2014: Frontier of Laser Science

10th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organized by  JSPS and Heidelberg University

Date: January 15-17, 2014
Venue: Heidelberg, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg

PROGRAM

January 15th

09:30 Labtour Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
10:30 Shuttle to the Neuenheimer Feld
11:00 Labtour Physics Department
12:30 Lunch at Physikalisches Institut
14:30 Shuttle to IWH or Universitätsplatz
19:00 JSPS Reception Dinner at IWH

January 16th

08:45 Welcome
Peter Comba (Director IWH)
08:50 Introductory Remarks
Matthias Weidemüller (Physics Institute)
09:00 (Abstract not available)
Vahid Sandoghdar
09:40 Single Molecule Nano-Imaging: Fluctuation and the Function of Life
Toshio Yanagida
10:20 Coffee break
10:40 Quantum Control Spectroscopy: Ultrafast Dynamics Studies with Shaped Laser Pulses
Marcus Motzkus
11:20 What do we learn about photosynthetic light harvesting systems from long-lived electronic quantum coherence?
Akihito Ishizaki
12:30 Lunch
14:00 High-resolution collinear laser spectroscopy of exotic isotopes
Klaus Blaum
14:40 Laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium atoms
Masaki Hori
15:20 Coffee break
15:40 THz-streak camera: a new technique to study fs dynamics directly in the time domain
Ulrike Frühling
16:20 Exploring of novel matter and condition with a high energy density state created by high power laser
Ryosuke Kodama
17:00 Strong-field and attosecond physics at solid nanotips
Peter Hommelhoff
19:00 Conference Dinner at Restaurant “Backmulde”, Schiffgasse 11

January 17th

09:00 Quantum degenerate gases of atomic magnets
Kiyotaka Aikawa
09:40 An ultracold mixture of 6Li and 133Cs
Eva Kuhnle
10:20 Coffee break
10:40 Coherent Ising machine using laser network
Shoko Utsunomiya
11:20 Non-equilibrium statistics and thermodynamic machines with trapped ions
Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Exciton Bose-Einstein condensation in a bulk semiconductor crystal
Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami
14:40 Attosecond Control of Matter and Light – Fundamental Physics in the Time Domain
Thomas Pfeifer
15:20 Manipulation of Photons by Photonic Crystals
Susumu Noda

January 18th

Departure of the participants
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Transfer to Neuenheimer Feld
17:15 Exploring quantum-classical boundary with light
Kenji Ohmori (General Physics Colloquium)
19:00 Transfer to IWH
19:30 Dinner at IWH