Conference Program

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08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00	Arrival and registration 8:00 - 23:00 (15h) Arrival and registration Arrival and participant registration	Opening 8:50 - 9:00 (10min) Opening Conference Opening BEC 20 years 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) BEC 20 years Daniel Kleppner › Last observation of magnetic trapping of neutral atoms in the JILA top trap, and other recent cold-atom results. - Eric Cornell, JILA 09:00-09:35 (35min) › Recent work at MIT - Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT 09:45-10:20 (35min) Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break BEC 20 years 11:00 - 12:40 (1h40) BEC 20 years Claude Cohen-Tannoudji › From Optical Pumping to BEC - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France 11:00-11:15 (15min) › 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 11:15-11:45 (30min) › 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 11:55-12:30 (35min) Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 (1h30) Lunch Dipolar and Rydberg gases 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Dipolar and Rydberg gases Jook Walraven › 10 Years of Magnetic Dipolar Gases: From Chromium to Lanthanides - Tilman Pfau, 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttart 16:00-16:20 (20min) › Controlled many-body physics with Rydberg atoms - Christian Gross, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik 16:30-16:50 (20min) › 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 17:00-17:20 (20min) Coffee break 17:30 - 18:00 (30min) Coffee break Prize Ceremony 18:00 - 19:05 (1h05) Prize Ceremony Ehud Altman › Evaporative Cooling and BEC in Hydrogen - Harald Hess, HHMI Janelia Research Campus 18:15-18:35 (20min) › Exact relations for Fermi gases with large scattering length - Shina Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology 18:40-19:00 (20min) Dinner 19:05 - 20:30 (1h25) Dinner	Topological states 9:00 - 10:45 (1h45) Topological states Maciej Lewenstein › A cold grip on topology - Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich 09:00-09:35 (35min) › Bose Einstein condensates in Synthetic dimensions - Ian Spielman, Joint Quantum Institute 09:45-10:05 (20min) › Artificial gauge fields and chiral edge states for ultracold fermions in synthetic dimensions - Leonardo Fallani, University of Florence & LENS 10:15-10:35 (20min) Coffee break 10:45 - 11:15 (30min) Coffee break Spin-Orbit Coupling 11:15 - 12:30 (1h15) Spin-Orbit Coupling Nigel Cooper › Vortex molecules, rotons and stripes in coherently coupled spinor BECs - sandro stringari, University of Trento 11:15-11:50 (35min) › BEC with Spin-Orbit coupling - Shuai Chen, University of Science and Technology of China 12:00-12:20 (20min) Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 (1h30) Lunch Fermi gases 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Fermi gases Päivi Törmä › Strongly Interacting Gases of Atoms and Molecules - Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of technology [Cambridge] 16:00-16:20 (20min) › Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas microscope - Stefan Kuhr, University of Strathclyde 16:30-16:50 (20min) › BCS regime of the two-dimensional fermionic Hubbard model:ground-state phase diagram - Nikolay Prokofiev, Physics Department, University of Massachusetts 17:00-17:20 (20min) Coffee break 17:30 - 18:00 (30min) Coffee break Kibble-Zurek Physics 18:00 - 19:00 (1h) Kibble-Zurek Physics Servaas Kokkelmans › A quasi-2D gas in a flat box: A new tool for studying Kibble-Zurek physics - Jean Dalibard, Collège de France, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel 18:00-18:20 (20min) › Critical dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous Bose gas - Zoran Hadzibabic, University of Cambridge 18:30-18:50 (20min) Dinner 19:00 - 20:30 (1h30) Dinner Poster Session 1 20:45 - 22:45 (2h) Poster Session 1 › 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 20:45-22:45 (2h)	Disordered Systems 9:00 - 10:45 (1h45) Disordered Systems Laurent Sanchez-Palencia › 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] 09:00-09:35 (35min) › Ergodicity, entanglement, and many-body localization - Dmitry Abanin, Université de Genève 09:45-10:05 (20min) › Weak and strong localization of ultra-cold atoms: breaking time reversal symmetry - Alain Aspect, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique 10:15-10:35 (20min) Coffee break 10:45 - 11:15 (30min) Coffee break Entanglement and Correlations 1 11:15 - 12:30 (1h15) Entanglement and Correlations 1 Andrew Daley › Measuring Entanglement Entropy through the Interference of Quantum Many-Body twins - Markus Greiner, Harvard University, Physics Department 11:15-11:50 (35min) › Optimal thermometry: when the size matters - Anna sanpera, Institució Catalana d'Estudis Avançats, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 12:00-12:20 (20min) Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 (1h30) Lunch Excursion to Pals 15:00 - 19:00 (4h) Excursion to Pals Bus Transfer 19:00 - 19:30 (30min) Bus Transfer Bus Transfer to Conference Dinner in Llofriu Banquet 19:30 - 22:30 (3h) Banquet	Quantum simulation and non-equilibrium 9:00 - 10:45 (1h45) Quantum simulation and non-equilibrium Gora Shlyapnikov › Quantum simulation of high-energy physics models - Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics 09:00-09:35 (35min) › Dynamics of ultracold bosons under strong confinement - Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, University of Innsbruck 09:45-10:05 (20min) › On solving a quantum many body problem by experiment - Jörg Schmiedmayer, Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology 10:15-10:35 (20min) Coffee break 10:45 - 11:15 (30min) Coffee break Atom Optics and Interferometry 11:15 - 12:45 (1h30) Atom Optics and Interferometry Gabriele Ferrari › Experiments with two bosonic atoms: Hong-Ou-Mandel effect and spin-exchange entanglement - Cindy Regal, JILA 11:15-11:35 (20min) › An atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment - Christoph Westbrook, Laboratoire Charles Fabry 11:45-12:05 (20min) › Propagation and interferometry of bright matter wave solitons - Nick Robins, Quantum Sensors and Atomlaser Laboratory 12:15-12:35 (20min) Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 (1h30) Lunch Quantum transport 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Quantum transport Wilhem Zwerger › Transport of strongly interacting Fermions through a quantum point contact - Jean-Philippe Brantut, Department of physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 16:00-16:20 (20min) › Unconventional dynamics and the self-organization of a chiral current in dissipative ultracold gases - Corinna Kollath, HISKP Universitat Bonn 16:30-16:50 (20min) › The p-wave contacts - Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto 17:00-17:20 (20min) Coffee break 17:30 - 18:00 (30min) Coffee break Unconventional Superfluidity 18:00 - 19:00 (1h) Unconventional Superfluidity Yoshiro Takahashi › Looking between dimensions for modulated superfluidity: FFLO in the 1D-3D crossover - Erich Mueller, Cornell University 18:00-18:20 (20min) › Strongly Interacting Alkali-Earth Atomic Gases - Hui Zhai, Tsinghua University [Beijing] 18:30-18:50 (20min) Dinner 19:00 - 20:30 (1h30) Dinner Poster Session 2 20:45 - 22:45 (2h) Poster Session 2	Cold atoms and photonics 9:00 - 10:45 (1h45) Cold atoms and photonics Yvan Castin › Quantum dynamics of strongly interacting photons and spins - Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University [Cambridge] 09:00-09:35 (35min) › Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: a platform for tunable long-range interactions - Darrick Chang, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques 09:45-10:05 (20min) › Can fluids of light be superfluid? - Ehud Altman, Weizmann Institute for Science 10:15-10:35 (20min) Coffee break 10:45 - 11:15 (30min) Coffee break Polarons 11:15 - 12:30 (1h15) Polarons Chris Vale › Bose and Fermi polarons in systems of ultracold atoms - eugene demler, Harvard University [Cambridge] 11:15-11:50 (35min) › Bose polarons in the strongly interacting regime - Deborah Jin, JILA 12:00-12:20 (20min) Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 (1h30) Lunch Superfluidity 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Superfluidity Klaus Sengstock › Imaging of quantum vortices in superfluid helium droplets - Andrey Vilesov, University of Southern California 16:00-16:20 (20min) › Counterflowing superlfuid mixtures - Frédéric Chevy, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel 16:30-16:50 (20min) › Experiments with Raman dressed BECs and Floquet Bloch systems - Peter Engels, Washington State University 17:00-17:20 (20min) Coffee break 17:30 - 18:00 (30min) Coffee break Entanglement 2 18:00 - 19:00 (1h) Entanglement 2 Jason Ho › Creating multi-atom entanglement in optical fiber microcavities - Jakob Reichel, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel 18:00-18:20 (20min) › Two modes – N particles: entanglement, chaos, and applications - Markus Oberthaler, Heidelberg University 18:30-18:50 (20min) Dinner 19:00 - 20:30 (1h30) Dinner Poster Session 3 20:45 - 22:45 (2h) Poster Session 3 End of Conference 22:45 - 23:30 (45min) End of Conference End of Conference	Departure 8:00 - 20:00 (12h) Departure End of conference. Bus transfer to airport.

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