U. of T. Quantum Optics Mini-Workshop '15

(last updated 10 April 2015)

This workshop is composed of twenty-minute talks (plus five minutes for discussion) on topics of current research interest in quantum optics and related areas, given as part of the course requirements for students in Physics 2203S, Quantum Optics I.

Other interested parties are welcome to attend.

The workshop will run in two parts, on Tuesday April 14 and Tuesday April 21, from 2pm to 5 pm, with a short break each day. All sessions will take place in room MP 606 of McLennan Physical Labs.

The grades will be based on three components:

the content and the clarity of the presentation
the handling of questions
participation in questioning during the other talks.

The level of the talks should assume this course as a sole starting point, and quickly move beyond the topics treated in class to discuss recent research. They should demonstrate a mastery of the basic elements of modern optics research, and an ability to explain new effects in the context of the broader field of optical physics.

The tentative workshop program follows.
Each talk should last 20 minutes, to be followed by 5 minutes for questions.

PART I	TUESDAY	April 14th, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. in MP 606
14:00	Welcome & introduction
14:10-14:30	Todd van Mechelen	Microcavity exciton-polaritons
14:35-14:55	Daniel Nino	Polarization Gradient Cooling: Laser cooling beyond the Doppler Limit
15:00-15:20	Johanna Nordlander	Spin control in solid state systems using dark states
BREAK	15:25-15:40
15:40-16:00	David Spierings	Decoherence in superconducting qubits
16:05-16:25	Edwin Tham	Laser Cooling without spontaneous emission
16:30-16:50	Nishant Bhatt	Quantum Opto-Mechanics

PART II	TUESDAY	April 21st, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. in MP 606
14:10-14:30	Russell Pollari	Quantum lithography beyond the diffraction limit via Rabi oscillations
14:35-14:55	Hazem Daoud	Entanglement and teleportation
15:00-15:20	Dennis Fernandes	Quantum tricks for overcoming the quantum limits on optical resolution
BREAK	15:25-15:40
15:40-16:00	Grant Walters	Superradiance
16:05-16:25	Stephen Havlik	Quantum computing
16:30-16:50	David Schmid	Breakdown of exponential decay
16:55		Concluding remarks

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