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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Conference on Bose-Einstein Condensation
March 30-April 4, 1998
Coordinators: K. Burnett, A. Imamoglu and A. Leggett
Transparencies from talks in this program are presented below --- just click on the links. ITP intends to keep these talks posted on the Web indefinitely. Feedback?
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Look for talks marked [Audio].
ITP is grateful to the Coordinators and the ITP staff who made this conference a success.
Schedule
All sessions in ITP Main Seminar Room, Kohn Hall, unless otherwise indicated.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:00 am | Registration | Lobby, ITP, Kohn Hall |
| 8:45 | Welcome |
David Gross, ITP Director A. Leggett, Conference Coordinator |
| 9:00 | Carl Wieman Univ. Colorado |
Studies of Coherence and Dynamics in Two Species Condensates[Audio] |
| 10:00 | Martin Naraschewski Harvard Univ |
The Atom Laser[Audio] |
| 10:50 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 11:20 | Mark Edwards Georgian So. Univ |
Atom-Laser Output Coupler Design[Audio] |
| 12:10 | Lunch | ITP Center Patio |
| 2:00 | Wolfgang Ketterle MIT |
Dynamic Properties of Bose-Einstein Condensates: Formation and Sound at Non-zero Temperatures [Audio] |
| 2:50 | Michael Gunn Univ. of Birmingham |
Rotating BEC's, Large Coherence Length and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect[Audio] |
| 3:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 4:20 | Yuri Kagan Kurchatov Univ |
Quasicondensate in a Two-Dimensional Interacting Bose Gas: Quantum Correlations[Audio] |
| 5:10 | Wine & Cheese and Poster Review Buffet Dinner |
ITP Center Patio Main Seminar Room |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | William Stwalley Univ. of Connecticut |
Making Molecules at MicroKelvin[Audio] |
| 9:50 | Janne Ruostekoski Univ. Auckland |
Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Double-Well Potential as an Open Quantum System[Audio] |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 11:20 | Eric Bolda Univ. Auckland |
Creation of Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate by a Raman Technique[Audio] |
| 12:10 | Lunch | ITP Center Patio |
| 2:00 | Augusto Smerzi SISSA-Italy |
Coherent Tunneling Between Two Weakly Linked Bose-Einstein Condensates[Audio] |
| 2:50 | Randall Hulet Rice Univ. |
The Collapse of a Bose-Einstein Condensate[Audio] |
| 3:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 4:10 | Joern Stenger MIT |
Optical Confinement of Bose-Einstein Condensates and the Observation of Feshbach Resonances[Audio] |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Michiel Bijlsma Utrecht Universiteit |
Collisionless Dynamics in Trapped Bose Gases[Audio] |
| 9:45 | Andras Csordas Eotvos Univ. |
Chaotic Aspects of Trapped Bose-Condensed Gases[Audio] |
| 10:30 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 11:00 | Christopher Pethick Nordita |
Collective Phenomena Above Tc and at Low Temperatures[Audio] |
| 11:45 | Sandro Stringari Univ. di Trento |
Recent Developments in the Theory of Collective Excitations[Audio] |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ITP Center Patio |
| Afternoon Free |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Johannes Soeding Ecole Normale Sup. |
Towards a Degenerate Cs Gas: Strong Limitations by Inelastic Collisions[Audio] |
| 9:50 | Yvan Castin Ecole Normale Sup. |
Instabilities of Trapped Excited Condensates[Audio] |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 11:20 | Li You Georgia Inst. Tech. |
Controlling Atom-Atom Interactions: Implications for Bose and Fermi Systems[Audio] |
| 12:10 | Lunch | ITP Center Patio |
| 2:00 | Nicholas Bigelow Univ. Rochester |
Two Species BEC Activities[Audio] |
| 2:50 | Marianne Houbiers Universiteit Utrecht |
BCS Transition in Lithium 6: The Low Magnetic Field Case [Audio] |
| 3:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 4:20 | Poster Session Cheese & Chips Patio Barbeque |
Main Seminar Room ITP Center Patio |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Peter Drummond Univ. Queensland |
Quantum Dynamics and Vortices in Evaporatively Cooled BEC[Audio] |
| 9:50 | Crispin Gardiner Victoria Univ. Well. |
Quantum Kinetic Theory and BEC growth --a Review of Progress[Audio] |
| 10:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 11:20 | James Anglin Univ. Innsbruck |
Condensing so Fast Your Gas Spins: Vorticity Production in a Quench[Audio] |
| 12:10 | Lunch | ITP Center Patio |
| 2:00 | Anthony Leggett Univ. Illinois |
The Alkali Gases from the Perspective of the Traditional Problem of Superfluidity[Audio] |
| 2:50 | Jason Ho Ohio State Univ. |
New Quantum Systems Emerging from Bose-Einstein Condensation Experiments[Audio] |
| 3:40 | Refreshment Break | ITP Center Patio |
| 4:20 | Gordon Baym Univ. Illinois |
Bose-Einstein Condensation Everywhere Else[Audio] |
| Conference Ends |