6:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Registration
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm: Opening Ceremony with Professor Lene Hau
9:30 pm - 10:30 pm: Reception
8:00 am - 9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am: Friday Keynote with Professor Melissa Franklin
10:15 am - 11:15 am: Workshops I
11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Panel on Diversity in Research with Professor Robert Lue
2:10 pm - 3:05 pm: Plenary Session I
3:05 pm - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:25 pm: Plenary Session II
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Workshops II
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Explore Boston and Dinner (on own)
8:30 pm - 10:30 pm: Social
8:00 am - 9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am: Saturday Keynote with Professor Douglas Melton
10:00 am - 10:30 am: Coffee Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Poster Session I
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Poster Session II
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Poster Take-down and Clean-up
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Dinner and Closing Ceremony
The Art of Taming Light
Professor Lene Hau, Keynote
Light pulses are slowed in ultra-cold atom clouds to bicycle speed: 10 miles/hour, which is 50-100 million times lower than the light speed in vacuum. In the process the pulses spatially compress by the same large factor, from 1 mile to only 0.001 inches, at which point they fit entirely within the atom cloud. A light pulse can then be completely stopped for many seconds. During the storage time, light could - under normal circumstances - travel back and forth to the Moon several times over. In our recent experiments we take matters further: We stop and extinguish a light pulse in one part of space and revive it in a completely different location. The experiments create a new paradigm for control and inter-conversion of light and matter... and the secret behind the tricks will be revealed in the talk.
