The purpose of the workshop is mainly to provide a forum for discussion. The focus of QUEST 2006 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.
The daily schedule will be as follows. The first talk will be from 9.30 - 10.45. After a 15 minute break, the second 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.
| Date | Talk 1 | Talk 2 | Talk 3 | Directed Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 21 | Mark Raizen (UT Austin): Quantum Mechanical Optical and Magnetic Control of Atoms | Ivan Deutsch (UNM): Quantum State Estimation via Continuous Measurement | Richard Hughes (Los Alamos): 21 Years of Quantum Key Distribution | |
| Tuesday, August 22 | Signe Seidelin (NIST): Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions | Shmuel Gurvitz (Weizmann): Measurement Time Interval and the Projection Postulate | Jack Harris (Yale): Laser Cooling a Micromechanical Cantilelver | |
| Wednesday, August 23 | Miles Blencowe (Dartmouth): Cooling a Nanomechanical Resonator with Quantum Backaction | Benjamin Lev (JILA): Stark Deceleration of OH: Towards Ultracold Dipolar Gases | Sasha Korotkov (UC Riverside): Continuous Measurements in Solid-State Systems | |
| Thursday, August 24 | Aashish Clerk (McGill): Nonequilibrium Cooling and Strong Feedback Effects in Quantum Nanoelectromechanical Systems | Kurt Jacobs (UMass): A Continuous Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement of the Energy of a Nanomechanical Resonator | David Moehring (Michigan): Scaling Quantum Information Processing with Ions and Photons | |
| Friday, August 25 | Daniel Steck (Oregon): Chaos, the Quantum Vacuum, and Quantum Measurement in Atom Optics | TBA | TBA | |
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| Salman Habib / T-8 / LANL / revised July 06 | |