SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CONTROLLING LIGHT, CONTROLLING MATTER |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen R. Leone (University of California at Berkeley) |
7:40 pm - 8:35 pm | Jun Ye (University of Colorado)
"Control of Coherent Light: Spectrum Generation, Waveform Synthesis and Atomic Clocks" |
8:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Paul Brumer (University of Toronto)
"Developments in Controlled Chaotic Dynamics and in Classical Decoherence" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | COHERENT CONTROL AND BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES |
| Discussion Leader: Kazimierz Rzazewski (Center for Theoretical Physics Warsaw) |
9:15 am - 10:10 am | Immanuel Bloch (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik Garching) "Control of Coherent Matter in Lattices of Light" |
10:10 am - 11:05 am | Mark Kasevich (Stanford University) "Control of Non-Classical States of Matter" |
11:05 am - 11:35 am | Coffee Break |
11:35 am - 12:30 pm | Daniel Heinzen (University of Texas)
"Ultracold Molecule Formation through Stimulated Recombination of Atoms" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Posters |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CONTROL IN NON-LINEAR OPTICS |
| Discussion Leader: Yaron Silberberg (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
7:35 pm - 8:15 pm | Phil Hemmer (Texas A&M University)
"Acceleration, Deceleration and Stopping of Light Pulses in a Spectral Hole Burning Crystal" |
8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | Thomas Halfmann (Universität Kaiserslautern)
"Coherence Enhanced Third-harmonics Generation" |
8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Dan Oron (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Multiphoton Spectroscopy and Microscopy by Coherently-controlled Ultrashort Pulses" |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Posters |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
COHERENT AND FEEDBACK CONTROL OF CHEMICAL DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Philip H. Bucksbaum (University of Michigan) |
9:15 am - 10:10 am | Markus Motzkus (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik Garching) "Pulse Shaping Feedback Control of Biological Systems" |
10:10 am - 10:50 am | Takayoshi Kobayashi (University of Tokyo)
"Absolute-phase Control of Extremely Short Pulses: Control of Electronic Wave Packets in Molecules" |
10:50 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
11:15 am - 12:10 pm | Ludger Wöste (Freie Universität, Berlin)
"Learning about Clusters by Teaching Lasers to Control Them" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Leticia Gonzalez (Freie Universität, Berlin) "Cracking the Code of Feedback Optimized Laser Pulses for Chemical Reactions" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Posters |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CONTROL OF PHOTONS AND MATTER WAVES IN NANO-STRUCTURES |
| Discussion Leader: Walter Pötz (Universität Graz) |
7:35 pm - 8:20 pm | Ignacio Wilson-Rae (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Ground-state Cooling of a Nanomechanical Resonator Using an Embedded Quantum Dot" |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Miriam Blaauboer (Delft University of Technology)
"Quantum Pumping: Control of Electrons in Nanostructures" |
8:55 pm - 9:40 pm | Stig Stenholm (University of Stockholm)
"Matterwaves in Nano-structures: Adiabaticity in the Control of Quantum Processes" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | COHERENT CONTROL AND QUANTUM INFORMATION |
| Discussion Leader: Rainer Blatt (Universitat Innsbruck) |
9:15 am - 10:10 am | Dieter Jaksch (Oxford University)
"Controlled creation of entanglement in quantum optical systems" |
10:10 am - 10:50 am | Regina de Vivie-Riedle (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik Garching) "Polyatomic Molecules as Active Devices for Quantum Information Processing" |
10:50 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
11:15 am - 12:10 pm | Isaac Chuang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge) "NMR: Exquisite Control Techniques for Quantum Computation" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Amit Ben-Kish (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado) "Synthesis and Control of Trapped Atomic Ions Quantum States" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Posters |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CONTROL AND HIGH-FIELD PHYSICS |
| Discussion Leader: André Bandrauk (Université de Sherbrooke) |
7:35 pm - 8:20 pm | Markus Drescher (Technische Universität Wien)
"Manipulating Electrons with Light: Key to Attosecond Inner-Shell Dynamics" |
8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Manfred Lein (ICSTM London)
"Control of High-harmonic Generation via Interference Effects in Molecules" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Olga Smirnova (Moscow State University)
"A Molecule without Electrons: Binding Bare Nuclei by Strong Laser Fields" |
9:30 pm - 11.00 pm | Posters |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CONTROL OF WAVEPACKETS |
| Discussion Leader: Wolfgang Schleich (Universität Ulm) |
9:15 am - 10:10 am | Moshe Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"In Search of Dark States: An Analytic Solution to the Nondegenerate Quantum Control Problem and the Suppression of Spontaneous Emission" |
10:10 am - 10:50 am | Albert Stolow (National Research Council)
"Non-pertubative Coherent Control: Switched Wavepackets" |
10:50 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
11:15 am - 12:10 pm | Ilya Averbukh (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Controlling Atomic and Molecular Motion by Optical Kicking and Shaking" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Danielle Braje (Stanford University) "Nonlinear Optics with Slow Light" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Posters |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CONTROL OF DYNAMICS IN THE SOLID STATE AND ON SURFACES |
| Discussion Leader: Tamar Seideman (Northwestern University) |
7:35 pm - 8:10 pm | Joseph Zyss (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan)
"Tensorial Steering of Molecules by Multiphoton Interferences: From Nonlinear Optics to Nonlinear Holography" |
8:10 pm - 8:45 pm | Hrvoje Petek (University of Pittsburgh)
"Control of Electron Dynamics on Surfaces" |
8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | John Sipe (University of Toronto)
"Coherent Control of Spin Currents" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |