Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atomic and Molecular Gases

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The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, India, in collaboration with the Goa University, National Physical Laboratory, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India and the Indian Institute of Atrophysics are organizing a Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atomic and Molecular Gases to be held at Goa University, Goa, India, from 10 to 14 January 2011. MAIN TOPICS: QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS IN ULTRA-COLD GASES IN OPTICAL LATTICES MIXTURES OF BOSONIC AND FERMIONIC ATOMS IN TRAPS AND OPTICAL LATTICES COLD MOLECULES QUANTUM INFORMATION USING ULTRA-COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES PRECISION MEASUREMENRS WITH ULTRA-COLD GASES Conference Venue: International Center, Goa, Goa University Road, Dona Paula Post, Dona Paula, Goa, 403 004, India

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Monday, 10 January 2011
- 08:50 - 09:00 Introduction and openining comments
  - 08:50 Introduction and openining comments 10'
    
    Speaker: Organizing Committee
- 09:00 - 09:45 Thermodynamics of quantum gases
  - 09:00 Thermodynamics of quantum gases 45'
    
    Speaker: Christophe Salomon (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
- 09:45 - 10:30 Diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach to lattice and continuous Fermi systems
  - 09:45 Diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach to lattice and continuous Fermi systems 45'
    
    Speaker: Nicolai Prokof'ev (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst MA, USA)
- 10:30 - 10:55 Spontaneous mass flow and Majorana zero modes in p-wave resonant Fermi gases
  - 10:30 Spontaneous mass flow and Majorana zero modes in p-wave resonant Fermi gases 25'
    
    Speaker: Takeshi Mizushima (Okayama University, Japan)
- 10:55 - 11:25 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 10:55 Tea / Coffee Break 30'
- 11:25 - 12:10 s-Wave Interaction in a Two-Species Fermi-Fermi Mixture at a Narrow Feshbach Resonance
  - 11:25 s-Wave Interaction in a Two-Species Fermi-Fermi Mixture at a Narrow Feshbach Resonance 45'
    
    Speaker: Kai Dieckmann (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- 12:10 - 12:35 Position swapping and pinching in Bose-Fermi mixtures
  - 12:10 Position swapping and pinching in Bose-Fermi mixtures 25'
    
    Speaker: Dilip Angom (Physical Research Laboratory, Gujarat, India)
- 12:35 - 13:00 How does a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field influence bound states of two spin-1/2 fermions?
  - 12:35 How does a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field influence bound states of two spin-1/2 fermions? 25'
    
    Speaker: Vijay Shenoy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
- 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
  - 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 14:30 - 15:15 Measurement of phase transition and correlation in one dimensional optical lattice by matter wave amplification
  - 14:30 Measurement of phase transition and correlation in one dimensional optical lattice by matter wave amplification 45'
    
    Speaker: Xuzong Chen (Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China)
- 15:15 - 16:00 Controlling Cold Collision and Molecule Formation by Quantum Interference
  - 15:15 Controlling Cold Collision and Molecule Formation by Quantum Interference 45'
    
    Speaker: Bimalendu Deb (Indian Association For the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)
- 16:00 - 16:30 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break 30'
- 16:30 - 19:30 Free
  - 16:30 Free 3h0'
- 19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
  - 19:30 Dinner 1h30'
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
- 09:00 - 09:45 Dissipation of superfluid transport by disorder and quantum tunneling of a matter-wave soliton
  - 09:00 Dissipation of superfluid transport by disorder and quantum tunneling of a matter-wave soliton 45'
    
    Speaker: Randy Hulet (Rice University, Houston TX, USA)
- 09:45 - 10:30 Many body localization and metal-insulator transition
  - 09:45 Many body localization and metal-insulator transition 45'
    
    Speaker: Igor Aleiner (Columbia University, New York NY, USA)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 10:30 Tea / Coffee Break 30'
- 11:00 - 11:45 Finite temperature phase transition for disordered weakly interacting bosons in one dimension
  - 11:00 Finite temperature phase transition for disordered weakly interacting bosons in one dimension 45'
    
    Speaker: Gora Shlyapnikov (Universite Paris-XI Sud, LPTMS, Orsay, France)
- 11:45 - 12:10 Mean-field phase diagram of the superfluid to Bose-glass transition in 1D
  - 11:45 Mean-field phase diagram of the superfluid to Bose-glass transition in 1D 25'
    
    Speaker: Luca Fontanesi (Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
- 12:10 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:10 Lunch Break 1h50'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Novel Mott insulating Quantum Hall states in 2D electron liquids and quantum gases
  - 14:00 Novel Mott insulating Quantum Hall states in 2D electron liquids and quantum gases 45'
    
    Speaker: Ganapathy Baskaran (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Bose-Hubbard model with a three-body constraint: from quantum criticality to continuous supersolid
  - 14:45 Bose-Hubbard model with a three-body constraint: from quantum criticality to continuous supersolid 45'
    
    Speaker: Mikhail Baranov (Innsbruck University, Austria)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 15:30 Tea / Coffee Break 30'
- 16:45 - 20:00 Poster I
  - 16:45 Poster I 3h15'
- 19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
  - 19:30 Dinner 1h30'
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
- 09:00 - 09:45 Elastic and inelastic effects of dipolar forces in Chromium Bose-Einstein condensate
  - 09:00 Elastic and inelastic effects of dipolar forces in Chromium Bose-Einstein condensate 45'
    
    Speaker: Bruno Laburthe (Université Paris XIII, Paris, France)
- 09:45 - 10:30 Supersolid phase of polar molecules in the two-dimensional continuous space
  - 09:45 Supersolid phase of polar molecules in the two-dimensional continuous space 45'
    
    Speaker: Daw-Wei Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
- 10:30 - 11:15 Spinor quantum gases: from non-classical states of matter to strongly-correlated lattice gases
  - 10:30 Spinor quantum gases: from non-classical states of matter to strongly-correlated lattice gases 45'
    
    Speaker: Luis Santos (Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Hannover, Germany)
- 11:15 - 11:30 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 11:15 Tea / Coffee Break 15'
- 11:30 - 12:15 Theoretical methods for many-body quantum systems
  - 11:30 Theoretical methods for many-body quantum systems 45'
    
    Speaker: Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany)
- 12:15 - 13:00 Stationary light for low-light-level non-linear optics and quantum information manipulation
  - 12:15 Stationary light for low-light-level non-linear optics and quantum information manipulation 45'
    
    Speaker: Ite Yu (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
- 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
  - 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 14:30 - 19:30 Sight Seeing – Old Goa + Candolim Beach
  - 14:30 Sight Seeing – Old Goa + Candolim Beach 5h0'
- 19:30 - 22:00 Conference Banquet @ Hotel Goa Heritage
  - 19:30 Conference Banquet @ Hotel Goa Heritage 2h30'
Thursday, 13 January 2011
- 09:00 - 09:45 Parametric excitation of a 1D gas in integrable and non-integrable cases
  - 09:00 Parametric excitation of a 1D gas in integrable and non-integrable cases 45'
    
    Speaker: Dima Petrov (Université Paris-XI Sud, LPTMS, Orsay, France)
- 09:45 - 10:10 Non-equilibrium dynamics of 1D Bose gases via quantum noise distribution
  - 09:45 Non-equilibrium dynamics of 1D Bose gases via quantum noise distribution 25'
    
    Speaker: Tim Langen (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- 10:10 - 10:40 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 10:10 Tea / Coffee Break 30'
- 10:40 - 11:25 SU(N) magnetism with the alkaline earth atoms
  - 10:40 SU(N) magnetism with the alkaline earth atoms 45'
    
    Speaker: Victor Gurarie (University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO, USA)
- 11:25 - 11:50 Spectroscopy of cold atom gases in periodically modulated optical lattice potentials
  - 11:25 Spectroscopy of cold atom gases in periodically modulated optical lattice potentials 25'
    
    Speaker: Akiyuki Tokuno (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- 11:50 - 13:30 Lunch Break
  - 11:50 Lunch Break 1h40'
- 13:30 - 14:15 Artificial gauge fields for cold atoms
  - 13:30 Artificial gauge fields for cold atoms 45'
    
    Speaker: Kenneth Guenter (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
- 14:15 - 15:00 Quantum simulation with alkaline earth-like atoms in an optical lattice
  - 14:15 Quantum simulation with alkaline earth-like atoms in an optical lattice 45'
    
    Speaker: Rekishi Yamazaki (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
- 15:00 - 15:30 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 15:00 Tea / Coffee Break 30'
- 15:30 - 16:15 Ion induced physics in a cold dilute gas of atoms
  - 15:30 Ion induced physics in a cold dilute gas of atoms 45'
    
    Speaker: Sadiq Rangwala (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India)
- 16:15 - 17:00 Supercurrents in atomic Fermi superfluids: competing orders, dynamical instabilities, and flow-induced supersolids
  - 16:15 Supercurrents in atomic Fermi superfluids: competing orders, dynamical instabilities, and flow-induced supersolids 45'
    
    Speaker: Arun Paramakanti (University of Toronto, Canada)
- 17:00 - 17:25 Progress towards a magnesium optical clock
  - 17:00 Progress towards a magnesium optical clock 25'
    
    Speaker: Hrishikesh Kelkar (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)
- 17:25 - 19:30 Poster II
  - 17:25 Poster II 2h5'
- 19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
  - 19:30 Dinner 1h30'
Friday, 14 January 2011
- 09:00 - 09:45 Ground state structure and non-linear excitations in cold atoms
  - 09:00 Ground state structure and non-linear excitations in cold atoms 45'
    
    Speaker: Prasanta Panigrahi (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India)
- 09:45 - 10:10 Phase separation of multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates induced by homonuclear Feshbach molecules
  - 09:45 Phase separation of multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates induced by homonuclear Feshbach molecules 25'
    
    Speaker: Ryosuke Shibato (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
- 10:10 - 10:35 Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate
  - 10:10 Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate 25'
    
    Speaker: Ashok Mohapatra (National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India)
- 10:35 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
  - 10:35 Tea / Coffee Break 25'
- 11:00 - 11:25 Role of non-zero momentum interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates: effect of momentum dependent s-wave and higher partial waves
  - 11:00 Role of non-zero momentum interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates: effect of momentum dependent s-wave and higher partial waves 25'
    
    Speaker: Krishna Rai Dastidar (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)
- 11:25 - 11:50 Bose-Einstein condensation in a shallow 3D trap
  - 11:25 Bose-Einstein condensation in a shallow 3D trap 25'
    
    Speaker: Barnali Chakrabarti (Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata, India)
- 11:50 - 12:20 Concluding remarks
  - 11:50 Concluding remarks 30'
- 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:20 Lunch Break 1h40'
- 19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
  - 19:30 Dinner 1h30'