Atom Laser Conference

4 - 9 April 2010

École de Physique, les Houches, France, April, 4 – 9, 2010

This conference is devoted to Atom Lasers from their production to their applications.

Scope of the workshop

The latest progress in the manipulation of atoms with light and fields lead to the creation of an atom laser, a coherent matter wave in which many atoms occupy a single quantum mode. Atom lasers are of fundamental interest in many fields, from fundamental studies to practical applications such as atom interferometry because of their sensitivity to inertial fields.

It will be organized with 8 to 10 tutorial lectures of 1h30 (2 each morning), followed by three to five half hour talks in the afternoon. There will be several invited half hour talks and a majority of contributed talks. These contributions will be supplemented by a poster session allowing open discussion. In addition to the invited speakers (about 1/3 of the audience), this conference is intended for a majority of young scientists and PhD students involved in this emerging field.

Organizing committee

The organizing committee will be made of J. Close (Canberra), P. Bouyer (Orsay) and D. Guéry-Odelin (Toulouse).

Scientific committee

T. Esslinger, A. Aspect

Preliminary list of speakers

Alain Aspect (Palaiseau), Tilman Esslinger (Zürich), Mark Kasevich (Stanford), Axel Griesmaier (Stuttgart), Johnny Vogels (Utrecht), Gonzalo Muga (Bilbao), Iacopo Carusotto (Trento), Nicolas Pavloff (Orsay), Christian Bordé (Villetaneuse), Vincent Josse (Orsay), Thierry Lahaye (Toulouse), Georg Raithel (Ann Arbor), Simon Haine (Brisbane), Nick Robins (Canberra), Andrew Truscott (Canberra), John Close (Canberra), Philippe Bouyer (Palaiseau), Kristian Helmerson (Melbourne), David Guéry-Odelin (Toulouse), Peter Rosenbuch (Paris), Laurence Pruvost (Orsay) ...

Session organization

This conference will provide new fundamental insights and experimental realizations of concepts in atom optics and atom lasers. It will cover the following topics : Atom optics with coherent matter waves - Atom lasers production and properties - CW atom lasers - Quantum propagation properties of coherent atom beams - Atom lasers and integrated atom optics - Beyond atomic physics with coherent atomic beams - Precision measurement with atom laser sources.