Program

ECTI 2018 Program

Sunday, November 18
Time	Session/Lecture info
12:00-13:45	Registration and lunch
12:00-13:45
13:45-14:00	Opening Remarks Daniel Zajfman, President, Weizmann Institute of Science
13:45-14:00
14:00-16:30	Quantum Computing I Chair: Ferdinand Schmidt Kaler, Mainz University
14:00-14:30	Rainer Blatt, Innsbruck University Quantum Information with trapped Ions: Verification and Validation
14:30-15:00	Christof Wunderlich, Siegen University Speeding Up Reinforcement Learning on a Trapped Ion Quantum Computer
15:00-15:30	Kihwan Kim, Tsinghua University Two-Dimensional Ion Crystal and Individual Manipulation of Ions
15:30-16:00	Markus Mueller , Swansea University Fighting Qubit Loss in Topological Codes: From Concepts to Experiments with Trapped Ions
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-18:00	Quantum Computing II Chair: Hartmut Haeffner, UC Berkeley
16:30-17:00	Jonathan Home, ETH University Encoded logical qubits and the challenge of scaling
17:00-17:30	Marko Cetina, Joint Quantum Institute,University of Maryland (Quantum) Engineering of Trapped Ions
17:30-18:00	Winfried Hensinger, Sussex University Developing a modular microwave trapped ion quantum computer
18:00-19:30	Dinner
18:00-19:30

Monday, November 19
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-11:30	Precision Measurements Chair: Tanja Mehlstaubler, PTB
09:00-09:30	Brian Odom, Northwestern University Molecular Ions: State control now. Precision measurement later
09:30-10:00	Stefan Ulmer, RIKEN University High-Precision Comparisons of the Fundamental Properties of Protons and Antiprotons at BASE
10:00-10:30	Marianna Safronova, Delaware University Search for new physics with trapped ions
10:30-11:00	Klaus Blaum, MPG Precision atomic and nuclear mass measurements on trapped exotic species
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-15:00	Optical Clocks Chair: Markus Mueller, Swansea University
11:30-12:00	Ekkehard Peik, PTB Trapped ion optical clocks and tests of the equivalence principle
12:00-12:30	Chin-wen Chou , National Institute of Science and Technology An Al+ quantum-logic clock with systematic uncertainty below 10^-18 and recent progress in NIST molecular ion project
12:30-13:00	Murray Barrett, Centre for Quantum Technologies Progress towards an optical clock with 176Lu+
13:00-13:30	Piet Schmidt, PTB and Leibniz University Hannover Quantum logic spectroscopy of highly charged ions
13:30-15:00	Lunch
15:00-17:00	Quantum Simmulations Chair: Johannes Hecker Denschlag, Ulm University
15:00-15:30	Christian Roos , Innsbruck University Variational quantum simulations with a 20-ion string
15:30-16:00	David Lucas, Oxford University Trapped-ion entanglement: faster and further
16:00-16:30	Dzmitry Matsukevich, CQT Nonlinear quantum optics with phonons in an ion trap
16:30-17:00	Hartmut Haeffner, UC Berkeley Coherent control of rotating ion strings: towards observing spin statistics with trapped ions
17:00-18:00	Poster Session I
17:00-18:00
18:00-20:00	Dinner
18:00-20:00
20:00-21:15	Evening Lecture
20:00-21:15	Gunter Werth, Mainz University On the history and perspective of ion trap physics with some personal remarks

Tuesday, November 20
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-11:00	Crystals and Dynamics I Chair: Piet Schmidt, PTB
08:30-09:00	Tanja Mehlstaubler, PTB Atomic Friction and Dynamics of Topological Defects in Ion Coulomb Crystals
09:00-09:30	Vladan Vuletic, MIT Stick-slip friction with trapped ions
09:30-10:00	Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Mainz University A linear Paul trap for catching, sympathetic cooling, identifying and shooting out ions: Applications in quantum information and for precision measurements
10:00-10:30	Oded Heber, Weizmann Institute of Science Molecular Ion Beam: Cooling and Internal Dynamics using Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Crystals and Dynamics II Chair: Christian Roos, Innsbruck University
11:00-11:30	Tobias Schaetz, Freiburg University Controlling ions in optical- and arrays of individual rf-surface traps
11:30-12:00	Paul Haljan, Simon Fraser University Quantum Dynamics of Trapped Ion Crystals near a Structural Phase Transition
12:00-12:30	Gilad Perez, Weizmann Institute of Science Searching for light scalars & dark matter with atomic clocks
12:30-13:30	Lunch
12:30-13:30
13:30-20:00	Jerusalem Tour & Dinner
13:30-20:00

