| Sunday, October 10 | 18:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 | Welcome buffet | |
| Mon, Oct 11 | 08:45 - 09:00 | Jan-Michael Rost |
| General introduction | ||
| CHAIR: PETER SCHMELCHER | ||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Eberhard Tiemann | |
| Laser induced manipulation of atom pair interaction | ||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Robin Côté | |
| Local blockade of Rydberg excitation in an ultracold gas | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Kilian Singer | |
| Long range interactions in a frozen Rydberg gas | ||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Chris Greene | |
| Two-body and three-body processes in quantum gases | ||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| CHAIR: JAN-MICHAEL ROST | ||
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Charles S. Adams | |
| Towards scalable quantum computing using neutral atoms in a 3D quasi-electrostatic lattice | ||
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Luis Santos | |
| Coupled 1D Bose gases in 2D optical lattices | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | MESUMA04 Colloquium | |
| Georgy Shlyapnikov | ||
| Dynamics of solitons in Bose-condensed gases | ||
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Yuri Kivshar | |
| Nonlinear dynamics and solitons in optical lattices | ||
| 18:30 | Supper | |
| Tuesday, October 12 | CHAIR: GEORGY SHLYAPNIKOV | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Johannes Hecker-Denschlag | |
| BEC of 6Li2 molecules: Exploring the BEC-BCS crossover | ||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Paul Julienne | |
| Making molecules by tuneable scattering resonances | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Yvan Castin | |
| How to detect the BCS transition in an atomic Fermi gas ? | ||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Dieter Jaksch | |
| Controlled coherent and dissipative dynamics in optical lattices | ||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| CHAIR: MACIEJ LEWENSTEIN | ||
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Wolf von Klitzing | |
| TAP's, TOP's and quantum interference (Physics in novel magnetic traps) | ||
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Tilman Pfau | |
| Taming ultracold Chromium | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| CHAIR: JEAN DALIBARD | ||
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Vladimir Melezhik | |
| Effects of anisotropy in control of ultracold atom-atom collisions by a light field | ||
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Dimitri Frantzeskakis | |
| Pattern forming dynamical instabilities of Bose-Einstein condensates | ||
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Nick Proukakis | |
| Long-lived dark solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates | ||
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Cord Müller | |
| Coherent photon transport in cold atomic clouds | ||
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Ofir E. Alon | |
| Continuous configuration-interaction for condensates in a ring | ||
| 18:10 - 18:30 | Alejandro Saenz | |
| Photoassociation in ultracold samples with realistic molecular potentials | ||
| 18:45 | Supper | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Poster I | |
| Wednesday, October 13 | CHAIR: JOACHIM BRAND | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Alain Aspect | |
| Non ideal Bose gas | ||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Maciej Lewenstein | |
| New challenges of AMO physics? | ||
| 10:30 - 10:35 | Group photo | |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| CHAIR: ALAIN ASPECT | ||
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Jessica Lye | |
| Investigation of the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a moving optical potential | ||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Andrey Kolovsky | |
| BEC of cold atoms loaded into the optical lattices: Quantum chaos approach | ||
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Andrea Micheli | |
| A single atom transistor in a 1D lattice | ||
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Excursion & Conference dinner | |
| Thursday, October 14 | CHAIR: EBERHARD TIEMANN | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Jean Dalibard | |
| Condensates in fast rotation | ||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Dieter Meschede | |
| Manipulating single atoms | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Wolfgang Schleich | |
| Quantum Ulm sparrow | ||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Gerhard Rempe | |
| Cavity QED control of single atoms and single photons | ||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| CHAIR: TILMAN PFAU | ||
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Klaus Sengstock | |
| Multi-component quantum gases - Magnetism and a new realisation of BEC | ||
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Sandro Stringari | |
| Collective oscillations in superfluid Fermi gases | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| CHAIR: LORENZ CEDERBAUM | ||
| 16:30 - 16:50 | John Goldwin | |
| Cross-species interactions in the 87Rb-40K Bose-Fermi mixture | ||
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Giancarlo Strinati | |
| Theoretical aspects of the BCS-BEC crossover | ||
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Thomas Gasenzer | |
| Photoassociation dynamics in a Bose-Einstein condensate | ||
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Wolfgang Belzig | |
| Coherence and correlations in systems of cold atoms | ||
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Uwe Fischer | |
| Dynamical role of anyonic excitation statistics in rapidly rotating Bose gases | ||
| 18:10 - 18:30 | Alexander Cherny | |
| The dynamic structure factor of the 1D Bose gas near the Tonks-Girardeau limit | ||
| 18:45 | Supper | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Poster II | |
| Friday, October 15 | CHAIR: SANDRO STRINGARI | |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Wolfgang Ertmer | |
| Quantum engineering - New perspectives of quantum optics | ||
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Nimrod Moiseyev | |
| Trapping, tunneling and fragmentation of condensates in optical traps | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| CHAIR: NICK PROUKAKIS | ||
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Claus Zimmermann | |
| Atomic matter waves in magnetic micro potentials | ||
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Jörg Schmiedmayer | |
| Atom chips: Mesoscopic physics with cold atoms | ||
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| 12:00 - 12:45 | Klaus Ziegler | |
| Spin-1/2 fermions: Crossover from weak to strong attractive interaction | ||
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch break |