Our colleague Robin Kaiser (INLN) was an invited speaker at YAO 2018, giving a presentation titled “Coherent Light scattering by cold atoms: from Anderson to
Dicke and back”.
Three ESRs were selected to present talks: Arthur Jungkind (UINN) Cavity QED in the blue detuned regime, Xiangliang Li ( ETHZ) Self organisation of Ultracold atoms in two crossed
cavities across the atomic resonance, and Francesco Castellucci ( UGLAS)Spatially dependent Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. While posters from Giuseppe Baio ( USTRAT) Optomechanical self-structuring of cold atoms involving orbital angular momentum & Adrián Costa-Boquete ( USTRAT) Self-organized spin and density ordering of cold atoms in cavities.
Several ColOpt colleagues based at Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities had fun at the Glasgow Science Festival 2018 presenting aspects of our research to the public at the Kelvingrove Gallery. Adrián and Nicola from Strathlyde joined the Imagine Quantum stand and Francesco from Glasgow joined the Quantum City stand.
Today and tomorrow SU2P’s annual symposium is taking place at University of Strathclyde.
SU2P programme
The SU2P project seeks to enhance the scientific and economic impact of the joint research portfolio of the partners in fields underpinned by photonics. These fields range from life sciences to advanced manufacturing.
The workshop on Long-range Interactions and Synchronization will take place in May, hosted by ICTP-SAIFR in São Paulo, Brazil
The workshop brings together statistical physicists and dynamical physicists to discuss common aspects of long-range and synchronizing systems, addressing both fundamental techniques (large deviations theory, kinetic theory, dimensional reduction, equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical physical aspects, etc) and applications (networks, light-matter interactions, etc). Two colleagues from ColOpt are invited speakers Robin Kaiser (INLN) on Synchronization of cold atoms and Giovanna Morigi (USAAR) on Cavity quantum electrodynamics
Full details of the event are available on the organiser’s website: http://www.ictp-saifr.org/workshop-on-long-range-interactions-and-synchronization/
BAD HONNEF PHYSICS SCHOOL ON QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES
5-10 August 2018
Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany
http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/pbh/aktuelles/S118.html
Application deadline is Monday, April 30, 2018.
Quantum technologies (QT) are expected to bring transformative innovation to science, economy and society. They emanate from basic research and require concerted efforts in education, theory and engineering to advance all of their application domains. The QT summer school aims at graduate students, PhDs, postdocs and people from industry with technical background. It offers an efficient, first-hand introduction into this exciting field and its current status in science and industry. All major areas of QT – quantum communication, simulation, computation, metrology and sensing – will be presented by leaders in their respective field, with emphasis on those who are particularly strong in Germany. In addition, start-ups and established companies will present their vision of what will enable QT and of what QT can achieve. The participants will have the opportunity to present their own work in the form of posters.
LIST OF CONFIRMED LECTURERS:
* Oliver Benson
* Dmitry Budker
* Christian Groß
* Rudolf Gross
* Fedor Jelezko
* Carsten Klempt
* Christoph Marquardt
* Peter Michler
* Thomas Monz
* Giovanna Morigi
* Tracy Northup
* Markus Oberthaler
* Gerhard Rempe
* Piet Schmidt
* Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
* Kilian Singer
* Jürgen Stuhler
* Harald Weinfurter
* Frank Wilhelm-Mauch
APPLICATION
The application form is available at the Physics School website www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/pbh/aktuelles/S118.html. Application deadline is Monday, April 30, 2018.
FEES
200 € covering full board and lodging (100 € for members of the German Physical Society (DPG)).
The school is supported by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.
The organizers: Jürgen Stuhler (TOPTICA), Piet Oliver Schmidt (PTB Braunschweig / U Hannover), Fedor Jelezko (U Ulm), Harald Weinfurter (LMU München), Stephan Ritter (TOPTICA)
This week the ColOpt network is hosted by C. Zimmermann, and S.Slama at the Physikalisches Institut der Universität Tübingen. All researchers will spend the week at the Institute with research skills training from S.Slama EKUT, Gian-Lucca Oppo USTRAT, N. Piovella UMIL, G.Morigi USAAR, C. Raab TOPTICA, and T. Ackemann USTRAT.
24th Young Atom Opticians conference registration deadline extended to 22nd March 2018.
The programme includes invited speakers Bill Philips, Robin Kaiser, Mauro Paternostro, Andrew Daley, and Leticia Tarruell. For registration and full programme details visit YAO 2018.
SUPA Summer School in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Photonics
University of St Andrews, Scotland 16th – 23rd June 2018
Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics 74
CDT Applied Photonics Summer School-Programme
Register online: www.cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/summer-school-2018
Registration closes 31st March. Limited Bursaries available
Our first network event took place on 17th -25th October 2017. Our 10 active ESRs spent the first week at USTRAT and the second week on a residential course at Loch Lomond. The ColOpt Board came to USTRAT for 2 days for a meeting and to interact with the new researchers.Well done to the team that took on the challenge to climb Beinn Dubh.
This week QuAMP2017 the biennial international conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics is in Glasgow. The conference organising committee is chaired by Sonja Franke-Arnold (UGLAS), and involves other colleagues from Strathclyde, Glasgow, and the ColOpt network.
The meeting will covers quantum information and technology, quantum optics, ultra-cold matter, the interaction of light with molecules and plasmas.
Other ColOpt colleagues are also active at the conference. We have our first conference poster from a ColOpt Early Stage Researcher. Fransesco Castellucci (UGLAS) will present his poster titled “Spatially dependent Electromagnetically Induced Transparency.”
Giovanna Morigi, (USAAR) will give an invited talk on Buckling transitions and clock order of two-dimensional coulomb crystals.