Wednesday, November 21
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-11:30	Molecular ions Chair: Tobias Schaetz, Freiburg University
09:00-09:30	Stephan Schiller, Heinrich-Heine University High-precision test of molecular three-body quantum physics by trapped ion cluster transverse excitation spectroscopy
09:30-10:00	Laurent Hilico, LKB Hydrogen Molecular Ions: Theory and Experiments
10:00-10:30	Olivier Dulieu, Laboratoire Aime Cotton Excited-state dynamics in a hybrid cold ion/atom system
10:30-11:00	Sadiqali Rangwala, RRI Bangalore Collisional cooling of trapped ions and its implications for ion transport
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-15:00	COST session: Atom-ion mixtures I Chair: David Lucas, Oxford University
11:30-12:00	Daniel Slichter, National Institute of Standards and Technology Spin-motion coupling with microwaves and a near-motional oscillating magnetic field gradient
12:00-12:30	Takashi Mukaiyama, Osaka University Collisional properties of ions with light-mass neutral atoms
12:30-13:00	Stefan Willitsch, Basel University Complex ion-neutral hybrid systems
13:00-13:30	Michal Tomza, Warsaw University Quantum chemists' perspective on cold hybrid ion-atom systems
13:30-15:00	Lunch
15:00-17:00	COST session: Atom-ion mixtures II Chair: Markus Hennrich, Stockholm University
15:00-15:30	Florian Meinert, Stuttgart University Rydberg atoms in ultracold gases - from electron to ion impurities
15:30-16:00	Johannes Hecker Denschlag, Ulm University Swap cooling in a homo-nuclear ion-atom collision
16:00-16:30	Rene Gerritsma, Amsterdam University Trapped ions in an ultracold Rydberg gas
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-19:00	Hot topics session I Chair: Jonathan Home, ETH
17:00-17:20	Jin-Ming Cui, University of Science and Technology of China Supper-resolution imaging of a single trapped ion by stimulated emission depletion
17:20-17:40	Yonatan Mishnayot, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap Current Status
17:40-18:00	Eric Endres, University of Heidelberg Sympathetic cooling of molecular anions by a localized laser-cooled buffer gas
18:00-18:20	April Cridland, Swansea University Precision Spectroscopy Of The 1S-2S Transition In Trapped Antihydrogen
18:20-18:40	Nitzan Akerman , Weizmann Institute of Science Precision isotope shift spectroscopy and the search for new physics
18:40-19:00	Martina Knoop, CNRS/Aix-Marseille University Precision spectroscopy with 3 photons in a large ion cloud
19:00-20:00	Poster session II
19:00-20:00
20:00-22:00	Thanksgiving Dinner
20:00-22:00

Thursday, November 22
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-11:00	Novel approaches Chair: Marianna Safronova, Delaware University
09:00-09:30	James Thompson, JILA Superradiant lasing on a milliHertz linewidth transition
09:30-10:00	Markus Hennrich, Stockholm University Interacting Rydberg ions
10:00-10:30	Gabriel Hetet, ENS Spin-mechanics with diamonds in a Paul trap
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-13:00	Hot topics session II Chair: Alex Retzker, Hebrew University
11:00-11:20	Amit Rotem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ultra-fast two qubit gates for trapped-ions achieved by near resonant control
11:20-11:40	Nikolay Vitanov, Sofia University High-fidelity quantum control and quantum information processing with composite pulses
11:40-12:00	Fei Zhou, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CAS Single-Atom Demonstration of the Quantum Landauer Principle
12:00-12:20	Costas Christoforou, University of Sussex Strong coupling of a single ion to an optical cavity
12:20-12:40	Stephan Kucera, Saarland University Direct and teleportation-based qubit interfaces between a single ion and near-IR photons
12:40-13:00	Petr Obsil, Palacky University Olomouc Scalable interference from trapped ion chains
13:00-15:00	Lunch
13:00-15:00
15:00-17:00	Lab tour
15:00-17:00

Deadline for abstract submission
September 15, 2018

Deadline for registration
October 15, 2018

Organizing committee

Nitzan Akerman
Weizmann Institute of Science
Roee Ozeri
Weizmann Institute of Science
Alex Retzker
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

Reut Hershenhoren
reut.hershenhoren@weizmann.ac.il

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ECTI 2018 Program

Sunday, November 18

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