Agenda of the Mid-Term Review Meeting:

 

SATURDAY 29 MARCH

ARRIVAL

 

 

 19.00

CQG team leaders’ meeting

20.00

Welcome Cocktail

Dinner

SUNDAY 30TH MARCH

 

 

9.00-9.20

R. Monk , European Commission

 

 

9.20-10.00

E. Arimondo "Report on CQG Network"

 

 

10.00-11.15  

Tour de Table by scientists in charge of CQG Nodes

 

 

11.15 -11.45 Coffee Break

 

 

11.45 -12:30

Question time by the European Commission Representative

 

 

12.30 - 13.00 -

Closed Session with the Young Researchers

 

 

13.00 -15.00 Lunch Break

 

 

15.00 - 20.00

Scientific Presentations by Young researchers: Chairman: C. Foot

 

 

15.00-15.40

Sven Burger, Konrad Zuse Zentrum, Berlin, Germany "Atoms and Photons in Periodic Potentials"

 

 

15.40-16.20

Antoine Browaeys, IOTA, CNRS- Orsay France "BEC in optical lattices

 

 

16.20 -16.50 Coffee Break

 

 

16.50-17.30

Giuseppe Smirne, Oxford University, UK "Experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensates and optical lattices”

 

 

17.30-18.10

Bruno Laburthe, NIST, Gaithesburg, USA

"Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices: study of a quantum gas in reduced dimensionalities"

 

 

18.10-18.50

Thorsten Schumm, IOTA, CNRS, Orsay, France

"Bose-Einstein condensation in magnetic micropotentials: Towards Josephson coupling"

 

 

18.50-19.30

Emmanuel Courtade, INFM, Pisa, Italy, "Ionization of a Rb condensate"

 

 

20.00 Dinner

 

 

MONDAY 31ST MARCH

 

 

Chairman: W.D. Phillips

 

 

9.00-10.00

Subir Sachdev, Yale University,USA

 

 

10.00-19.00

Scientific Presentations by Young researchers: Chairman: K. Rzazewski

 

 

10.00-10.30

Harry Schmidt Institüt Theoretical Physics, Stuttgart, Germany "Cold Bose-Gases in a Periodic Box: Probing the Classical Field Approximation"

 

 

10.30-11. 00 Coffee Break

 

 

11.00-11.30

Peter Borowski, CFT, Warsaw, Poland "Cold Bose-Gases in a Periodic Box: Temperature within the Classical Field Approximation"

 

 

11.30-12.00

Filip Floegel, Universität Hannover, Germany ”Dying Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate"

 

 

12.00-12.45

Iacopo Carusotto, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, ENS, Paris, France"Stochastic methods for many-body physics"

 

 

12.45-13.15

Sabine Stock, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, ENS, Paris, France"Dynamics of Rotating Condensates"

 

 

13.15 -15.00 Lunch Break

 

 

15.00.-16.30

Raymond Monk, European Community, Bruxelles, Overview of the Sixth Framework Program"

 

 

16.30-17.00 Coffee Break

 

 

Chairman: W. Vassen

 

 

17.00-17.40

Donatella Ciampini, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA "Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

 

 

17.40-17.50

John McNamara, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands "Quantum Degenerate Mixtures of 3He and 4He"

 

 

17.50-18.20

Damien Cossart, INFM, Pisa, Italy "Cs atoms colliding with a Rb condensate"

 

 

18.20-19.00

Stefano Giovanazzi, University of St. Andrews, Scotland "Dipole-dipole interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates"

 

 

19.00-20.00 Meeting of the CQG Network

 

 

20.00 Dinner

 

 

TUESDAY 1ST APRIL

 

 

 

Chairman: H. Ritsch

 

 

9.00-10.00

Giulio Casati, Università dell'Insubria, Italy, ”Quantum survival probability: Tha hydrogen Atom in a Microwave Field”

 

 

10.00-13.00 

 Scientific Presentations by Young researchers

 

 

10.00-10.40

Elisabeth Reiger, Wien Universität, Wien, Austria "Molecule Interferometry using a Talbot-Lau-Interferometer"

 

 

10.40 -11.10  Coffee Break

 

 

Chairman: G. Rempe

 

 

11.10-11.50

Alessio Recati, Innsbruck Universität, Austria "Dissipative spin-boson model and Kondo effect in low dimensional quantum gases."

 

 

11.50-12.20

Uffe Poulsen Hannover Universität, Germany "Quantum correlations in atom optical systems"

 

 

12.20-13.00

Uwe Dorner Innsbruck Universität, Innsbruck, Austria "Entangling chains of ultracold atoms by quantum phase transitions"

 

 

13.00 -15.00 Lunch Break

 

 

15.00 - 19.00 Boat trip

 

 

20.00 Official Dinner

 

 

WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL

 

 

Departure