The Inaugural Conference Est. 2027

Summer Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics

Summer CAMP

A week-long meeting of the atomic, molecular & optical physics community, all under one roof.

Meeting Format

On-site, all week.

Four and a half days at the Chaminade Resort in Santa Cruz — roughly two hundred atomic, molecular, and optical physicists, living and meeting in one place.

  • ~200
    Attendees
  • ~40
    Invited talks
  • 4.5
    Days, on-site
  • 1st
    Inaugural year

All talks, meals, and downtime take place at the resort, and participants are encouraged to stay on-site for the whole meeting. Most do — so senior faculty and first-year graduate students share the week in one place rather than scattered across town.

  • ~40 invited talks Across theory and experiment, pitched to be clear for graduate students in any AMO subfield, with an emphasis on new and unpublished work.
  • Communal meals Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, and dinner — shared by the whole meeting, every day.
  • Open afternoons Time set aside each day for hiking, sport, poster sessions, and unstructured conversation.
  • Every career stage From first-year students to senior faculty, sharing the meeting on equal footing.
Confirmed Speakers and Participants

World-leading AMO physicists, spanning theory and experiment.

Jun Ye

JILA
University of Colorado Boulder

Adam Kaufman

JILA
University of Colorado Boulder

Monika Schleier-Smith

Stanford University

Wolfgang Ketterle

MIT

Vladan Vuletić

MIT

More speakers to be announced. The organizing committee will also take part, and several of its members are likely to speak.

Organizing Committee

Convened by colleagues across the AMO community.

  • Eric CornellJILA · University of Colorado Boulder
  • Dave DeMilleJohns Hopkins University
  • John DoyleHarvard University
  • Nick HutzlerCaltech
  • Shimon KolkowitzUC Berkeley
  • Heather LewandowskiJILA · University of Colorado Boulder
  • Mikhail LukinHarvard University
  • Chris MonroeDuke University
  • Susanne YelinHarvard University
Coming Soon
Full program to be announced

Program

Roughly forty invited talks across AMO theory and experiment, with afternoons held open for hiking, sport, poster sessions, and informal exchange. The complete day-by-day schedule will be published here closer to the meeting.

Registration opens soon

Register

Registration is not open yet. In the meantime, join the mailing list to be the first to hear when it opens, along with program and travel updates — and save the date: June 13–18, 2027, at the Chaminade Resort in Santa Cruz.

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With Support From

Made possible with the support of —

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Heising-Simons Foundation Heising-Simons Foundation
CIQC — Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC)