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
