Victorian Summer School in Ultracold Physics
DATE: 20th January — 31st January 2014
The third Victorian Summer School in Ultracold Atomic Physics will be held in Melbourne, Australia over a two week period during the (Southern hemisphere) summer break. The School will incorporate approximately 6 lectures per day on current topics in ultracold physics presented by leaders in the field, leaving room for additional tutorials and discussions.
Special Theme for 2014: Quantum physics of low-dimensional systems
VSSUP 2014 will include lectures and tutorials on the following topics:
• The theory of Bose-Einstein condensation
• Atom interferometry and precision measurement
• Strongly interacting Fermi gases and Bragg scattering
• BECs in optical and magnetic lattices
• Topological insulators, graphene and 2D condensed matter
• Trapped ions, Schrodinger cat states and their applications
• Polaritons, excitons, spintronics and high temperature BEC
• Spin-orbit coupling, topological superfluids, Majorana fermions
• BEC and nano mechanics: implications for quantum causality
