The International Conference Quantum Optics IV took place in Jaszowiec,
Poland from Tuesday, June 17 to Tuesday, June 24, 1997.
ORGANIZATION
The International Conference Quantum Optics IV was organized by the Institute
of Physics of the Polish Academy
of Sciences (IF PAN) and the Center
for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CFT)
under the guidance of the International Program Committee.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
I. Bialynicki-Birula (Poland)
J. Mostowski (Poland)
N. Bigelow (USA)
K. Rzazewski (Poland)
J. H. Eberly (USA)
L. Sirko (Poland)
M. Fedorov (Russia)
H. Walther (Germany)
PROGRAM AND CONTRIBUTIONS
The major topics of the Conference were the following: cold atoms, interaction
of atoms with strong fields, and quantum chaos. Conference proceedings will be published as a special
issue of Acta
Physica Polonica A.
TITLES OF INVITED LECTURES
N. Bigelow (USA):
Coherent and collective motional states of ultra-cold atoms in a
trap: from lattices to BEC
R. Blumel (Germany):
Quantum Implications of Ray-Splitting
C. Bowden (USA):
Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Intense Laser Field Atom
Interactions
C. Clark (USA):
Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute atomic
gases
J. Dalibard (France):
The quantum dynamics of atoms in a cavity
J. H. Eberly (USA):
Classical Control of Quantized Fields
in Cavity QED, and the Photon Pistol
A. Ekert (UK):
Quantum error correction
M. Fedorov (Russia):
Quasicalassical theory of strong-field
photoionization from
rydberg levels of atoms: Solution of the initial-value problem
R. Glauber (USA):
Counting Atoms: Statistical Effects of
Permutation Symmetry and Antisymmetry
R. Grobe (USA):
From dark states to bright laser pulse propagation
F. Haake (Germany):
Semiclassical spectra for systems with mixed
classical phase space
S. Kilin (Belarus):
Quantum instability and decoherence problem
P. M. Koch (USA):
H and He Rydberg Atoms in Strong
Microwave Fields:
Polarization Dependence
G. Kurizki (Israel):
Manipulation of Open Quantum Systems
W. Lange (Germany):
Heterodyne spectroscopy of a single
trapped ion
M. Lewenstein (France):
Quantum atom optics of Bose-Einstein
condensates
H. Metcalf (USA):
Dark States and deBroglie Wave
Optics
C. Radzewicz (Poland):
Femtosecond light wave packets
G. Shlyapnikov (Russia):
Optical manipulations of trapped Bose
condensates
I. A. Walmsley (USA):
Measuring Wave Fields:
from quantum states to ultrashort pulses
M. Wilkens (Germany):
Counting statistics and phase diffusion
of Bose gases
L. You (USA):
Properties of trapped condensates
J. Zakrzewski (Poland):
Nondispersive wavepackets and chaos
assisted processes
M. Zukowski (Poland):
The quest for GHZ entangled states
W. Zurek (USA):
Decoherence, Chaos, and the Physics
of Information
CORRESPONDENCE
All correspondence concerning the Conference should be addressed to:
International Conference Quantum Optics IV
Leszek Sirko
Institute of Physics
Polish Academy of Sciences
Al. Lotnikow 32/46
02-668 Warszawa, Poland
tel. +48-22-437001 ext. 3385
fax: +48-22-430926
e-mail: qo4@ifpan.edu.pl
SPONSORS
We wish to thank the following for their contribution to the success of
this conference:
