ICAP 2010
Conference program
 
Titles of invited talks (click on links for pdf files or mp4 videos of talks)
Opening Talk
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Paris) - From optical pumping to quantum gases pdf video

Tuesday evening session
Victor Balykin - A tribute to Vladilen Letokhov
Alain Aspect - Wave-particle duality for a single photon: quantum weirdness brought to light

Ultracold gases and Bose-Einstein condensates
Bill Phillips (JQI/NIST) - Synthetic electric and magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms
Jean Dalibard (Paris) - Artificial gauge fields for neutral atoms: from Sagnac's to Berry's phase
Markus Greiner (Harvard) - Quantum gas microscope - probing the superfluid to Mott insulator transition at the single atom level
Masahito Ueda (Tokyo) - Topological excitations in ultracold atomic gases
Eugene Demler (Harvard) - Competition between pairing and ferromagnetic instabilities in the ultracold Fermi gases near Feshbach resonances

Atomic tests of fundamental physics and basic symmetries
Michael Doser (CERN) - Perspectives for precision tests with antihydrogen.
Eric Hessels (Toronto) - Precision measurement of the n=2 triplet P states of helium and the determination of the fine-structure constant
Victor Flambaum (Sydney) - Nuclear clock and variation of fundamental constants pdf video

Precision measurements, including atomic clocks, atom interferometers and fundamental constants
Christophe Salomon (Paris) - Space clocks and fundamental tests
Hidetoshi Katori (Tokyo) - Optical lattice clocks and frequency comparison
Jim Bergquist (NIST, Boulder) - Single-atom optical clocks - it's about time!
John Close (Canberra) - Atom lasers and their prospects for application to precision inertial measurements

Ultracold Fermi gases
Gora Shlyapnikov (Orsay) - Strongly interacting Fermi gases: from ultracold atoms to molecules
Frederic Chevy (Paris) - Thermodynamics of strongly correlated Fermi gases video
Chris Vale (Melbourne) - Universal structure of a strongly interacting Fermi gas video

Ultracold molecules
Matthias Weidemüller (Heidelberg) - Dipolar effects in ultracold molecules
Silke Ospelkaus (JILA) - Ultracold polar molecules - ultracold chemistry and dipolar collisions
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (Innsbruck) - Ultracold and dense samples of ground-state molecules in lattice potentials pdf video

Quantum simulators with atoms and ions
Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT) - Quantum magnetism with ultracold atoms pdf video
Wu-Ming Liu (Beijing) - Non-Abelian Josephson effect
Chiara Fort (Florence) - Inelastic light scattering to probe strongly correlated bosons in optical lattices
Christian Roos (Innsbruck) - Quantum simulations with trapped ions pdf video

Few-body systems
Chris Greene (JILA) - Universal four-body collisions pdf video
Francesca Ferlaino (Innsbruck) - Few body physics in ultracold gases: the fascinating case of cesium
Francesco Minardi (Florence) - Bose-Bose mixtures in confined dimensions pdf video

Ultrafast phenomena and free electron lasers
Markus Drescher (Hamburg) - Timing-critical studies of atomic and molecular dynamics at the XUX FEL "FLASH"
Richard Taieb (Paris) - Attosecond imaging of molecular electronic wave-packets

Quantum information with atoms and ions
Dave Wineland (NIST, Boulder) - Quantum information and quantum metrology with trapped ions pdf video
Eugene Polzik (Copenhagen) - Quantum memory and sensing with entangled room temperature atoms
Artur Widera (Bonn) - Coherently walking, rocking and blinding single neutral atoms

Quantum optics and cavity QED with atoms
Helmut Ritsch (Innsbruck) - Quantum optics with cold quantum gases
Martin Weitz -Thermalization of a two-dimensional photonic gas in a 'white wall' photon box pdf video
Jakob Reichel (Paris) - Optical detection of a single atom without spontaneous emission
Karim Murr (Garching) - Nonlinear optics with single atoms in optical cavities

Hybrid and optomechanical systems
Andreas Wallraff (Zurich) - Cavity QED with superconducting circuits: Measuring microwave photon correlations
Markus Aspelmeyer (Vienna) - Quantum optomechanics in the strong coupling regime
Cindy Regal (JILA/CalTech) - From cavity electromechanics to cavity optomechanics

Hot topics
Vanderlei Bagnato (Sao Paulo) - Emergence and study of quantum turbulence in a Bose condensate
Kristian Baumann - The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity video
Michael Kohl (Cambridge) - A trapped single ion inside a Bose-Einstein condensate
Jeremy O'Brien (Bristol) - Integrated quantum photonics
Krzysztof Pachucki (Warsaw) - Helium fine structure theory for the determination of alpha pdf video
Randolf Pohl (Garching) - The charge radius of the proton video
Holger Muller (Berkeley) - precision measurement of the gravitational redshift and other applications of atom interferometers video
Elisabeth Giacobino (Paris) - Superfluidity in polariton ensembles
Mark Saffman - Demonstration of a CNOT gate and deterministic entanglement of two neutral atoms using Rydberg blockade
Philippe Grangier (Palaiseau) - Quantum information processing with neutral atoms using Rydberg blockade
Submitted Posters
Poster abstracts can be found in the book of abstracts.

The area available for each poster will be 1.2 metres by 1.2 metres.

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