Seminars for 2005/06 Academic Year

Third Term

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
26 Apr	Justin Molloy	NIMR	Using optical techniques to study single molecules in vitro and in living cells
10 May	Ian Ford	UCL	The fluctuation theorem and its dissipation functional: is this a proof of the second law?
17 May	Natasha Doss	AMOPP Group	Calculated final state probability distributions for T2 beta decay measurements
24 May	Chiara Piccarreta	AMOPP Group	Calculation of resonance effects in low-energy electron-water collisions
31 May	Simon Gardiner	Durham University	Matter-wave soliton collisions in BEC
6 June	Giuseppe Smirne	Oxford University	Dynamic manipulation of Bose-Einstein condensates with a spatial light modulator
28 June	Murtadha Khakoo	California State University, Fullerton	Low energy electron impact excitation of molecular nitrogen - Rydberg-valence interactions

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
11 Jan	Svante Jonsell	University of Umea	Antihydrogen-atom scattering at low temperatures
25 Jan	AMOPP Open Day
1 Feb	Viv Kendon	Leeds University	Complementarity in quantum walks
8 Feb	Peter Barker	Heriot-Watt University	Creating slow cold molecules with pulsed optical fields
15 Feb	Bob Barber	UCL	BT2 - a high accuracy computed water line list for astronomers (and others)
22 Feb	Christian Beck	QMUL	Chaotic scalar fields as models for dark energy
1 Mar	Spreadbury Lecture
15 Mar	Charles Adams	Durham University	Cold atoms in a quasi-electrostatic lattice
22 Mar	Sile Nic Chormaic	Cork Institute of Technology	Characterisation of microspherical lasers and their uses in quantum optics

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
16 Sep	Peter Horak	ORC, Southampton	Micro-optics for atom chips
28 Sep	Gordon Robb	University of Strathclyde	Collective scattering of light by cold atoms
5 Oct	Leonardo Spanu	ISAS, Trieste	Correlation effects in antiferromagnetic molecular rings
12 Oct	Stepheh Webster	National Physical Laboratory, Teddington	Single ion optical clock
19 Oct	Simon Cornish	University of Durham	Quantum degenerate Bose mixtures and BEC with tunable interactions: experiments at Durham
26 Oct	Steve Jones	Massey Lecture	Did Adam meet Eve? - the view from the genes
28 Oct	Igor Bray	Murdoch University, Perth	Electron and positron collisions with atoms
2 Nov	Rob Bastin	AMOPP Group	The O II Spectrum in low density nebulae
9 Nov	Onofrio Marago	IPCF-CNR, Messina	Fabrication of gallium nanostructures using laser-cooled atoms
16 Nov	Massimo Mella	University of Cardiff	The quantum Monte Carlo method adapted to positron physics
23 Nov	Jens-Als Nielsen	Bragg Lecture	X-Ray synchrotron radiation - glimpses from the past and of the future
7 Dec	Patrik Ohberg	University of Strathclyde	Effective magnetic fields in neutral quantum gases
9 Dec	James Stirling	Departmental Colloquium	Quantum Chromodynamics and High-Energy Colliders: Fundamental Physics from Non-fundamental Particles
14 Dec	Sam Morgan	Lehman Bros	An introduction to credit derivatives