AMO - workshop

Modern Trends in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Venue : Indian Institute of Astrophysics

Workshop Date : November 23 - 24, 2005

Convenor : Bhanu Pratap Das


List of Speakers


                                                        Dmitry Budker, University of California, Berkeley
                                                        Andal Narayanan, RRI, Bangalore
                                                        Sadiq Rangwala, RRI, Bangalore
                                                        Dipankar Das, IISc, Bangalore
                                                        T Senthil, IISc, Bangalore
                                                        Ramesh Pai, University of Goa
                                                        Rajat K Chaudhuri, IIA, Bangalore
                                                        K V P Latha, IIA, Bangalore
                                                        Malaya K Nayak,IIA, Bangalore
                                                        Chiranjib Sur, IIA, Bangalore
                                                        R Srikanth,RRI, Bangalore


Scientific Programme


Wednesday, November 23, 2005


9:30 – 9:45 : Inauguration

9:45-10:30 : Dmitry Budker, Crossing the P's (and T's) and dotting the alpha : Testing fundamental symmetries in the 21st century


10:30 – 10:45 : Tea Break


10:45 – 11:30 : Sadiq Rangwala, “Filtering, trapping and state selection of cold dipolar molecules”

11:30 – 12:00 : Dipankar Das,High precision hyperfine spectroscopy on the 6P state of 133Cs”


12:30 – 14:00 : LUNCH Break


14:30 – 15:15 : T. Senthil, “ Quantum phase transitions in ultra cold atoms ”

15:15 – 16:00 : Ramesh Pai, “ Mean field theories of interacting lattice bosons


16:15 : Tea


17:00 : Special Lecture by Dmitry Budker, “Physics Nobel Prize 2005



Thursday, November 24, 2005


10:00 – 10: 45 : Andal Narayanan, “Quantum optical effects at room temperature : A new look at old ideas”


10:45 – 11:00 : Tea Break


11:00 – 11:45 : Rajat K Chaudhuri, “ Core and core-valence extensive coupled-cluster method and its applications”

11:45 – 12:15 : K. V. P. Latha, “Theory of electric dipole moments of closed-shell atoms


12:30 – 14:00 : LUNCH Break


14:00 – 14:35 : Malaya K Nayak, “ Theory of electric dipole moments of molecules

14:35 –15:15 : Chiranjib Sur, “Accurate determination of electric quadrupole moment for optical frequency standard in Sr+”


15:15 – 15:30 : Tea


15:30 -16:00 : R. Srikanth, “Nondestructive Orthonormal State Discrimination : Applications to Quantum Information Processing with Atomic

                                            and Optical Systems”


16:00 -16:30 : Panel Discussion : AMO physics in Bangalore



Special Lecture

" Physics Nobel Prize 2005 "

Prof. Dmitry Budker

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

November 23 at 5:00 P.M.

 
For details contact
Prof. Bhanu Pratap Das, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore - 560 034, Email : das@iiap.res.in

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