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Science meetings and conferences
Swiss Physical Society Meeting This year MaNEP will be present, as it is every second year, with a special session and its own invited speakers. A scientific committee will be established soon. Prof. Alberto Morpurgo, University of Geneva, is coordinating it and is taking care of the organizational aspect. The abstract submission deadline for MaNEP contributions and the registration deadline for MaNEP participants is March 1st, 2010. |
LEES 2010 in Les Diablerets
The LEES 2010 conference organized by the University of Geneva will be held from July 5 to 10, 2010 in Les Diablerets. This is the 9th conference in this biannual series of international conferences on low-energy electrodynamics in solids. The chairman of the 2010 edition is Dirk van der Marel, MaNEP deputy director. The deadline for abstract submission, February 1st, 2010, is approaching rapidly! Ab-initio modeling of cold gases
This was the topic of the conference "Ab-intio modeling of cold gases" held at ETH Zurich, November 11-13, 2009. More than 70 experimentalists and theorists convened to exchange ideas on such topics as the Bose-Hubbard model, the Fermi-Hubbard model, Rydberg atoms, low-dimensional systems, polaron physics, disordered systems, and optical cavity experiments among others.
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The synergy between experimentalists and theorists has led to a rapid development of this field, and the workshop often saw amazing agreement between model and experiment but also a boost in new detection techniques, thermometry, understanding thermalization times, and the role of quantum optical effects. Gaining a factor of two in temperature could be enough to start exploring anti-ferromagnetism via the superexchange mechanism in the Hubbard model. Matthias Troyer, ETHZ Tech Transfer
The conference "A Quantum Leap for Telecommunications – Today and Tomorrow" organized by the three National Centres of Competence in Research MICS, QP and MaNEP was a complete success. About a hundred people took part in the event, half of whom came from local and international businesses. The six conferences were followed by a networking cocktail which started off with an artistic performance featuring superconducting levitation. MaNEP is closely collaborating with artists to create a performance which will be shortly presented to the general public. A sample of this performance was offered at this event. |
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Cold atoms in an optical lattice are an ideal testbed for many models of condensed matter physics. While this could eventually enhance our understanding of high-Tc superconductivity and frustrated magnetism, present experiments are in a regime where they can and should be tested in full detail by comparing with analytical computations and numerical simulations.