Winter Graduate School ITAMP on Atomic, Molecular and ... · Located in the beautiful Catalina...

February 18-24, 2018

at Biosphere 2 Conference Center in Arizona

ITAMP, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel. 617 495-9524

B2, 32540 S. Biosphere Road, Oracle Arizona 85623 Tel. 520 838-6200

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ITAMPWinter Graduate School

on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics:

Quantum metrology

ITAMP, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel. 617 495-9524 B2, 32540 S. Biosphere Road, Oracle Arizona 85623 Tel. 520 838-6200


Welcome to the Seventh Winter Graduate School ITAMP/B2 Institute on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. This year's program focuses on Quantum Metrology. We are delighted to have researchers who are undisputed world leaders in this field and outstanding teachers. We are grateful for their willingness to invest the considerable amount of time required to prepare and present their lectures.

Our primary goal for this school is to enable and encourage informal interactions as well as formal discussions during the school. We hope that you will take advantage of the unique setting of the Biosphere 2 campus and its relaxed and informal environment to interact extensively with the lecturers. Most of them will be able to spend several days with us. So, don’t miss this opportunity!

We have several extracurricular activities planned. So, it’s not just all work and no play. The schedule of lectures includes free afternoons for the faculty and students to enjoy the outdoors, or just relax in the beautiful surroundings of the B2 Campus.

Enjoy!

Hossein Sadeghpour Arvinder Sandhu Pierre Meystre

Notes Welcome


We have planned excursions and events during the week and a sign up sheet will be available.

• Hike/Outing• Poster Session• Possibly private car riding to Saguaro National Park

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Hossein sadegHpourITAMP DirectorSenior Scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian CFA

Research Interests: Theoretical AMO physics, collision of cold and ultracold atoms and molecules in traps, formation of ultralong range Rydberg molecules, formation of first molecules, and heating in ion microtraps.

ITAMP began life in 1989 at the Harvard-Smith-sonian Center for Astrophysics. It is the only theoretical AMO "user facility" in the United States. It hosts workshops (3-days) and topical group meetings (1-4 weeks), and visitors (short- and long-term), sponsors a speaker series called the Joint Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Colloquium held in Harvard Physics, and a

postdoctoral fellowship program. ITAMP workshops are web-cast, when possible, and beginning with this year, workshop lectures are available on the ITAMP YouTube channel. There are on average 4-5 workshops each year. A Call for Proposal to organize workshops and a list of workshops & topical groups are available at http://itamp.harvard.edu. The postdoctoral program has been a recognized success, placing energetic fellows into junior positions at universities and national labs. ITAMP thrives in the larger Cambridge-area AMO physics ecosystem. It has close association with CUA (Center for Ultracold At-oms) and ITC (Institute for Theory and Computation in astrophysics). Workshops, speakers, visitors and postdoc fellows are jointly organized or shared among these institutes. The mission of ITAMP continues to be furthering the cause of theoretical AMO physics by providing resources, scientific and administrative expertise, enhancing collaborative efforts between theory and experiment, and advocating for theoretical AMO.

OrganizersLecturers

Lecturers

Christian DegenETH ZürichEmail: [email protected]

Christian Degen is a professor and Head of the Laboratory for Solid State Physics.The Degen Lab invents and develops novel magnetic imaging techniques that can sensi-tively detect magnetic effects with nanometer spatial resolution. These tools are used to gain new capabilities and enable discoveries

in quantum science, condensed matter physics, and nuclear magnetic resonance.Research interests are Diamond Magnetometry and Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy.

Murray HollandJILA, University of Colorado BoulderEmail: [email protected]

Murray Holland is a professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Holland theory group’s research is on properties of quantum gases with a focus on transport in optical lattices and on strongly interacting superfluids. The group is also

working on superradiant cavity QED with group-II elements to develop a millihertz linewidth laser that would have a coherence length stretching from the earth to the sun. In addition, the group collaborates with experimentalists at JILA to develop optomechanical systems for transducing signals between optical and microwave frequencies.


