Talks+&+Discussions

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Sep 28 || 10:00am || Aud || **All participants** || Brief organizational meeting || introduce new participants to BOPTILATT || Sep 29 || 10:00am || SSR || **Erez Berg** || Informal discussion: Topological phases ||  || Sep 30 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Belen Paredes** || Tailoring minimum instances of topological matter with optical superlattices ||  || "Open questions in many-body physics from the perspective of ultracold atomic systems". ||  || Particles in Quantum Hall States. ||  || Alkaline-Earth Atoms in Optical Lattices ||   || a many-body system? ||  || cavity ||   || types of solitons" ||  || of gapped quantum states || joint talks with the disentangling workshop ||
 * ~ **Week1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tue, Sep 14 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Ehud Altman, Maciej Lewenstein, and W.Vincent Liu, plus Marty Einhorn (Deputy Director)** || Introduction to Boptilatt || Presentation of the participants and the program, organization, scientific challenges ||
 * || 10:45 am ||  || **All participants** || Coffee break || Attendance obligatory. Absence will be fined. ||
 * || 11:15 ||  || **Andreas Hemmerich** ||   || Orbital optical lattices ||
 * Thu, Sep 16 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Assa Auerbach** ||  || Transport theory of lattice bosons ||
 * || 3:15 pm ||  || **All participants** || KITP refreshment || Attendance obligatory. Absence will be fined. ||
 * || 3:45 pm ||  || **Hans Peter Buchler** || Solid phase with cold atomic gases in one-dimension. ||   ||
 * Fri, Sep 17 || 10:00 || FR || **Leaders: Andrew Ho,**
 * Andreas Hemmerich** || Informal discussion: Orbital optical lattices ||  ||
 * || 14:00 || FR || **Leaders: Sebastian Huber** || Informal discussion: Higgs mechanism and ultracold gases ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Sep 20 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Maciej Lewenstein** || Beyond Standard Optical Lattices || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Sep 21 || 10:00am || Aud || **Gretchen Campbell** || Atom Circuits: Persistent currents in a toroidal BEC with a tunable barrier. ||  ||
 * Wen, Sep 22 || 3:30 pm || SSR || **Leaders: Marvin Girardeau,**
 * Paul Fendley** || Informal discussion: 1D ||  ||
 * Thu, Sep 23 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Austen Lamacraft** || The phase diagram of a polar (antiferromagnetic) condensates ||  ||
 * || 3:15 pm ||  || **All participants** || KITP refreshment ||   ||
 * || 3:45 pm || Aud || **Carlos Bolech** || Polarized two-component Fermi gases in elongated traps and 2d optical lattices ||  ||
 * ~ Week 3 ||~ Time ||~ Place ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments, Links ||
 * Tue,
 * || 10:10am || Aud || **Immanuel Bloch** || Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Single Site Addressing with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices ||  ||
 * || 3:40 pm || Broida 1640 || **All participants** || Refreshments || Refreshements before Ehud's talk. ||
 * || 4:00 pm || Broida 1640 || **Ehud Altman** || Quantum phase transitions and critical dynamics far from thermal equilibrium || Colloquium of the Physics Department of UCSB - [|Ehud's abstract] ||
 * Wed
 * || 3:30pm || beach || **All Participants** || KITP fall picnic || Soccer game - Lattice vs Brain ||
 * Thu
 * || 3:15 pm ||  || **All participants** || KITP refreshments ||   ||
 * || 3:45 pm || Aud || **Helmut Ritsch** || Ultracold quantum particles in cavity generated optical lattices ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct. 1 || 10:00am || FR || **Claudia De Grandi**
 * Sarang Gopalakrishnan** || Informal discussion : Quantum dynamics ||  ||
 * Week 4**
 * ~ **Time** ||~ **Place** ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ Comments ||
 * Mon, Oct. 4 || 14:00 || FR || **Anna Sanpera, Fred Wolf, Maciek Lewenstein** || Informal discussion: Quantum neural networks ||  ||
 * Tue, Oct. 5 || 10:00am || Aud || **All participants** || Brief organizational meeting || Introduction of new participants to BOPTILATT ||
