Announcement General Info Program

to be held

December 16 - 20, 2005

at

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

organized by

Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

sponsored by

K. C. Wong Education Foundation
Lee Hysan Foundation

 

 

Scope:

The conference will provide a forum to discuss many recent development in quantum optics.  The topics would include quantum computing and teleportation, quantum entanglement, meta-materials, nonclassical properties of radiation, quantum interference, interaction between light and materials, etc.

Invited Speakers:

Ennio Arimondo (Univ. of Pisa, Italy)

Wilhelm Becker (Germany)

Chuangtian Chen (Beijing Ctr. for Crystal R&D, China)

Luiz Davidovich (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Jonathan Dowling (Louisiana State Univ., USA)

Jörg Evers (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

Michael Fleischhauer (Germany)

Edward S. Fry (Texas A&M Univ., USA)

Guang-Can Guo (Chinese Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China)

Christoph H. Keitel (Max-Planck-Inst. for NP, Germany)

Peter L. Knight (London, UK)

Gershon Kurizki (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Hai-Woong Lee (KAIST)

Renbao Liu (CUHK, HK)

Luigi A. Lugiato (Italy)

Pierre Meystre (Tucson, USA)

Peter W. Milonni (Los Alomos, USA)

Miguel Orszag (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)

Jeff Ou (Purdue Univ., USA)

Wolfgang P. Schleich (Ulm, Germany)

Xuechu Shen (Inst. of Technology and Physics, China)

Surendra P. Singh (Univ. of Arkansas, USA)

Reeta Vyas (Univ. of Arkansas, USA)

Herbert Walther (Max-Plank Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany)

Jun Ye (Univ. of Colorado, USA)

Weiping Zhang (East China Normal Univ., China)

Shiyao Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist Univ., HK)

M. Suhail Zubairy (Texas A&M Univ., USA)

 

Conference Mode:  There will be about 30 invited talks and 40 oral presentations plus some poster presentations.

 

Conference Language:  English

 

Conference Venue:  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

 

Registration Fee:  USD200; USD60 (RMB500) for students. Click here to register (Deadline: September 30, 2005).

Partial financial support may be available upon request.  The financial support application should be submitted to Prof. H. Q. Lin (hqlin@phy.cuhk.edu.hk) or S. Y. Zhu (syzhu@hkbu.edu.hk) by emails before September 30, 2005.  In the application, please give a resume with a brief description of published work.  Preference of consideration will be given to junior applicants.  Decisions will be made on a case by case basis.

 

Contributed Paper Submission:  All abstracts must be submitted before October 31, 2005.

 

Co-Chairs:

Z. Z. Xu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China

Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Hai-Qing Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 

Program Committee:

G. C. Guo, Chinese University of Science and Technology

H. Q. Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

K. C. Peng, Shanxi University

Y. Z. Wang, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics

S. Y. Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Enquiries:  . pyho@phy.cuhk.edu.hk