The COHERENCE School in Pisa will introduce the young researchers to the "Fundamentals of Rydberg Atoms and Molecules" and will thus lay the foundations for the remainder of their studies and research. After the School, there will be a Young Excited Atomix (YEA) meeting entirely organized by the young researchers.

The First COHERENCE School will be held at the Department of Physics (Dipartimento di Fisica), Largo Pontecorvo 3, building B , Room G1 (see the map on "travel" section).

Schedule:

	SUN 16/09	MON 17/09	TUE 18/09	WED 19/09	THU 20/09
Physics Department - University of Pisa	arrival	F1	G1	G1	G1
8:30 - 8:40		welcome			Ideas Factory: presentations 15' per group (start time: 8.30)
8:40 - 9:00		Adams: IF intro
9:00 - 9:45		Adams	Gallagher	Molmer
9:45: 10:30		Adams	Gallagher	Molmer
10:30-11:00		coffee break	coffee break	coffee break	coffee break
11:00 - 11:45		Saffman	Gallagher	Molmer	Ideas Factory: presentations 15' per group
11:45-12:30		Saffman	Loew	Morsch	Ideas Factory: presentations 15' per group
12:30-14:30		lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch
14:30 - 15:15		Saffman	Loew	Morsch	YEA
15:15 - 16:00	Pisa walking tour	Whitlock	Loew	Morsch
16:00 - 16:30		coffee break	coffee break	coffee break
16:30 - 17:15		Whitlock	Ideas Factory: Leisching	Ideas Factory
17:15 - 18:00		Whitlock	Ideas Factory: Leisching	Ideas Factory
				Social dinner

Speakers and topics

Charles S. Adams
Department of Physics, Durham University
Opening lectures + Dipole-dipole interactions for optical dipoles

Tom Gallagher
University of Virginia
Rydberg atoms I (energy transfer), II (microwave), III (two electrons)

Klaus Mølmer
Aarhus University
Quantum information with Rydberg atoms: introduction
Quantum information with Rydberg atoms: theory

Oliver Morsch
CNR- INO, Pisa
Quantum information with Rydberg atoms: experiments

Robert Löw
Univesität Stuttgart
Rydberg excitation in thermal vapor cells
Rydberg molecules (V. Bendkowsky, B. Butscher, J. Nipper, J. Balewski, R. Löw & T. Pfau, H Sadeghpour, JM Rost, T Pohl, S Rittenhouse, W Li, J Shaffer)

Mark Saffman
Department of Physics, The University of Wiscosin, Madison
Dipole-dipole interactions and optical trapping of Rydberg atoms

Patrick Leisching
Toptica Photonics
TOPTICA & Pisa Ideas Factory
Business case, idea scoring (file excel)
Module 4: Idea evaluation methods and techniques

Shannon Whitlock
Physikalisches Institut Universität Heidelberg
Quantum gases and strongly correlated matter

Poster session:

• Rydberg state spatial distributions in a cold strontium gas
D. Boddy, G. Lochead, D. P. Sadler, C. S. Adams and M. P. A. Jones

• High-resolution spectroscopy of ultracold Rydberg atoms
Johannes Deiglmayr, Heiner Sassmannshausen, Josef Agner, Hans- Juerg Schmutz and Frederic Merkt

• Charge Transfer Dynamics of Rydberg Hydrogen atoms at Surfaces
Mark Dethlefsen, Eric So, Jemma Gibbard, Sashikesh Ganeshalingam, Xiolin Li and Tim Softley

• Atomic Rydberg Reservoirs for Polar Molecules
Alexander W. Glaetzle, Bo Zhao, Guido Pupillo, Peter Zoller

• Towards atomic ensemble qubits and magnetic nanoscale lattices
A.L. La Rooij, A. Tauschinsky, V.Y.F. Leung, J. B. Naber, G. B. Mulder, D. R. M. Pijn, H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell and R.J.C. Spreeuw

• Excitation spectrum of supersolids
Tommaso Macrì, Fabio Cinti, Fabian Maucher, Thomas Pohl

• Towards a photonic phase-gate using Rydberg polaritons
D. Paredes, H. Busche, D. Maxwell, D. J. Szwer, K.J. Weatherill, M. P. A. Jones, C. S. Adams
• Continuous measurement on ultracold Bose gases: A Bogoliubov Gaussian state description
Andrew Wade, Jacob Sherson, Klaus Mølmer

• Quantum dynamics in 1d Rydberg lattices
Guang Wu

Schedule:

Mark Saffman Department of Physics, The University of Wiscosin, Madison Dipole-dipole interactions and optical trapping of Rydberg atoms

Poster session:

Mark Saffman
Department of Physics, The University of Wiscosin, Madison
Dipole-dipole interactions and optical trapping of Rydberg atoms