The purpose of the workshop is mainly to provide a forum for discussion. The focus of QUEST 2004 will be quantum and atomic optics and condensed matter physics and the connections between them. The purpose of talks will be as take-off points for discussions as well as to provide updates on the present state of the art.
Except for Wednesday, the daily schedule will be as follows. The review talk will be from 9.30 - 10.45. After a 15 minute break, the first technical talk will go from 11.00 - 11.45 at which point we will break for lunch. The afternoons will begin with a technical talk from 1.30 - 2.15, followed by a 15 minute break, and end with the discussion session at 2.30.
We have 5 talks scheduled for Wednesday, loosely organized around the theme of "quantum dynamical systems" -- each talk will be 40 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions), with three talks in the morning and two in the afternoon. The morning session will be from 9.30 am - 12.00 pm, the afternoon session from 1.30 pm - 3.00 pm. The discussion session will begin shortly afterwards.
| Date | Morning Review | Technical Talk 1 | Technical Talk 2 | Directed Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 9 | Windell Oskay | Paul Haljan | Jason McKeever | AMO |
| Tuesday, August 10 | Daniel James | Poul Jessen | JM Geremia | Quantum Metrology |
| Date | Perspective I | Perspective II | Perspective III | Perspective IV | Perspective V | Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 11 | Bala Sundaram | Bill Unruh | Mark Raizen | Simon Gardiner | ||
| Date | Morning Review | Technical Talk 1 | Technical Talk 2 | Directed Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, August 12 | Miles Blencowe | Ivar Martin | Gerardo Ortiz | Aashish Clerk |
| Friday, August 13 | Keith Schwab | Sasha Balatsky | Sasha Korotkov | Quantum Nanomechanics |
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| Salman Habib / T-8 / LANL / revised July 04 | |