European Frequency and Time Seminar (Besancon, 1-5 July 2024)

The EFTS is an intensive full-week seminar intended to provide education and training with lectures and laboratory sessions. It targets a broad audience: Engineers, Ph.D. Students, Post-doctoral Fellows, Young Scientists, Newcomers, etc.

This seminar is original in the following:

  • Broad spectrum of topics related to time and frequency
  • Broad target audience, yet keeping high level education
  • Balance between academic and applied issues
  • True laboratory sessions (as opposite to demos). The attendees are expected to practice on a wide range of instruments made available.

We plan 23 lectures, 12 H hands-on labs in small groups, visits at the FEMTO-ST Institute and the Observatory of Besancon, social events, and an Astronomy Session on the “exact time” from stars.

Please look at the preliminary Program.

A half-day training session on laser frequency stabilisation and related topics, Wednesday 27 September at SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, Paris site!

Dear collegues,

I have the pleasure to announce a half-day training session on laser frequency stabilisation and related topics. It will be held on Wednesday 27 September from 14:00 to 17:30 at SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, at Paris 14th district. The programme is attached below:

– Cavities for Laser Frequency Stabilization – Uwe Sterr (PTB)
– Spectral Hole Burning  – Yann Le Coq (SYRTE)
– Frequency Combs – Cecilia Clevati (INRIM)

The presentations will be in English.

This is recognized by ED546 Physique en Ile-de-France for doctoral students who wish to count this session towards their training hours. Recognition from other ED can be arranged upon request.

For security reasons, registration on line is compulsory: https://forms.office.com/e/bhMPd5dXVn

Best Regards,
Bess Fang

Summer School on Frequency Standards, Precision and Quantum Measurement, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 9-13 October 2023

The week before the Ninth Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology we are presenting a summer school at the Gold Coast on Frequency Standards, Precision, and Quantum Measurements, for students, early career researchers, and those professionals who want to learn more on the subject. For more information, please see here: https://www.qdmlab.com/9fsm2023/summer-school

Registration is possible at: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1274056/

EFTS 2021 – European Frequency and Time Seminar

The EFTS is a no-profit intensive full-week seminar intended to provide education and training with lectures and lab sessions. It targets the broadest audience: Engineers, Ph.D. students, post-docs, young scientists, newcomers, etc.
This seminar is unique in the following:

  • Broad spectrum of topics related to time and frequency
  • Balance between academic and applied issues
  • Broad target audience, yet keeping high level education
  • Lab sessions. The participants work themselves in small groups with a wide range of instruments made available.

The high level of training is guaranteed by the world-class Scientific Council and lecturers from the major European and International Institution.

More information.

Les Houches pre-doctoral school on “Quantum simulations with ultracold atomic gases”, September 13-24, 2021.

We are organizing a pre-doctoral school in Les Houches from 13 to 24 September 2021. This school is mainly intended for students at the early stage of their PhD. Depending on availability, a few applications from PhD students at a later stage in their graduate career could also be accepted, as well as junior post-doctorant researchers. It consists in a two weeks master course on the physics of cold atoms including the recent advances in this field. The first week will cover general aspects. The second week will focus more specifically on quantum simulations with cold atoms.

For more information, please visit the website: https://coldatoms2021.sciencesconf.org/ .

Lectures will be given (in English) by

Franck Pereira Dos Santos (LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France): Laser cooling and trapping

Ana Maria Rey (NIST-JILA, University of Colorado, USA): Ultra-cold collisions

Mikhail Baranov (University of Innsbruck, Austria): Quantum gases and superfluidity

David Clément (Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, France): Optical lattices

Monika Aidelsburger (University of Munich, Germany): Periodically driven optical lattices and topology

Hans-Peter Büchler (University of Stuttgart, Germany): Quantum magnetism

Thierry Giamarchi (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Quantum transport

Zoran Hadzibabic (University of Cambridge, UK): Non-equilibrium dynamics

Iacopo Carusotto (University of Trento, Italy): Quantum simulations with quantum fluids of light

The deadline for applications is June 13, 2021. The selection of the applicants will be done at the beginning of July.

The school is planned to be held in-person, but as the situation is always evolving due to the Covid-19, we will keep you updated.