Monday, January 7 2008 | ||||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||||
| 7:25 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University (Welcome) Welcoming Remarks | |||
| 7:30 | David Moncton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Emerging Areas in Synchrotron Radiation and X-Ray Physics) ‘‘Integrating Laser and Linac Technology for Next Generation X-ray Sources’’ | |||
| 8:00 | Robert H. Austin, Princeton University (From glasses to biological motors) ‘‘Ratchets in Biology’’ | |||
| 8:30 | Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University (New Directions in Coherent Alignment) ‘‘New Directions in Nonadiabatic Alignment. From Ultrafast Switches to Guided Molecular Assembly’’ | |||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||||
| Emerging Areas in Synchrotron Radiation and X-Ray Physics | From glasses to biological motors | New Directions in Coherent Alignment | ||
| 9:10 | Esen E. Alp, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Lattice Dynamics of Nanoscale particles via Inelastic X-Ray Scattering’’ |
Clare Yu, University of California at Irvine ‘‘The Transportation System Inside a Living Cell’’ |
Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Control of x-ray processes using laser-aligned molecules’’ |
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| 9:30 | Ian Johnson, Paul Scherrer Institute ‘‘Coherent X-rays for Imaging and Dynamic Scattering’’ |
Dean Astumiuan, University of Maine ‘‘Symmetry relations for trajectories of a Brownian Moleuclar Machine’’ |
Stephane Guerin, University of Bourgogne ‘‘Optimizing field-free molecular alignment by designed laser pulses’’ |
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| 9:50 | Dean Chapman, University of Saskatchewan ‘‘Medical Imaging’’ |
Erin Craig, University of Oregon ‘‘Model for myosin-V walking mechanism’’ |
Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado at Boulder ‘‘Molecular Recollision Interferometry using High Harmonic Generation for Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics’’ |
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| 10:10 | Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M and Princeton University ‘‘XUV via coherent Raman superradiance 1: concepts and analysis’’ |
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| Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Randall G. Hulet, Rice University (Pairing of Ultracold Fermions) ‘‘Experiments with Ultracold Atomic Fermions at the BEC-BCS Crossover’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Peter Nordlander, Rice University (Frontiers of Plasmonics) ‘‘Plasmonic Nanostructures: Artificial molecules’’ | ||||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Superradiance | Pairing of Ultracold Fermions | Frontiers of Plasmonics | Novel Optics | ||
| 12:00 | Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University ‘‘XUV via coherent Raman superradiance 2: computational results’’ |
John Thomas, Duke University ‘‘Is a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas a Perfect Fluid?’’ |
Javier Aizpurua, Donostia Intl. Phys. Ctr., Spain ‘‘Localised plasmons for resonant surface-enhanced spectroscopy’’ |
M. Howard Lee, University of Georgia ‘‘Birkhoff’s theorem and Ergometer: A meeting of two cultures’’ |
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| 12:20 | Jun-Tao Chang, Texas A&M University ‘‘A new kind of cavity QED: superradiance from a large cloud’’ |
Kathy Levin, University of Chicago ‘‘Novel States of Matter in Ultracold Fermi Gases’’ |
Mark Stockman, Georgia State University ‘‘Ultrafast Controlled Nanoplasmonics’’ |
Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) ‘‘Wave propagation in phase space’’ |
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| 12:40 | Erich J. Mueller, Cornell University ‘‘Probes of pairing in strongly interacting Fermi gases -- what can we learn from spectroscopy?’’ |
Stefan Maier, Imperial College, London (UK) ‘‘Plasmonics throughout the spectrum: Sub-wavelength energy localization from the visible to the THz regime’’ |
Pat Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh ‘‘A Wigner approximation to wave propagation in a random medium’’ |
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| -- Evening -- | |||||
| Monday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester (Slow and Fast Light) ‘‘Advances in Slow and Fast Light’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Claire Gmachl, Princeton University (Quantum Cascade Lasers) ‘‘Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University (Raman Technique for Ultrashort Pulses) ‘‘Toward sub-cycle field shaping by molecular modulation in gasses and solids: Raman coherence at work’’ | ||||
