The Cold Atoms Predoc School is organized every year in Les Houches School of Physics, in the framework of the GDR Gaz Quantiques in the continuity of a PhD program started in 2004(*). The objective of the school is to give students starting a PhD thesis in this field all the necessary knowledge on Laser cooling, Cold collisions, Quantum degenerate gases, and Optical lattices for the success of their project. This year, the school will in addition cover the growing topic of Ultracold molecules and their Quantum applications.
(*) Follow here for information about the previously held session in 2022.
The school will take place from Monday, October 9 to Friday, October 20, 2023.
The scientific program at a glance is given below. In total, the school covers 48 hours of lectures during the two weeks and 3 hours of posters session per week.
First week lectures schedule:
- Franck Pereira Dos Santos (Laboratoire SYstèmes de Référence Temps Espace, Paris, France): Laser cooling and trapping Lecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
- Silke Ospelkaus (Institut of Quantum Optics, Hanover, Germany): Formation of ground state ultracold molecules and collisions
- Hans Lignier (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France): Photo-association, vibrational and rotational cooling of molecules Lecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
- Mike Tarbutt (Imperial College, London, UK): High precision measurements with laser cooled molecules Lecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
- Kang-Kuen Ni (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA): Chemical reactions, Molecules in optical tweezers, Quantum information Lecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3Lecture 4
- Tim Langen (Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Stuttgart, Germany): Many-body physics with ultracold dipolar atoms and moleculesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3 [ including fire alarm at the end ;) ]