[Cnqo] Fwd: Les Houches 2014 PreDoc School

[Gordon Robb]

FYI - apologies if you've already received this.

Gordon



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Subject: 	Les Houches 2014 PreDoc School
Date: 	Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:11:29 +0200
From: 	Philippe Verkerk <Philippe.Verkerk at univ-lille1.fr>
Reply-To: 	Philippe Verkerk <Philippe.Verkerk at univ-lille1.fr>
To: 	<leshouches at univ-lille1.fr>, <phlam-chercheurs at univ-lille1.fr>



Dear Colleague,


Once again, we are organizing a pre-doctoral school to be held in Les
Houches in September 15-26, 2014. The title of the school is
"Ultracold Atoms and Precision Measurements."
http://www.phlam.univ-lille1.fr/leshouches

It consists in a two week master course on the physics of cold atoms
and the applications of the advances in this field to precision 
measurements.

The course is targeted at the advanced
undergraduate level and emphasizes formal lectures building on textbook
knowledge. This goal meets the requirements of the Les Houches
pre-doctoral school program. The course is intended for PhD students in
their first or second year. Undergraduates at the European Masters level
who are planning a PhD study are also invited to apply. Young post-docs
entering the field can also apply.

The lectures will be given (in English).

Introduction : Christophe Salomon (*CS* : 1 lecture) tba

- Hélène Perrin (*HP* : 4 lectures) Light-Matter Interaction / Laser 
Cooling and Trapping
- Jook Walraven (*JW *: 5 lectures) Quantum gases - elastic interactions
- Misha Baranov (*MB* : 4 lectures) Introduction to quantum degenerate 
gases
- Guglielmo M. Tino (*GT* : 3 lectures) Atom interferometry and 
precision tests in gravitational physics
- Pierre Cladé (*PC* : 3 lectures) Optical lattices
- Dieter Jaksch (*DJ* : 5 lectures) Quantum simulation
- Edward A. Hinds (*EH* : 3 lectures) Fundamental physics tests with 
cold atoms and molecules
- Ekkehard Peik (*EP* : 3 lectures) : Optical clocks and tests of 
fundamental principles
- Zoran Hadzibabic (*ZH* : 3 lectures) : Quantum gases and quantum 
simulation


The course has been initiated several years ago by the International
Cold Atom Network, InterCAN (http://www.intercan.org), which is
promoting European collaboration of research and education in the field
of dilute atomic and molecular quantum systems.
Now, the "GdR atomes froids" (French CNRS Research Network 
http://gdr-atomesfroids.cnrs.fr/) is keeping it running.

We think the topics of the school falls in your area. And you have
probably a (or more) student starting his/her PhD who can benefit from
the planned lectures. The school is also open to young Post-Docs who are
entering the field (to maintain a coherent educational level of the
participants, applications from experienced post-docs will be considered
at the end of the selection process).

Please visit our web site :

http://www.phlam.univ-lille1.fr/leshouches

And convince your student(s) to apply. The application is done on-line,
and your student will have to up-load a file with his/her curriculum
vitae. You will have to send a recommendation letter for your
student(s), by mail to Philippe.Verkerk at univ-lille1.fr. The deadline for
applications is June 22nd. The selection of the applicants will be done
during the first week of July.
Due to the on-going modernization of a chalet in the Centre de Physique,
the number of participants will be reduced to 50.

The price for board and lodging in Les Houches is very low to facilitate
the venue of young  students (500 Euros for students in the first two 
years of PhD and 675 for the others).
We  have a very few grants to pay the board and lodging (not for travel
expenses). Applications arriving after June 22nd can be considered, if
the number of participants remains reasonable. But no grant can be
attributed to those arriving late.

Yours,
     Philippe Verkerk
(on behalf of the organizing committee)

PS : Do not forget to forward this mail to your students (and to any
Colleague, we may have forgotten in our mailing list)...
PPS : Please apologize if you receive this mail twice (or more).








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