Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atoms

Description

The aim of this Conference is to bring together scientists from all over the world to discuss the current frontiers of research in ultra-cold atoms.  In particular, the programme will focus on the analysis of novel quantum phases and non-equilibrium phenomena that have direct connection to problems found in condensed matter physics, astrophysics and nuclear physics.  The connections to condensed matter physics are particularly strong in the case of optical lattices, where ultra-cold atoms can simulate many known condensed matter phenomena with unprecedented control.  In addition, ultra-cold atoms can reveal completely new phenomena which are not possible to realize in standard condensed-matter systems, since interactions, hopping, dimensionality, and temperatures can be fully controlled in the atomic systems.

The Conference programme will also include poster sessions.  For those interested in presenting a poster contribution, kindly submit a one-page abstract (size A4) attached to the application form.  File attachments should be in PDF format.

Topics include:
•Fermionic atoms in traps and optical lattices
•Bosonic atoms in traps and optical lattices
•Mixtures of bosons and/or fermions in traps and optical lattices

Material

Final List of Participants 2030.pdf Poster Abstract announcement

Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atoms | (smr 2030)

Go to day

Monday, 4 May 2009

08:30 - 09:30 Registration - Lobby, entrance level, Leonardo Building
- 08:30 Registration - Lobby, entrance level, Leonardo Building 1h0'
09:30 - 09:40 Opening Remarks by Prof. K.R. Sreenivasan, Director ICTP
- 09:30 Opening Remarks by Prof. K.R. Sreenivasan, Director ICTP 10'
09:40 - 09:45 Welcome Speech from the Organizers
- 09:40 Welcome Speech from the Organizers 5'

09:45 - 10:30 Bose condensation, Cooper pairing and Superfluidity in ultracold atomic gases: Some basic questions

09:45 Bose condensation, Cooper pairing and Superfluidity in ultracold atomic gases: Some basic questions 45'

Speaker:	A. LEGGETT (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics, USA)
Material:	LEGGETT abstract.pdf lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break / Registration (lobby area)
- 10:30 Coffee break / Registration (lobby area) 30'
11:00 - 11:45 Cooling of fermions in optical lattices and strongly interacting fermi gases near a=0
- 11:00 Cooling of fermions in optical lattices and strongly interacting fermi gases near a=0 45'
  
  Speaker: Tin-Lun HO (The Ohio State Univ., Physics, Columbus, USA)

11:45 - 12:30 Beyond the Bose-Hubbard model

11:45 Beyond the Bose-Hubbard model 45'

Speaker:	E. MUELLER (Cornell Univ., Physics, Ithaca NY, USA)
Material:	MUELLER abstract.pdf lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:30 Lunch break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Using matter-waves and optical disorder to study coherent transport and Anderson localization

14:30 Using matter-waves and optical disorder to study coherent transport and Anderson localization 45'

Speaker:	P. BOUYER (Lab.Charles Fabry, CNRS, Optique, Palaiseau,France)
Material:	BOUYER abstract.pdf lecture notes

15:15 - 16:00 Anderson localization of a weekly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

15:15 Anderson localization of a weekly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate 45'

Speaker:	G. MODUGNO (LENS, Univ. Firenze, Italy)
Material:	MODUGNO.pdf lecture notes

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break / Registration (lobby area)
- 16:00 Coffee break / Registration (lobby area) 30'

16:30 - 17:15 Impurities in a Bose gas

16:30 Impurities in a Bose gas 45'

Speaker:	M. KÖHL (Cavendish Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
Material:	KOEHL abstract.pdf lecture notes

19:00 - 20:30 Welcome Reception for All Participants (Leonardo Building Cafeteria or, if weather permitting, Terrace)
- 19:00 Welcome Reception for All Participants (Leonardo Building Cafeteria or, if weather permitting, Terrace) 1h30'

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

09:00 - 09:45 Coherence and condensation in 2D atomic gases

09:00 Coherence and condensation in 2D atomic gases 45'

Speaker:	Z. HADZIBABIC (Cavendish Lab., Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Dynamics of ultracold atoms in two-dimensional lattices

09:45 Dynamics of ultracold atoms in two-dimensional lattices 45'

Speaker:	J.-F. RIOU (Pennsylvania State Univ., Physics, University Park, USA)
Material:	RIOU.pdf

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 A fermionic quantum gas in an optical lattice

11:00 A fermionic quantum gas in an optical lattice 45'

Speaker:	T. ESSLINGER (ETH Zurich, Quantum Electronics, Switzerland)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Relaxation of doublons in repulsive Hubbard model

11:45 Relaxation of doublons in repulsive Hubbard model 45'

Speaker:	E. DEMLER (Harvard Univ., Physics, Cambridge, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:30 Lunch break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Generation of a synthetic vector potential in ultracold neutral Rubidium

14:30 Generation of a synthetic vector potential in ultracold neutral Rubidium 45'

Speaker:	I. SPIELMAN (NIST, Laser Cooling & Trapping Group, Gaithersburg, USA)
Material:	SPIELMAN abstract.pdf lecture notes

15:15 - 16:00 Number squeezing and entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate

15:15 Number squeezing and entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate 45'

Speaker:	M. OBERTHALER (Ruprecht Karls Univ. Heidelberg, Kirchhoff Inst. Physik, Heidelberg, Germany)
Material:	OBERTHALER abstract.pdf lecture notes

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:00 Coffee break 30'

16:30 - 17:15 Superfluid flow and critical current through single barrier and periodic potentials

16:30 Superfluid flow and critical current through single barrier and periodic potentials 45'

Speaker:	S. STRINGARI (BEC CNR INFM, Physics, Univ. Trento, Povo, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner Break
- 19:00 Dinner Break 1h0'
20:00 - 21:45 Poster Session
- 20:00 Poster Session 1h45'

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

09:00 - 09:45 Evidence for supersolid behavior in a spin-1 Rubidium gas

09:00 Evidence for supersolid behavior in a spin-1 Rubidium gas 45'

Speaker:	K. MURCH (Univ. of California, Physics, Berkeley, USA)
Material:	MURCH abstract.pdf lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Magnetic order and transport in Bose gases with spin

09:45 Magnetic order and transport in Bose gases with spin 45'

Speaker:	W. HOFSTETTER (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ., Inst. Theoretische Physik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Material:	HOFSTETTER abstract.pdf lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Ordered states in strongly interacting Rydberg gases

11:00 Ordered states in strongly interacting Rydberg gases 45'

Speaker:	R. LÖW (Univ. Stuttgart, 5th Inst. Of Physics, Stuttgart, Germany)
Material:	LOEW abstract.pdf lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Topological superfluid phase of fermionic polar molecules

11:45 Topological superfluid phase of fermionic polar molecules 45'

Speaker:	G. SHLYAPNIKOV (Univ. XI Paris Sud, LPTMS, Orsay, France)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:30 Lunch break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Ultracold heteronuclear Fermi-Fermi molecules

14:30 Ultracold heteronuclear Fermi-Fermi molecules 45'

Speaker:	K. DIECKMANN (Ludwig Maximilians Univ. Muenchen, Physics, Germany)
Material:	DIECKMANN abstract.pdf lecture notes

15:15 - 16:00 Exploring an ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixture of 6Li and 40K

15:15 Exploring an ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixture of 6Li and 40K 45'

Speaker:	F. SCHRECK (Inst. Quantenoptik & Quanteninformation, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria)
Material:	SCHRECK abstract.pdf lecture notes

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:00 Coffee break 30'
19:00 - 20:30 Dinner Break
- 19:00 Dinner Break 1h30'

Thursday, 7 May 2009

09:00 - 09:45 Swimming in the Fermi sea

09:00 Swimming in the Fermi sea 45'

Speaker:	F. CHEVY (ENS, Lab. Kastler Brossel, Paris, France)
Material:	CHEVY abstract.pdf lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Formation of p-wave Feshbach molecules in a gas or ultracold 6Li atoms

09:45 Formation of p-wave Feshbach molecules in a gas or ultracold 6Li atoms 45'

Speaker:	T. MUKAIYAMA (JST, ERATO, UEDA Macroscopic Quantum Control, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	MUKAIYAMA abstract.pdf lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Ultracold polar molecules

11:00 Ultracold polar molecules 45'

Speaker:	S. OSPELKAUS (JILA, NIST & Physics Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Material:	OSPELKAUS abstract.pdf lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Collisional properties of heteronuclear mixtures with resonant interspecies interaction

11:45 Collisional properties of heteronuclear mixtures with resonant interspecies interaction 45'

Speaker:	D. PETROV (Univ. XI Paris Sud, LPTMS, Orsay, France)
Material:	PETROV abstract.pdf lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:30 Lunch break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Observation of Fermi polarons in a tunable Fermi liquid of ultracold atoms

14:30 Observation of Fermi polarons in a tunable Fermi liquid of ultracold atoms 45'

Speaker:	M. ZWIERLEIN (MIT, Physics, Cambridge, USA)
Material:	ZWIERLEIN abstract.pdf lecture notes

15:15 - 16:00 Theory of radio-frequency spectroscopy in ultracold Fermi atoms

15:15 Theory of radio-frequency spectroscopy in ultracold Fermi atoms 45'

Speaker:	G. STRINATI (Univ. di Camerino, Physics, Italy)
Material:	STRINATI abstract.pdf lecture notes

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:00 Coffee break 30'

16:30 - 17:15 Emergence of turbulence in an oscillating Bose-Einstein condensate

16:30 Emergence of turbulence in an oscillating Bose-Einstein condensate 45'

Speaker:	V. BAGNATO (Univ. Sao Paulo, Physics, Optics, Sao Carlos, Brazil)
Material:	BAGNATO abstract.pdf lecture notes

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner Break
- 19:00 Dinner Break 1h0'
20:00 - 21:45 Poster Session
- 20:00 Poster Session 1h45'

Friday, 8 May 2009

09:00 - 09:45 Superfluid transition in a Bose gas with correlated disorder

09:00 Superfluid transition in a Bose gas with correlated disorder 45'

Speaker:	S. GIORGINI (BEC CNR INFM, Physics, Univ. Trento, Povo, Italy)
Material:	GIORGINI abstract.pdf lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Recent advances on ultracold fermions

09:45 Recent advances on ultracold fermions 45'

Speaker:	C. SALOMON (ENS, Lab. Kastler Brossel, Paris, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 1D Bose gas in atom-chip experiment: from ideal gas to quasi-condensate

11:00 1D Bose gas in atom-chip experiment: from ideal gas to quasi-condensate 45'

Speaker:	I. BOUCHOULE (Lab. Charles Fabry, CNRS, Optique, Palaiseau, France)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 The frontier of the few

11:45 The frontier of the few 45'

Speaker:	M. HAQUE (MPI Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
Material:	HAQUE abstract.pdf lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
- 12:30 Lunch break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Ultracold Fermi gases in quasi low dimensions

14:30 Ultracold Fermi gases in quasi low dimensions 45'

Speaker:	Wei ZHANG (Renman Univ., Physics, Beijing, China)
Material:	ZHANG Wei abstract.pdf lecture notes

15:15 - 16:00 A unitary Fermi supersolid: the Larkin Ovchinnikov state from a DFT

15:15 A unitary Fermi supersolid: the Larkin Ovchinnikov state from a DFT 45'

Speaker:	M. FORBES (Los Alamos National Lab., USA)
Material:	FORBES abstract.pdf lecture notes

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:00 Coffee break 30'
16:30 - 16:45 Final Comments / Closing Remarks
- 16:30 Final Comments / Closing Remarks 15'