Pierre meystreEmeritus Regents Professor of Physics & Optical Sciences and Editor in Chief Physical Review Research Interests: Quantum Optices: Cavity quantum electrodynamics, laser and maser theory, statistical properties of radiation. Cavity optome-chanics, Atomic physics: Ultracold atoms, matter-wave optics, degenerate quantum gases, hybrid systems, quantummeasurements.

The B2 Institute is a think tank and research incubator that addresses scientific Grand Challenges whose solutions require the combined expertise of a broad range of scien-

tific fields and diverse interdisciplinary talents. Building on The Universi-ty of Arizona's reputation as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary research, it provides a non-traditional structure that facilitates interaction. Its cur-rent focal points include the water energy nexus, STEM education, and ultimately the development of interconnected ‘Discovery Ecosystems’ that will facilitate collaborations toward the solution of major problems. The B2 Conference Center provides an ideal venue to carry out that mission through a combination of seminars, conferences, workshops, retreats, summer and winter schools, as well as other events that promote the sharing of ideas between natural and social scientists, educators, policy makers, and the general public. Located in the beautiful Catalina Mountains foothills, the B2 Conference Center comprises a fully networked Campus Village of 28 Santa Fe-style casitas holding 106 double-capacity sleeping rooms and a number of double-occupancy offices. Complete with in-suite kitchens, living areas, and high-speed internet access, the 3-5 bedroom casitas are all in easy walking distance and provide the perfect place to unwind and socialize in-between or after meetings.

Organizers Lecturers

Lecturers

Mark KasevichStanford UniversityEmail: [email protected]

Mark Kasevich is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics.His research interests are centered on the development of quantum sensors of rotation and acceleration based on cold atoms

(quantum metrology), the application of these sensors to the tests of General Relativity, the investigation of many-body quantum effects in Bose-condensed vapors (including quantum simulation), and the investigation of ultra-fast laser-induced phenomena.

Klaus MoelmerAarhus UniversityE-mail: [email protected]

Klaus Mølmer obtained his PhD in atomic physics and quantum optics in 1990. He is a professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research interests include open (e.g., dissipative) quantum systems, quantum information, theory and applications of

measurements on quantum systems. With special attention to experimental challenges and possibilities, he has made theoretical proposals for quantum computing with trapped ions, neutral atoms, solid state spin impurities and superconducting circuits which have guided experiments in a number of laboratories. KM is involved in numerous outreach and cultural projects, including the smartphone application Quantum Moves, joint public lectures with poets and authors, and concerts with music inspired by quantum physical phenomena.

arvinder sandHuProfessor of Physics , The University of ArizonaResearch Interests:Applications of attosecond spectroscopy to address questions in the areas of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Chemical Phys-ics and Nanomaterials research; use of extreme ultraviolet, attosecond light bursts to strobe the motion of an electron in a polyatomic molecule.


Lecturers

Lecturers

Winter School Outings

Igor PikovskiITAMPE-mail: [email protected] Pikovski is an ITAMP postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and the Harvard-Smith-sonian Center for Astrophysics. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Vienna, where he worked on quantum optics and quan-

tum foundations in the group of Caslav Brukner. Previously, he studied at the Free University of Berlin, Uppsala University in Sweden and at the University of California Santa Barbara. In 2014 Igor received the ITAMP postdoctoral fellowship and in 2016 he became a Branco Weiss Fellow. Igor’s main research interests are quantum optics, opto-mechanics and gravitational effects in low-energy quantum theory that can be accessed in experiments.

Holger Müller University of California, BerkeleyE-mail: [email protected]

Holger Müller graduated from Humboldt-University, Berlin, with Achim Peters as advisor. He received a fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and joined the group of Steven Chu in Stanford as a postdoc. In July 2008, he joined the physics faculty at U.C.

Berkeley. His work uses methods from atomic, molecular, and optical physics. His interests are prurecision experiments in fundamental physics; special relativity; general relativity; fine structure constant; equivalence principle; atom interferometers; optical cavities; broadband frequency metrology; lasers; electronics; electro-optics; Bragg diffraction; Bloch oscillations.


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