Workshop Program

The book of abstracts can be downloaded here COHERENCE Book of Abstracts You will receive a copy at the workshop, so please do not print it yourself.
Tuesday 9th September
19:00 - 21:00
  Registration & Reception at Carmen de la Victoria

Wednesday 10th September
08:45 - 09:00
  Opening
09:00 - 09:35
  T. Killian
  Strontium Ultracold Rydberg Gases
09:35 - 10:05
  M. Jones
  Rydberg blockade and dressing with Group II atoms
10:05 - 10:35
  R. Kliese
  A Frequency Comb for Absolute Optical Frequency Measurement
10:35 - 11:10
  Coffee break
11:10 - 11:45
  A. Wallraff
  Towards Hybrid Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Atoms and Circuits
11:45 - 12:20
  G. Rempe
  From Rydberg switches to single-photon transistors
12:20 - 12:50
  M. Saffman
  Rydberg mediated entanglement with trapped atoms
13:00 - 16:00
  Lunch (Carmen de la Victoria) & Posters
16:00 - 16:30
  T. Lahaye
  Measuring dipole-dipole interactions between two single Rydberg atoms
16:30 - 17:00
  P. Cheinet
  Few-body interactions control in cold Rydberg atoms
17:00 - 17:30
  Coffee break
17:30 - 18:00
  S. Whitlock
  Simulating dipolar energy transport with giant atoms
18:00 - 18:30
  S. Wüster
  Towards quantum simulations of chemical and biological processes using
  ultra-cold Rydberg atoms
19:00 - 20:00
  Supervisory Board Meeting at Carmen de la Victoria
21:30
  Meeting point Paseo de los Tristes
22:00 - 23:00
  Alhambra visit

Thursday 11th December
09:00 - 09:35
  D. Jaksch
  Dipole-dipole bound Rydberg molecules
09:35 - 10:05
  P. Schmelcher
  Ultralong-Range Molecules in External Electric and Magnetic Fields
10:05 - 10:35
  J. Deiglmayr
  Rydberg macrodimers with a twist
10:35 - 11:10
  Coffee break
11:10 - 11:40
  T. Softley
  Interaction of Rydberg hydrogen atoms and molecules with metallic,
  semiconductor and nanostructured surfaces
11:40 - 12:15
  K. Ohmori
  Ultrafast many-body dynamics in an ultracold Rydberg gas
12:15 - 12:45
  D. Ciampini
  Excitation dynamics and full counting statistics for resonant and
  off-resonant excitation of a strongly correlated cold Rydberg gas
13:00 - 16:00
  Lunch (Carmen de la Victoria) & Posters
16:00 - 16:30
  S. Bergamini
  Computation and metrology with cold atoms in mixed states
16:30 - 17:00
  B. Vermersch
  Angular properties of vdW interactions with P and D Rydberg states:
  new features of the Rydberg Blockade phenomenon
17:00 - 17:30
  Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00
  Poster session
20:30 -
  Conference dinner at Hotel AC Palacio de Santa Paula

Friday 12th September
09:00 - 09:35
  A. Kuzmich
  Quantum optics with Rydberg atoms
09:35 - 10:05
  A. Ourjoumtsev
  Quantum optics with an intracavity Rydberg gas
10:05 - 10:35
  R. Spreeuw
  Magnetic microtrap lattices
10:35 - 11:10
  Coffee break
11:10 - 11:45
  I. Carusotto
  Quantum Fluids of Light
11:45 - 12:15
  F. Mezzacapo
  Quantum and classical glasses of ultrasoft particles in two dimensions
12:15 - 12:45
  P. Bienias
  Scattering properties of strongly interacting Rydberg polaritons
13:00 - 16:00
  Lunch (Carmen de la Victoria)
16:00 - 16:30
  I. Lesanovsky
  Strongly interacting Rydberg gases out of equilibrium
16:30 - 17:05
  D.-W. Wang
  Quantum phase transitions of Rydberg-dressed Fermi gases
17:05 - 17:35
  Coffee break

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