Tentative Program - QUIC 2007

Sunday 26^th August

• Arrival of Participants
• Registration and Reception (evening)

Monday 27^th - Friday 31^st August

Scientific program

List of confirmed speakers:

• Francesca Arcara (Institute d'Optique, Orsay)
  On science funding in Europe
• Thomas Busch (University College Cork)
  Implementation of quantum information in neutral gases
• Vladimir Buzek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
  Quantum observations: Reconstruction of quantum states and processes
• Francesco Cataliotti (University of Firenze)
  Ordered and Disordered optical potentials
• Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Gesellschaft, Garching)
  Entangled states: theory and applications
• Klaasjan van Druten (University of Amsterdam)
  Atom chips: tutorial (with Robert Sprreuws)
  Bose gas in 1D: to BEC or not to BEC
• Ron Folman ( Ben Gurion University)
  Atom-Surface interaction in Atom Chips
  Light and Matter-Wave resonators on Atom Chips
• Klemens Hammerer (University of Innsbruck)
  Ensembles in quantum communication
• Mark Hillery (Hunter College, New York)
  Quantum walks
• Ray Laflamme (Perimeter Institute)
  NMR quantum computing
• Alexander Retzker (Imperial College)
  Laser cooling of trapped particles
• Barry Sanders (University of Calgary)
  Implementation of Quantum Information Protocols
• Thorsten Schumm (University of Vienna)
  BEC in dressed adiabatic potentials on atom chips
• Robert Spreeuw (University of Amsterdam)
  Atom chips: tutorial (with Klaasjan van Druten)
  Microtrap lattices on permanent magnet atom chips
• Jiri Vala (NUI Maynooth)
  Naturally fault-tolerant and topological quantum computation
• Mario Ziman (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
  Programmable quantum devices

Friday 31^th August, 1 pm, End of the meeting