Program
Sunday, 5 September
Monday, 6 September
Tuesday, 7 September
Wednesday, 8 September
Thursday, 9 September
Friday, 10 September
Monday, 13 September
Tuesday, 14 September
Wednesday, 15 September
Thursday, 16 September
Friday, 17 September
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| First week (5 - 10 September) |
| Sunday, 5 September | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, 6 September | |
| 08:40 - 09:00 | Jan-Michael Rost (Director MPIPKS) & Scientific Coordinators |
| Opening | |
| Session I: Quantum information with Rydberg atoms | |
| Chair: Charles S. Adams | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Klaus Mølmer (University of Aarhus) |
| Rydberg blockade schemes for entanglement of atoms and light | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Philippe Grangier (CNRS, Institut d'Optique) |
| Quantum information processing using Rydberg blockade | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| Session II: Antihydrogen Rydberg atoms | |
| Chair: Steve Rolston | |
| 10:40 - 11:15 | Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University) |
| Rydberg atoms of antihydrogen | |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Dan Dubin (University of California at San Diego) |
| Antihydrogen formation in a pure positron plasma | |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | Francis Robicheaux (Auburn University) |
| Magnetized ultracold plasmas | |
| 12:25 - 14:15 | Lunch break |
| Session III: Many-body dynamics | |
| Chair: Igor Lesanovsky | |
| 14:15 - 14:50 | Servaas Kokkelmans (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| Rydberg atom lattices | |
| 14:50 - 15:25 | Oliver Morsch (Università di Pisa) |
| Excitation dynamics and counting statistics of Rydberg atoms in ultra-cold gases | |
| 15:25 - 16:00 | Thomas Wellens (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg) |
| Entanglement-enhanced efficient energy transport | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CRYP10 Colloquium: |
| Chair: Hossein R. Sadeghpour | |
| Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University) | |
| Fundamental physics with low energy particles of antimatter and matter | |
| 18:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday, 7 September | |
| Session IV: Single atom control | |
| Chair: Francis Robicheaux | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Barry Dunning (Rice University) |
| Precise control and manipulation of near-circular wave packets: Information storage and retrieval, dephasing, and decoherence | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Joachim Burgdörfer (Vienna University of Technology) |
| t.b.a. | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| Session V: Rydberg atom traps | |
| Chair: Thomas Pohl | |
| 10:40 - 11:15 | Yasunori Yamazaki (RIKEN) |
| Cusp trap: A new tool for antihydrogen research | |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Georg Raithel (University of Michigan) |
| Rydberg atoms in optical lattices and in magnetic traps | |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | Peter Schmelcher (University of Hamburg) |
| Dressing of ultracold atoms by their Rydberg states in a Ioffe-Pritchard trap | |
| 12:25 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session VI: Ultracold plasmas | |
| Chair: Thomas Killian | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Steve Rolston (University of Maryland) |
| Recent results in ultracold plasma physics | |
| 15:05 - 15:40 | Scott Bergeson (Brigham Young University) |
| Early time ion dynamics and Rabi oscillation measurements in ultracold plasmas | |
| 15:40 - 16:15 | Mikko Riese (University of Manchester) |
| ZEKE Rydbergs in a crowd: An ultra-cold, long lifetime, strongly-coupled molecular Rydberg plasma | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| Session VII: Quantum information | |
| Chair: Klaus Mølmer | |
| 16:45 - 17:20 | Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin) |
| Quantum gates and entanglement with Rydberg atoms | |
| 17:20 - 17:55 | Thad G. Walker (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| Single atom loading | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30 |
Poster Session I |
| Wednesday, 8 September | |
| Session VIII: Rydberg optics | |
| Chair: Philippe Grangier | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University) |
| Towards strongly interacting photons using Rydberg polaritons | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Jonathan Pritchard (Durham University) |
| Light propagation through a strongly interacting Rydberg ensemble | |
| → Contribution file available! | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:15 | Michael Fleischhauer (University of Kaiserslautern) |
| Rydberg polaritons | |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Beatriz Olmos Sánchez (University of Nottingham) |
| Creating collective many-body states and photon sources with Rydberg atoms | |
| 11:50 - 13:20 | Lunch break |
| Session IX: Rydberg molecules | |
| Chair: Peter Schmelcher | |
| 13:20 - 13:55 | Jan-Michael Rost (MPIPKS) |
| Rydberg phenomena in the ultracold: Internal quantum reflection and entanglement transport | |
| 13:55 - 14:30 | James Shaffer (The University of Oklahoma) |
| Cold Rydberg atom interactions | |
| 15:15 | Excursion and Dinner |
| Thursday, 9 September | |
| Session X: Polar molecules | |
| Chair: Tilman Pfau | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Matthias Weidemüller (University of Heidelberg) |
| Experimental progress in dipolar molecular gases | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Luis Santos (Leibniz University Hannover) |
| Dipolar gases in deep optical lattices | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:15 | Robin Côté (University of Connecticut) |
| Rydberg macrodimers: Their properties and signature | |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Seth Rittenhouse (ITAMP) |
