{"id":4721,"date":"2010-05-27T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/27\/anatomy-of-a-conference-damop-1\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:45:18","slug":"anatomy-of-a-conference-damop-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/27\/anatomy-of-a-conference-damop-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Conference: DAMOP Day 2– The Rise of Precision Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I sort of implied a series in the previous post<\/a>, and I have no better ideas, here’s a look at Thursday’s DAMOP program:<\/p>\n

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Thursday Morning, 8am (yes, they start having talks at 8am. It’s a great trial.)<\/p>\n

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Session J1 Novel Probes of Ultracold Atom Gases<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Chair: David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University<\/i> Room: Imperial East<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> Cheng Chin, <\/i> <\/span>Markus Greiner, <\/i> <\/span>Kaden Hazzard, <\/i> <\/span>Tin-Lun Ho<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Session J2 Coherent Control with Optical Frequency Combs<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory<\/i> Room: Imperial Center<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> J. Ye, <\/i> <\/span>Moshe Shapiro, <\/i> <\/span>W. Campbell, <\/i> <\/span>Svetlana Malinovskaya<\/i> <\/span> <\/p>\n

Session J3 Ultracold Chemistry<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University<\/i> Room: Imperial West<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Session J4 Atomic and Molecular Collisions Related to Astrophysical Applications<\/a><\/b>
\n Sponsor: GEC Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton<\/i> Room: Regency Ballroom<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> S. Schippers, <\/i> <\/span>J.E. Lawler, <\/i> <\/span>Kate Kirby, <\/i> <\/span>Ara Chutjian<\/i> <\/span> <\/p>\n

Session J5 Strong Field Dissociative Ionization: Wave Packets in Molecular Ions<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Carlos Trallero, National Research Council Canada<\/i> Room: Arboretum I-III<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Session J6 Bose-Einstein Condensation<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Hal Metcalf, Stony Brook University<\/i> Room: Arboretum IV-V<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

At 10:30, we have:<\/p>\n

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Session K1 Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases I<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Sophie Rittner, Rice University<\/i> Room: Imperial East<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> Tilman Esslinger, <\/i> <\/span>Thomas Schaefer<\/i> <\/span> <\/p>\n

Session K2 Attosecond Electron Physics<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Markus Guehr, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/i> Room: Imperial Center<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> Thomas Pfeifer, <\/i> <\/span>J. Burgdoerfer, <\/i> <\/span>Giuseppe Sansone, <\/i> <\/span>Hiroki Mashiko<\/i> <\/span> <\/p>\n

Session K3 Focus Session: Tests of Lorentz Invariance<\/a><\/b>
\n Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory<\/i> Room: Imperial West<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> Holger Mueller, <\/i> <\/span>Michael Romalis<\/i> <\/span> <\/p>\n

Session K4 Trapped Ion Quantum Information<\/a><\/b>
\n Sponsor: GQI Chair: Wes Campbell, University of Maryland<\/i> Room: Regency Ballroom<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Session K5 Undergraduate Session<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Jan Chaloupka, University of Northern Colorado<\/i> Room: Arboretum I-III<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Session K6 Atom-Atom Collisions<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University<\/i> Room: Arboretum IV-V<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

After lunch, we have:<\/p>\n

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Session L1 Focus Session: Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/i> Room: Imperial East<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> Wolfgang Ketterle, <\/i> <\/span>Klaus Sengstock<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Session L2 Focus Session: Symmetry Breaking & Dissociation in Small Molecules<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/i> Room: Imperial Center<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> Ann Orel, <\/i> <\/span>Thomas Rescigno<\/i> <\/span> <\/p>\n

Session L3 Quantum Entanglement of Simple Systems<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington<\/i> Room: Imperial West<\/i>
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Invited Speakers: <\/span> Klaus Molmer, <\/i> <\/span>Dietrich Leibfried, <\/i> <\/span>Kihwan Kim, <\/i> <\/span>Poul Jessen<\/i> <\/span> <\/p>\n

Session L4 Precision Measurements: EDMs and Other<\/a><\/b>
\n Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame<\/i> Room: Regency Ballroom<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Session L5 Collisions Involving Charged Particles<\/a><\/b>
\n Chair: Gregory Childers, California State University, Fullerton<\/i> Room: Arboretum I-III<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Session L6 Attosecond Pulses: Generation, Characterization and Utilization<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Chair: Gilles Doumy, The Ohio State University<\/i> Room: Arboretum IV-V<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here we have ultracold atoms, old-school molecular physics, quantum information, precision measurement, old-school collisions, and ultrafast lasers. <\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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