The workshop program will include a number of invited and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions -- all in a relaxed informal atmosphere on the sunny Sunshine Coast. You can also surf, swim, play tennis, rock climb nearby (20 min drive to the breathtaking Glass House Mountains), and do more PHYSICS in between!!

Scope
The workshop will cover hot topics in BEC and Quantum Information, from both theory and experiment. A particular focus will be on quantum aspects of matter waves and macroscopic quantum states, going beyond the methods and predictions of mean-field theory. This will include advances in analytical and computational methods, the latest experimental results probing the quantum nature of BECs, and applications of BEC to quantum information.

The topics include:

• Recent theoretical and experimental advances in Bose-Einstein condensation
• Novel computation methods for BEC
• BEC in lattices
• Atom-molecular BEC
• Degenerate Fermi gases and Fermi-Bose gas mixtures
• Atom lasers/ monitored BEC
• Quantum information and BEC
• Nonclassical states in a BEC
• Coherent atom/light coupling and entanglement
• Quantum optics and quantum information processing
• Macroscopic tests of quantum mechanics
• Quantum and classical solitons

Invited Speakers

• Howard Carmichael (Auckland University, New Zealand)
  Collective Spontaneous Emission: An Exercise in Disentangling the Entangled
• Iacopo Carusotto (École Normale Supérieure, France)
  An exact stochastic wavefunction approach to the N-body problem and its first applications
• Crispin Gardiner (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
  A phase space method for atoms trapped in an optical lattice
• Gerd Leuchs (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
  Optical fiber soliton based multipartite quantum correlations
• Ken O'Hara (NIST, Maryland, USA)
  Experiments with a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas
• Kazimierz Rzazewski (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  Cold bosons: Probing the classical field approximation
• Chris Search (University of Arizona, USA)
  Atom Optics with Fermions
• Gora Shlyapnikov (Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, The Netherlands)
  Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases: Recent developments and prospects
• Kevin Strecker (Rice University, USA)
  Tunable Interactions in Ultra-Cold Bose And Fermi Gases
• Wojciech Zurek (TBC) (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
  Dynamics of Second Order Phase Transitions: Vortex Formation in a Quench