Second Circular: General Information

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1.    General Information

The Conference will be held at the Hilton Coylumbridge Hotel in the Cairngorms National Park in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. Regularly updated information about the Conference will be found on this site. The Conference will commence with a welcoming reception at 6.30 pm on Sunday 19th of June and close after lunch on Friday 24th of June.

Attendance is by invitation only and the number of delegates will be limited to approximately 250. Invitations are obtained by pre-registering on the Conference web site.

Following the usual custom, the Conference will consist of single sessions of invited talks and high-profile poster sessions covering the latest developments in Laser Spectroscopy and related topics.  Scheduling will allow significant time for informal discussions. 

Topics will include:
  • Atomic and molecular laser spectroscopy
  • Precision spectroscopy and metrology
  • Laser cooling and trapping
  • Bose-Einstein condensation, degenerate Fermi gasses, and atom lasers.
  • Cold collisions and cold molecules
  • Atom optics and interferometry
  • Quantum optics and quantum information
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Laser sources
  • Ultrafast spectroscopy and atoms in high fields
  • Novel applications of laser spectroscopy

Invited speakers:

Oral presentations at the Conference are by invitation by the Programme Committee. Speakers, who have so far accepted invitations:

Christophe Becher (Innsbruck)
John Bohn (Boulder)
Phil Bucksbaum (Ann Arbor)
Keith Burnett (Oxford)
Steve Chu (Berkeley)
Peter Drummond (Brisbane)
Rudi Grimm (Innsbruck)
John Hall (Boulder)
Hidetoshi Katori (Tokyo)
Ferenc Krausz (Garching)
Vladilen Letokhov (Troitsk)
Elena Ostrovskaya (Canberra)
Tilman Pfau (Stuttgart)
Bill Phillips (Gaithersburg)
Jean-Michel Raimond (Paris)
Norman Ramsey (Harvard)
Jakob Reichel (Munich)
Gerhard Rempe (Munich)
Anna Sanpera (Hanover)
Thomas Udem (Munich)
Jook Walraven (Amsterdam)
Carl Wieman (Boulder)
Jun Ye (Boulder)

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