The University of New Mexico
Quantum Control of Atomic Motion II
1-2 June, 1998
Regener Hall Lecture Room 103
Map of Campus (Regener #35, Hodgin Hall #103)
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Monday June 1, 1998
8:00am-8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 WELCOMING REMARKS
V. M. Kenkre, Director, CAS
Michael Fisher, Dean, Arts and Sciences
Jack McIver, Chairman, Department of Physics and Astronomy
SESSION I
Coherent quantum state engineering and quantum information
Chair: TBA
8:45am-9:15am Christopher Monroe, NIST Boulder
9:15am-9:45am Raymond Laflamme, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:45am-10:15am Daniel F.V. James, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:15am-10:35am Coffee Break
10:35-11:05 Ivan H. Deutsch, University of New Mexico
"Quantum Logic Gates with Neutral Atoms in Optical Lattices"
11:05-11:35 Daniel Heinzen, University of Texas, Austin
11:35-12:05 Murray Holland, University of Colorado
12:05-1:30 Lunch, Student Union Building 250 A and B
SESSION II
Laser cooling and quantum dynamics in optical potentials
Chair: TBA
1:30pm-2:00pm Poul Jessen, University of Arizona
2:00pm-2:30pm Mark G. Raizen, University of Texas, Austin
2:30pm-2:50pm Coffee Break
2:50pm-3:20pm Simone Kulin, NIST Gaithersburg
3:20pm-3:50pm Georg A. Raithel, University of Michigan
3:50pm-5:00pm Break - Poster setup
5:00pm-7:00pm Poster Session and Reception,
Bobo Room, Hodgin Hall (across street from Regener Hall)
Tuesday, June 2, 1998
8:15am-8:45am Continental Breakfast
SESSION III
Wave packet manipulation and molecular dynamics
Chair: TBA
8:45am-9:15am Stig Stenholm, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Sweden
9:15am-9:45am Hideo Mabuchi, California Institute of Technology
9:45am-10:15am Herschel Rabitz, Princeton University
"Fast Algorithms for Optimal Design Learning Control of Quantum Dynamics"
10:15am-10:35am Coffee Break
10:35am-11:05am Carlos Stroud, University of Rochester
11:05am-11:35am Ian Walmsley, University of Rochester
"State Preparation and Measurement in Isolated Quantum Systems with Few Degrees of Freedom"
11:35am-12:05pm Chris Bardeen, Univ of CA at San Deigo
12:05pm-1:30pm Lunch, Student Union Building 250 A and B
SESSION IV
BEC, atom lasers, and atom interferometry
Chair : TBA
1:30pm-2:00pm Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
2:00pm-2:30pm Paul Berman, University of Michigan
2:30pm-2:50pm Coffee Break
2:50pm-3:20pm Paul Julienne, University of Arizona
"Cold Molecule Formation in Bose-Einstein Condensates and Optical Lattices"
3:20pm-3:50pm Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut
3:50pm Adjournment
Paul M. Alsing, University of New Mexico
"Coherent Quantum Tunneling and Macroscopic Superposition States in Optical Lattices"
Isabelle Bouchoule, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, E.N.S., Paris
"Sideband Cooling of Neutral Atoms in a Far-Detuned Optical Lattice"
Gavin Brennen, University of New Mexico
To be announced
John Grondalski , University of New Mexico
"Enhanced Laser Cooling via Zeeman Coherences"
Brian King, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Ground-State Cooling of Multiple Trapped Ions"
Christopher Myatt, National Inst of Standards and Technology
"Miniature Linear RF Ion Trap for Quantum Computing"
Yuri Ovhinnikov, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Pulsed three light grating interferometer with BEC"
Quentin Turchette, National Inst of Standards and Technology
"Two-Ion Tricks for Entanglement"
Kalle-Antti Suominen, Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Finland
"Coherent Control of Molecules by Light Induced Potentials?"
Gang Xu, University of Texas, Austin,
