All talks will be held in Dell Butcher Hall 180. The poster session, breakfast, and Thursday night dinner will be in Brockman 101.
Wednesday, January 7
8-9:30p: ARO MURI Team Meeting, Wyndham Hotel 1st Floor Ball Room (to the right of the front desk)
Thursday, January 8
8-8:45: Breakfast
8:45-9: Welcome and introductions
9-10:30: ARO MURI: Fundamental issues in non-equilibrium dynamics
- 9:00 – 9:05 Introduction Cheng Chin
- 9:05 – 9:35 Control of an ultracold lattice gas via measurement back action Mukund Vengalattore
- 9:35 –10:05 Dynamics and interactions of solitons Jason Nguyen
- 10:05‐10:30 Transport through a quantum point contact Thierry Giamarchi
10:30-11: Break
11-12:30 ARO MURI: Fundamental issues in non-equilibrium dynamics
- 11:00 – 11:30 Quantum dynamics without quasiparticles William Witczak‐Krempa
- 11:30 – 12:00 Roton excitations and quantum phase transition inshaken lattices Colin Parker
- 12:00 – 12:30 Collisions in driven optical lattices Erich Mueller
12:30-2: Lunch, Brockman Hall Room 101
2-4: Single Investigator Talks
- 2:00 Victor Galitski
- 2:30 Andrew Daley
- 3:00 Chuanwei Zhang
- 3:30 David Weld
4:30-6:30: Poster Session
6:30 – : Dinner
8-9:30p: AFOSR Team Meeting, Brockman Hall Room 200*
*Rice will operate a return shuttle to the Wyndham hotel at approximately 10:00pm.
Friday, January 9
New Quantum Phases of Matter
8-9: Breakfast
9-10:30: AFOSR MURI: Advanced quantum materials – a new frontier for ultracold atoms, Team leader: Wolfgang Ketterle
10:30-11: Break
11-12:30 AFOSR MURI: Advanced quantum materials – a new frontier for ultracold atoms
12:30-2: Lunch, Brockman Hall Room 101
2-4: Single Investigator Talks
- 2:00 Vincent Liu
- 2:30 Ken O’Hara
- 3:00 John Thomas
- 3:30 Vito Scarola
4-6: Lab Tours