 * || 10:10am || Aud || **Matthew Fisher** || 2D Bose and non-Fermi liquid "metals" ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Tilman Esslinger** || From Cavity Opto-Mechanics to the Dicke Quantum Phase-Transitions || Physics Department Colloquium ||
 * Wen, Oct. 6 || 3.30 pm || SSR || **Ryan Barnett, Anna Sanpera** || Informal discussion: Ultracold spinor gases ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct. 7 || 3:15 pm ||  || **All participants** || KITP Refreshments ||   ||
 * || 3:45 pm || Aud || **Wilhelm Zwerger** || The search for a perfect fluid: is string theory relevant for ultracold atoms? ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct. 8th || 14:00 pm || Aud || **Victor Gurarie** || SU(N) Magnetism with Alkaline Earth Atoms and Chiral Spin Liquid ||  ||
 * ~ Week 5 ||~ time ||~ place ||~ Speaker ||~ Title ||~ comments ||
 * ||  ||   ||   ||   || Conference!!! ||
 * **Week 6** || **time** || **place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **comments** ||
 * Tue, Oct. 19 || 10:00am || Aud || **J"org Schmiedmayer** || Probing non-equilibrium physics in 1D many body quantum systems ||  ||
 * Wen, Oct. 20 || 10:00am || Aud || **Matthias Troyer** || //Ab initio// simulations of cold atoms || Joint talk of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * || 15:30pm || Aud || **Leon Balents** || Correlation physics from a condensed matter perspective I - a menu and some amuse-bouche. || First of the series of pedagogical lectures by Leon Balents and Cenke Xu; joint activity of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * Fri, Oct. 22 || 10:00am || SSR || **Gora Shlyapnikov** || Informal discussion: Ultracold dipolar gases ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct. 22 || 14:00pm || FR || **Marcos Rigol** || Informal quarrel: Generalized thermalization in integrable systems ||  ||
 * Week 7 || **time** || **place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **Comments** ||
 * Tue,Oct. 26 || 10:00 || Aud || **David Weiss** || Thermalization (and heating) of 1D Bose gases ||  ||
 * Wed,Oct. 27 || 10:00 || Aud || **Lode Pollet** || Developing the BDMFT formalism || Joint talk of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * Wed,Oct. || 15:30 || Aud || **Cenke Xu** || Pedagogical lecture about conventional and unconventional quantum critical points || Second of the series of pedagogical lectures by Leon Balents and Cenke Xu; joint activity of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * Fri,Oct. 29 || 10:00 || Aud || **Congjun Wu** || Orbital Phases of Cold Atoms: Unconventional BEC, ferromagnetism, and Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing states ||  ||
 * **Week 8** || **Time** || **Place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **Comments** ||
 * Tue, Nov. 2 || 10.00 || Aud || **Anna Sanpera** || Witnessing order parameters and dynamics in strongly correlated system ||  ||
 * || 16.00 || Broida 1640 || **William Phillips** || //Atoms in Optical Lattices: A New Condensed Matter System// || Physics Department Colloquium ||
 * Wen, Nov. 3 || 10.00 || Aud || **Anatoli Polkovnikov** || Universal dynamics in thermally isolated systems || Joint talk of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * Thu, Nov. 4 || 14.00 || Aud || **Gediminas Juzeliunas** || Light Induced Gauge Potentials for Cold Atoms || Informal discussion and short tutorial ||
 * Fri, Nov. 5 || 10.00 || Aud || **David Weld** || Thermometry and cooling with ultracold spin mixtures in optical lattices ||  ||
 * **Week 9** || **Time** || **Place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **Comments** ||
 * Tue, Nov. 9 || 10.00 || Aud || **Nir Davidson** || Frustration with coupled laser arrays on kagome lattices: the XY model and beyond || Experimental talk ||
 * Wen, Nov. 10 || 10.00 || Aud || **Boris Svistunov** || Worm Algorithm and Diagrammatic Monte Carlo || Joint talk of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * || 15.30 ||  || **Cenke Xu** || Unconventional quantum critical point || Third of the series of pedagogical lectures by Leon Balents and Cenke Xu; joint activity of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * Thu. Nov. 11 || 14.00 || SSR || **Discussion leaders:**
 * Jason Ho/Ehud Altman** || Discussion on
 * Jason Ho/Ehud Altman** || Discussion on
 * Fri, Nov. 12 || 10.00 || Aud || **Biao Wu** || Universal behavior in quantum chaotic dynamics and its application in quantum critical gas ||  ||
 * || 11.00 || Aud || **Jason Ho** || Alternate Ways to Even Strong Interactions, and Pulling Fluxes Away from
 * **Week 10** || **Time** || **Place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **Comments** ||
 * Tue, Nov. 16 || 10.00 || Aud || **Ian Spielman** || Practical prospects for non-abelian gauge fields || Experimental talk, but maybe on the blackboard!!! ||
 * Wen, Nov. 17 || 10.00 || Aud || **Alejandro Muramatsu** || Strongly correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium || Joint talk of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * || 15.30 || Aud || **Leon Balents** || Pedagogical Lecture IV: Frustration, spin liquids, and all that || Fourth of the series of pedagogical lectures by Leon Balents and Cenke Xu; joint activity of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * Fri, Nov. 19th || 10.00 || Aud || **Gerardo Ortiz** || An algebraic approach to dualities and its applications ||  ||
 * || 11.00 || Aud || **Alexei Gorshkov** || Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Simulation with Ultracold
 * **Week 11** || **Time** || **Place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **Comments** ||
 * Tue, Nov. 23rd || 10.00 am || Aud || **Pietro Massignan** || Impurities in a Fermi sea: Polarons or molecules? ||  ||
 * Tue, Nov. 23rd || 11.00 am || Aud || **Hui Zhai** || How much the single impurity atom problem can tell us about
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Ignacio Cirac** || Dissipation: A New Tool in Quantum Information Science || Physics Department Colloquium ||
 * Wen, Nov. 24th || 10.00 am || Aud || **Gil Refael** || Putting Floquet Hamiltonians to work: Dyson singularity, superfluid enhancement, and topological phases in time-periodic Hamiltonians. ||  ||
 * **Week 12** || **Time** || **Place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **Comments** ||
 * Mon, Nov. 29th || 12.15 || Aud || **Thierry Giamarchi** || Simulating with cold atoms is not enough: how to probe? || Director's Blackboard Lunch Seminar ||
 * Tue, Nov. 30th || 10.00 || Aud || **Trey Porto** || Adiabatic preparation and non-equilibrium dynamcis of AF order in a optical lattice, progress on recent experiments at NIST ||  ||
 * || 11.00 || Aud || **Qi Zhou** || Short/hot topic talk: Inter-band coupling induced novel condensates in a double-well lattice ||  ||
 * || 16.00 || Broida || **John Cardy** || **Colloquium:** //The Ubiquitous c// //- from the Stefan-Boltzmann// //law// //to Quantum Information Theory// || Physics department collquium ||
 * Wen, Dec. 1st || 10.00 || Aud || **Peter Zoller** || Open system dynamics with cold atoms || Joint talk of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * || 15.30 || Aud || **Masaki Oshikawa** || //The Haldane phase as a symmetry-protected topological phase// //and quantum entanglement// || Joint talk of "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices" and "Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems" ||
 * Thu, Dec. 2nd || 11.15 || ??? || **Adilet Imambekov, Pietro Massignan, Michael Forbes (tba), Roman Lutchyn (tba)** || Informal discussion: Exotic Fermi superfluids with ultracold atoms. ||  ||
 * Fri, Dec 3rd || 10:00am || Aud || **Dan Stamper-Kurn** || Optomechanics and spin dynamics of cold atoms in a
 * || 11:00am || Aud || **Dima Feldman** || Quantum phase transition from a liquid to a gas of cold molecules ||  ||
 * **Week 13** || **Time** || **Place** || **Speaker** || **Title** || **Comments** ||
 * Tue, Dec 7th || 10:00 || Aud || **Peter Engels** || "Nonlinear quantum hydrodynamics - shocks, superfluid-superfluid counterflow and novel
 * Wen, Dec 8th || 10:00 || Aud || **Ignacio Cirac** || Matrix product states: renormalization, gaps, and symmetries || joint talks with the disentangling workshop ||
 * || 11:00 || Aud || **Xiao-Gang Wen** || Topological order: patterns of long range entanglements
 * Thu, Dec. 9th || 11.15 || Aud || **Eugene Demler, W. Vincent Liu, Maciej Lewenstein** || Informal discussion: Perspectives of BOPTILATT || final scientific activity of BOPTILATT ||

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