SUNDAY (October 9)
MONDAY (October 10)
TUESDAY (October 11)
WEDNESDAY (October 12)
THURSDAY (October 13)
FRIDAY (October 14)
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Registration |
| 19.00 - | Reception with food and beverages |
| Chairperson: Birgitta Whaley | |
| 09.00 - 09.15 | Roderich Moessner (Director MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) & |
| Scientific Coordinators | |
| Opening | |
| 09.15 - 10.15 | Tommaso Calarco (Universität Ulm) |
| Quantum technology taken to its (speed) limit | |
| 10.15 - 10.35 | Coffee break |
| 10.35 - 11.15 | Philippe Grangier (CNRS, Palaiseau) |
| Manipulating cold atoms in Rydberg states for quantum information processing | |
| 11.15 - 11.55 | Klaus Moelmer (University of Aarhus) |
| Quantum control by quantum measurements | |
| 11.55 - 12.10 | Break |
| 12.10 - 12.50 | Matthias Wollenhaupt (Universität Kassel) |
| Ultrafast coherent control of electron dynamics: creating designer wave packets with attosecond precision | |
| 12.50 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Barbara Kraus | |
| 14.15 - 14.55 | Roman Krems (The University of British Columbia) |
| External field control of collisional decoherence of ultracold molecules | |
| 14.55 - 15.20 | Evgeny Shapiro (The University of British Columbia) |
| Adiabatic quantum control of cold and hot thermal ensembles | |
| 15.20 - 16.00 | Dieter Suter (Technische Universität Dortmund) |
| Fighting and using decoherence | |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Christiane Koch | |
| 16.30 - 17.30 |
ECOQAS11-Colloquium |
| Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University) | |
| Control of phenomena in the sciences over vast length and time scales | |
| 17.40 - 18.05 | Sabrina Maniscalco (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) |
| Quantifying, characterizing and controlling information flow in ultracold atomic gases | |
| 18.30 | Supper |
| 20.00 | Poster session I (including beverages) |
| Chairperson: Giulia Gualdi | |
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Serge Haroche (Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège de France) |
| Real time quantum feedback in Cavity QED experiments | |
| 10.00 - 10.20 | Coffee break |
| 10.20 - 11.00 | Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University) |
| Quantum absorption refrigerator | |
| 11.00 - 11.40 | Pierre Pillet (CNRS, Paris-Sud) |
| Laser manipulation and cooling of internal degrees of freedom of molecules | |
| 11.40 - 11.55 | Break |
| 11.55 - 12.20 | Cecilia Cormick (Universität Saarbrücken) |
| Ion crystals in optical resonators | |
| 12.20 - 13.00 | Barbara Kraus (Universität Innsbruck) |
| Dissipative state preparation and compressed quantum computation | |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Susana Huelga | |
| 14.30 - 15.10 | Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Universität Mainz) |
| Spin-Spin interactions with cold trapped ions | |
| 15.10 - 15.50 | Navin Khaneja (Harvard University) |
| Optimal control of coupled spin dynamics | |
| 15.50 - 16.15 | Matthew Grace (Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore) |
| Optimized pulses for the robust control of uncertain qubits | |
| 16.15 - 16.35 | Coffee break |
| 16.35 - 17.15 | Juan Pablo Paz (Univesity of Buenos Aires) |
| Some new ideas on quantum process tomography | |
| 17.15 - 17.40 | Thomas Halfmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt) |
| Storage of Light by Atomic Coherences in a Doped Solid | |
| 17.40 - 18.20 | Helmut Ritsch (Universität Innsbruck) |
| Quantum Optics with ultracold gases | |
| 18.30 | Supper |
| 20.00 | Poster session II (including beverages) |
| Chairperson: Cecilia Cormick | |
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Birgitta Whaley (University of California Berkeley) |
| Quantum control of energy transfer in biological systems | |
| 10.00 - 10.05 | Group photo (to be published on the web page) |
| 10.05 - 10.20 | Coffee break |
| 10.20 - 11.00 | Antonio Acin (The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels) |
| Device-independent estimation | |
| 11.00 - 11.40 | Susana Huelga (Universität Ulm) |
| Coherence and decoherence in a type of biological systems: Principles of noise assisted transport and the origin of long-lived coherences | |
| 11.40 - 11.55 | Break |
| 11.55 - 12.20 | Vladimir M. Stojanovic (Universität Basel) |
| Quantum-control approach to superconducting qubit arrays | |
| 12.20 - 13.00 | Kenji Ohmori (Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki) |
| Ultrafast computing with a femtosecond-laser-driven molecule | |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 18.30 | Excursion to Stolpen Castle |
| 18.30 | Supper |
| Chairperson: Regina de Vivie-Riedle | |
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Ian Walmsley (University of Oxford) |
| Controlling the interface of quantum light and matter | |
| 10.00 - 10.20 | Coffee break |
| 10.20 - 11.00 | Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor, Ontario) |
| Surface-enhanced quantum control | |
| 11.00 - 11.40 | Phillip Gould (University of Connecticut) |
| Control of interactions between ultracold atoms using frequency-chirped light | |
| 11.40 - 11.55 | Break |
| 11.55 - 12.20 | Jürgen Eschner (Universität des Saarlandes) |
| Entanglement-preserving absorption of single photons by a single atom | |
| 12.20 - 13.00 | Christian Roos (Universität Innsbruck) |
| Engineering interactions in ion strings for quantum computation and simulation | |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Chitra Rangan | |
| 14.30 - 15.10 | Steffen Glaser (Technische Universität München) |
| Optimal control of uncoupled and coupled spins | |
| 15.10 - 15.50 | Thomas Wellens (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg) |
| Optimal networks for excitonic energy transport | |
| 15.50 - 16.10 | Coffee break |
| 16.10 - 16.35 | Ulrich Hohenester (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) |
| Optimal quantum control of Bose-Einstein condensates: From computer simulations to atomchip experiments | |
| 16.35 - 17.15 | Tobias Jan Kippenberg (EPFL, Lausanne) |
| Cavity optomechanics : Coherent coupling of light and mechanical motion | |
| 17.15 - 17.35 | Break |
| 17.35 - 17.50 | David Petrosyan (FORTH, Heraklion) |
| Electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms | |
| 17.50 - 18.30 | Regina de Vivie-Riedle (LMU München) |
| Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy with single molecules - a first step towards molecular quantum computing | |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner |
| Restaurant ``Alte Meister'', Theaterplatz 1a | |
| Chairperson: Giovanna Morigi | |
| 08.45 - 09.45 | Rosario Fazio (Scuola Normale Superiore) |
| Quantum limits to optimal control | |
| 09.45 - 10.05 | Coffee break |
| 10.05 - 10.45 | Ennio Arimondo (INO-CNR, Pisa) |
| Superadiabatic and speed-limited control of a two-level system in a Bose-Einstein condensate | |
| 10.45 - 11.25 | Alexey Gorshkov (California Institute of Technology) |
| Photon-photon interactions via Rydberg blockade | |
| 11.25 - 11.40 | Break |
| 11.40 - 12.05 | Michael Khasin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Noise and Controllability: suppression of controllability in large quantum systems | |
| 12.05 - 12.45 | Immanuel Bloch (MPI für Quantenoptik, Garching) |
| Probing and Controlling Quantum Gases at the Single Atoms Level | |
| 12.45 - 13.00 | Closing remarks |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
Last updated: September 16, 2011
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