Humboldt Workshop on Cold Atomic Gases and Interaction of Light with Matter

September 1-5, 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania

Schedule

Friday, 1 September

Arrival of participants

19:00 Wellcome party (dinner) at the Hotel Domus Maria

Saturday, 2 September

08:30 Introductory remarks by Gediminas Juzeliūnas and Michael Fleischhauer
08:45 - 09:30 Stefan Scheel "Causal nonlinear quantum optics"
09:45 - 10:30 Jürgen Kästel "Negative Refraction"
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:55 Gediminas Juzeliūnas "Generation of vector solitons in atomic BEC by light"
12:00 - 12:40 Erika Andersson "Finding the general form of master equations"
13:00 Lunch at the restaurant "Čili Kaimas" (7 minutes walk from the Hotel Domus Maria)
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45 Frank Zimmer "Stationary Light"
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:15 Jürgen Kästel progress report + discussion
"Local field effects in negative-index materials"
17:15 - 17:45 Johannes Otterbach progress report + discussion
"Transverse effects in stationary light"
17:45 - 18:30 Bernhard Breid "Description of dynamical BCS-BEC crossover using path integrals and ordered operator calculus"
19:00 Dinner at the Vilnius TV tower (165 m above the ground).
After dinner Discussions at the TV tower.

Sunday, 3 September

08:45 - 09:30 James Anglin "Geometry and magnetism from magnetism and geometry: post-adiabatic theory of the vector Kepler problem"
09:45 - 10:30 Patrick Öhberg "Diamagnetic currents in low-dimensional gases"
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 Michael Fleischhauer "Quantum Hall physics with cold gases - an introduction"
12:15 - 12:45 Gediminas Juzeliūnas "Alternative Approach to the Spontaneous Emission in Dielectrics"
13:00 Lunch at the café "Arka" (3 minutes walk from the Hotel Domus Maria)
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15 Alexander Mering "Bose-Fermi-mixtures in lattices"
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 Bernd Schmidt "Harmonic fluid approach to Bosons and Fermions"
17:00 - 17:45 Julius Ruseckas "Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects: Quantum trajectory method"
18:00 - 18:30 Michael Fleischhauer discussion
"Repulsively bound pairs of atoms in the Bose-Hubbard model"
19:00 Dinner at the restaurant "Belmontas" (a nice place situated in a former watter mill some 7 km away from the hotel).
After dinner Discussions at the restaurant.

Monday, 4 September

9.00 Visit to the old buildings of Vilnius University
10.40 Visit to the Department of Physics and Laser Physics center of Vilnius University
12.45 Lunch at the restaurant "Žaldokynė"
13.30 - 15.00 Travel Vilnius - Molėtai; visiting a geographical centre of Europe on the way to Molėtai
15.30 - 17.00 Visit to the Molėtai Observatory
17:20 - 18:40 Travel Molėtai - Vilnius
19:00 Dinner at the restaurant "Čili Kaimas"

Tuesday, 5 September

Departure of the participants


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