Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics

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AMOPP Group Seminars

Welcome to our AMOPP seminars! The list of speakers for the current term is below. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00 pm in Room A1 of the Physics Building. This preliminary schedule may be subject to change.

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3rd Term April - June 2013

Please note: this schedule is for the next term, but it has been included here since it is almost fully booked. For this term (January-March 2013) please look below.

	Speaker	University	Title
17 April	David Vitali	University of Camerino, Camerino (MC), Italy	Quantum cavity optomechanics with nanomembranes
24 April PLEASE NOTE: Exceptionally at 3pm to avoid overlaps with the Departmental Lecture	Simon Cornish	University of Durham	Bose-Einstein condensation with tunable interactions: from solitons to molecules
1 May	Livio Gianfrani	Second University of Naples	Determination of the Boltzmann constant by means of Doppler broadening thermometry
8 May PLEASE NOTE: Exceptionally at 3pm to avoid overlaps with the Departmental Colloquium	Matt Jones	University of Durham	Many-body physics with Group II Rydberg atoms
15 May	Olivier Pirali	Universite' Paris Sud, Orsay	High resolution spectroscopy in the far-infrared using the synchrotron emission continuum extracted by the AILES beamline of SOLEIL facility
22 May	Antonio Politi	University of Aberdeen	Equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation
29 May	Angel Sanz	Instituto de Fisica Fundamental, Madrid	Applied Bohmian Mechanics: Exploring AMO Physics with Quantum Streamlines
5 June	TBA	TBA	TBA
12 June	TBA	TBA	TBA
19 June	TBA	TBA	TBA

2nd Term January - March 2013

	Speaker	University	Title
23 January	No AMOPP Seminar	No AMOPP Seminar	MAPS open day
30 January	Simon Hamma	Bristol University	Optimising forces and torques for optical micromanipulation
6 February	Anatole Kenfack	Free University Berlin	Directed transport in systems out of equilibrium & quantum flux in molecules
13 February	Will Brigg	UCL	Electron molecule collision using Quantemol
20 February	Amelle Zair	Imperial College London	On the control of quantum path in high order harmonic generation
21 February Extraordinary Seminar Time: 11am Place: E3/E7	Emilio Mariotti	University of Siena	Trapping of radioactive francium
27 February	Akos Kover	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), Debrecen, Hungary	Higher-Order Effects in the Angular Distribution of Photoelectrons
6 March	No AMOPP seminar	No AMOPP Seminar	Spreadbury lecture
13 March	Mike Tarbutt	Imperial College London	Cold molecules as probes of new physics
20 March	Peter Leek	Oxford University	Cavity quantum electrodynamics in superconducting microwave circuits
27 March	Frank Grossman	Technical University Dresden	Semiclassical initial value representations and selected applications

1st Term Oct-Dec 2012

	Speaker	University	Title
3rd October	Stephen Hogan	UCL	Rydberg atom and molecule optics
10 October	Matthias Keller	Sussex University	Cavity-QED with trapped ions: A tool for QIP and molecular physics
17 October	Janne Ruostekoski	Southampton University	TBA
24 October			No AMOPP Seminar (Bragg lecture)
31 October	Stefano Lepri	Florence	TBA
7 November	Pietro Cicuta	Cambridge	Emergence of collective states in active colloids
14 November	Dmitry Shalashilin	Leeds	Gaussian based methods of quantum dynamics for simulating manybody problems
21 November	George McBane	USA/Durham	Multi-state effects in classical models of triatomic photodissociation
5 December	Nigel Mason	Open University	TBA
12 December	Mete Atature	Cambridge	TBA

3rd Term Jan-Mar 2012

	Speaker	University	Title
25 April	John Goldwin	Birmingham	TBA
09 May	Ian Ford	UCL	Fluctuation relations and entropy change: a rough guide
16 May	Paul Coleman	Bath	Ice and atoms: experiments with simple positron beams
23 May	Adrian Baule	Queen Mary	Singular features in noise-induced transport with dry friction
30 May	Riccardo Mannella	Pisa	High-fidelity quantum driving
20 June	P. Lambropoulos	Heraklion	The reincarnation of multiphoton processes
27 June

2nd Term Jan-Mar 2012

	Speaker	University	Title
18 January	Vitali Averbuch	Imperial College	Laser-enabled Auger transitions: probing electronic correlation in inner-valence-ionized states
01 February	Mike Charlton	Swansea	Antihydrogen Trapping and Physics (Host: Peter Baker)
08 February	Alessio Serafini	UCL	TBA
15 February	Grabirele de Chiara	Queen's University Belfast	TBA (Host: Tania Monteiro)
22 February	David Carberry	Bristol	TBA
07 March	Pieter Kok	Sheffield	TBA (Host: Dan Browne and Janet Anders)
14 March Special Lecture	Prof Jon Butterworth	UCL	Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture
21 March	Rosemary Harris	Queen Mary	Transport properties of non-equilibrium systems