Talks for the conference.

Quantum Engineering of Levitated Systems

2016, Sep 25 -- Oct 01

Organizers:
P. Barker (College London U.)
M. Juan (Macquarie U.)
T. Li (Purdue U.)
J. Twamley (Macquarie U.)

Monday, September 26

10:30h	Angular momentum transfer to mesoscopic particles in vacuum
	Yoshihiko Arita (University of St Andrews, UK)
11:15h	Nonlinear dynamics and cavity cooling of levitated nanoparticles
	Peter Barker (University College London, UK)
12:00h	Optical levitation of nanodiamonds in vacuum without heating
	Gavin Morley (University of Warwick, UK)
16:00h	Levitating Microspheres Gas and Water-Wave Lasers
	Tal Carmon (Technion, Israel)
16:45h	Quantum Optomechanics with Nanospheres and Trapped Ions
	Tracy Northup (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
17:30h	Quantum Computation With Optomechanical Cluster States
	Darren Moore (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
18:00h	Quantum Engineering of Noisy Optomechanics
	Radim Filip (Palacky University, Czech Republic)

Tuesday, September 27

10:30h	Towards Quantum Interference of a Superconducting Microsphere
	Oriol Romero-Isart (IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria)
11:15h	Measuring quantum fluctuations in a superfluid optomechanical system
	Jack Harris (Yale University, USA)
12:00h	Electron spin resonance from NV centers in diamonds levitating in a Paul trap
	Gabriel Hetet (ENS Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, France)
16:00h	Experimental Approaches towards Levitated Quantum Experiments
	Nikolai Kiesel (University of Vienna, Austria)
16:45h	Optomechanics with tailored silicon nanoparticles: Towards matter-wave experiments
	Stefan Kuhn (University of Vienna, Austria)
17:30h	Levitated nanomagnets in the quantum regime
	Cosimo Carlo Rusconi (IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria)
18:00h	Electron spin control and torsional optomechanics of an optically levitated nanodiamond in vacuum
	Tongcang Li (Purdue University, USA)

Wednesday, September 28

10:30h	Quantum optical forces on nanodiamonds
	Gabriel Molina-Terriza (Macquarie University, Australia)
11:15h	Optical trapping of nanoparticles with a deep parabolic mirror
	Vsevolod Salakhutdinov (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany)
11:40h	Organising afternoon discussions

16:00h	Discussions

Thursday, September 29

10:30h	Quantum and classical dynamics of levitated nanoparticles in hybrid optical-electrical traps
	Tania Monteiro (University College London, UK)
11:15h	TBA
	Sougato Bose (University College London, UK)
12:00h	Strong photon-phonon interactions in optical cavities
	Darrick Chang (ICFO, Spain)
16:00h	Scattering-Free Optical Levitation of a Cavity Mirror
	Lam Ping Koy (Australian National University, Australia)
16:45h	Taming the dynamics of a levitated nanoparticle: from bistability to cooling
	Romain Quidant (ICFO, Spain)
17:30h	Controlling the Motion of a optically levitated Nanoparticle in vacuum
	Jamie Vovrosh (University of Southampton, UK)
18:00h	Force sensing and opto-mechanics with nanospheres in an optical lattice
	Andrew Geraci (University of Nevada Reno, USA)

Friday, September 30

10:30h	Generating macroscopic quantum superposition in optomechanical systems
	Lin Tian (University of California, USA)
11:15h	Theory of gravimetry sensing, spin squeezing and cooling of levitated systems
	Jason Twamley (Macquarie University, Australia)
12:00h	Prospects to use levitated optomechanics to test quantum mechanics and gravity
	Hendrik Ulbricht (University of Southampton, UK)
16:00h	Quantum simulation and matter wave interference in an optically trapped nano-diamond
	Zhangqi Yin (Tsinghua University, China)
16:45h	Complex behaviour of micro-nano-objects in spatially structured beams
	Pavel Zemánek (Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences,Czech Republic)
17:30h	Optical Levitation of Nanodiamond by Doughnut Beams in Vacuum
	Nan Zhao (Beijing Computational Science Research Centre, China)
18:10h	Closing remarks

This session has received financial support from the following institutions: