AMO Summer School

Sunday, July 21- Friday, July 26, 2002

General information


Daily Schedule:

Lectures

Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., 11:00 - 12:30 p.m., and 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.,
E51-345 (Tang Center)

Problem solving sessions
Monday - Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Teal Room (26-152)


Special Events:

Sunday, 7/21

7:30 p.m., room 26-214: Informal reception

Monday, 7/22
8:00 - 9:00 a.m., E51-345 (Tang Center): Registration

Tuesday, 7/23
8 p.m., Room 6-120: An evening with Norman Ramsey

Thursday, 7/25
7 p.m., Durgin Park Restaurant: Dinner


Locations

Download the map. Note that the lecture location has been moved from its original site: the Kresge Auditorium.


Lecture Schedule

Lecturers:
Professor Isaac Chuang, M.I.T.
Professor John Doyle, Harvard University
Professor Wolfgang Ketterle, M.I.T.
Professor Daniel Kleppner, M.I.T.
Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
Professor David E. Pritchard, M.I.T.
Professor Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University

Monday
9 - 10:30 Lecture 1 - Ramsey: Introduction to AMO, Resonance
11 - 12:30 Lecture 2 - Kleppner: Atoms and radiation: Stimulated and spontaneous emission
2 - 3:30 Lecture 3 - Pritchard: Units and metrology, Hyperfine structure
4 - 5:30 Problem solving session, Teal Room 26-152

Tuesday
9 - 10:30 Lecture 4 - Doyle: Two-state systems, Rabi transitions, Landau-Zener effect
11 - 12:30 Lecture 5 - Ketterle: Optical Bloch equations, spectrum of radiated light
2 - 3:30 Lecture 6 - Lukin: Quantum description of light, spontaneous down conversion
4 - 5:30 Problem solving session, Teal Room 26-152

Wednesday
9 - 10:30 Lecture 7 - Kleppner: Selection rules, Two-photon absorption and emission
11 - 12:30 Lecture 8 - Lukin: Coherence, superfluoescence
2 - 3:30 Lecture 9 - Ketterle: Dressed atom picture, dipole forces
4 - 5:30 Problem solving session, Teal Room 26-152

Thursday
9 - 10:30 Lecture 10 - Kleppner: Rydberg atoms and cavity QED
11 - 12:30 Lecture 11 - Ketterle: Optical Molasses and beam slowing
2 - 3:30 Lecture 12 - Chuang: Introduction to Quantum Information and Quantum Computation
4 - 5:30 Problem solving session, Teal Room 26-152

Friday
9 - 10:30 Lecture 13 - Kleppner: Spectral line shapes
11 - 12:30 Lecture 14 - Pritchard: Atom optics and atom interferometry
2 - 3:30 Lecture 15 - Ketterle: Bose-Einstein Condensation