Workshop Sessions Opening Remarks Welcome Address Session I: Atomic and Molecular Optics I Quantum Matter Built from Nanoscopic Lattices of Atoms and Photons

New paradigms for optical physics emerge from atoms trapped in one and two-dimensional dielectric waveguides [1,2]. Photons propagating in the guided modes of the waveguides can mediate long-range atom-atom interactions. In a complimentary fashion, photon-photon interactions can arise by way of the underlying lattice of atoms. This new future of atom nanophotonics has the potential to provide tools for scalable quantum networks, quantum phases of light and matter, and quantum metrology. I will give an overview of theoretical prospects [1,2] and experimental progress [3] in this nascent field at the interfaces of nanophotonics, atomic physics, and quantum optics.