The purpose of this meeting is to bring together the Program Managers, PI’s, post-docs, graduate students, and interested parties involved in the ARO MURI entitled “Fundamental Issues in Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and the AFOSR MURI entitled “New Quantum Phases of Matter”. The meeting will consist of both oral and poster presentations of results, as well as a discussion of on-going experimental and theoretical efforts to use ultra-cold atoms as a new platform for investigating many-body physics.