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Monday, September 21, 2009 Phillips
Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA |
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8:30
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Morning Coffee and
Pastry
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Session I
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Collective Rydberg Effects (I) Session Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour |
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9:00-9:35
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Quantum
Simulation with Cold Rydberg Atoms
Hans Peter Büchler, University of Stuttgart, Institute for
Theoretical Physics III |
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Coherent Effects and Spatial Correlations in the
Excitation of Interacting Rydberg Atoms
Thomas Amthor, Physics Institute Heidelberg
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10:10-10:30
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Break |
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10:30-11:05
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Rydberg
Crystallization
in
Ultracold
Gases
Thomas Pohl, Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex
Systems
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11:05-11:45
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Quantum
Manipulation
of
Ensembles
Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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11:45-1:45
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Lunch |
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Session II
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Few-body Effects
and Rydberg Molecules Session Chair: Matthias Weidemüller |
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1:45-2:20
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Coherent
Control of Strongly Interacting Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
Tilman Pfau, Universität Stuttgart |
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2:20-2:55
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Recent
Developments
with
Ultra-Long-Range
Rydberg
Molecules
Chris Greene, University of Colorado |
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| 2:55-3:30 |
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Towards
Ultracold Rydberg Chemistry
Jan Michael Rost, MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme |
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3:30-4:00
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Break |
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| 4:00-4:35 |
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Exotic Bound States in Cold
Rydberg Gases
James Shaffer, University of Oklahoma |
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| 4:35-5:10 |
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Rydberg Macro-dimers: Exotic
Ultra-long Range Molecules
Robin Côté; University of Connecticut |
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| 5:10-5:45 |
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Electrostatic Trapping of
Translationally Cold Hydrogen Rydberg Molecules
S.D. Hogan, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH |
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5:30-7:00
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Reception
in Perkin Lobby
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Tuesday, September 22,
2009 Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA |
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8:30
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Morning Coffee and Pastry
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Session III
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Rydberg-Rydberg
Interaction Session Chair: Chris Greene
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| 9:00-9:35 |
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Control
of
Dipole-Dipole
Interactions
in
a
Frozen
Assembly
of
Rydberg
Atoms
Pierre Pillet, Laboraroire Aimé Cotton, CNRS |
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9:35-10:10
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Demonstration
of
a
Rydberg
Mediated
CNOT
Gate
Between
Two
Neutral
Atoms
Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| 10:10-10:30 |
Break |
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| 10:30-11:05 |
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Non-linear Optics Using Rydberg
Dark States
Charles Adams, Durham University |
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11:05-11:40
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Probing
Forbidden
Transitions
with
Rydberg
Excitation
of
Ultracold
Atoms
Phillip L. Gould, University of Connecticut |
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11:40-1:45
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Lunch |
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Session IV:
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Ultracold Plasmas Session Chair: Georg Raithel
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1:45-2:20
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Rydberg Atoms in Ultracold Plasmas
Steven Rolston, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland
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2:20-2:55
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Ultracold
Plasmas
Probed
by
Fluorescence
Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University |
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2:55-3:30
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The Landau-Spitzer Time in Strongly Coupled
Ultracold Plasmas
Tom Killian, UVa |
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| 3:30-4:00 |
Break |
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| 4:00-4:35 |
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Probing
Dipole-dipole
Interactions
by
Microwave
Spectroscopy
Tom Gallagher, University of California, San Diego |
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| 4:35-5:10 |
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Antihydrogen
Formation
in
a
Pure
Positron
Plasma
Dan Dubin, University of California, San Diego |
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| 5:10-5:45 |
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Antihydrogen
Status Report
Gerald Gabrielse
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Phillips
Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA |
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8:30
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Morning Coffee and Pastry
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Rydberg Wave Packet
Engineering Session Chair: Peter
Schmelcher |
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8:45-9:20
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Atomic
Engineering:
Creation
of
Localized
Very-high-n
“Bohr-like”
Wavepackets
F. Barry Dunning, Rice University |
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9:20-9:55
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Pulsed-Field
Control
of
Coherent
Interactions
Within
and
Between
Rydberg
Atoms
Robert Jones, University of Virginia |
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Session VI:
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Collective
Rydberg Effects (II) Session Chair: Jan
Michael Rost |
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9:55-10:30
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Rydberg
Atoms in a Ponderomotive Optical Lattice
George Raithel, University of Michigan |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-11:35
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Rydberg
Atoms
in
Optical
Lattices
Oliver Morsch, CRN-INFM |
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11:35-12:10
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Strong Correlations in a Gas of
Rydberg-dressed Atoms
Guido Pupillo, University of Innsbruck
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12:10-12:45
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Collective Rydberg Excitations of an Atomic Gas
Confined in a Ring Lattice
Rosario Gonzalez-Ferez, Universidad de Granada
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12:45-1:45
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Lunch |
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Session VII:
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Rydberg Interactions
with Fields and Surfaces Session Chair:
Jim Babb |
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1:45-2:20
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Magnetic
Trapping, Imaging and Dressing of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms
Peter Schmelcher, Universitat Heidelberg |
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| 2:20-2:55 |
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Probing
Rydberg-Surface
Interaction
by
Electromagnetically
Induced
Transparency
H.B. van Linden van den Heuvell, Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute
for Experimental
Physics |
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2:55-3:30
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Rydberg
Interactions with Metallic, Semiconductor and Thin Film Surfaces
Tim Softley, Oxford University |
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| 3:30 |
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Workshop
Adjourns |
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