Saturday, June 21: Depart for Casper in the morning.

The bus to Casper will pick you up at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday outside Hobby Hall.

You are supposed to have lunch beforehand.

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Sunday, June 22: Arrive in Casper, deli lunch provided, move into residence hall, dinner provided

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Schedule for Monday, June 23 through Friday June 27

and for Monday, June 30 through Thursday, July 3:

7:00 - 8:00 a.m. breakfast provided

Attendance will be checked each day at 8:30 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. in Casper.

8:30 - 9:30 a.m. C and U groups have Maple class with Prof. Mickie Goodro.

I and M groups work on poster presentations (and after first day, Maple homework and

quantum physics reading).

9:30 - 10:00 a.m. break (with refreshments to remain until noon)

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. talk on quantum science (see detailed schedule below)

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. talk on quantum science (see detailed schedule below)

11:30 - 12:30 a.m. I and M groups have Maple class with Prof. Mickie Goodro.

C and U groups work on poster presentations, Maple homework, and quantum physics reading.

12:30 p.m. lunch provided

afternoons free for combination of recreational activities and work

Monday, June 23 -- Western Cookout outside residence hall at 5:30 p.m.

Other days -- 7:00 p.m. deli dinner provided in physics building

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. quantum science seminar

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion of topic of the evening

THIS BASIC SCHEDULE WILL BE FOLLOWED FOR JUNE 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30 AND JULY 1,2,3, with the topics and speakers listed in the detailed schedule below.

The Maple classes will cover a wide variety of capabilities, as chosen by Prof. Goodro. See the tentative list of topics below.

There will be an exam on quantum physics on July 3 -- have fun!

On Friday, July 4, something special is being planned. Recreational activities are also planned for both the Casper and the Jackson Hole areas.

On Saturdays, Sunday, and July 4, breakfast will be at 8:30 a.m. (rather than 7:00 a.m.).

On Saturday, July 5, depart by bus for Jackson Hole area. Check into conference hotel (Grand Targhee). Meals are not provided, and you can freely choose your times and places for meals.

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The short talks are 40 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.

The longer seminars are 50 minutes + long discussion period afterward.

Monday, June 23

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Marlan Scully, Aspects of Quantum Mechanics

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. James Pennington, How Chemists Look at Bonding

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Roland Allen, Approaches to Quantum Chemistry and Biology

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Tuesday, June 24

10:00 - 10:45 a.m.. Roland Allen, Superfluidity

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Kishore Kapale, Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC): A New State of Matter

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Kishore Kapale, What Can We Do with Cold Atoms?

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Wednesday, June 25

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Marlan Scully, Quantum Thermodynamics

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Kunal Das, Quantum Physics of Bose-Einstein Condensation

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Ashok Muthukrishnan, Entanglement and Quantum Information

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Thursday, June 26

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Roland Allen, Superconductivity

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Ashok Muthukrishnan, Two-Photon Correlation Microscopy

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Marlan Scully, The Surprising World of Quantum Mechanics

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Friday, June 27

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Roland Allen, Nanoscience and Quantum Effects in Materials

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Zoe Sariyianni, Lasing Without Inversion

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. James Pennington, How Chemists Look at Reactions

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Monday, June 30

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Edward Fry, Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Weng Chow, Semiconductor Lasers 1 (See description below.)

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Suhail Zubairy, Testing Quantum Mechanics

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Tuesday, July 1

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Weng Chow, Semiconductor Lasers 2 (See description below.)

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Suhail Zubairy, Quantum Computing

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Tomas Opatrny, Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Teleportation

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Wednesday, July 2

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Weng Chow, Semiconductor Lasers 3 (See description below.)

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Yuri Rostovtsev, Quantum Interference and Coherence in Atomic Systems

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Yuri Rostovtsev, Slow, Ultra-Slow, and Frozen Light and Its Applications in

Gases, Fibers, and Solids

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

Thursday, July 3

10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Weng Chow, Semiconductor Lasers 4 (See description below.)

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Moochan Kim and Han Xiong, Analytic Treatment and Gaussian

Techniques for Electrons in Molecules

7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Marlan Scully, CARS and FAST CARS for Anthrax Detection

8:15 - 9:15 p.m. discussion period

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Introduction to Maple:

Maple syntax and tool packages.

Graphing I: functions, implicit, piecewise, polar, parametric, point plots.

Graphing II: three dimensional, parametric surfaces, space curves, vectors.

Algebra: solving equations, factoring & simplifying expressions, partial fraction decompositions.

Calculus I: derivatives, higher-order derivatives, implicit differentiation, partial derivatives.

Calculus II: integration, double and triple integration, numerical methods, Lagrange multipliers.

Differential Equations: solving, phase portraits, numerical methods, Laplace transforms.

Linear Algebra: matrix arithmetic, inverses, transposes, traces, etc.,kernels, basis, transformations.

For dessert, how to create animations.

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Semiconductor lasers:

Laser Devices

1-1 Laser structure

1-2 Population inversion and laser gain

1-3 Heterostructures

1-4 Gain and index guiding

Basic Concepts

2-1 Bandstructure

2-2 Quantum confinement and density of states

2-3 Fermi-Dirac distributions

Semiconductor laser gain

3-1 Free-carrier theory

3-2 Carrier density dependence of gain

3-3 Temperature dependence of gain

3-4 Carrier-induced refractive index and the linewidth enhancement factor

Research areas

4-1 Theory development: many-body effects

4-2 Advances in gain materials: VCSELs and solid-state lighting

4-3 Development of high-speed lasers: nonequilibrium effects.