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- NIAC meeting held at MIT, on Aug. 11, 2006.
List of presentations:- 9:00-9:15: Introductory comments (Prof. E. McCormack)
- 9:15-10:00: Laying the LTM project in perspective (Prof. Jean-Marc Fournier)
- 10:15-11:00: Successes and challenges in modeling an LTM (Dr. Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk)
- 11:00-11:50: Experimental status (Prof. Jean-Marc Fournier)
- A collaborator meeting was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 5-6 2006.
Participants: Prof. J.-M. Fournier Dr. T.M. Grzegorczyk Prof. G.-L. Lippi M. Guillon Prof. P. Jacquot Prof. A. Labeyrie Prof. E. McCormack F. Merenda Prof. F.-K. Reinhard J. Rohner Prof. R. Salathé Dr. R. Stachnik Prof. B. Stout
List of presentations:- 01: Welcome (Prof. Salathe)
- 02: LTM concept, past and present (Prof. A. Labeyrie)
- 03: Experimental status (Prof. J.-M. Fournier)
- 04: Radiation pressure: beware of simplistic interpretation of photons (Prof. F.-K. Reinhart)
- 05: Modeling status (Dr. T. M. Grzegorczyk)
- 06: Light-mediated particle interaction in a laser trap (Prof. G.-L. Lippi)
- 07: Rigorous optical force modeling for 3D optical binding (Prof. B. Stout)
- 08: Structured discussion of lab. and modeling coordination (Prof. J.-M. Fournier)
- 09: LTM requirements and design consideratins (Dr. R. Stachnik)
- 10: Estimation of trap strength (Prof. E. McCormack)
- 13: Trapping particles in vacuum (Prof. R. Kaiser, Prof. G.-L. Lippi)
- 15: Some preliminary considerations on present and/or future materials for an LTM (Prof. G.-L. Lippi)
- 16: Do we want polymerization or isomerization? (Prof. J.-M. Fournier)
- 17: Patterned deposition of titanium dioxide thin films by LICVD (Dr. P. Hoffmann)
- 21: Trap loading (M. Guillon)
- 22: Trapping on a single white fringe (Prof. P. Jacquot)
- A1: Addenda 1: How do we collapse the particle cloud into a single sheet? (Dr. T. M. Grzegorczyk)
- A2: Addenda 2: Surface roughness problems (Dr. T. M. Grzegorczyk)
- New Scientist interviews MIT CETA to talk about laser trapped mirrors.
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