SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Control of Matter with Light |
| Discussion leader: Moshe Shapiro (University of British Columbia) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Moshe Shapiro's overview of the session |
7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | Herschel Rabitz , Princeton University
"Controlling Quantum Phenomena with Photonic Reagents: Revealing the Underlying Systematics" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:25 pm | Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Institute
"Coherent control with Non-classical light" |
8:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Issues in Controllability |
| Discussion leader: Marlan Scully (Texas A&M) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Welcome by GRC staff |
9:10 am - 9:25 am | Marlan Scully's Overview of the session |
9:25 am - 10:10 am | Roger Brockett, Harvard University
"Controllability of quantum systems and some classical analogies" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee break |
10:50 am - 11:20 am | Evgeny Shapiro, University of British Columbia
"Suppression of decoherence in a wavepacket" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Ronnie Kosloff, Hebrew University |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Photo / Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #1 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Control in Complex Environments |
| Discussion leader: Takayoshi Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Takayoshi Kobayoshi's overview |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | Stuart Rice, University of Chicago
"Control of Molecular Dynamics in Solution: Prospects and Difficulties" |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm | TBA |
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
9:05 pm - 9:25 pm | Tom Weinacht, State University of New York
"Interpreting Learning Control of Molecular Fragmentation |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session #1 |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Optical Technology for Control |
| Discussion leader: Jun Ye, JILA |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Jun Ye's overview of the session |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Franz Kaertner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Octave Spanning Lasers and Phase Control" |
10:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:35 am | Coffee break |
10:35 am - 11:15 am | Margaret Murnane, JILA
"Coherent Control of Attosecond Dynamics using Shaped Pulses and Structures" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 11:50 am | Adrian Cavelieri, University of Michigan
"Clocking femtosecond x-rays" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Aaron Lindenberg, Stanford University
"Atomic scale visualization of inertial dynamics" |
12:20 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 #1 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Towards Quantum Computation |
| Discussion leader: Paul Brumer, University of Toronto |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Paul Brumer's overview of the session |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | Daniel Lidar, University of Toronto
"Fault-tolerant decoherence-control via concatenated dynamical decoupling" |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm | Navin Khaneja, Harvard University
"Optimal Control of Spin Dynamics in the Presence of Relaxation" |
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
9:05 pm - 9:25 pm | Chitra Rangan, University of Windsor
"Coherent control and quantum information processing in atomic systems" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session #1 |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Wave Packet Technologies |
| Discussion leader: Steve Leone, University of California Berkeley |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Steve Leone's Overview of the session |
9:15 am - 10:00 am | Robert Jones, University of Virginia
"Strong-Field Physics with Coherently Prepared Molecular Targets" |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee break |
10:40 am - 11:25 am | Reinhard Kienberger, Stanford University
"Control of electrons on an attosescond time scale" |
11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:20 pm | David Villeneuve, National Research Council of Canada
"Tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals" |
12:20 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 #2 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Few Level Systems and Cold Matter |
| Discussion leader: Ilya Averbukh, Weizmann Institute |
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Klaas Bergmann, University of Kaiserslautern
"Control and characterization of superpositions of multiple degenerate states with cw lasers" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 9:40 pm | Michael Drewsen, Aarhus University
"Quantum control of cold molecular ions" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:25 pm | Mark Raizen, University of Texas
"Direct Observation of Number Squeezing of a Bose Einstein Condensate" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session #2 |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Control of Chemistry |
| Discussion leader: Robert Levis (Temple University) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Robert Levis' Overview of Chemical control |
9:15 am - 10:00 am | Gustav Gerber, University of Wuerzberg
"Quantum Control of Molecular and Electron Dynamics" |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Nikolaus Schwenter, Free University of Berlin
"Control of vibrational wave packet interferences and dispersion in condensed phase" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki, Tohoku University, CREST-JST
"Quantum optimal control of molecular dynamics: From photochemical processes to quantum computation" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky, Humboldt University
"New strategy for optimal control in complex systems" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #2 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Light Matter Interactions at the Extremes |
| Discussion leader: Tamar Seideman (North Western) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Tamar Seideman's overview of the session |
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology
"Quantum Control of Single Atoms and Photons in Cavity QED" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester
"Near-field Interactions and Electromagnetic Friction" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session #2 |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |