Dr. Michael Geller will be hosting Dr. Mike Chapman of the Georgia Institute of Technology this week. His talk is entitled "Building quantum coherences one atom at a time: Bose-Einstein condensates, and trapping single atoms and photons"

Ultracold atoms have many applications to important problems in physics today, including the study of quantum degenerate gases, technologies based on coherent atom optics, and quantum computing. Our recent experiments in these areas will be described, focusing on our development of all-optical atomic Bose Einstein condensates, and cavity QED experiments with single trapped atoms.