************************************ * QUANTUM OPTICS AND ATOM OPTICS * * IN AUSTRALASIA * * * * * * * * MONTHLY NEWSLETTER * * VOL V, NO 8 * * * * August 1997 * * * * ISSN 1325-6467 * * * Edited by: Murray Hamilton * \ | / * Physics, University of Adelaide, * \__|__/ * SA 5005, Australia. * | * email: mwh@physics.adelaide.edu.au Available on WWW at: * | * phone: +61 8 8303 5322 http://www.anu.edu.au * | * fax: +61 8 8232 6541 /Physics/newsletter * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 0. PROBLEMS 1. ABSTRACTS 2. CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS 3. WANTED TO BUY/SELL 4. SITUATIONS VACANT 5. MISC NEWS (real news if you like!) ______________________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************************************* 0. DISTRIBUTION PROBLEMS The newsletters to the following addresses are bouncing. Does anyone know the whereabouts of ... Juergen.Eschner@anu.edu.au Thanks (ed.) ______________________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************************************* 1. ABSTRACTS ******************************************************************************* 2. CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS --------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________________ The Eleventh Conference of the Australian Optical Society The University of Adelaide 10-12 December 1997. First Call for Papers is out now. see http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~mwh/aosmeet/aosmeet.html _______________________________________________________________________________ Workshop on QUANTUM COHERENCE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE 8,9 DECEMBER 1997 Webpage: http://bragg.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~mwh/qiproc/qiproc.html (The first call for papers is now out!) _________________________________________________________________________ 1998 SPIE QUANTUM COMPUTATION CONFERENCE Chairs: Dr. Steven P. Hotaling and MR. Andrew R. Pirich, USAF Where: Orlando Mariott World Center, Orlando FL,USA Dates: 13-17 April 1998 Sessions: Experimental Quantum Computation Studies Quantum Noise and Decoherence in Quantum Computation Quantum Structures/Logics NMR Based Quantum Computation Quantum Communications Quantum Cryptography e-mail preliminary titles/abstracts to: drsteve@rl.af.mil DR. STEVEN P. HOTALING Chief, NonTraditional Sciences USAF Rome Laboratory/OC-1 26 Electronic Parkway Rome, NY 13441-4514 Phone(STU III): 315-330-2487 FAX: (315)330-7899 ______________________________________________________________________________ 22nd International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics Location: Hobart, Australia Date: 13th - 18th of July, 1998 Homepage URL: http://oberon.phys.utas.edu.au/ICGTMP98/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ****************************************************************************** 4. SITUATIONS VACANT NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL POST DOCTORAL POSITION U.S. ARMY MISSILE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENGINEERING CENTER Huntsville, Alabama, U. S. A. IMMEDIATE APPLICATION: National Research Council Resident Research Associateships (See: http://rap.nas.edu/lab/MICOM/intro.html) Contact: Dr. Charles M. Bowden AMSAM-RD-WS-ST U. S. Army Missile RD&E Center Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 U. S. A. U. S. A. Tel.: (205) 876-2650 FAX: (205) 955-7216 email: cmbowden@ws.redstone.army.mil http://hwilwww.rdec.redstone.army.mil/MICOM/wsd/ST/ST.html POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN HIGH INTENSITY FIELDS AND NONLINEAR OPTICS THEORY Requirements include calculational expertise for addressing problems in intense, ultra-short pulse propagation in self-focusing nonlinear media with strong self-phase modulation and transverse effects, including transverse instabilities. Also, related areas of atoms / molecules in strong fields, quantum coherence and superposition, quantum interference and quantum coherence control are related topics. Characterization of propagation in plasma and plasma characteristics on transverse effects, self-phase modulation and self-focusing are to be addressed. There is also the open opportunity to study classical Hamiltonian and quantum chaos in dynamics of Rydberg atoms in strong circularly and elliptically polarized microwave fields, and classical / quantum correspondence. This opportunity involves close collaboration with on-going experiments at Professor See Leang Chin's group at Laval University, as well as with members of the Quantum Optics Theory Group at Redstone, and collaborators. ______________________________________________________________________________ ****************************************************************************** 5. MISC NEWS ****************************************************************************** The end.