Monday 1 March 2010

Optical Lattices and Bose Gases

Organisers: A. Rodriguez, R.A. Römer, D. Ueltschi

(pdf of programme)

Morning talks (9am-12:40pm) will be in D1.07 Complexity, Zeeman Building. Afternoon talks (2pm-6pm) will be in Room B3.02 Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building

• 09:00-09:10 Welcome
• 09:10-09:50 Robert Kerr (Warwick) Numerical generation of a vortex ring cascade in quantum turbulence
• 09:55-10:35 Dimitri Gangardt (Birmingham) Quantum impurity problem in ultracold gases: from dark solitons to quantum ferromagnets 
• 10:40-11:10 Tea, coffee and biscuits (Mathematics Institute Common Room)
• 11:10-11:50 Kai Bongs (Birmingham) Fermi-Bose mixtures in optical lattices
• 11:55-12:35 Volker Betz (Warwick) Critical temperature of dilute Bose gases 
• 12:40-14:00 Lunch (Mathematics Institute Common Room)
• 14:00-14:40 Valentin Zagrebnov (Université de la Méditerranée) Anisotropic generalised BEC with two critical densities
• 14:45-15:25 Joe Bhaseen (Cambridge) Colective dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical cavities
• 15:30-16:00 Tea, coffee and biscuits (Mathematics Institute Common Room)
• 16:00-16:40 Hermann Schulz-Baldes (Erlangen-Nuernberg) Quasi-one-dimensional random operators: random phase property, Lyapunov spectrum and delocalization
• 16:45-17:25 Benjamin Schlein (Cambridge) Effective evolution equations for many body quantum systems
• 17:30 Drinks & Snacks (Mathematics Institute Common Room)