Preliminary Program

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      Sunday 30th August
       
    18:00 - 20:00 Registration in Guest House 4
       
    19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception
       
       

       

      Monday 31st August
       
    Session 1 Chair: Masahito Ueda
    08:45 - 09:00 Welcome Roderich Moessner (Managing Director MPIPKS, Dresden), and Scientific Coordinators
       
    09:00 - 09:40 Christian Groß (Max Planck Institut for Quantum Optics, Garching)
      Observation of an entanglement wave in a Bose-Hubbard chain
       
    09:45 - 10:25 Hsin-I Lu (University of Maryland, College Park)
      Topological physics with a BEC: geometric pumping and edge states
       
    10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
       
      Session 2 Chair: Hsin-I Lu
    11:00 - 11:25 Steven Moses (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder)
      Many-body spin systems with ultracold polar molecules
       
    11:30 - 12:10 Peter Zoller (Universität Innsbruck)
      Quantum Magnetism and Quantum Spin Dimers from Driven-Dissipative Dynamics in Quantum Optical Systems
       
    12:15 - 14:00 lunch
       
      Session 3 Chair: Leticia Tarruell
    14:00 - 14:40 Cheng Chin (University of Chicago)
      Dynamics of ferromagnetic domains and roton excitations in a Bose superfluid
       
    14:45 - 15:25 Juliette Simonet (Universität Hamburg)
      Floquet engineering in periodically driven optical lattices and beyond
       
    15:30 - 15:55 Roderich Moessner (MPIPKS, Dresden)
      Quantum simulations made easy plane
       
    16:00 - 16:30 coffee break
       
    16:30 - 17:30 SYQMA15 Colloquium
      Chair: André Eckardt
      Randall Hulet (Rice University, Houston)
      Many-body physics with ultracold atomic gases
       
    18:30 - 20:00 supper
       

       

      Tuesday 1st September
       
      Session 4 Chair: Miguel Cazalilla
    09:00 - 09:40 Frederic Mila (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
      The SU(N) Heisenberg model of quantum permutations
       
    09:45 - 10:10 Marcello Dalmonte (\(Universität Innsbruck\))
      Continuum limit in synthetic gauge theories: observing asymptotic freedom et alia
       
    10:15 - 11:00 group photo (to be published on workshop webpage) & coffee break
       
      Session 5 Chair: Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
    11:00 - 11:25 Randall Hulet (Rice University, Houston)
      Magnetic and charge density order in the Fermi-Hubbard model
       
    11:30 - 11:55 Leticia Tarruell (ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels)
      Short-range quantum magnetism of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice
       
    12:00- 14:30 lunch
       
      Session 6 Chair: Juliette Simonet
    14:30 - 14:55 Ana Maria Rey (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder)
      Synthetic gauge fields and many-body physics in an optical lattice clock
       
    15:00 - 15:25 Li You (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
      Synthesized atomic spin-orbit coupling with gradient magnetic fields
       
    15:30 - 15:55 Shunsuke Furukawa (University of Tokyo)
      Quantum Hall physics of bosons in synthetic gauge fields
       
    16:00 - 16:30 coffee break
       
      Session 7 Chair: Philipp Hauke
    16:30 - 16:55 Lei Wang (ETH Zurich)
      Simulation of Hubbard models in the era of synthetic gauge field
       
    17:00 - 17:25 Tobias Grass (ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefels)
      Chains with loops - synthetic magnetic fluxes in 1D
       
    17:30 - 17:55 Miguel A. Cazalilla (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
      Quantum quenches: from the generalized Gibbs ensemble to prethermalization
       
    18:30 - 20:00 supper
       
    20:00 - 22:00 poster session I (focus on odd numbers)
       

       

      Wednesday 2nd September
       
      Session 8 Chair: Benjamin Lev
    09:00 - 09:40 Rainer Blatt (Universität Innsbruck)
      Dynamics of magneton excitations with trapped ions
       
    09:45 - 10:25 John Bollinger (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder)
      Simulating quantum magnetism with 2D arrays of hundreds of trapped ions
       
    10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
       
      Session 9 Chair: Victor Gurarie
    11:00 - 11:40 Chris Monroe (University of Maryland, College Park)
      Quantum magnetism with trapped ions
       
    12:00 - 12:45 collect packed lunches from cafeteria
       
    12:45 coach departs for excursion to Königstein, and paddlesteamer back to Dresden (meet at main entrance)
       
    19:00 - 21:00 Conference Dinner at Italiänisches Dörfchen, Dresden
       

       

      Thursday 3rd September
      Session 10 Chair: Martin Zwierlein
    09:00 - 09:40 Francesca Ferlaino ((Universität Innsbruck)
      Exploring dipolar quantum phenomena with ultracold erbium atoms
       
    09:45 - 10:25 Benjamin L. Lev (Stanford University)
      Generating synthetic gauge fields in the presence of complex scattering properties
       
    10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
       
      Session 11 Chair: Andreas Hemmerich
    11:00 - 11:40 Bruno Laburthe Tolra (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Villetaneuse)
      Dipolar chromium atoms: spin dynamics in optical lattices and thermodynamics
       
    11:45 - 12:10 Igor Ferrier-Barbut (University of Stuttgart)
      Rosensweig instability of a dipolar BEC
       
    12:15 - 14:00 lunch
       
      Session 12 Chair: Shuta Nakajima
    14:00 - 14:40 Dan Stamper-Kurn (University of California, Berkeley)
      Magnon excitations in spinor Bose gases: optics, thermometry and condensation
       
    14:45 - 15:25 Marin Zwierlein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
      Strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules
       
    15:30 - 15:55 Ulrich Ebling (The University of Tokyo)
      Spinor dynamics in an ultracold Fermi gas
       
    16:00 - 16:30 coffee break
       
      Session 13 Chair: Li You
    16:30 - 16:55 Victor Gurarie (University of Colorado, Boulder)
      Unconventional disorder physics in long-range interacting spin systems
       
    17:00 - 17:25 Mariusz Gajda (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
      Correlations in a system of few trapped fermions
       
    17:30 - 17:55 Philipp Hauke (Universität Innsbruck)
      Measuring the universal scaling of many-body entanglement
       
    18:30 - 20:00 supper
       
    20:00 - 22:00 poster session
       

       

      Friday 4th September
       
      Session 14 Chair: John Bollinger
    09:00 - 09:40 Shuta Nakajima (Kyoto University)
      Topological charge pumping in a one-dimensional optical superlattice
       
    09:45 - 10:25 Andreas Hemmerich (Universität Hamburg)
      Unconventional optical lattices: orbital degrees of freedom and long-range interaction
       
    10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
       
      Chair: Shunsuke Furukawa
    11:00 - 11:25 W. Vincent Liu (University of Pittsburgh)
      Chiral phases in orbital optical lattices
       
    11:30 - 11:55 Jonas Larson (Stockholm University)
      Orbital physics as a route to simulating quantum magnetism with optical lattices
       
    12:00 - 14:00 lunch
       
    14:00 - 14:30 discussions
       
    14:30 - 15:00 coffee break