1. Title “Ultracold gases – from the experimenters’ perspective (I)” Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms 7/10/06 Innsbruck ICAP Summer School

2. Subtitle Magnetic trapping

15. Adiabatic condition

16. Majorana flops

17. Levitron movie

18. Mtrap - radial and axial fields

20. B fields levitron

21. Stability of levitation

23. Magnetic trap basics

24. Weak field seeking states

25. Types of magnetic traps

27. TOP trap

29. Types of magnetic traps

30. IP trap geometry

33. IP trap

34. IP trap - hi and lo B

35. Photo of cloverleaf coils

36. Subtitle Evaporative cooling

37. Chopping the MB distribution

54. Runaway evap.

56. Efficiency of evap. cooling

57. Scenario of evap. cooling

59. Rf induced evaporative cooling

60. Hyperfine states in rf evap

61. 3D and 1D evap. cooling

63. Cooling limit for evaporative cooling? No fundamental limit Practical limit: Depends on residual heating process i.e. secondary collisions, density dependent loss term

64. Subtitle Imaging

65. Imaging atoms

66. Phase-contrast imaging

67. Coherent and incoherent scattering

79. Dark ground and phase contrast setup

80. A live condensate in the magnetic trap (seen by dark-ground imaging) Phase transition, dark ground

81. Phase transition, phase contrast

82. BEC peak Thermal wings,  Temperature