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Workshop on Ultracold Atoms and Gauge Theories | (smr 2462)
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  • Monday, 13 May 2013
    • 08:30 - 09:50 REGISTRATION 
      Registration of participants outside the Main Lecture Hall (Leonardo da Vinci Building, Main Entrance level), and administrative/financial matters
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION 1h20'
    • 09:50 - 10:00 Welcome address
      • 09:50 Welcome address 10'
    • 10:00 - 10:40 Experimental realization of spin-orbit coupled degenerate Fermi gas
      • 10:00 Experimental realization of spin-orbit coupled degenerate Fermi gas 40'
        Speaker: Jing Zhang (Shanxi University)
        Material: abstract
    • 10:40 - 11:20 Exploring artificial quantum-many body systems with ultracold fermions in a tunable-geometry optical lattice
      • 10:40 Exploring artificial quantum-many body systems with ultracold fermions in a tunable-geometry optical lattice 40'
        Speaker: Daniel Greif (ETH Zürich)
        Material: abstract
    • 11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break
      • 11:20 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:50 - 12:30 Imaging Topological States in Ultracold Atomic Gases
      • 11:50 Imaging Topological States in Ultracold Atomic Gases 40'
        Speaker: Nathan Goldman (Unversité Libre de Bruxelles)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:30 - 13:10 Quantum quenches in one dimensional systems
      • 12:30 Quantum quenches in one dimensional systems 40'
        Speaker: Pasquale Calabrese (Università di Pisa)
        Material: abstract
    • 13:10 - 15:00 Lunch break
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      • 13:10 Lunch break 1h50'
    • 15:00 - 15:40 Topological Insulators and Superconductors
      • 15:00 Topological Insulators and Superconductors 40'
        Speaker: M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:40 - 16:20 Topological Insulators under Quantum Dissipative Dynamics
      • 15:40 Topological Insulators under Quantum Dissipative Dynamics 40'
        Speaker: Miguel Angel Martín-Delgado (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
        Material: abstract
    • 16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
      • 16:20 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:50 - 17:30 Paired phases in U(1)xU(1) gauge theories
      • 16:50 Paired phases in U(1)xU(1) gauge theories 40'
        Speaker: Egor Babaev (KTH Stockholm)
        Material: abstract
  • Tuesday, 14 May 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Quantum correlations in driven-dissipative arrays of weakly nonlinear optical cavities
      • 09:00 Quantum correlations in driven-dissipative arrays of weakly nonlinear optical cavities 40'
        Speaker: Vincenzo Savona (EPFL Lausanne)
        Material: abstract
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Quantum Hall physics with light
      • 09:40 Quantum Hall physics with light 40'
        Speaker: Jacob M. Taylor (NIST & University of Maryland)
        Material: abstract
    • 10:20 - 11:00 Quantum fluids of light under synthetic gauge fields
      • 10:20 Quantum fluids of light under synthetic gauge fields 40'
        Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (INO-BEC and Università di Trento)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:10 First and second sound in Fermi gas at unitarity
      • 11:30 First and second sound in Fermi gas at unitarity 40'
        Speaker: Lev Pitaevskii (INO-CNR BEC and Università di Trento)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:10 - 12:50 Exotic Superfluid in Ultracold Atomic Gases from Synthetic Gauge Fields
      • 12:10 Exotic Superfluid in Ultracold Atomic Gases from Synthetic Gauge Fields 40'
        Speaker: Hui Zhai (Tsinghua University)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:50 - 15:00 Lunch break
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      • 12:50 Lunch break 2h10'
    • 15:00 - 15:40 Gauge fields far from equilibrium
      • 15:00 Gauge fields far from equilibrium 40'
        Speaker: Jürgen Berges (University of Heidelberg)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:40 - 16:20 Ultracold color superconductors
      • 15:40 Ultracold color superconductors 40'
        Speaker: Massimo Mannarelli (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
      • 16:20 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:50 - 17:30 The holographic master field
      • 16:50 The holographic master field 40'
        Speaker: Mukund Rangamani (Durham University)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 17:30 - 18:10 Holographic Entanglement Entropy & Causal Holographic Information
      • 17:30 Holographic Entanglement Entropy & Causal Holographic Information 40'
        Speaker: Veronika Hubeny (Durham University)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 18:30 - 20:00 POSTER SESSION 
      Outside the Main Lecture Hall (in the Poster Gallery, and Lobby)
      • 18:30 POSTER SESSION 1h30'
  • Wednesday, 15 May 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Spin-Orbit Coupling and Heavy Solitons in Fermi Gases
      • 09:00 Spin-Orbit Coupling and Heavy Solitons in Fermi Gases 40'
        Speaker: Tariq Yefsah (MIT Cambridge)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Accessing strongly correlated atomic states and probing atom currents in synthetic gauge fields
      • 09:40 Accessing strongly correlated atomic states and probing atom currents in synthetic gauge fields 40'
        Speaker: Arun Paramekanti (University of Toronto)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 10:20 - 11:00 BCS-BEC crossover with Rashba and Dresselhaus couplings
      • 10:20 BCS-BEC crossover with Rashba and Dresselhaus couplings 40'
        Speaker: Luca Salasnich (Università di Padova)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 11:55 Effect of synthetic spin-orbit coupling on statistical interactions in atomic quantum gases
      • 11:30 Effect of synthetic spin-orbit coupling on statistical interactions in atomic quantum gases 25'
        Speaker: G.S. Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
        Material: abstract
    • 11:55 - 12:20 Superstripes and the excitation spectrum of a spin-orbit-coupled BEC
      • 11:55 Superstripes and the excitation spectrum of a spin-orbit-coupled BEC 25'
        Speaker: Yun Li (INO-CNR BEC and Università di Trento)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 12:20 - 12:20 Lunch, and free afternoon
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      • 12:20 Lunch, and free afternoon
    • 19:30 - 20:30 Reception for all participants
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      • 19:30 Reception for all participants 1h0'
  • Thursday, 16 May 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Quantum Simulators of Lattice Gauge Theories
      • 09:00 Quantum Simulators of Lattice Gauge Theories 40'
        Speaker: Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO Barcelona)
        Material: abstract
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Simulating an interacting gauge theory with ultracold Bose gases
      • 09:40 Simulating an interacting gauge theory with ultracold Bose gases 40'
        Speaker: Patrik Öhberg (Heriot-Watt University)
        Material: abstract
    • 10:20 - 11:00 Making Gauge Fields Real
      • 10:20 Making Gauge Fields Real 40'
        Speaker: Benjamin Stuhl (NIST and University of Maryland)
        Material: abstract
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:10 Atomic Quantum Simulation of U(N) and SU(N) Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories
      • 11:30 Atomic Quantum Simulation of U(N) and SU(N) Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories 40'
        Speaker: Enrique Rico Ortega (Institute for Quantum Information Processing, Ulm)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 12:10 - 15:00 Lunch break
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      • 12:10 Lunch break 2h50'
    • 15:00 - 15:40 Simulation of dynamic abelian and non-abelian gauge theories with ultracold atoms
      • 15:00 Simulation of dynamic abelian and non-abelian gauge theories with ultracold atoms 40'
        Speaker: Benni Reznik (Tel Aviv University)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 15:40 - 16:05 Landau-Stark states for cold atoms in a parabolic lattice
      • 15:40 Landau-Stark states for cold atoms in a parabolic lattice 25'
        Speaker: Andrey Kolovskiy (Kirensky Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 16:05 - 16:30 An AMO toolbox for Majorana Fermions in Optical Lattices
      • 16:05 An AMO toolbox for Majorana Fermions in Optical Lattices 25'
        Speaker: Christina Kraus (IQOQI Innsbruck)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
      • 16:30 Coffee break 30'
  • Friday, 17 May 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Quantum simulation with two-electron Fermi gases in optical lattices
      • 09:00 Quantum simulation with two-electron Fermi gases in optical lattices 40'
        Speaker: Leonardo Fallani (LENS Firenze)
        Material: abstract
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Topological Insulators, Mott physics and Artificial Gauge Fields
      • 09:40 Topological Insulators, Mott physics and Artificial Gauge Fields 40'
        Speaker: Karyn Le Hur (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
      • 10:20 Coffee break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:30 Symmetries of spin-orbit coupled particles
      • 10:50 Symmetries of spin-orbit coupled particles 40'
        Speaker: Kareljian Schoutens (University of Amsterdam)
        Material: abstract slides
    • 11:30 - 12:10 Two-dimensional arrays of Parafermionic zero modes
      • 11:30 Two-dimensional arrays of Parafermionic zero modes 40'
        Speaker: Michele Burrello (Lorentz Institute, Leiden)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:10 - 12:20 Closing remarks
      • 12:10 Closing remarks 10'