Monday, May 18, 2009
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Morning Session Chair: Paul Brumer (Univ. Toronto)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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8:50am |
David Gross
(KITP Director)
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Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:00am |
Yaron Silberberg
(Weizmann Inst.)
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Complex Dissociation of Simple Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:35am |
Shaul Mukamel
(UC Irvine)
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Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Classical Fields and Entangled Photons; Selecting Liouville Space Pathways [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:45am |
Béatrice Chatel
(CNRS)
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Coherent Control in Small Systems: Spin Dynamics, Cold Molecules.... [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:20am |
Tobias Brixner
(Univ. Wurzburg)
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Analytic Coherent Control in Theory and Experiment |
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11:55am |
Thomas Baumert
(Univ. Kassel)
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Ultrafast Laser Control of Ionization - Fundamentals and Applications [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Alejandro Saenz (Humboldt Univ.)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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2:30pm |
Martin Plenio
(Imperial College)
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The Physical Origin of Noise Assisted Transport with Applications to Photo-Synthetic Complexes [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:05pm |
Keith Nelson
(MIT)
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Collective Quantum Control and Spectroscopy from THz to Optical Regimes |
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3:40pm |
Paul Brumer
(Univ. Toronto)
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Coherent Control in the Classical Limit: Can the Interference Survive? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:15pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Round Table Topic: Interface of Theory and Experiment in Coherent Control
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5:00pm |
Philip Bucksbaum
(Stanford)
(Panel Chair)
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Panelists: Thomas Baumert (Univ. Kassel), Paul Brumer (Univ. Toronto), Herschel Rabitz (Princeton) and Moshe Shapiro (Univ. British Columbia) [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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6:15pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Morning Session Chair: Serguei Patchkovskii (SIMS NRC)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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9:00am |
Paul Corkum
(NRC SIMS)
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A Laser STM for Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:35am |
Ricardo Torres
(Imperial College)
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Controlling Electrons for Ultrafast Molecular Imaging [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:45am |
Amelle Zair
(Imperial College)
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Quantum Path Interferences in High-Order Harmonic Generation [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:20am |
Olga Smirnova
(MBI Berlin)
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Time and Space Resolved High Harmonic Imaging of Electron Tunnelling from Molecules [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Anthony Starace (Univ. Nebraska)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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2:30pm |
Ken Schafer
(LSU)
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Attosecond Pump-Probe Electron Interferometry [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:05pm |
Lorenz Cederbaum
(Univ. Heidelberg)
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Ultrafast Migration of Holes Solely Driven by Electron Correlation and Relaxation [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:40pm |
Andrius Baltuska
(TU WIEN)
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Can We Measure Attosecond Tunneling Dynamics in Bulk Solids? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:15pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Round Table Topic: What Can We Learn From Attosecond Experiments?
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5:00pm |
Peter Knight
(Imperial College)
(Panel Chair)
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Panelists: Andrius Baltuska (TUWEIN), Andreas Becker (Univ. Colorado), Paul Corkum (NRC, SIMS) and Misha Ivanov (Imperial College) [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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6:15pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
KITP Courtyard |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Morning Session Chair: Andre Bandrauk (Univ. Sherbrooke)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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9:00am |
Roger Brockett
(Harvard)
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Noise Modeling and Noise Mitigation for Quantum Control [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:35am |
Anthony Bloch
(Univ. Michigan)
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Finite Controllability of Infinite Quantum Systems [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:45am |
Domenico D'Alessandro
(ISU)
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The Constructive Lie Algebra Rank Condition and its Application in Quantum Control [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:20am |
Howard Wiseman
(Griffith Univ.)
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Adaptive Versus Non-Adaptive Measurements for Estimation and Discrimination: Recent Results in Theory and Experiment [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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2:00pm |
FREE AFTERNOON |
Shuttle available to BWSCI |
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
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Morning Session Chair: Sonia Schirmer (Univ. Cambridge)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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9:00am |
Navin Khaneja
(Harvard)
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Control Problems in NMR Spectroscopy [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:35am |
Steffen Glaser
(Tech. Univ. Muenchen)
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Optimal Control of Spin and Pseudo-Spin Systems [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:45am |
Warren Warren
(Duke Univ.)
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Quantum Control of Molecular Imaging: Enhancing Magnetic Resonance and Deeper Tissue Optical Microscopy [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:20am |
Niels Nielsen
(Univ. Aarhus)
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Optimum Control in Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:55am |
Dieter Suter
(Univ. Dortmund)
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Robust Control in RF-Optical Double Resonance Experiments [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Evgeny Shapiro (Univ. British Columbia)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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2:30pm |
Herschel Rabitz
(Princeton)
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Hiking over Quantum Control Landscapes and Beyond[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:05pm |
Gaël De Paëpe
(INAC/SCIB/LRM)
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Third Spin Assisted Recoupling: Advanced Control for Structure Determination in Solid-State NMR [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:40pm |
Hideo Mabuchi
(Stanford)
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Fluctuations in Single-Atom Cavity QED [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:15pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Round Table Topic: What Can Systems Control Theory Offer Femto, Atto and NMR Control Experiments?
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5:00pm |
Warren Warren
(Duke Univ.)
(Panel Chair)
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Panelists: Roger Brockett (Harvard), Misha Ivanov (Imperial College), Hideo Mabuchi (Stanford), Sonia Schirmer (Univ. Cambridge), Moshe Shapiro (Univ. British Columbia) and David Tannor (Weizmann Inst.) [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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6:15pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
KITP Courtyard |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Friday, May 22, 2009
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Morning Session Chair: Thomas Baumert (Univ. Kassel)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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9:00am |
Moshe Shapiro
(Univ. British Columbia)
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Coherent Control Adiabatic Passage - Theory and Experiments [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:35am |
Regina de Vivie-Riedle
(LMU)
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Quantum Control of Vibrational and Electronic Processes [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:45am |
Ilya Averbukh
(Weizmann Inst.)
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Selective Control of Molecular Rotation [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
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11:20am |
Sonia Schirmer
(Univ. Cambridge)
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Hamiltonian and Markovian Reservoir Engineering for Quantum Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:55am |
Haidong Yuan
(MIT)
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Majorization in Quantum Control [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Michael Mundt (Weizmann Inst.)
[Talks are 25 min + 10 min Discussion]
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2:30pm |
Dominique Sugny
(Inst. Bourgogne)
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Time-Optimal Control of Dissipative Two-Level Quantum Systems [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:05pm |
Velimir Jurdjevic
(Univ. Toronto)
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Optimal Control on SU_n and the Equations of Mathematical Physics [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:45pm |
CONFERENCE END |
Shuttle available to BWSCI. Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus. (See Jocelyn to sign up.) |
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