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Program

Friday, November 4

4:00pm

NU Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Tanya Zelevinsky
Columbia University
"From Precision Metrology to Dark Matter Detectors with Ultracold Atoms and Molecules"
Technological Institute (Tech), room L211
5:30pm

Unofficial workshop dinner ($37 per person, including tax & tip)
Gio Italiano
1631 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL
7:30pm

Poster session (official start of workshop)
Technological Institute (Tech), room F235

Saturday, November 5
Location: Tech Room LR3.

8:30am

Registration & breakfast
8:55am

Welcome
9:00am

"Dynamics of mobile impurities in 1D condensates"
Alex Kamenev, Kamenev group
University of Minnesota
9:25am "Towards Doppler Cooling of SiO+"
Jason Nguyen, Odom group
Northwestern University
9:50am "Negative refraction in atomic systems"
Deniz Yavuz, Yavuz group
University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15am
 Coffee & posters
10:45am
 "Progress in the Radium EDM"
Matthew Dietrich, Lu group
Argonne National Laboratory
11:10am “Quantum state control of single atoms in an optical Bottle Beam trap”
Siyuan Zhang, Saffman group
University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:35am "Trapping of mesoscopic matter in optical lattices"
Georg Raithel, Raithel group
University of Michigan
12:00pm
 Lunch, lab tours, & posters
1:30pm
 "3D Anderson Localization of Ultracold Matter"
Brian DeMarco, DeMarco group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1:55pm "Observation of quantum criticality with ultracold atoms in optical lattices"
Xibo Zhang, Chen group
University of Chicago
2:20pm "BEC and Molecule experiments at Purdue: an update"
Yong Chen, Chen group
Purdue University
2:45pm "A Green's function approach to electrodynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates"
Michael Moore, Moore group
Michigan State University
3:10pm
 Coffee & posters
3:35pm "Electron-Positron Annihilation as a Pathway to Gamma-Ray Microscopy"
Aaron Leanhardt, Leanhardt group
University of Michigan
4:00pm "Exploring quantum soft matter with quantum degenerate gases of dysprosium"
Nathaniel Burdick, Lev group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:25pm "Light-Shift Blockaded Collective States for Atomic Interferometry and Quantum Information Processing"
Selim Shahriar, Shahriar group
Northwestern University
4:50pm

Depart