Since I sort of implied a series in the previous post, and I have no better ideas, here’s a look at Thursday’s DAMOP program:
Thursday Morning, 8am (yes, they start having talks at 8am. It’s a great trial.)
Session J1 Novel Probes of Ultracold Atom Gases
Chair: David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University Room: Imperial East
Invited Speakers: Cheng Chin, Markus Greiner, Kaden Hazzard, Tin-Lun HoSession J2 Coherent Control with Optical Frequency Combs
Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Imperial Center
Invited Speakers: J. Ye, Moshe Shapiro, W. Campbell, Svetlana MalinovskayaSession J3 Ultracold Chemistry
Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University Room: Imperial WestSession J4 Atomic and Molecular Collisions Related to Astrophysical Applications
Sponsor: GEC Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton Room: Regency Ballroom
Invited Speakers: S. Schippers, J.E. Lawler, Kate Kirby, Ara ChutjianSession J5 Strong Field Dissociative Ionization: Wave Packets in Molecular Ions
Chair: Carlos Trallero, National Research Council Canada Room: Arboretum I-IIISession J6 Bose-Einstein Condensation
Chair: Hal Metcalf, Stony Brook University Room: Arboretum IV-V
In this session, we see the first appearance of the other major thread in DAMOP, namely precision measurement. The first session is the usual ultracold atoms stuff, but the second session, on frequency combs, is the first real precision measurement session at this year’s DAMOP. It involves ultrafast lasers, but it’s primarily about measuring physical quantities with ridiculous precision, which is practically a topic unto itself.
The other sessions, in order, are ultra-cold atoms, old school atomic collisions/ applications, ultrafast lasers, and ultracold atoms. It’s a good morning for ultra.
At 10:30, we have:
Session K1 Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases I
Chair: Sophie Rittner, Rice University Room: Imperial East
Invited Speakers: Tilman Esslinger, Thomas SchaeferSession K2 Attosecond Electron Physics
Chair: Markus Guehr, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Imperial Center
Invited Speakers: Thomas Pfeifer, J. Burgdoerfer, Giuseppe Sansone, Hiroki MashikoSession K3 Focus Session: Tests of Lorentz Invariance
Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Imperial West
Invited Speakers: Holger Mueller, Michael RomalisSession K4 Trapped Ion Quantum Information
Sponsor: GQI Chair: Wes Campbell, University of Maryland Room: Regency BallroomSession K5 Undergraduate Session
Chair: Jan Chaloupka, University of Northern Colorado Room: Arboretum I-IIISession K6 Atom-Atom Collisions
Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University Room: Arboretum IV-V
In the late morning session, we have ultra-cold atoms, ultra-fast lasers, precision measurement, quantum information, a general interest session featuring outstanding undergrads, and old-school collisions.
After lunch, we have:
Session L1 Focus Session: Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room: Imperial East
Invited Speakers: Wolfgang Ketterle, Klaus SengstockSession L2 Focus Session: Symmetry Breaking & Dissociation in Small Molecules
Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: Imperial Center
Invited Speakers: Ann Orel, Thomas RescignoSession L3 Quantum Entanglement of Simple Systems
Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington Room: Imperial West
Invited Speakers: Klaus Molmer, Dietrich Leibfried, Kihwan Kim, Poul JessenSession L4 Precision Measurements: EDMs and Other
Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame Room: Regency BallroomSession L5 Collisions Involving Charged Particles
Chair: Gregory Childers, California State University, Fullerton Room: Arboretum I-IIISession L6 Attosecond Pulses: Generation, Characterization and Utilization
Chair: Gilles Doumy, The Ohio State University Room: Arboretum IV-V
Here we have ultracold atoms, old-school molecular physics, quantum information, precision measurement, old-school collisions, and ultrafast lasers.
I’m being a little loose with the labels, but the idea is just to give you the basic flavor of the meeting. If you’re into ultracold atoms, ultrafast lasers, or old-school moleculuar physics, you can have a more or less seamless conference experience in which you go from one session in your area of choice to another without ever needing to see a talk on a different area. And if you’re into precision measurement, well, Thursday is a day just for you…
On the other hand, if you’re just looking around for interesting stuff, you’ve always got a pretty good variety to choose from, in every time block.