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JILA Auditorium
University of Colorado
February 10, 11, 12, 1999
Organizers:
Murray Holland, JILA
Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University
Program
Highlighted links below* can be followed to hear/view the talks
Wednesday morning, February 10
Session Chair: Cass Sackett
8:30 - 8:40
Introduction and Welcome
Chris Greene and Murray Holland
8:40 - 9:20
BEC in Atomic Hydrogen
Dale Fried*
9:20 - 10:00
BEC and Light Speeds of 38 Miles/Hour
Lene Hau*
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:10
Rotating BECs
Dan Rokhsar*
11:10 - 11:50
Symmetries and Correlations in Multicomponent BECs
Brett Esry*
11:50 - 1:00
Lunch
Wednesday afternoon, February 10
Session Chair: Paul Julienne
1:00 - 1:40
Ultracold Molecules and Potential Molecular BEC
Bill Stwalley*
1:40 - 2:20
Stimulated Raman Atom-Molecule Resonance in a BEC
Dan Heinzen*
2:20 - 3:00
Electric Field Modified Atom-Atom Interactions and the Prospects for
P-Wave BCS States
Li You*
3:00 - 4:00
Coffee break and poster set up (posters may also be set
up on 10th floor anytime between noon and 6:30 p.m.)
4:00 - 5:00
Physics colloquium (Physics Bldg. 1B20/G020)
Tony Leggett - Introduction to high energy low temperature physics
7:00 - 9:00
Poster Session, 10th floor JILA
Thursday morning, February 11
Session Chair: Juha Javanainen
8:00 - 8:40
Spinor Condensates and Bragg Spectroscopy
Wolfgang Ketterle*
8:40 - 9:20
From Collisionless Dynamics to Landau Two-Fluid
Hydrodynamics
Eugene Zaremba*
9:20 - 10:00
Macroscopic Quantum Interference Experiments: Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms
Under the Influence of Gravity
Mark Kasevich*
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:10
Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Degenerate Quantum Gases
Henk Stoof*
11:10 - 11:50
BECs in Highly Excited States
Yvan Castin*
11:50 - 1:00
Lunch
Thursday afternoon, February 11
Session Chair: Steve Rolston
1:00 - 1:40
BEC Experiments at JILA
Eric Cornell*
1:40 - 2:20
Quantum Kinetic Theory for a Condensed Bose Gas
Murray Holland*
2:20 - 2:50
Coffee break
2:50 - 3:30
Phase Diagram of Quantized Vortices
Sandro Stringari*
3:30 - 4:10
Progress Toward an Ultracold Gas of Fermionic Atoms
Debbie Jin*
4:10 - 5:30
Tours of Cornell, Wieman, Jin labs
Friday morning, February 12
Session Chair: Pierre Meystre
8:00 - 8:40
Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices and Applications
Peter Zoller*
8:40 - 9:20
Quantum Logic States in Optical Lattices
Ivan Deutsch*
9:20 - 10:00
Atom Optics with Bose-Einstein Condensates
Kris Helmerson
10:00 -10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:10
Creation and Stability of a Vortex ina Dilute Trapped Bose
Condensate
Alexander Fetter*
11:10 - 11:50
Multicomponent BEC: Spin Dynamics, Excitations, Vortices
and "all that"
Nick Bigelow*
11:50 - 1:00
Lunch break
Friday afternoon, February 12
Session Chair: Mark Edwards
1:00 - 1:40
Some Questions Concerning the Rotation of a Bose Condensate
Tony Leggett
1:40 - 2:20
Correlations between Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms
Keith Burnett*
2:20 - 3:00
Generating Solitons and Vortices in BECs by Trap Rotation
and Optical Imprinting
Charles Clark
3:00 - 3:30
Refreshments