Preliminary Program
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| Tuesday, April 21 | |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome dinner |
| Wednesday, April 22 | |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Opening |
| Director MPIPKS and John Briggs |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | V. May (Humboldt Universität Berlin) |
| Mixed quantum-classical description of electronic excitation transfer in supramolecular complexes | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | A. Eisfeld (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Vibronic energy transfer on quantum aggregates | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | V. Malyshev (University Groningen) |
| Localization properties of Frenkel excitons: Non-Gaussian diagonal disorder | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | J. Macek (University of Tennessee) |
| Vortices in atomic wavefunctions | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | H. Helm (Universität Freiburg) |
| Vibronic dissipative processes of cold trapped atoms | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | F. Stienkemeier (Universität Freiburg) |
| Organic aggregates formed in helium droplets | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea time |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | M. Weidemüller (Universität Heidelberg) |
| Rydberg aggregates | |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | I. Lesanovsky (University Nottingham) |
| Coherent propagation of an ionic charge through an atomic gas | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | T. Pohl (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Rydberg state crystallization and light transport in ultracold gases | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Oral Poster Presentation |
| - O. Muelken (Universität Freiburg) | |
| Exciton trapping in systems with long-range interactions | |
| - U. Selig (Universität Würzburg) | |
| Inherently phase-stable coherent two-dimensional spectroscopy | |
| - B. Brueggemann (Universität Berlin) | |
| Calculating ultrafast spectra: Non-perturbative methods compared to the third-order response function approach | |
| - I. Karnaukhov (Academy of Sciences, Kiev) | |
| Exactly solvable Heisenberg model of spin-1/2 chains | |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Poster Session |
| Thursday, April 23 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | J. Koehler (Universität Bayreuth) |
| Spectroscopy of single pigment-protein complexes from purple bacteria | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | A. Freiberg (University Tartu) |
| Excitons in cyclic nano-aggregates: Bandwidth dependence on pressure and temperature | |
| 10:30 - 10:35 | Group photo - to be put on the webpage |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | T. Brixner (Universität Würzburg) |
| Subdiffraction ultrafast space-time-resolved spectroscopy | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | S. Kirstein (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) |
| J aggregates as scaffolds for functional supramolecular complexes | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | S. Fischer (Universität München) |
| Localization criteria for exciton-phonon coupled systems in disordered media | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | P. Scherer (Universität München) |
| Soliton description of molecular aggregate spectra | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea time |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | D. O'Dell (McMaster University) |
| Atomic Bose-Einstein condensates with dipole-dipole interactions | |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | J. Keeling (University of Cambridge) |
| Nonequilibrium polariton condensates: Microscopic theory and macroscopic phenomenology | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | P. Eastham (Imperial College London) |
| Optical soft modes and quantum condensation in microcavities | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday, April 24 | |
| 08:45 - 09:15 | J. Knoester (University Groningen) |
| Modelling vibrational dynamics in polypeptides and proteins | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | U. Kleinekathoefer (Jacobs Universität Bremen) |
| Transfer processes in light-harvesting systems and molecular wires | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | P. Berman (University Michigan) |
| Propagation and absorption in a dielectric: A microscopic approach | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | C. Rhodes (University Illinois) |
| Excitation dynamics of Xe(L) hollow atoms from small clusters in self-trapped plasma channels | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | P. Reineker (Universität Ulm) |
| Resonant quantum aggregates in a waveguide: Multiphoton scattering | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Discussion on "Quantum Aggregates" |
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