Boulder School for Condesed Matter and Materials Physics

July 5-30, 2004: Coherence and Interactions in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics

Organizers: 

Ehud Altman, Eric Cornell, Eugene Demler, Steven Girvin, Mikhail Lukin
 

The school agenda will include pedagogical courses with multiple lectures as well as several colloquia on recent developments in the field.

Tentative list of topics:

• Review of Bose-Einstein condensation and Cold Atoms.
• Fermions, Feshbach mesonance and molecular condensates.
• Ultra cold atoms on optical lattices.
• Introduction to ideas and techniques of quantum optics.
• Experiments with trapped ions.
• Quantum Hall efect with electrons and ultra cold atoms.
• Classical and quantum phase transitions.
• Topological order:  ideas and applications.
• Noise and correlations in mesoscopic conductors and atomic condensates.
• Superconducting Q-bits:  Noise and coherence in mesoscopic superconductors.
• Quantum optics in semiconductors.

Lecturers (to be confirmed):

• M. Greiner (JILA)
• E. Cornell ( JILA)
• S. Girvin (Yale)
• R. Hulet (Rice University)
• A. Imamoglu (ETH)
• D. Jin (JILA)
• W. Ketterle (MIT)
• L. Levitov (MIT)
• C. Nayak (UCLA)
• W.D. Philips (NIST)
• N. Read (Yale)
• S. Sachdev (Yale)
• D. Wineland (JILA)
• S. Haroche, (ENS)
• S. Yelin (University of Connecticut)
• P. Zoller (Insbruck)

 

The Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics has been established to provide education for advanced graduate students and postdocs working in condensed matterphysics, materials science and related fields. The goal is to enable studentsto work at the frontiers of science and technology by providing expert trainingnot easily available within the traditional system of graduate educationand postdoctoral apprenticeship. The School is supported by the NationalScience Foundation, with additional funding provided by the University of Colorado and NIST, and meets annually during July in Boulder, Colorado.