Conference participation, visits and visitors in 2008

Conferences

• The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society, Turku, Finland
  March 27 - 29, 2008 (practically all of us; plenary talk by Sabrina Maniscalco)

• Symposium on Quantum Phenomena and Devices at Low Temperatures, Espoo, Finland
  March 30, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen; invited talk)

• Coherence, Squeezing and Entanglement for Precision Measurement with Quantum Gases (Interf08), Trento, Italy
  April 2 - 6, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen)

• NordForsk Nordic Network Meeting on Coherent Quantum Gases, University of Umeå, Sweden
  May 21 - 23, 2008 (J. Piilo)

• CAMEL 4 workshop, Nesebar, Bulgaria
  June 24 - 28, 2008 (S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo)

• ICAP 2008 Summer School on Atomic Physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  July 21 - 25, 2008 (K. Härkönen, L. Mazzola, R. Vasile)

• ICAP 2008 - The 21st International Conference on Atomic Physics, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
  July 27 - August 1, 2008 (K. Härkönen, O. Kärki, S. Maniscalco, L. Mazzola, J. Piilo, R. Vasile)

• Quantum Coherence and Decoherence, Benasque, Spain
  September 13 - 21, 2008 (S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo)

• ICQO2008, XII International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vilnius, Lithuania
  September 20 - 23, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen)

• Laser Cooling and Bose-Einstein Condensation, Les Houches, France
  September 28 - October 10, 2008 (L. Mazzola, R. Vasile)

• Quantum Optics IV, Florianopolis, Brazil
  October 13 - 17, 2008 (K. Härkönen)

• 26th General Assembly of IUPAP, Tsukuba, Japan
  October 14 -18, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen)

Visits

• Nordita Board Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden
  January 25, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen)

• EU network meeting/project review, Paris, France
  March 5 - 7, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen)

• Research visit, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  April 4 - 25, 2007 (S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo)

• KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  April 17, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen; colloquium talk)

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark
  June 16 - 17, 2008 (K.-A. Suominen; thesis defense (Ditte Møller) and seminar talk)

• Univ. of Madrid, Spain
  September 10 - 13, 2008 (S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo)

• Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.
  October 30 - November 7, 2008 (S. Maniscalco)

  Univ. of Palermo, Italy
  November 3 - 7, 2008 (J. Piilo)

Visitors

• Heinz-Peter Breuer, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
  January 12 - 19, 2008

• Nikolay Vitanov, Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria
  January 16 - 22. 2008

• Boyan Torosov, Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria
  January 16 - June 12, 2008

• Genko Vasilev, Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria
  March 4 - June 5, 2008

• Francesco Francica, Univ. of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
  March 12 - September 30, 2008

• Stig Stenholm, Espoo, Finland
  May 27 - 28, 2008

• Ruzan Sokhoyan, Armenian Academy of Sciences, Ashtarak-2, Armenia
  August 8 - November 31, 2008

• Francesco Plastina, Univ. of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
  August 25 - 31, 2008

• Barry Garraway, Univ. of Sussex, U.K.
  August 26 - September 4, 2008

• Wolfgang Lange, Univ. of Sussex, U.K.
  August 28 - September 7, 2008

• Freddy Perez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  August 29 - November 23, 2008