Welcome to our AMOPP seminars! The list of speakers for the current term is below. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00 pm, usually in Room D3 of the Physics Building. This preliminary schedule may be subject to change.
- Matteo Brunelli (University of Cambridge), "Quantum noise engineering in optomechanical systems" • Wed 29 Jan 2020 • 16:00-17:00 • Physics Building A1/3 Lecture Theatre (4th floor). After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- Stephen Hogan (UCL), "Interfacing Rydberg atoms with superconducting circuits for applications in quantum information processing" • Wed 22 Jan 2020 • 16:00-17:00 • Physics Building A1/3 Lecture Theatre (4th floor). After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- Andy Maxwell (UCL), "Spiral-like Holographic Structures: Unwinding Interference Carpets of Coulomb-Distorted Orbits in Strong-Field Ionization" & Lokesh Gurung (UCL), "Precision microwave spectroscopy of the positronium n=2 fine structure" • Wed 15 Jan 2020 • 16:00-17:00 • Physics Building A1 Lecture Theatre (4th floor). After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- Jesús Pérez-Ríos (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), "Molecules as dark matter detector" • Wed 11 Dec 2019 • 16:00-17:00 • Room D3 Physics Building. After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- Weibin Li (Nottingham), "Rydberg excitation in thermal Rydberg gases" • Wed 20 Nov 2019 • 16:00-17:00 • Room D3 Physics Building. After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- German Sinuco-Leon (Univ of Sussex), "Spatial and internal control of atomic ensembles with radiofrequency and microwave driving" • Wed 6 Nov 2019 • 16:00-17:00 • Room D3 Physics Building. After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- Florian Mintert (Imperial), "Optimal control with poor statistics" • Wed 30 Oct 2019 • 16:00-17:00 • Room D3 Physics Building. After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- Christoph Salzman (UCL Chemistry), "Complex materials: A journey from disappearing ice phases and ‘pink’ phosphorus to stacking disordered silver iodide" • Wed 23 Oct 2019 • 16:00-17:00 • Room D3 Physics Building. After the seminar everyone in attendance is invited to the Housman Room from 17:00 for refreshments.
- Philip Russell FRS (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light), "Enhancing light-matter interactions using photonic crystal fibres" • Fri 18 Oct 2019 • 16:00 • Physics Building Room E7 (ground floor). Special extra seminar in addition to the normal weekly one.
- Brianna Heazlewood (Oxford), "Using the Zeeman effect to manipulate radicals and study ion-radical reactions" • Wed 16 Oct 2019 • 16:00 • Physics Building Room D3 (2nd floor). Refreshments afterwards in the Housman Room, from 17:00.
- Philipp Preiss (University of Heidelberg), "Precursor of the Higgs Mode in Ultracold Few-Fermion Systems" • Wed 2 Oct 2019 • 16:00 • Physics Building Room D3 (2nd floor). Refreshments afterwards in the Housman Room, from 17:00.