Scientific program


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MONDAY

  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

TUESDAY

  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

WEDNESDAY

  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