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| Monday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Slow and Fast Light | Quantum Cascade Lasers | Frontiers of Plasmonics | Raman Technique for Ultrashort Pulses | ||
| 20:50 | Paul Narum, The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment ‘‘Fast and slow light - What are the fundamental limitations and what does it actually mean?’’ |
Mikhail Belkin, Harvard University ‘‘Novel intersubband THz sources for operation above cryogenic temperatures’’ |
Naomi Halas, Rice University ‘‘Physics and applications at the ‘hot’ metal-molecule interface’’ |
Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro- Communications, Japan ‘‘Octave-spanning Raman comb generation with absolute phase control’’ |
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| 21:10 | Daniel J. Gauthier, Duke University ‘‘Observation of Stored Light via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering’’ |
Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ‘‘Mid/far-infrared photodetectors based on quantum coherence in coupled quantum wells’’ |
Gennady Shvets, University of Texas at Austin ‘‘Plasmonic Metamaterials: superlenses, hyperlenses, and negative index materials’’ |
Andy Kung, Academia Sinica, Taiwan ‘‘Recent progress in single-cycle to sub-cycle optical pulse generation by the Raman technique’’ |
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| 21:30 | John Howell, University of Rochester ‘‘Slow and Stopped Images’’ |
Weng W. Chow, Sandia National Laboratories ‘‘Quantum coherence in quantum cascade lasers: paths to THz generation and correlated photon emission’’ |
Norbert Kroó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘‘Nonlinear Plasmonics’’ |
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| 21:50 | George R. Welch, Texas A&M University ‘‘Subwavelength imaging via dark states’’ |
Gottfried Strasser, SUNY, University at Buffalo ‘‘Recent results on GaAs-based Quantum Cascade lasers’’ |
Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester ‘‘Enhancing light-matter interactions with optical antennas’’ |
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Tuesday, January 8 2008 | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||||
| 7:30 | Federico Capasso, Harvard University (Casimir Forces) ‘‘Harnessing quantum fluctuations: design, physics, and nanotechnology of Casimir forces and QED torques’’ | |||
| 8:00 | Ofir E. Alon, Heidelberg University (Interacting Quantum Gases) ‘‘Interacting Bose gases: Multi-orbital mean-field and beyond’’ | |||
| 8:30 | John Pendry, Imperial College (Metamaterials) ‘‘Progress in Metamaterials - an Overview’’ | |||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||||
| Casimir Forces | Interacting Quantum Gases | Metamaterials | ||
| 9:10 | Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Breakdown of Planck’s Blackbody Radiation Law at Nanoscale’’ |
Caleb A. Christensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘‘Atom interferometry experiments with interacting Bose-Einstein condensates’’ |
Diego Dalvit, Los Alamos National Laboratory ‘‘Engineering Casimir forces with metamaterials’’ |
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| 9:30 | Markus Aspelmeier, Universität Wien ‘‘Laser-cooling and quantum entanglement of micromechanical systems’’ |
Ana Maria Rey, ITAMP ‘‘Cat state production with ultracold bosons in rotating ring superlattices’’ |
Vladimir Falko, Lancaster University ‘‘Analogy between p-n junction in graphene and optical metamaterials with negative refraction index’’ |
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| 9:50 | Jeremy Munday, Harvard University ‘‘Measurement of the Casimir force in fluids: from attraction to repulsion’’ |
David S. Weiss, Pennsylvania State University ‘‘Interacting atoms in optical lattices’’ |
Willie Padilla, Boston College ‘‘Metamaterials for Novel Devices’’ |
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| 10:10 | Giovanni Carugno, University of Padua ‘‘Dynamic Casimir effect: extracting light from vacuum’’ |
Yehuda B. Band, Ben-Gurion University ‘‘Interference with Bose-Einstein condensates’’ |
