SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:35 pm - 9:30 pm | PHOTONS |
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Moshe Shapiro (UBC) |
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Steve Harris (Stanford) "Modulation of Photons and Biphotons" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Ian Walmsley (Oxford) "Controlling the interface of light and matter at the quantum level" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CONTROL IN ATTOPHYSICS |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: David Villeneuve (NRC) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Margaret Murnane (JILA) "Probing and Manipulating Electrons in Molecules and Materials" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:05 am | Philip Bucksbaum (Stanford) "Attosecond Control" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:50 am | Olga Smirnova (MBI) "High harmonic spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules: retrieving the attosecond dynamic" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic I - Nirit Dudovich (Weizmann) "Probing atomic wavefunctions via attosecond pulses generation process" |
12:10 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 I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ATOMS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Bertrand Girard (Toulouse) |
7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Mark Raizen (Texas) "Towards Comprehensive Control of Atomic Motion" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Tommaso Calarco (Ulm) "Optimal control of atomic systems for quantum information" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MOLECULES |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Misha Ivanov (Imperial College) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Yehiam Prior (Weizmann) "Specificity and Symmetry in Laser Induced Rotational Alignment" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:05 am | Stephane Guerin (Dijon) "Control of field-free molecular alignment by shaped laser pulses" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:45 am | Jennifer Ogilvie (Michigan) "Pulse-shaping applications to 2D electronic spectroscopy" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic II - Valentyn Prokhorenko (Toronto) "Coherently-controlled two-dimensional photon-echo electronic spectroscopy: first experiments" |
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 II |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MOLECULES: COLD AND LONELY |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Ludger Woeste (Berlin) |
7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Niek van Hulst (Barcelona) "Phase shaped excitation of single molecules and nano-antennas" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Matthias Weidemuller (Heidelberg) "Photoassociation of ultracold molecules with shaped femtosecond pulses" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CONTROL and CONTROLABILITY |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: David Tannor (Weizmann) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Paul Brumer (Toronto) "The Classical Limit in Open and Closed System Quantum Control" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:05 am | Hersch Rabitz (Princeton) "Hiking over Quantum Control Landscapes and Beyond" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:50 am | Lorenza Viola (Darthmouth) "Open-loop Dynamical Quantum Error Control: Achievements and Challenges" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic III - Christiane Koch (Berlin) |
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 III |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CONTROL IN NEW APPLICATIONS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Tobias Brixner (Wurzburg) |
7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Marcus Motzkus (Heidelberg) "Coherent control of nonlinear microspectroscopy" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Robert Gordon (Chicago) "Controlling Condensed Matter and Plasmas with Femtosecond Laser Pulses" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | STRONG FIELD QUANTUM CONTROL |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Matthias Wollenhaupt (Kassel) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Thomas Weinacht (Stony Brook) "Following Molecular Dynamics With Strong Field Coherent Control" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:20 am - 10:55 am | Valery Milner (UBC) "Piecewise Adiabatic Excitation of Wavepackets" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:40 am | Nikolai Vitanov (Sofia) "Quantum state engineering by Householder reflections" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:25 pm | Zohar Amitay (Technion) "Frequency-Domain Multiphoton Control: from Weak to Intermediate Field Regime" |
12:25 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 IV |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ULTRAFAST TECHNIQUES |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Keith Nelson (MIT) |
7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Jean-Pierre Wolf (Geneva) "Discrimination of Biomolecules using Broadband UV Pulse Shaping" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Andrew Weiner (Purdue) "Pulse Shaping: New Directions" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |