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