Support for the international conference Bose-Einstein Condensation 2019
Abstract
This proposal is in support of the international conference "Bose-Einstein Condensation 2019- Frontiers in Quantum Gases", that will be held from September 8th to 12th, 2019 in Spain, Sant Feliu de Guixols, in Hotel Eden Rock. The conference is hosted by ICFO - Institute for Photonic Sciences in Castelldefels and by the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany. The "Bose-Einstein Condensation" conferences are the most important ones for the physics community in the area of ultracold gases. The series began in 1993 and continues since then at the rythm of one conference every second year. The event gathers 200 participants from all over the world in a unique mix of senior and junior, experimental and theoretical scientists. Since the 1995 discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute ultracold gases by Cornell, Ketterle, and Wieman, the field of quantum gases has developed very rapidly in fascinating directions, many of which were not anticipated at the time of this discovery. Spectacular progress both in experiment and theory has lead to quantitative many-body physics, establishing a fruitful interface between condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and high energy physics and making it one of the pillars of the emerging field of quantum simulations and computation. The Nobel Prize winners Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and William D. Phillips have already accepted to attend and speak at BEC 2019. The International Scientific Committee, which includes these 3 Nobel laureates, as well as other highly distinguished international scientists has decided in 2007 that the conference series would take place regularly in Sant Feliu de Guixols (Girona). The program of the conference includes typically 45 oral preseatations (invited and hot topics), including a large fraction of speakers from the US. The details of the program will soon be available on the web site of the conference: https://bec2019.org. The US Air Force and Army support is needed ia order to ensure the participation of a large and diverse group of senior and young iavited speakers, and, in particular, to help foster the exchange of scientific information among young scieatists. It will be used to support the costs of invited speakers, of the venue, and for facilitate participation of younger participants. More generally, this support will contribute to a number of areas vital to science and technology in the US and in Europe that arc becomiag also increasingly important in the field of Quantum Science and Technology.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 22, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1910250
Entities
People
- Maciej Lewenstein
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- ICFO
- United States Army