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| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Bertrand Girard, LCAR - Université de Toulouse (Wave Packets Dynamics) ‘‘Wave packet dynamics and interferences in atoms and molecules’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut (Metamaterials) ‘‘Negative index of refraction with atomic coherence’’ | ||||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Novel Optics | Wave Packets Dynamics | Metamaterials | CARS | ||
| 12:00 | Jim Franson, University of Maryland at Baltimore County ‘‘Beyond Bell’s Inequality’’ |
Helen Fielding, University College, London ‘‘Setting the quantum clock: Localisation of Rydberg wave packets in H2’’ |
David Smith, Duke University ‘‘Inhomogeneous Metamaterials: From Gradient Index to Transformation Optics’’ |
Arthur Dogariu, Princeton University ‘‘Real-time Coherent Raman for biological applications’’ |
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| 12:20 | Yanhua Shih, University of Maryland at Baltimore County ‘‘The physics of ghost imaging’’ |
Kenji Ohmori, Institute for Molecular Sciences, Okazaki ‘‘Tailoring Picometric Quantum Carpets by Controlling Ultrafast Wave-Packet Interference’’ |
Igor Smolyaninov, University of Maryland ‘‘Novel nanophotonic devices based on plasmonic metamaterials’’ |
Hui Xia, Princeton University ‘‘Coherent excitation in Raman Spectroscopy’’ |
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| 12:40 | Herbert Winful, University of Michigan ‘‘A resolution of the tunneling time conundrum’’ |
Terry Mullins, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ‘‘Coherent transients in the photoassociation of ultracold atoms by femtosecond pulses’’ |
Martin Wegener, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) ‘‘Recent Progress on Photonic Metamaterials’’ |
Dmitry Pestov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Ultrafast Coherent Raman Spectroscopy: Hybrid Technique and Its Applications’’ |
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| Tuesday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Mikhail D. Lukin, Harvard University (Diamond-based quantum optics) ‘‘Quantum optics meets nanoscience’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University (Metamaterials) ‘‘Controlling Light with Metamaterials’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Dietrich Leibfried, NIST, Boulder (Quantum Information, Computation, and Communication) ‘‘Quantum information processing with trapped atomic ions’’ | ||||
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| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Diamond-based quantum optics | Quantum Information, Computation, and Communication | Metamaterials | CARS | ||
| 20:50 | Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University ‘‘Sub-wavelength single-molecule imaging using quantum optics’’ |
Haohua Wang, University of California at Santa Barbara ‘‘High fidelity gates in Josephson junction qubits’’ |
Nikolay Zheludev, The University of Southampton ‘‘Close mode resonances in photonic meta-materials’’ |
Svetlana Malinovskaya, Stevens Institute of Technology ‘‘Control of Raman transitions in CARS spectroscopy using chirped pulses (theory)’’ |
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| 21:10 | Neil Manson, Australian National University ‘‘Properties of the nitrogen-vacancy center color in diamond for quantum information processing’’ |
Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin at Madison ‘‘Excitation and interaction of Rydberg atoms for quantum bits and quantum registers’’ |
Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Coherency in Scattering at Slits and Grooves in Metallic Films: from Young’s Double Slit Experiment to Solar Cells’’ |
Michael M. Kash, Lake Forest College ‘‘Pulse Catch-up in SOS’’ |
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| 21:30 | Jean-François Roch, ENS Cachon ‘‘Single color centers in nanodiamonds’’ |
Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin at Madison ‘‘Silicon quantum dots as quantum bits’’ |
Natasha Litchinitser, SUNY, Buffalo ‘‘From Positive- to Negative-Index Materials: Transitional Phenomena’’ |
Gombojov Ariunbold, Texas A&M University ‘‘Distributed Gain in SOS’’ |
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| 21:50 | Howard Brandt, Army Research Laboratory ‘‘Differential Geometry of Quantum Computation’’ |
Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State University ‘‘Nanoplasmonics with gain: From low loss to lasing’’ |
Deniz Yavuz, University of Wisconsin at Madison ‘‘Molecular modulation with continuous-wave laser beams’’ |
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Wednesday, January 9 2008 | ||||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||||
| 7:30 | Wolfgang Schleich, Universität Ulm (Number Theory and Quantum Mechanics) ‘‘Factorization of numbers with classical and quantum interference’’ | |||
| 8:00 | Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin (Tests of Fundamental Physics) ‘‘Comprehensive Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion’’ | |||
| 8:30 | Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (New Developments in Decoherence Control) ‘‘How far can we push the quantum - classical boundary’’ | |||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||||
| Number Theory and Quantum Mechanics | Tests of Fundamental Physics | New Developments in Decoherence Control | ||
| 9:10 | Ernst Rasel, Universität Hannover ‘‘Gauss sum factorization with cold atoms’’ |
Dmitry Budker, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘Crossing the T (and P) and dotting the \\alpha -- some fundamental-symmetry tests at Berkeley’’ |
Dongxia Ma, Texas A&M University ‘‘Bohr model with nearest atom quantization’’ |
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| 9:30 | Dieter Suter, Universität Dortmund ‘‘Factorizing numbers with the Gauss sum technique: NMR implementations’’ |
Gerald Gwinner, University of Manitoba ‘‘Towards studies of fundamental symmetries with francium atoms in an on-line laser trap’’ |
Alex Greilich, University of Dortmund ‘‘Ensemble effects of electron spins in self-assembled quantum dots’’ |
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| 9:50 | Béatrice Chatel, CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse III ‘‘Factoring numbers with ultrashort laser pulses’’ |
Ron Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ‘‘Astro-comb: revolutionizing precision spectroscopy in astrophysics’’ |
Christian Gross, University of Heidelberg ‘‘Entanglement in degenerate Bose gases’’ |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||||
| 10:30 | Lamb Award (Lamb Award) ‘‘The presentation of the 2007 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics’’ | |||
| 11:00 | Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan (Compact Laser Plasma Accelerators) ‘‘Compact Laser Plasma Accelerators’’ | |||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||||
| BEC experiment and theory | Compact Laser Plasma Accelerators | Metamaterials | ||
| 11:40 | Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, Institut d’optique, Palaiseau ‘‘Anderson localization in interacting Bose gases’’ |
Eric Esarey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ‘‘GeV electrons from channel-guided laser wakefield accelerators’’ |
Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona ‘‘Slow light in negative refractive index materials’’ |
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| 12:00 | Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘Hybrid approach to fluctuations in mesoscopic interacting Bose-Einstein condensate’’ |
Anatoly Maksimchuk, University of Michigan ‘‘High-energy electron acceleration in laser wakefields’’ |
Evgenii Narimanov, Purdue University ‘‘The Hyperlens: From Meta-Materials to Meta-Devices’’ |
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| 12:20 | Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ‘‘BEC: Beyond Gibbs and Wick Perturbation Theory’’ |
Warren Mori, University of California at Los Angeles ‘‘A path towards 10-100 GeV LWFA stages’’ |
Graeme Milton, University of Utah ‘‘Electromagnetic circuits’’ |
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| 12:40 | Moochan Kim, Texas A&M University ‘‘Master equations for quasiprobability function in BEC system’’ |
Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania ‘‘Metactronics: Metamaterial Nanocircuits and Wireless Elements at Nanoscales’’ |
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| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Colin McKinstrie, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent (Quantum parametric processes in fibers) ‘‘Parametric processes in fiber-based devices and systems’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | Eric Mazur, Harvard University (Nanophotonics) ‘‘Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Boris Altschuler, Columbia University (Disorder and Localization in Ultracold Atomic Gases - 1) ‘‘Optics of electric flows in graphene’’ | ||||
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| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Quantum parametric processes in fibers | Disorder and Localization in Ultracold Atomic Gases - 1 | Nanophotonics | Novel Optics | ||
| 20:50 | Michael Vasilyev, University of Texas at Arlington ‘‘Phase-sensitive amplification in fibers’’ |
Mark Havey, Old Dominion University ‘‘Time-dependent light and atomic dynamics in high-density, ultra-cold atomic Rb vapor’’ |
Marko Loncar, Harvard University ‘‘Optomechanical interaction in nanophotonic devices’’ |
Nan Yu, NASA Jet Propultion Laboratory ‘‘Whispering gallery mode resonator thermal limits and stabilization’’ |
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| 21:10 | John Harvey, University of Auckland ‘‘Everything you always wanted to know about vector FWM in fibers’’ |
Robin Kaiser, CNRS, France ‘‘Coherent wave transport and gain in a large cloud of cold atoms’’ |
David A. B. Miller, Stanford University ‘‘Fundamental limit to nanophotonic and slow light components’’ |
Geoffrey Duxbury, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow ‘‘Propagation of chirped infrared QC laser pulses through an optically thick minimally damped gas: delayed rapid passage signals in the 8 micron spectrum of acetylene’’ |
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| 21:30 | Alan Migdall, NIST Gaithersburg ‘‘Fiber-based source of photon pairs’’ |
Silke Ospelkaus, JILA, UC Boulder, and University of Hamburg ‘‘Fermi-Bose-Mixtures in 3D Optical Lattices’’ |
Kohzo Hakuta, University of Electro- Communications, Japan ‘‘Single Atoms on an Optical Nanofiber’’ |
Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Control of electromagnetically induced transparency by field phase’’ |
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| 21:50 | Alfred U’Ren, CICESE ‘‘Tailored photon-pair generation in fibers’’ |
Domenico Pacifici, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Plasmons in slit and hole arrays: implications of coherence and short range order for modulators and solar cells’’ |
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Thursday, January 10 2008 | |||||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | |||||
| 7:30 | Michel Devoret, Yale University (Disorder and Localization in Ultracold Atomic Gases - 2) ‘‘Circuit QED : superconducting atoms" in microwave resonators’’ | ||||
| 8:00 | Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University (Quantum Coherence Effects) ‘‘Atomic and Nuclear Coherence Effects in Solids’’ | ||||
| 8:30 | Vladislav Yakovlev, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (Biochemical applications of Nonlinear optical spectroscopy) ‘‘Probing biochemical interactions in microfluidic devices using nonlinear optical spectroscopy’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | |||||
| Quantum Coherence Effects | Disorder and Localization in Ultracold Atomic Gases - 2 | Biochemical applications of Nonlinear optical spectroscopy | Novel Optics | ||
| 9:10 | Takashi Nakajima, Kyoto University ‘‘Phase- and chirp-dependent excitation and ionization’’ |
Eric Akkermans, The Technion, Israel and Yale University, USA ‘‘Photon localization and Dicke superradiance in atomic gases: crossover to a ‘small world’ network’’ |
Vladimir A. Lobastov, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Ultrafast structural dynamics with electron microscopy’’ |
Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego ‘‘Control of Excitons’’ |
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| 9:30 | Robin Santra, Argonne National Laboratory ‘‘Strong-field control of x-ray absorption’’ |
Azriel Genack, City College of New York ‘‘Modes and the statistics of dynamics and speckle evolution’’ |
Vadim V. Lozovoy, Michigan State University ‘‘Single beam CARS with pseudorandom phase modulated femtosecond pulses’’ |
Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, University of California at Irvine ‘‘Applications of Femtosecond Coherent Raman Spectroscopy’’ |
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| 9:50 | Stephen A. Lyon, Princeton University ‘‘Enhancing coherence of semiconductor-based quantum bits’’ |
Peter Rabl, Harvard University ‘‘Hybrid Quantum Computing with Polar Molecules’’ |
Feruz Ganikhanov, West Virginia University ‘‘High sensitivity vibrational imaging with broadly tunable lasers’’ |
Anatoliy Savchenkov, OEwaves, Inc. ‘‘Frequency references based on four-wave mixing in crystals’’ |
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| 10:10 | James Higbie, University of California at Berkeley ‘‘New Directions in Magnetometry using Nonlinear Magneto-optical Rotation’’ |
Philippe Jacquod, University of Arizona ‘‘Capturing quantum coherence with classical mechanics: The semiclassical approach to mesoscopic physics’’ |
Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University ‘‘Femtosecond Laser for Eye Surgery’’ |
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| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | |||||
| 10:50 | Henry C. Kapteyn, University of Colorado at Boulder (Ultrafast X-ray Dynamics) ‘‘Probing molecular dynamics using ultrafast x-rays’’ | ||||
| 11:20 | Jonathan P. Dowling, Lousiana State University (Quantum Optical Interferometric Sensors) ‘‘Quantum Sensors: The Low Down on High NOON’’ | ||||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | |||||
| Quantum Coherence Effects | Quantum Optical Interferometric Sensors | Ultrafast X-ray Dynamics | Novel Optics | ||
| 12:00 | Selim Shahriar, Northwestern University ‘‘A Fast-Light Augmented Zero-Area Active Sagnac Interferometer for Enhanced Strain Sensitivity AC-Coupled Gravitational Wave Detection’’ |
Hwang Lee, Lousiana State University ‘‘Sub-Shot Noise Optical Interferometry’’ |
Matteo Rini, Lawrence Berkeley Lab ‘‘Ultrafast Studies of Phase Transition Dynamics in Correlated Electron Systems’’ |
Eric W. Van Stryland, CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida ‘‘White-Light Continuum Z-scan Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy’’ |
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| 12:20 | Petr Anisimov, Texas A&M University ‘‘Dressed state analysis of refractive index enhancement in Raman system -- Upper limit estimate’’ |
Gerald Gilbert, MITRE ‘‘Aspects of Practical Remote Quantum Sensing’’ |
Kenichi Ishikawa, The University of Tokyo ‘‘Wavelength-dependence of high-harmonic generation’’ |
Nikolai Stelmakh, University of Texas at Arlington ‘‘Spatial mode multiplexing of lasers beams’’ |
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| 12:40 | Elizabeth Donley, NIST - Boulder ‘‘Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyroscope’’ |
Christopher C. Gerry, Lehman College, CUNY ‘‘Heisenberg Limited Measurements with Coherent States and Weak Kerr Nonlinearities’’ |
Thomas Pfeifer, University of California at Berkeley, and LBNL ‘‘Sub-cycle ionization gating of high-harmonics and attosecond XUV spectral interferometry’’ |
Konstantin Vodopyanov, Stanford University ‘‘New Light from GaAs’’ |
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| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | |||||
| 19:00 | Jack Harris, Yale University (Mechanical Oscillators) ‘‘Strong dispersive coupling of an optical cavity to a micromechanical resonator’’ | ||||
| 19:30 | James Gord, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Femtosecond and Quantum Optical Sensors) ‘‘Propulsion Applications of Femtosecond Sensing’’ | ||||
| 20:00 | Jason Fleischer, Princeton University (Quantum and Optical Hydrodynamics) ‘‘Optical hydrodynamics’’ | ||||
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| Thursday Evening Invited Session | |||||
| Mechanical Oscillators | Femtosecond and Quantum Optical Sensors | Quantum and Optical Hydrodynamics | |||
| 20:50 | Florian Marquardt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich ‘‘Quantum theory of optomechanical cooling’’ |
Robert P. Lucht, Purdue University ‘‘Theory of Femtosecond CARS for Single-Laser-Shot, High-Rep-Rate Gas-Phase Measurements’’ |
Peter Engels, Washington State University ‘‘Quantum hydrodynamics in BECs: From soundwaves to quantum shock’’ |
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| 21:10 | Kater Murch [Title Not Entered] |
Robert J. Levis, Temple University ‘‘Ultrafast, Laser-Generated Filament Plasma-Dynamics as Probed by Femtosecond Box-CARS’’ |
Mankei Tsang, California Institute of Technology ‘‘Wave, Particle, and Fluid Properties of light’’ |
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| 21:30 | Pierre-François Cohadon, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel ‘‘Experimental optomechanics with silica and silicon mirrors’’ |
Anil Patnaik, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ‘‘Coherent repumping assisted immunity of Raman coherence to rapid collisional decays’’ |
Hrvoje Buljan, University of Zagreb, Croatia ‘‘Nonequilibrium dynamics of 1D Bose gases within the Lieb-Liniger and Tonks-Girardeau models’’ |
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| 21:50 | Frank A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ‘‘Progress towards an atom interferometer gradient magnetometer’’ |
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