Workshop `Atomic Physics', 2. - 6. December 2003

Focus Days on "Nonlinear Phenomena in Quantum Degenerate Gases", 2. - 4. December

- talks should be 35 min + 10 min for discussion -


Monday, December 1st

16:30 - 17:30 MPIPKS-Colloquium
Gerd Leuchs, Erlangen
Quantum properties of optical fiber solitons
19:00 WELCOME BUFFET AND REGISTRATION



Tuesday, December 2nd

08:50 - 09:00 WELCOME
CHAIRPERSON: Joachim Brand
09:00 - 09:45 Kazimierz Rzazewski, Warsaw
Soliton-like excitations of cold Fermi and cold Bose-Fermi gases
09:45 - 10:30 Gaspar D. Montesinos, Ciudad Real
Stabilized Townes solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates
10.30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Nick P. Proukakis, Durham
Controlling the dynamics of dark solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
11:45 - 12:30 Reinhold Walser, Ulm
How to STIRAP a vortex
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
CHAIRPERSON: Jan M Rost
14:30 - 15:15 Yvan Castin, Paris
Formation of a vortex lattice in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
15:15 - 16:00 Subhasis Sinha, Dresden
Rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:15 Oliver Zobay, Darmstadt
Phase transition of trapped interacting Bose gases
17:15 - 18:00 Uwe R. Fischer, Tübingen
Existence of long-range order for trapped interacting Bosons
18:00 SUPPER



Wednesday, December 3rd

CHAIRPERSON: Christophe Salomon
09:00 - 09:45 Markus Oberthaler, Heidelberg
Nonlinear matter wave propagation in periodic potentials
09:45 - 10:30 Elena Ostrovskaya, Canberra
Matter-wave solitons and vortices in optical lattices
10.30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Dmitry Skryabin, Bath
Transition radiation by matter-wave solitons in optical lattices
11:45 - 12:30 Fatkhulla Abdullaev, Tashkent
Discrete solitons in array of atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
CHAIRPERSON: Stavros Komineas
14:30 - 15:15 Klaus Sengstock, Hamburg
Magnetism in Bose-Einstein condensates
15:15 - 16:00 Philippe Courteille, Tübingen
Threshold behavior and spontaneous symmetry breaking in Collective Atomic Recoil Lasing
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:15 Andrey Kolovsky, Dresden
Interacting atoms in optical lattices: A quantum chaos approach
17:15 - 18:00 Ron Folman, Beer Sheva
Atomic optics with the atom chip
18:00 SUPPER
19:00 - 21:00 POSTER SESSION I



Thursday, December 4th

CHAIRPERSON: Andreas Buchleitner
09:00 - 09:45 Christophe Salomon, Paris
Ultracold Fermi gases: From molecular Bose-Einstein condensation to BCS pairing
09:45 - 10:30 Andreas Hemmerich, Hamburg
Collective motion of atoms in a high finesse cavity
10.30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Tilman Pfau, Stuttgart
Dipolar interaction in cold gases
11:45 - 12:30 Luis Santos, Hannover
Strongly-correlated atomic systems in optical lattices
12:30 - 13:45 LUNCH
CHAIRPERSON: Henning Schomerus
13:45 - 14:30 Peter Schmelcher, Heidelberg
Electronic structure of ultracold atoms in magnetic microtaps
14:30 - 15:15 Thomas Pattard, Dresden
Cold Rydberg gases and plasmas
15:15 - 16:00 Igor Kiyan, Freiburg
Quantum interference in the process of photodetachment of negative ions
16:00 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
16:45 Departure from the Institute
17:15 - 18:30 Guided tour in the city
19:00 WORKSHOP DINNER, Ballhaus Watzke



Friday, December 5th

CHAIRPERSON: Manfred Lein
09:00 - 09:45 John S. Briggs, Freiburg
Ionisation by very short intense laser pulses
09:45 - 10:30 Wilhelm Becker, Berlin
High-intensity few-cycle laser pulses: Measuring the carrier-envelope phase
10.30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Sandor Varro, Budapest
Scattering of a few-cycle laser pulse on a thin metal layer:
The role of the carrier-envelope phase difference
11:45 - 12:30 Ulrich Jentschura, Freiburg
Radiative corrections in laser fields
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
CHAIRPERSON: Andreas Becker
14:30 - 15:15 Vladislav Yakovlev, Vienna
Quantum theory of the time-resolved Auger measurement
15:15 - 16:00 Stephan Fritzsche, Kassel
Polarization studies on the electron capture in highly-charged ions
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:15 Harald Friedrich, München
Quantum reflection times for attractive potential tails
17:15 - 18:00 Jamal Berakdar, Halle
Spin-dependent scattering from atomic junctions in a nanowire
18:00 SUPPER
19:00 - 21:00 Poster Session II



Saturday, December 6th

CHAIRPERSON: Thomas Pattard
08:45 - 09:30 Yurii N. Demkov, Frankfurt/St. Petersburg
Channeling, super-focusing, thin films and nuclear reactions
09:30 - 10:15 Achim Czasch, Frankfurt
Double excited states in helium: Angular resolved partial cross-sections
10.15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30 Peter Schlagheck, Regensburg
Classical stabilization in collinear helium
11:30 - 12:15 Gebhard von Oppen, Berlin
Paul-trap resonance in He+ - He collisions
12:15 - 13:00 Rashid Nazmitdinov, Palma de Mallorca
Roto-vibrational spectrum and Wigner crystallization in two-electron parabolic quantum dots
13:00 LUNCH


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