2010 Midwestern Cold Atom Workshop

Saturday, November 13th 2010
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Workshop Venue:
340 West Hall
(3rd floor)

University of Michigan
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Program
8:30am
Registration, breakfast & poster setup
8:50am
Welcome
Session I: High-precision measurements with cold matter
9:00-9:25am
Will Williams/Zheng Lu (Argonne National Lab) "Argon-39 Detection at the Part-per-quadrillion Level with Atom Trap Trace Analysis"
9:25-9:50am

Brian Odom (Northwestern University)
"Molecular Ions, Trapped and Slowed.  Now What?"
9:50-10:15am

Aaron Leanhardt (University of Michigan)
"TBD"
10:15-10:45am
Coffee break & poster session
Session II: Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
10:45-11:10am
Shannon O’Leary (Lawrence University)
"Recent experiments in polarization noise correlations in a Zeeman EIT system"
11:10-11:35am
Michael Crescimanno (Youngstown State University)
"Theory of the non-power broadened EIT noise resonance"
11:35-12:00pm
Nick Proite (University of Wisconsin)
"Atomic State Localization Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency"
12:00-1:30pm
Lunch, lab tours & poster session
Session III: Quantum gases
1:30-1:55pm
Chen-Lung Hung (University of Chicago)
"Observation of scale invariance and universality in two-dimensional Bose gases"
1:55-2:20pm
Brian DeMarco (University of Illinois) -- leaves 3:30pm
"Recent Results in the DeMarco Group"
2:20-2:45pm
Yong Chen (Purdue University)
"TBD"
2:45-3:10pm
Matt Naides (University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign)
" A novel probe for strongly correlated matter"
3:10-3:40pm
Coffee break & poster session
Session IV: Quantum information, Quantum Optics
3:40-4:05pm
Thad Walker (University of Wisconsin)
"A CNOT Gate Using Rydberg Blockade"
4:05-4:30pm
Georg Raithel (University of Michigan)
"Rydberg atoms in optical lattices"
4:30-4:55pm
Michael Moore (Michigan State University)
"Quantum Metrology with Double-Well Condensates"
5:00-5:30pm
Departure

 

Organizers:
Georg Raithel

Aaron Leanhardt

Workshop Secretary:
Angela Milliken
University of Michigan
450 Church Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1040
[P] 734-763-9698
[F] 734-763-2213