Physics & Astronomy Hosts Workshop on Insights into AMO Physics and Related Fields

June 22, 2015

Group photo of AMO Workshop attendees

Attendees of the workshop in Jorgensen Hall.

Workshop on "Insights into AMO Physics and Related Fields" in honor of Professor Anthony Starace's 70th birthday

Former students, post-docs, and collaborators of Professor Starace returned to UNL on Saturday, Aug. 22 to deliver talks on hot topics in Atomic, Molecular, Optical & Plasma Physics. All events were held in Jorgensen Hall, and the event welcomed nearly 80 attendees.

Workshop Agenda:

Chair: Tim Gay, University of Nebraska (USA)
9:00-9:25 a.m. Göran Wendin, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
Back from the future to the 1960s, and then back again: from atomic many-body physics to quantum computing
9:25-9:50 a.m. Mike Cavagnero, University of Kentucky (USA)
Counting Quanta with Occam's Razor
9:50-10:15 a.m. Bo Gao, University of Toledo (USA)
Cold and warm atomic physics

10:15-10:45 a.m. Coffee break

10:45-11:10 a.m. Chris Greene, Purdue University (USA)
Few-body insights into the fractional quantum Hall effect
11:10-11:35 a.m. André Bandrauk, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)
Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses for Attosecond Magnetism
11:35-12:00 a.m. Suxing Hu, University of Rochester (USA)
Attosecond Physics: A New Adventure with Tony in the Ultrafast World

12:00 AM-2:00 p.m. Lunch break

2:00-2:25 p.m. Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska (USA)
Entanglement, Squash, and Chest Hair
2:25-2:50 p.m. Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap, University of Nebraska (USA)
Matter-Wave Vortices
2:50-3:15 p.m. Ravi Rau, Louisiana State University (USA)
Quasi-stability at saddle points of potentials

3:15-4:15 p.m. Members of the audience are invited to speak about their experiences working with Anthony Starace
4:15 p.m. Roger D. Kirby, University of Nebraska (USA) Emeritus
Development of the Department Since the 1980s