Preliminary program
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| Sunday, May 28 | 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome buffet | |
| Monday, May 29 | 08:45 - 09:00 | Jan-Michael Rost (Director of MPI PKS) |
| Opening | ||
| DIPOLES & OPTICAL LATTICES | ||
| Chairman: N. Bigelow | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Gora Shlyapnikov (Université Paris-Sud) | |
| Supersolid states in dipolar quantum gases | ||
| 09:50 - 10:25 | Eugene Demler (Harvard University) | |
| Dipolar molecules in optical lattices | ||
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 - 11:20 | Giovanni Modugno (LENS, University of Florence) | |
| Tuning the interactions in a Fermi-Bose mixture | ||
| 11:20 - 11:55 | Chiara Menotti (ICFO, Barcelona) | |
| Metastable states of dipolar Bosons in a 2D optical lattice | ||
| 11:55 - 12:30 | Guido Pupillo (University of Innsbruck) | |
| Superfluid-Crystal Quantum Phase Transitions with 2D molecular and atomic gases | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| PERMANENT DIPOLES: MOLECULES I |
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| Chairman: H. Sadeghpour | ||
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Nicholas Bigelow (University of Rochester) | |
| Efficient production of deeply bound ultracold NaCs molecules | ||
| 14:50 - 15:25 | Heather Lewandowski (University of Colorado) | |
| Cold molecule spectroscopy for constraining the evolution of the fine structure constant | ||
| 15:25 - 16:00 | Axel Görlitz (University of Düsseldorf) | |
| Combined trapping of ultracold Rubidium and Ytterbium | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | COMPDS06 Colloquium: Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona) |
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| Nonlinear optics of atoms and molecules | ||
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday, May 30 | INDUCED ELECTRIC DIPOLES: RYDBERGS AND MORE | |
| Chairman: J.-M. Rost | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Thomas F. Gallagher (University of Virginia) | |
| Dipole-dipole interactions in a cold Rydberg gas | ||
| 09:50 - 10:25 | Gary Eden (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| Dipole-dipole interactions between excited atoms probed by molecular wavepackets and parametric four wave mixing | ||
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 - 11:20 | Mike Noel (Bryn Mawr College) | |
| Manipulating many-body interactions in a sample of ultracold Rydberg atoms | ||
| 11:20 - 11:55 | Thomas Pohl (ITAMP - Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) | |
| Statistical and structural properties of cold Rydberg gases | ||
| 11:55 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| Chairman: N. Gallagher | ||
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Matthias Weidemüller (University Freiburg) | |
| Coherent phenomena in an ultracold gas of Rydberg atoms | ||
| 14:50 - 15:25 | Thomas Pattard (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems) | |
| Rydberg-Rydberg and Rydberg-groundstate interaction effects in ultracold atomic gases | ||
| 15:25 - 16:00 | Ignacio Cirac ((MPI for Quantumoptics) | |
| Many-body pheomena in ion traps | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break | |
| 16:20 - 16:55 | James Shaffer (University of Oklahoma) | |
| Cold Cs Rydberg gas dynamics | ||
| 16:55 - 17:30 | Vanderlei S. Bagnato (University of Sao Paulo) | |
| Rydberg collisions and exchange of energy in the S+S and P+P states | ||
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Igor Lesanovsky (University Heidelberg) | |
| Manipulating and trapping of electronically excited atoms in magnetic quadrupole fields | ||
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| 19:30 | Poster Session & Discussion I | |
| Wednesday, May 31 | PERMANENT MOMENTS: MOLECULES II | |
| Chairman: G. Shlyapnikov | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | John Doyle (Harvard University) | |
| Cold polar molecules: Collisions and applications | ||
| 09:50 - 10:25 | Gerard Meijer (Fritz-Haber-Institut) | |
| Deceleration and trapping of neutral polar molecules | ||
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 - 11:20 | Jun Ye (University of Colorado) | |
| Productions of cold molecules and their application to precision measurement | ||
| 11:20 - 11:55 | Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona) | |
| Manipulation and control of ultracold dipolar molecules | ||
| 11:55 - 12:30 | Roman Krems (University of British Columbia) | |
| Electric and magnetic field control of atomic and molecular dynamics at low temperatures | ||
| 12:30 - 13:05 | Phillip Gould (University of Connecticut) | |
| Production, Detection and Spectroscopy of Ultracold KRb Molecules | ||
| 13:05 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 22:00 | Social Program/Workshop Dinner | |
| Thursday, June 1 | MAGNETIC DIPOLES AND SPINORS | |
| Chairman: J. Doyle | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Tilman Pfau (University of Stuttgart) | |
| Dipolar interaction in quantum gases | ||
| 09:50 - 10:25 | Luis Santos (University Stuttgart) | |
| Spin-3 Chromium Bose-Einstein condensates | ||
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 - 11:20 | Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge) | |
| Vortex lattices in rotating atomic Bose gases with dipolar interactions | ||
| 11:20 - 11:55 | Kai Bongs (University of Hamburg) | |
| Resonance spinor dynamics in external fields | ||
| 11:55 - 12:30 | Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP
- Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) |
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| Rates for dipolar collisions in a chromium gas |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| Chairman: P. Gould | ||
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Masahito Ueda (Tokyo Institute of Technology) | |
| Symmetry breaking in Bose-Einstein condensates | ||
| 14:50 - 15:25 | Dan Stamper-Kurn (University of California at Berkeley) | |
| Dynamics of a magnetic superfluid | ||
| 15:25 - 16:00 | Han Pu (Rice University) | |
| Dipolar effects in spinor condensates | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break | |
| 16:20 - 16:55 | Kazimierz Rzazewski (Polish Academy of Sciences) | |
| Spinor condensates | ||
| 16:55 - 17:30 |
John Bohn (University of Colorado) | |
| Stability of dipolar condensates revisited | ||
| 17:30 - 17:55 | Kai Dieckmann (LMU Munich) | |
| Simultaneous trapping and cooling of three atomic species | ||
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| 19:30 | Poster Session & Discussion II | |
| Friday, June 2 | DIPOLAR CLUSTERS & LIQUIDS |
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| Chairman: J. Bohn | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | John Briggs (University of Freiburg) | |
| Spectral properties of dipolar quantum aggregates | ||
| 09:50 - 10:25 | Peter Schmelcher (University of Heidelberg) | |
| Controlling the motion of dipolar molecules in static electric fields | ||
| 10:25 - 11:00 | David Shelton (University of Nevada Las Vegas) | |
| Ferroelectric domains in dipolar liquids observed by hyper-Rayleigh scattering | ||
| 11:00 - 11:20 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:20 - 11:45 | Duncan O'Dell (Imperial College London) | |
| Instabilities in dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates | ||
| 11:45-
12:05 |
Alejandro Saenz (Humboldt University Berlin) | |
| Two atoms in a tight trap or an optical lattice | ||
| Adjourn |
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| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Last update: May 26, 2006
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