450th WE-Heraeus-Seminar Mixed States of Light and Matter

Programme

Sunday, February 07, 2010

from 17:00	Arrival
18:30	Dinner

Monday, February 08, 2010

08:00	Breakfast
until 08:30	Arrival
08:45	Martin Weitz Welcome and Opening Remarks Ernst Dreisigacker About the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
9:00	Claus Klingshirn "Polaritons-the General Concept and its Application to Semiconductors"
9:45	Peter Littlewood "A New Condensate of Matter and Light: Bose Einstein Condensation of Polaritons"
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	David Snoke "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Polaritons in a Trap"
11:45	Heinrich Stolz "Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics of Ultracold Excitons in a Potential Trap"
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Elisabeth Giacobino "Polariton Superfluidity in Microcavities"
14:45	Rainer Blatt "Mixed and Entangled States of Light and Trapped Ions"
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Manfred Bayer "Quantum Correlation Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Light Emission"
16:45	Artur Zrenner "Coherent Control of Quantum Dot Excitons by Optic and Optoelectronic Manipulation"
17:30	Mackillo Kira "Quantum-optical Semiconductor Spectroscopy"
18:30	Dinner Followed by a Social Evening at the Invitation of the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung in the "Bürgerstube" at the Physikzentrum

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

08:00	Breakfast
09:00	Demitri Psaltis "Nonlinear Imaging"
09:45	Thomas Elsässer "Low-frequency Excitations and Charge Transport in Semiconductors Studied by Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy"
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Immanuel Bloch "From Light Storage to Many-Body Quantum Dynamics with Ultracold Quantum Gases in Optical Lattices"
11:45	Jean-Michel Raimond "Quantum State Measurement and Control in Cavity QED"
12:30	Lunch
from 14:00	Excursion
17:00	Coffee Break
17:30	Hot Topic Talk: Ofer Firstenberg "Diffraction Manipulation with Atomic Diffusion"
18:00	Hot Topic Talk: Jan Klaers "Thermalized Two-dimensional Photonic Gas in a 'Whitewall' Photon Box"
18:45	Dinner
from 19:30	Poster Session

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

8:00	Breakfast
9:00	Michael Fleischhauer "Single- and Many-body Physics of Slow-light and Stationary-light Polaritons"
9:45	Gerhard Rempe "Dark-State Polaritons with Controlled Number of Atoms and Photons"
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Mikhail Lukin "Quantum Optical Interface for Solid-state Spin Qubits"
11:45	Martin Wolf "Ultrafast Dynamics of Highly Correlated Materials"
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Ulrich Höfer "Ultrafast Coherent Control of Electric Currents at Metal Surfaces"
14:45	Harald Giessen "Three-dimensional Metallic Metamaterials: From Simple to Complex – Coupling Matters!"
15:30	Coffee Break
from 16:30	Lab Visits on Request / Departure

last update February 01, 2010