| Sunday |
| 19:30-19:45 | General Perspectives |
| Peter Lambropoulos, FORTH, Greece |
| 19:45-20:35 | Stuart Rice U. of Chicago, USA
"Optical Control of Molecular
Dynamics: Problems and Prospects" |
| 20:35-20:45 | Discussion |
| 20:45-21:35 | Anton Zeilinger, U. of Vienna, Austria
"Information and
Quantum Mechanics" |
| 21:35-21:45 | Discussion |
| Monday |
| 8:40-8:55 | Group photo |
| 9:00-9:15 | Phase Control |
| Karl Kompa, MPI, Garching,
Germany |
| 9:15-9:55 | Paul Brumer, U. of Toronto, Canada
"Controlled Chiral Purification and
Controlled Quantum Chaotic Diffusion" |
| 9:55-10:05 | Discussion |
| 10:05-10:45 | Stephen Leone, NIST and U. of Colorado, USA
"Wave Packet Phase Control,
Evolutionary Algorithms,
and Quantum Information" |
| 10:45-10:55 | Discussion |
| 10:55-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-11:55 | Robert Gordon, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"Using Coherent Phase Control
to Probe Structure in the Continuum"
|
| 11:55-12:05 | Discussion |
| 12:05-12:25 | Robert Levis, Wayne State U., Detroit, USA
Hot Topic I: "Strong Field Control of Chemical Dissociation and Rearrangement" |
| 12:25-12:30 | Discussion |
| 16:30-18:00 | Poster session I
Klaas Bergmann, Kaiserslautern U.,
Germany |
| 19:30-19:45 | Optimal Control |
| Herschel Rabitz, Princeton U.,
USA |
| 19:45-20:25 | Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Inst., Israel
"Femtosecond control of
multiphoton transitions" |
| 20:25-20:30 | Discussion |
| 20:30-21:10 | Tobias Brixner, U. of Wiirzburg, Germany
"Quantum control in the
liquid phase by adaptive
femtosecond. pulse shaping" |
| 21:10-21:15 | Discussion |
| 21:15-21:55 | Yuichi Fujimura, Tohuko U., Japan
"Optimal control of selective
preparation of enantiomers
from their racemate" |
| 21:55-22:00 | Discussion |
| Tuesday |
| 9:00-9:15 | Quantum Information |
| Carlos Stroud, U. of Rochester,
USA |
| 9:15-9:55 | Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Inst., Israel
"Decoherence and Entanglement:
Control of intra- and inter-
molecular processes |
| 9:55-10:05 | Discussion |
| 10:05-10:45 | Ian Walmsley, U. of Rochester, USA
"Decoherence and learning control
for information processing in
the quantum regime" |
| 10:45-10:55 | Discussion |
| 10:55-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-11:55 | Eugene Polzik, U. of Arhus, Denmark
"Entanglement and Quantum
Communication with Spin
Polarized Atomic Samples" |
| 11:55-12:05 | Discussion |
| 12:05-12:25 | Daniel Lidar, U. of Toronto, Canada
Hot Topic II: "Decoherence-Free Quantum Computation" |
| 12:25-12:30 | Discussion |
| 14:00-14:30 | Meeting of the nomination committee |
| 19:30-19:45 | Light Manipulation and
Manipulation with Light |
| Bretislav Friedrich, Harvard, USA |
| 19:45-20:25 | Alexei Sokolov, Stanford U., USA
"Femtosecond Light Source
for P hase- Controlled
Multiphoton Ionization" |
| 20:25-20:30 | Discussion |
| 20:30-21:10 | Michael Fleischhauer, Kaiserslautern U., Germany
"Coherent control of light
pulses. Quantum memories
for photons" |
| Mikhail Lukin, Harvard,
USA
"Coherent trapping of photon states in matter: experiments & applications for quantum processing" |
| 21:10-21:15 | Discussion |
| Wednesday |
| 9:00-9:15 | Control in the
condensed phase |
| Philip Bucksbaum, U. of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, USA |
| 9:15-9:55 | Ronnie Kosloff, Hebrew U., Israel
"Impulsive Control of Ground
Surface Dynamics" |
| 9:55-10:05 | Discussion |
| 10:05-10:45 | Robert CoaIson, U. of Pittsburgh, USA
"Laser Control of Electron
Transmission through
Molecular Wires" |
| 10:45-10:55 | Discussion |
| 10:55-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-11:55 | Milena Grifoni, U. of Delft, The Netherlands
"Control of tunneling
in nonadiabatic
quantum ratchets" |
| 11:55-12:05 | Discussion |
| 12:05-12:25 | Jon Marangos, Imperial College, UK
Hot Topic III: "High Order Harmonic Generation in Aligned Molecules" |
| 12:25-12:30 | Discussion |
| 16:30-18:00 | Poster session II
Klaas Bergmann, Kaiserslautern U.,
Germany |
| 19:30-19:45 | Strong Field Control |
| Paul Corkum, NRC, Ottawa,
Canada |
| 19:45-20:25 | Tamar Seideman, NRC, Ottawa, Canada
"Spatially controlled ro-translational wavepackets" |
| 20:25-20:30 | Discussion |
| 20:30-21:10 | Henrik Stapelfeldt, U. of Arhus, Denmark
"Control of chemical reactions
by laser aligned molecules" |
| 21:10-21:15 | Discussion |
| 21:15-21:55 | Andre Bandrauk, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada
"Controlling Electron- Nuclear
Dynamics with Short Intense Laser
Pulses: From Super-Computer
Simulations to Applications" |
| 21:55-22:00 | Discussion |
| Thursday |
| 9:00-9:15 | Laser Cooling
and BEC Dynamics |
| David Tannor, Weizmann Inst., Israel |
| 9:15-9:55 | Amichay Vardi , ITAMP, Harvard, USA & James Anglin, MIT, USA
"Quantum atom optics:
Bose-Einstein condensates
beyond Gross-Pitaevskii
|
| 9:55-10:05 | Discussion |
| 10:05-10:45 | Pierre Pillet, Lab. Aime Coton, France
"Control of a Pair
of Colliding Atoms
Through Photoassociation
and Formation of
UItracold Molecules" |
| 10:45-10:55 | Discussion |
| 10:55-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-11:55 | Gerard Meijer, FOM, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
"Deceleration and trapping
of neutral dipolar molecules" |
| 11:55-12:05 | Discussion |
| 12:05-12:25 | Stefan Vajda, Freie U. Berlin, Germany
Hot Topic IV: "Fragmentation Control of Small Alkaline Clusters: What Can We Learn From the Optimized Pulse Shapes" |
| 12:25-12:30 | Discussion |
| 14:00-14:30 | Business Meeting |
| 19:30-19:45 | Control in the Solid Phase |
| Henry van-Driel, U. of Toronto,
Canada |
| 19:45-20:25 | Walter Potz, U. of Gratz, Austria
"Coherent Control Schemes
in Semiconductor Nanostructures" |
| 20:25-20:30 | Discussion |
| 20:30-21:10 | V. Ara Apkarian, U.C. Irvine, USA
"Preparation, manipulation, and
interrogation of molecular
coherences OR reset, process,
and readout of quantum
registers using four-wave mixing" |
| 21:10-21:15 | Discussion |
| 21:15-21:55 | Keith Nelson, MIT, USA
"Polaritonics: Coherent control
over collective modes that
move at light-like speeds" |
| 21:55-22:00 | Discussion |
