Monday, April 19, 2010
8:30 Morning Coffee and Pastry 9:00-9:10 Session I:Particle Interferometry ; Chair: David Pritchard 9:10-9:55Neutron Interferometry: Results and Perspectives
Helmut Rauch![]()
9:55-10:40 Applying lessons from atom-scale science to develop new charged particle sources
Robert Wolkow, National Institute for Nanotechnology![]()
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10:40-11:20Break 11:20-12:05
New Applications for Nano-Gratings
Alexander Cronin, University of Arizona![]()
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12:00-2:00Lunch
Session II: Particle Interferometry and Mesoscopic Matter Chair: Silverman 2:00-2:45Quantum Phenomena Observed by Electrons
Akira Tonomura, Hitachi, Ltd.![]()
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2:45-3:30
Slow Ion Interferometry
Dallin Durfee, Brigham Young Univ.![]()
3:30-4:00Break 4:00-4:45 Towards quantum superpositions of a mirror
D. Bouwmeester, University of California, Santa Barbara
5:00-7:30Reception and Posters in Perkin Lobby
Poster Presentors:
Roger Bach, Electron Double Slit Diffraction
Maaneli Derakhshani, The Schrödinger-Newton Equation versus Self-Field Quantum Linearized Gravity: Implications for Matter-Wave Interferometry
Christopher Erickson
Clemens Gneiting, Nonclassical correlations in the motion of dissociated Feshbach molecules
Philipp Haslinger, Towards quantum interferometry with metal clusters
Andreas Jacob, Non-Abelian Matter Wave Optics
Scot McGregor, Quantum Stern-Gerlach Magnet for Electrons
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
8:30 Morning Coffee and Pastry Session IIIDecoherence and quantum effects (Chair: Cronin) 9:00-9:45 Observation of Aharonov-Bohm Effects by Neutron Interferometry
Sam Werner, Physics Lab, NIST![]()
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9:45-10:30You know, it would be really sufficient to coherently control an electron
Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln![]()
10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-11:45Integrated photon-atom interface for quantum information
Wolfgang Tittel, University of Calgary![]()
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break Session IVQuantum Mechanics: Randomness and Information (Chair: Batelaan) 2:00-2:45Search for Nonrandom Behavior in Nuclear Decay
Mark Silverman, Trinity College![]()
2:45-3:30 New Evidence for a Solar Influence on Nuclear Decay Rates
E. Fischbach, Purdue University![]()
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3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-4:45Can Molecular Interferometry Tell Us Something about Quantum Gravity?
Steven Carlip, University of California at Davis![]()
4:45-5:30 Mesoscopic Consequences of Non-Quantum Gravity
Stephen Boughn, Haverford College![]()
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
8:30 Morning Coffee and Pastry Session V:Quantum Correlations and Tests of Fundamental Theory (Chair: Sadeghpour) 9:00-9:45
Two-Electron Time-Delay Interference in Atomic Double Ionization by Attosecond Pulses
Bill McCurdy, University of California, Davis![]()
9:45-10:30
Atom interferometry with trapped Bose-Einstein condensates: Impact of atom-atom interactions
Jörg Schmiedmayer![]()
10:30-11:00break 11:00-11:45
David Johnson, Stanford University![]()
11:45-12:30 Markus Arndt ![]()
12:30-1:00 Lunch 12:30 Wrap Up. 4:30 All Workshop Participants are invited to the ITAMP Colloquium Series:
Prof. Schmiedmayer will be giving the talk "Probing coherence and correlations in 1d many body quantum systems"The colloquia are held Wednesdays in Harvard Physics Jefferson Lab 356 at 4:30 p.m. Tea Is served at 4 p.m.
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