Scientific program
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| 9:30 - 10:15 | Yaroslav Blanter (Delft University of Technology): SQUID detection of quantized mechanical motion |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Tobias Kippenberg (LMU München): Cryogenic cavity optomechanics - Backaction laser cooling of mechanics |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Simon Gröblacher (University of Vienna): Quantum optical control of micro-mechanical systems |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Robert Shekhter (Chalmers University): Nanoelectromechanics with coherent electrons |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch and informal discussion |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Poster session (taking place in the Arnold Sommerfeld Lounge) |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Andreas Hüttel (Delft University of Technology): Vibrational excitations of suspended single-wall carbon nanotubes |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Andrew Armour (University of Nottingham): Dynamics of nanomechanical single electron transistors |
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Sigmund Kohler (University of Augsburg): Transport through ac-driven nanoscale conductors |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Mikhail Kiselev (ICTP Trieste): Kondo shuttling |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Philipp Treutlein (LMU München): Ultracold atoms coupled to micro- and nanomechanical resonators on an atom chip |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Tobias Brandes (TU Berlin): Noise and fluctuations in nanoscale transport |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch and informal discussion |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Robert Blick (University of Wisconsin-Madison): On nanopillars and nanomembranes |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Ignacio Wilson-Rae (TU Munich): Intrinsic dissipation in nanomechanical resonators due to phonon tunneling |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Aashish Clerk (McGill University): Counting statistics and conditional evolution in a simple NEMS |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Ron Lifshitz (Tel Aviv University): Nonlinear dynamics of NEMS resonators |
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Eyal Buks (Technion): Towards mesoscopic effects in superconducting nanomechanical systems |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Michael Thorwart (University of Freiburg): Nonlinear effects in driven nanomechanical resonators |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Ivan Favero (Paris Diderot University): From micro to nano-optomechanical systems |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Felix von Oppen (FU Berlin): Phonons in suspended carbon nanostructures |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch and informal discussion |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Jack Harris (Yale University): Dispersive optomechanics: a new approach to mechanical quantum systems |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Miles Blencowe (Dartmouth University): Quantum limited displacement detection and cooling using a nonlinear microwave cavity |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Matt La Haye (Caltech): Measurement of dispersive coupling between a nanoresonator and Cooper-pair box qubit |