ATOMION 2026 - WORKSHOP

The Atomion workshop brings together experts from around the world to discuss new advances in different aspects of AMO and chemical-physics sciences. The discussed topics include: trapped ions, ultracold chemistry, molecular spectroscopy.

Location

The event will take place at the Port Jefferson Village Center.

Portjeff

The venue is located at the picturesque Port Jefferson Village, in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. It is a 10-minute drive from the main campus of Stony Brook University.

Directions for attendees arriving from different locations in New York City, including John F. Kennedy airport, LaGuardia airport and Penn Station, as well as from the main campus of the Stony Brook University, can be found here.

Invited Speakers

  • Katrin Dulitz (Universität Innsbruck)
  • Leon Karpa (Leibniz University Hannover)
  • Stefan Willitsch (University of Basel)
  • Michal Tomza (University of Warsaw)
  • Heather Lewandowski (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia University)
  • Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP-Harvard)
  • Cheng Chin (University of Chicago)
  • Dan McCarron (UConn)
  • Dietrich Leibfried (NIST)
  • Svetlana Kotochigova (Temple University)
  • Roee Ozeri (Weizmann Institute)
  • Roland Wester (Universität Innsbruck)
  • Jonathan Smucker (Naval Research Lab.)
  • Robin Côté (UMass Boston)
  • Pannos Giannakeas (Max Planck Institute of Complex Systems)
  • Shaham Roy (Harvard University)
  • Boergue Hemmerling (UC Irvine)
  • Saajid Chowdhury (Stony Brook University)
ATOMION 2026 Flyer

Please feel free to download our official flyer here and share it with your colleagues and interested members of the community.

Schedule

Date: June 8-10th

Monday
9:15 – 9:30Welcome
Session on Ion–Neutral Interactions
9:30 – 10:00Heather Lewandowski: Investigating Astrochemical Pathways with Sequential, Cold Ion–Molecule Reactions in Coulomb Crystals
10:00 – 10:30Roland Wester: The role of rotational states in ion-neutral reactions
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
Session on cold exotic systems
11:00 – 11:30Shaham Roy: Lifetime Bifurcation and Nuclear-Spin-Resolved Products in Ultracold Rb + KRb Collisions
11:30 – 12:00Cheng Chin: When Impurities Meet Efimov Physics: Fermion-Mediated Pairing in a Quantum Gas
12:00 – 12:30Leon Karpa: Mixtures of ultracold ions and polar diatomic molecules
12:30 – 2:00Lunch Break
Session on complex molecules and ions
2:00 – 2:30Stefan Willitsch: Hybrid trapping of cold molecules with cold ions
2:30 – 3:00Katrin Dulitz: Towards the production of sub-Kelvin-cold BN-: optical cycling schemes and spectroscopic characterization
3:00 – 3:15Yohay Halfon: Hot Topic 1: Direct Velocity Measurements Reveal Viscous-Like Dynamics in Cold Trapped Ions
3:15 – 3:30Johannes Hecker Denschlag: Hot Topic 2: Observation of pure Pi-state long-range Rydberg molecules
3:45 – 8:00Free
Tuesday
Session on theoretical simulations of cold systems I
9:00 – 9:30Hossein Sadeghpour: Rydberg atoms with other atoms and molecules
9:30 – 10:00Michal Tomza: Charge exchange dynamics in ultracold ion-neutral collisions
10:00 – 10:30Svetlana Kotochigova: Fullerene molecules as AMO building blocks
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
Session on cold molecules and ions
11:00 – 11:30Tanya Zelevinsky: Laser-Cooled Metal Hydrides
11:30 – 12:00Dan McCarron: Magneto-Optical Forces in AlCl
12:00 – 12:30Boerge Hemmerling: Slowing schemes for AlCl
12:30 – 2:00Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00Poster Session
4:00 – 6:00Free
6:00 – 8:00Conference diner
Wednesday
Session on cold ions
9:00 – 9:30Roee Ozeri: Trapping Fields, Collisions, and Quantum Interfaces in Ultracold Ion-Atom Systems
9:30 – 10:00Dietrich Leibfried: Towards quantum coherent dissociation of a single molecular ion
10:00 – 10:30Robin Côté: Dipole Polarons induced by an ion in a BEC
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
Session on theoretical simulations of cold systems II
11:00 – 11:30Saajid Chowdhury: Chaotic scattering and heating in cold atom-ion collisions and the cooling of C60+ molecules
11:30 – 12:00Jonathan Smucker: Non-Born Oppenheimer Chemistry on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers
12:00 – 12:30Pannos Giannakeas: The role of quantum statistics in ion-atom-atom recombination
Departure

Registration

Interested participants are invited to submit an abstract for either the Poster Session or a Hot Topic Talk. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is April 20th.

The registration fee for the event is $200. A payment link will be provided in due course. Please note that all participants must register using the form below, as the number of available spots is limited.

Awards will be given to the three best posters at the workshop!!

Organizers

Organizer 1

Jesús Pérez Ríos

Stony Brook University
Organizer 2

Mateo Londoño

Stony Brook University
Organizer 3

Saajid Chowdhury

Stony Brook University

For more information, send an email to: atomion2026@gmail.com.

Sponsors

Organizers acknowledge to the Physical Review A section of the American physics Society (APS) and DiChem for their considered finantional support for the realization of the workshop

Organizers also acknowledge to the Physics and Astronomy department and College of Arts and Sciences' Dean of Stony Brook University for their financial support.

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