science) |
- Stephen Harris (Stanford University)
"Molecular Modulation"
- Marlan Scully (Texas A & M)
"Slow Group Velocities and Large Non-Linear Optical Effects in Hot Gases"
- Klaas Bergmann (Kaiserslautern)
"Quantum state control in multi level systems by tripod-STIRAP"
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| Wednesday evening: Intense Field Control |
| André Bandrauk (Univ. de Sherbrooke), Chair |
- Paul Corkum (NRC)
"Molecular Optics"
- Louis diMauro (Brookhaven)
"Strong field interactions at Long Wavelength"
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| Thursday morning: Decoherence and Dephasing |
| Oleg Prezhdo (Univ. of Washington) |
- Wojciech Zurek (Los Alamos)
"Decoherence, Chaos, and the Second Law"
- Mark Raizen (Univ. of Texas)
"Experimental Study of Decoherence in Quantum Chaos"
- Hideo Mabuchi (Caltech)
"Measurement, Decoherence, and Feedback in Open Quantum Systems"
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| Thursday evening: Control in Condensed Phases |
| Jeff Krause (Univ. Florida), Chair |
- Albert Heberle (Cambridge Hitachi)
"Coherent control of charge dynamics in semiconductors with phase and amplitude shaped femtosecond pulses"
- Chris Bardeen(University of Illinois at Urbana)
"Using chirped pulses to control dynamics in the condensed phase"
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