Confirmed speakers to date (with titles)

 

Precision Spectroscopy

Theodor HŠnsch (Munich) Ð Laser frequency combs and ultraprecise spectroscopy

Leo Hollberg (NIST Boulder) Ð Optical clocks with cold atoms and stable lasers

Hidetoshi Katori (Tokyo) Ð Optical lattice clock: precision spectroscopy of neutral atoms in tight confinement

Christian Tamm (Braunschweig) Ð Comparison of two single-ion optical frequency standards at the hertz level

Jeffrey Hangst (Aarhus) Ð Production of antihydrogen in ATHENA

Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard) Ð Observations of cold anti-hydrogen

Victor Flambaum (Sydney) Ð Do fundamental constants of Nature vary with time and distance?

Sebastien Bize (BNM-LTPF Paris) Ð Testing the stability of fundamental constants using atomic fountains

Christian Chardonnet (Paris Nord) Ð Absolute frequency measurements of molecular transitions of ultra-high precision: towards new tests of time variations of the fundamental constants.

Paolo De Natale (Florence) Ð Entending the optical comb synthesizer to the infrared: absolute frequency measurements of molecular transitions around 4.2 microns

 

Laser Cooling and Trapping,

Vladan Vuletic (Stanford) Ð Collective friction forces due to self-organisation of cesium atoms in Rayleigh scattering

 

Cold Collisions and Cold Molecules

Julien Cubizolles (Paris) - Formation of ultra-cold lithium molecules from a degenerate Fermi gas

Dan Heinzen (Texas) Ð Experiments with trapped, ultracold molecules and Mott insulator states

Murray Holland (JILA Boulder) Ð Feshbach resonances in dilute quantum gases s

Michele Leduc (ENS Paris) Ð Photoassociation of ultracold metastable helium atoms

Peter Drummond (Brisbane) Ð Stochastic gauge: a new technique for quantum simulations

 

Degenerate Quantum Gases

Alain Aspect (Orsay) Ð Non ideal behaviour in the thermodynamics of a Bose gas

Rudolf Grimm (Innsbruck) Ð BEC of cesium: tunability and ultracold molecules

Massimo Inguscio (Florence) Ð Ultracold bosons and fermions in optical lattices

John Thomas (Duke) Ð Dynamics of a highly-degenerate, strongly interacting Fermi gas

Bill Phillips (NIST Gaithersburg) Ð Experimental study of Bose gas in one dimension

Crispin Gardiner (Wellington, NZ) Ð Formation and stabilization of vortex lattices

Yoshiro Takahashi (Kyoto) Ð Bose-Einstein Condensation of ytterbium atoms

Ignacio Cirac (MPQ Garching) Ð Strong correlation effects in cold atomic gases

Jeffrey McGuirk (Boulder) Ð Normal-superfluid interaction dynamics in a spinor Bose gas

 

Atom Optics and Interferometry

Ed Hinds (London) Ð Cold atoms above metallic and dielectric surfaces

Jakob Reichel (Munich) Ð Coherent atomic states in microtraps

Louw Feenstra (Heidelberg) Ð Microtraps and atom chips for atom optics

Gerhard Birkl (Hannover) Ð Atom optics and quantum information processing with atoms in optical micro-structures

Jozsef Fortagh (Tubingen) Ð On-chip laboratory for Bose-Einstein condensation

 

Cavity QED

Jeff Kimble (CalTech) Ð Cavity QED by the numbers

Martial Ducloy (Paris Nord) Ð Coupling of atoms, surfaces and fields in dielectric nanocavities

Serge Haroche (ENS Paris) Ð Manipulating mesoscopic fields with a single atom in a cavity: fundamental quantum tests and applications

 

Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Optics

Peter Zoller (Innsbruck) Ð Engineering strongly interacting condensed matter systems with cold atoms

Howard Wiseman (Brisbane) Ð Ferreting out the fluffy bunnies: entanglement in the presence of super-selection rules

Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Innsbruck) Ð Single ions for quantum information processing

Dietrich Leibfried (NIST Boulder) Ð Experiments towards a scalable quantum computer based on trapped ions

Eugene Polzik (Aahrus) Ð Spectroscopy as a quantum state preparation tool

Ping Koy Lam (Canberra) Ð Continuous variable quantum teleportation and quantum secret sharing

Claude Fabre (Paris) Ð Surpassing the standard quantum limit for high sensitivity measurements in optical images using multimode non classical light

Howard Carmichael (Auckland) Ð Continuous variable teleportation within stochastic electrodynamics

 

Ultrafast Lasers and Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Jun Ye (JILA Boulder) Ð Ultra-precise phase control of short pulses

Gustav Gerber (Wurzburg) Ð Adaptive quantum control with femtosecond laser pulses

 

Other New Areas and Applications in Laser Spectroscopy

Ennio Arimondo (Pisa) Ð Photoionization of cold atoms and ultracold rubidium atoms

 

Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine

Mike Feld (MIT) Ð Seeing small biological structure with light

Robert Wynands (Fribourg) Ð Laser cardiomagnetometry: our hearts beat for cesium