The '97 Nobel Prize Winner William Phillips (NIST, Gaithersburg, USA) for his key contributions to the advancement of the cold atom physics
will become a Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ecole normale Supérieure on Tuesday 16 November 2010.
The symposium ``Facets of quantum physics at ENS" is organized in his honour by the physics Departement of ENS and will present, in addition to a talk by William Phillips, a selection of research results obtained at  ENS in close connection with Phillips' current research interests. The symposium will be chaired by the '97 Nobel Prize Winner Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (LKB-ENS).

This is an open access symposium. The persons in charge are Yvan Castin (LKB-ENS) [with support from Werner Krauth (LPS-ENS)]  for the scientific aspects and Françoise Tarquis (IFRAF) for the technical aspects.

• 13:30 Forewords by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
• 13:35-14:45 William Phillips : Spinning atoms with light:  a new twist on coherent de Broglie-wave optics   [abstract]
  

• 14:45-15:20 Christophe Salomon (LKB-ENS) : From ultracold Fermi Gases to Neutron Stars
• 15:20-15:55 Sébastien Balibar (LPS-ENS)  : Quantum plasticity and supersolidity  [abstract]
  

        Coffee break

• 16:25-17:00 Michel Brune (LKB-ENS) : Quantum measurement and decoherence with trapped photons
• 17:00-17:35 Gwendal Fève (LPA-ENS) :  Single electron experiments in ballistic quantum conductors  [abstract]