Modern Trends in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Venue
: Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Workshop Date : November 23 - 24, 2005
Convenor : Bhanu Pratap DasList of Speakers
Sadiq Rangwala, RRI, Bangalore
Dipankar Das, IISc, 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
" Physics Nobel Prize 2005 "
Prof. Dmitry Budker
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
November 23 at 5:00 P.M.
Prof. Bhanu Pratap Das, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore - 560 034, Email : das@iiap.res.in