| Giant polyatomic molecules: Creating Rydberg's cat | |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | Guido Pupillo (University of Innsbruck) |
| A supersolid droplet crystal with Rydberg atoms | |
| 12:25 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session XI: Many-body dynamics | |
| Chair: Jan-Michael Rost | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Tilman Pfau (University of Stuttgart) |
| Coherent control of dense Rydberg gases | |
| 15:05 - 15:40 | Igor Lesanovsky (University of Nottingham) |
| Thermalization of a strongly interacting Rydberg lattice gas | |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee break |
| Session XII: Rydberg spectroscopy | |
| Chair: Matthias Weidemüller | |
| 16:10 - 16:45 | Frédéric Merkt (ETH Zürich) |
| Controlling the motion of Rydberg atoms and molecules in the gas phase | |
| 16:45 - 17:20 | Robert Löw (University of Stuttgart) |
| Coherent spectroscopy involving Rydberg states in microcells | |
| 17:20 - 17:55 | Ben van Linden van den Heuvell (University of Amsterdam) |
| Spatially resolved probing of electric fields near an atom chip with Rydberg atoms | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30 |
Poster Session II |
| Friday, 10 September | |
| Session XIII: Ultracold plasmas | |
| Chair: Scott Bergeson | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Thomas Killian (Rice University) |
| Ion acoustic waves in ultracold neutral plasmas | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Matthew Jones (Durham University) |
| Probing a cold strontium Rydberg gas using autoionization | |
| → Contribution file available! | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:15 | Edward Grant (University of British Columbia) |
| Charge, density and electron temperature in a molecular ultracold plasma | |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Edgar Vredenbregt (Eindhoven Universityof Technology) |
| Ultracold ion source | |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | Pierre Pillet (Université Paris-Sud) |
| Rydberg excitation of cold atoms: From the formation of ultracold plasmas to the dipole blockade regime | |
| 12:25 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Session XIV: Many-body dynamics | |
| Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour | |
| 14:00 - 14:35 | Hendrik Weimer (University of Stuttgart) |
| Quantum many-body physics with strongly interacting Rydberg atoms | |
| 14:35 - 15:10 | Hanna Schempp (University of Heidelberg) |
| Coherent population trapping with controlled interparticle interactions | |
| 15:10 - 15:45 | Edward Eyler (University of Connecticut) |
| Interactions and dynamics of ultracold Rydberg Rb | |
| 15:45 | Coffee |
| Second week (13 - 17 September) |
| Monday, 13 September | |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | James Shaffer (The University of Oklahoma) |
| Rydberg atom interactions | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Weibin Li (University of Nottingham) |
| Long-range Rydberg molecules | |
| 12:15 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Igor Lesanovsky (University of Nottingham) |
| Digital quantum simulation with Rydberg atoms | |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Round table discussions |
| Tuesday, 14 September | |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Charles S. Adams (Durham University) |
| Rydberg atom-light interactions: From non-linear optics to quantum optics | |
| → Contribution file available! | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Sevilay Sevincli (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Enhanced optical nonlinearities with ultracold Rydberg gases | |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | David Dzsotjan (University of Kaiserslautern) |
| Plasmon-mediated interaction of atoms: A Green's function approach | |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Thomas Pohl (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Numerical approaches to interacting Rydberg gases | |
| 16:45 | Guided tour at the Albertinum - New Masters Picture Gallery |
| Wednesday, 15 September | |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Andreas Buchleitner (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg) |
| Quantum transport in Rydberg systems - Anderson localization, noise, and biology | |
| → Contribution file available! | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Sebastian Wüster (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Adiabatic transport in Rydberg chains | |
| 12:15 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Hossein R. Sadeghpour (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
| Nuts and bolts of Rydberg-perturber collision | |
| → Contribution file available! | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Rick van Bijnen (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| Rydberg crystals, and how to make them in theory | |
| 16:15 | Coffee break |
| evening | Time for discussions and project work |
| Thursday, 16 September | |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Matthew Jones (Durham University) |
| Strontium Rydberg gases and ultracold plasmas | |
| → Contribution file available! | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Rick Mukherjee (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Controlled ion transport in Rydberg-excited Strontium lattices | |
| 12:15 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Christoph Hofmann (University of Heidelberg) |
| Ionization dynamics and antiblockade of an ultracold Rydberg gas | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Jonathan Morrison (University of British Columbia) |
| Ultracold molecular plasmas | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Georg Bannasch (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Collisions and recombination in ultracold neutral plasmas | |
| Friday, 17 September | |
| Time for discussions and project work | |
Last update: 05/10/2010
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