Carlos Sa de Melo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Eugene Demler, Harvard University
Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New and important developments in condensed matter physics have appeared with the realization of strongly correlated states in ultra-cold atoms. It is now possible to engineer strongly correlated Fermion states in optical lattices and in standard atom traps that mimic many properties of conventional condensed matter systems. The added advantage of optical lattices and standard atom traps is that many new quantum phases may be accessible through the fine-tuning of external control parameters (magnetic field, lattice potential depths, atom density).
In this workshop we intend to bring experts on strongly correlated systems from condensed matter physics and atomic and molecular physics to exchange ideas in this interface area between the two fields. Given the steady growth of the field, the timing of this workshop is excellent and is likely to attract the major contributors, experimentalists and theorists alike, to this thriving area of research.
Applications and further information may be obtained from: www.physics.gatech.edu/aspen
Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv University
Zoltan Haiman, Columbia University
This meeting aims to promote fruitful dialog and interaction among people working in four related areas: Surveys of large-scale structure, the CMB, Gravitational lensing and Cosmological 21cm fluctuations. We hope to foster a dialog among researchers in these fields, in order to explore the deep ways in which these areas can complement each other in the quest to extract cosmological information. We seek a balanced workshop which will include theory and observation, and current results as well as exciting future plans and predictions.
The planned program will consist of formal sessions Monday through Friday, morning and evening, with the afternoons free for informal interaction and (of course) skiing. Several types of rooms will be available, in the range $143-186 per room per night. Prices include breakfast only, with participants free to roam Aspen in search of restaurants for lunch and dinner. During the conference there will be an opening reception, a conference banquet, and a public lecture.
Applications and further information may be obtained from http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~barkana/aspen.html
This Conference seeks to explore what we can hope to learn about the formation and evolution of galaxies from resolved observations of the Local Group, i.e. cosmology in the near field. The oldest stars in the Local Group are of an age similar to the look-back time of the most distant galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Major new survey instruments are revealing a vast amount of chemical and phase space information in local galaxies, much of it laid down by conditions in the early universe
All sky photometric surveys have discovered new structures throughout the Local Group. NASA's space telescopes are yielding new insights into the outer parts of galaxies. Chemical studies of halo and dwarf spheroidal stars are giving us important clues about the nature of the First Stars and how the reionization epoch unfolded. Will we be able to interpret these data within a consistent evolutionary framework?
This conference will bring together leading observers and theorists to discuss the wealth of new observations available from space-based and ground-based observatories as well as the most recent generation of advanced supercomputer simulations.
Completed applications should be sent to jbh@aao.gov.au
Greg Landsberg, Brown
Matthias Neuber, Cornell
Marcela Carena, Fermilab
Gudrid Moortgat-Pick, CERN
The field of particle physics is living through exciting times – some of the most exciting since its establishment a hundred years ago. The luminosity and energy frontiers provided by the current generation of particle accelerators have already opened up new levels of sensitivity in precision measurements and New Physics searchers. The synergy between the next-generation machines, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, and the proposed International Linear Collider will test the recent advances in theory which challenge conventional views about how Nature works at the most fundamental level.
The conference program will include the topics of precision electroweak physics including top physics, QCD at high energies, neutrino physics, searches for cold dark matter and dark energy, heavy flavor physics and CP violation, electroweak symmetry breaking and Higgs physics, searches for supersymmetry and other physics beyond the Standard Model, heavy-ion physics and theories in anticipation of the LHC, ILC and other future HEP facilities. The conference will provide a forum to discuss theoretical and experimental ways to prepare ourselves for the major new discoveries of the next few years.
For further information, please go to: http://conferences.fnal.gov/aspen/2006/index.html. For an application, please go to this web site. Completed applications should be sent to landsberg@hep.brown.edu