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ICAP2026 – Satellite meeting on “ultracold molecules”
22-24 June 2026

Program

Day 1, June 22 (Monday)

Time Event
08:30 – 09:20 Registration
09:20 – 09:30 Welcome remarks
09:30 – 10:00 Collisional aspects of a fermionic KRb gas
John Bohn (JILA, University of Colorado Boulder)
10:00 – 10:30 To be announced
Yangqian Yan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:30 – 11:00 Photo-taking and Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Quantum phases of strongly interacting dipolar molecules
Thomas Pohl (Vienna University of Technology)
11:30 – 12:00 Many-body quantum phases in micro-wave shielded polar molecules
Tao Shi (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Low-entropy arrays of microwave-shielded molecules
Tijs Karman (Radboud University)
14:00 – 14:30 Deep laser cooling and optical trapping of BaF molecules
Bo Yan (Zhejiang University)
14:30 – 15:00 Laser cooling of complex molecules
Tim Langen (TU Wien)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Towards a BEC of a stable molecule
Stefan Truppe (Imperial College London)
16:00 – 16:30 Ultracold strongly dipolar alkali-metal–silver molecules
Michał Tomza (University of Warsaw)
18:00 Conference dinner

Day 2, June 23 (Tuesday)

Time Event
09:00 – 09:30 Dipolar ladder gases: from floating phases to anyon condensates
Luis Santos (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University of Hannover)
09:30 – 10:00 From universal bound state to single-molecule array in microwave-shielded ultracold molecules
Xiaoling Cui (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:00 – 10:30 Complex lifetime of ultracold molecules
Peng Zhang (Renmin University of China)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 To be announced
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (University of Innsbruck)
11:30 – 12:00 Rotational spectroscopy and magic wavelengths for ultracold LiK molecules
Kai Dieckmann (National University of Singapore)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Controlling and understanding Fermi gases of polar molecules
Xinyu Luo (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics and Hainan University)
14:00 – 14:30 Tetratomic states of microwave dressed and associated ultracold 23Na40K molecules
Pengjun Wang (Shanxi University)
14:30 – 15:00 Evaporative cooling of polar molecules to Fermi degeneracy in 3D and 2D confinements
Junyu Lin (JILA)
15:00 – 18:00 Poster session (& coffee break)

Day 3, June 24 (Wednesday)

Time Event
09:00 – 09:30 Interfacing individual ultracold polar molecules and Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers
Simon Cornish (Durham University)
09:30 – 10:00 Assembling, entangling, and probing NaCs molecule arrays
Li Du (Harvard University)
10:00 – 10:30 Quantum many-body physics with molecular tweezer arrays
Connor Holland (Princeton University)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 A versatile platform for ultracold NaK molecules
Jee Woo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
11:30 – 12:00 Progresses towards quantum gas microscope of polar NaRb molecules
Jun Rui (Hefei National Laboratory, USTC)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Lab tour (Science Centre North Block and Sir Run Run Science Building)