| Bose-Einstein Condensates: Past, Present and Future |
| Organizer: |
| Panos Kevrekidis ( University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A. ) |
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| The experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensates
15 years ago was a major milestone that ushered a new era
of tremendous potential at the forefront of atomic physics,
and especially at its interfaces with wave physics, nonlinear
dynamics and optical physics. An unprecedented level of control
of this clean experimental system enabled the realization of a vast
span of exciting features, potentials and structures, including but
not limited to solitons, vortices, vortex lattices, structural
phase transitions, multi-component dynamics, spinors, optical
lattices, Feshbach resonances and space- as well as time-independent
interactions, and dynamical instabilities. |
| As this field is starting to mature, the nonlinear waves conference
at Beijing is an excellent opportunity to reflect on successes of the
past and to consider challenges of the future, directions of interest
and possible applications. To that effect, gathering a diverse set
of highly visible researchers in a dynamic environment such as that
of this meeting, where there will be a considerable interest in
interaction and cross-pollination with other areas of nonlinear
physics, will provide an excellent environment for seeding future
research, and potential collaborations.
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| List of Speakers: |
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| 1) Masahito Ueda ( University of Tokyo, Japan ) |
| "Topological excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates" |
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| 2) Natasha Berloff ( Cambridge University, U.K. ) |
| "Spatial pattern formation in nonequilibrium condensates" |
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| 3) Ashton Bradley ( University of Otago, New Zealand ) |
| "The Stochastic Projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation: theory and
applications in high temperature Bose gases" |
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| 4) Chenyu Wang ( University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A. ) |
| "Double wells in Bose-Einstein Condensates" |
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| 5) T. P. Billam ( Durham University, U.K. ) |
| "Generation of bright solitary waves and experimental tests of mean-field theory in attractive Bose-Einstein condensates" |
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| 6) L. Hadzievski ( Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Serbia ) |
| "Discrete solitons and vortices in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates" |
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| 7) Guoxiang Huang ( East China Normal University, China ) |
| "Dark and bright solitons in super
uid Fermi gases in the
BCS-BEC crossover" |
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| 8) Elena Ostrovskaya ( Australian National University, Australia ) |
| "Controlled dynamics of matter waves in two-dimensional
optical lattices" |
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| 9) Volodya Konotop ( University of Lisbon, Portugal) |
| "Matter Rogue Waves" |
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| 10) Wuming Liu ( Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ) |
| "Non-Abelian Josephson e ect and half vortex of cold atoms in
traps and microcavities" |
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| 11) Nick Proukakis ( University of Newcastle, U.K. ) |
| "Stochastic Soliton Dynamics in Finite Temperature Quantum
Gases" |
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| 12) Brian Anderson ( University of Arizona, U.S.A. ) |
| "Persistent currents in an oblate, finite-temperature
Bose-Einstein condensate" |
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| 13) Li You ( Georgia Tech, U.S.A. ) |
| "Mixtures of spinor atomic Bose-Einstein condensates" |
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| 14) Cheng Chin ( University of Chicago, U.S.A. ) |
| "Having your cake and seeing it too: Formation and dynamics of Incompressible Mott Insulating Domains in Ultracold Gases" |
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| 15) P. Kevrekidis ( University of Massachsuetts at Amherst, U.S.A ) |
| "Dark solitons and some generalizations thereof in Bose-Einstein condensates" |
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