Program 2022


The meeting will be held in the Penthouse Suite (Collingwood College).

Wednesday 13th July 2022
14:00 - 18:00 Welcome and registration Collingwood College
18:30 - 19:00 Welcome Drinks Reception Fusion Restaurant
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome Reception Dinner Fusion Restaurant

Thursday 14th July 2022 Speaker Talk Title
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast for overnight guests Collingwood College
09:00 - 09:10 Ifan Hughes Welcome
09:15 - 9:45 Ofer Firstenberg Quantum nonlinear optics in the strong photon-photon interaction regime
09:45 - 10:15 Antoine Browaeys Super- and sub-radiance in a dense cloud of cold atoms
10:15 - 10:45 Sofia Ribeiro Collective effects in the photon statistics of thermal atomic ensembles
10:45 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00 Will Davis Towards optical switching in Rb atoms in bulk vapour cells and hollow core fibres
12:00 - 12:30 Clare Higgins State changing buffer gas collisions in thermal vapours
12:30 - 13:00 Ryan Hanley Laser cooled atoms, from lab to life
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Paul Huillery The Diamond NV center: an atom in the solid state
14:30 - 15:00 James Millen How to do quantum physics with nanoparticles
15:00 - 15:30 Jon Pritchett Microwave-to-optical conversion in cuprous oxide
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 Lucy Downes Hot Rydberg atoms for THz-to-optical conversion
16:30 - 17:00 Paul Griffin Mini fountains for atomic clocks
18:30 - 19:00 Toptica Drinks Reception Fusion Restaurant
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner Fusion Restaurant

Friday 15th July 2022 Speaker Talk Title
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast for overnight guests Collingwood College
09:00 - 9:30 Giovanna Morigi Single photon quantum memories and transducers
09:30 - 10:00 Robin Kaiser Resonant dipole-dipole interactions: Dicke subradiance and Anderson localisation
10:00 - 10:30 Erika Andersson Quantum cryptography beyond quantum key distribution
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Janne Ruostekoski Optical manipulation of many-body systems of planar arrays of atoms
11:30 - 12:00 Aidan Arnold Mode-family transformation of structured light superpositions using atomic media
12:00 - 12:30 Sonja Franke-Arnold Shaping atomic polarisation profiles with vector light
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Leave and/or optional lab tours