Conference Program
Saturday, September 5, 2015
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08:00 - 23:00
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Arrival and registration - Arrival and participant registration |
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Sunday, September 6, 2015
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08:50 - 09:00
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Opening - Conference Opening |
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09:00 - 10:30
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BEC 20 years - Daniel Kleppner |
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| 09:00 - 09:35 |
› Last observation of magnetic trapping of neutral atoms in the JILA top trap, and other recent cold-atom results. - Eric Cornell, JILA |
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| 09:45 - 10:20 |
› Recent work at MIT - Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break |
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11:00 - 12:40
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BEC 20 years - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 |
› From Optical Pumping to BEC - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 |
› 40 Years of Laser Cooling; 20 Years of BEC: still surprises - William Phillips, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technlogy |
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| 11:55 - 12:30 |
› Quantum Optics of Chiral Many-Body Spin Systems - a Rydberg Implementation - Peter Zoller, Institut für Theoretische Physik - Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
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16:00 - 17:30
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Dipolar and Rydberg gases - Jook Walraven |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 |
› 10 Years of Magnetic Dipolar Gases: From Chromium to Lanthanides - Tilman Pfau, 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttart |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 |
› Controlled many-body physics with Rydberg atoms - Christian Gross, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik |
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| 17:00 - 17:20 |
› Superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition with Dipole-Dipole interactions - Francesca Ferlaino, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Experimentalphysik - Universität Innsbruck |
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17:30 - 18:00
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Coffee break |
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18:00 - 19:05
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Prize Ceremony - Ehud Altman |
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| 18:15 - 18:35 |
› Evaporative Cooling and BEC in Hydrogen - Harald Hess, HHMI Janelia Research Campus |
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| 18:40 - 19:00 |
› Exact relations for Fermi gases with large scattering length - Shina Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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19:05 - 20:30
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Dinner |
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Monday, September 7, 2015
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:45
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Topological states - Maciej Lewenstein |
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| 09:00 - 09:35 |
› A cold grip on topology - Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich |
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| 09:45 - 10:05 |
› Bose Einstein condensates in Synthetic dimensions - Ian Spielman, Joint Quantum Institute |
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| 10:15 - 10:35 |
› Artificial gauge fields and chiral edge states for ultracold fermions in synthetic dimensions - Leonardo Fallani, University of Florence & LENS |
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10:45 - 11:15
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Coffee break |
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11:15 - 12:30
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Spin-Orbit Coupling - Nigel Cooper |
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| 11:15 - 11:50 |
› Vortex molecules, rotons and stripes in coherently coupled spinor BECs - sandro stringari, University of Trento |
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| 12:00 - 12:20 |
› BEC with Spin-Orbit coupling - Shuai Chen, University of Science and Technology of China |
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
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16:00 - 17:30
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Fermi gases - Päivi Törmä |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 |
› Strongly Interacting Gases of Atoms and Molecules - Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of technology [Cambridge] |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 |
› Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas microscope - Stefan Kuhr, University of Strathclyde |
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| 17:00 - 17:20 |
› BCS regime of the two-dimensional fermionic Hubbard model:ground-state phase diagram - Nikolay Prokofiev, Physics Department, University of Massachusetts |
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17:30 - 18:00
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Coffee break |
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18:00 - 19:00
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Kibble-Zurek Physics - Servaas Kokkelmans |
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| 18:00 - 18:20 |
› A quasi-2D gas in a flat box: A new tool for studying Kibble-Zurek physics - Jean Dalibard, Collège de France, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel |
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| 18:30 - 18:50 |
› Critical dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous Bose gas - Zoran Hadzibabic, University of Cambridge |
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19:00 - 20:30
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Dinner |
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20:45 - 22:45
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Poster Session 1 |
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| 20:45 - 22:45 |
› Creation, dynamics and interactions of solitonic vortices in elongated BECs - Giacomo Lamporesi, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Gabriele Ferrari, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche |
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:45
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Disordered Systems - Laurent Sanchez-Palencia |
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| 09:00 - 09:35 |
› From Many-Body Localisation to Thouless Quantum Pumps - New Frontiers for Ultracold Quantum Gases - Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität [München] |
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| 09:45 - 10:05 |
› Ergodicity, entanglement, and many-body localization - Dmitry Abanin, Université de Genève |
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| 10:15 - 10:35 |
› Weak and strong localization of ultra-cold atoms: breaking time reversal symmetry - Alain Aspect, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique |
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10:45 - 11:15
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Coffee break |
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11:15 - 12:30
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Entanglement and Correlations 1 - Andrew Daley |
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| 11:15 - 11:50 |
› Measuring Entanglement Entropy through the Interference of Quantum Many-Body twins - Markus Greiner, Harvard University, Physics Department |
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| 12:00 - 12:20 |
› Optimal thermometry: when the size matters - Anna sanpera, Institució Catalana d'Estudis Avançats, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
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15:00 - 19:00
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Excursion to Pals - Excursion to Pals |
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19:00 - 19:30
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Bus Transfer - Bus Transfer to Conference Dinner in Llofriu |
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19:30 - 22:30
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Banquet |
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015
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09:00 - 10:45
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Quantum simulation and non-equilibrium - Gora Shlyapnikov |
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| 09:00 - 09:35 |
› Quantum simulation of high-energy physics models - Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
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| 09:45 - 10:05 |
› Dynamics of ultracold bosons under strong confinement - Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, University of Innsbruck |
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| 10:15 - 10:35 |
› On solving a quantum many body problem by experiment - Jörg Schmiedmayer, Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology |
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10:45 - 11:15
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Coffee break |
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11:15 - 12:45
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Atom Optics and Interferometry - Gabriele Ferrari |
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| 11:15 - 11:35 |
› Experiments with two bosonic atoms: Hong-Ou-Mandel effect and spin-exchange entanglement - Cindy Regal, JILA |
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| 11:45 - 12:05 |
› An atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment - Christoph Westbrook, Laboratoire Charles Fabry |
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| 12:15 - 12:35 |
› Propagation and interferometry of bright matter wave solitons - Nick Robins, Quantum Sensors and Atomlaser Laboratory |
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
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16:00 - 17:30
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Quantum transport - Wilhem Zwerger |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 |
› Transport of strongly interacting Fermions through a quantum point contact - Jean-Philippe Brantut, Department of physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 |
› Unconventional dynamics and the self-organization of a chiral current in dissipative ultracold gases - Corinna Kollath, HISKP Universitat Bonn |
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| 17:00 - 17:20 |
› The p-wave contacts - Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto |
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17:30 - 18:00
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Coffee break |
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18:00 - 19:00
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Unconventional Superfluidity - Yoshiro Takahashi |
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| 18:00 - 18:20 |
› Looking between dimensions for modulated superfluidity: FFLO in the 1D-3D crossover - Erich Mueller, Cornell University |
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| 18:30 - 18:50 |
› Strongly Interacting Alkali-Earth Atomic Gases - Hui Zhai, Tsinghua University [Beijing] |
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19:00 - 20:30
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Dinner |
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20:45 - 22:45
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Poster Session 2 |
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:45
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Cold atoms and photonics - Yvan Castin |
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| 09:00 - 09:35 |
› Quantum dynamics of strongly interacting photons and spins - Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University [Cambridge] |
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| 09:45 - 10:05 |
› Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: a platform for tunable long-range interactions - Darrick Chang, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques |
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| 10:15 - 10:35 |
› Can fluids of light be superfluid? - Ehud Altman, Weizmann Institute for Science |
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10:45 - 11:15
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Coffee break |
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11:15 - 12:30
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Polarons - Chris Vale |
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| 11:15 - 11:50 |
› Bose and Fermi polarons in systems of ultracold atoms - eugene demler, Harvard University [Cambridge] |
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| 12:00 - 12:20 |
› Bose polarons in the strongly interacting regime - Deborah Jin, JILA |
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
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16:00 - 17:30
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Superfluidity - Klaus Sengstock |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 |
› Imaging of quantum vortices in superfluid helium droplets - Andrey Vilesov, University of Southern California |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 |
› Counterflowing superlfuid mixtures - Frédéric Chevy, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel |
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| 17:00 - 17:20 |
› Experiments with Raman dressed BECs and Floquet Bloch systems - Peter Engels, Washington State University |
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17:30 - 18:00
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Coffee break |
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18:00 - 19:00
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Entanglement 2 - Jason Ho |
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| 18:00 - 18:20 |
› Creating multi-atom entanglement in optical fiber microcavities - Jakob Reichel, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel |
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| 18:30 - 18:50 |
› Two modes – N particles: entanglement, chaos, and applications - Markus Oberthaler, Heidelberg University |
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19:00 - 20:30
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Dinner |
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20:45 - 22:45
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Poster Session 3 |
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22:45 - 23:30
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End of Conference - End of Conference |
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Friday, September 11, 2015
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08:00 - 20:00
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Departure - End of conference. Bus transfer to airport. |
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