Seminars for 2008/09 Academic Year

3rd Term

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
06 May	Michele Pavanello	University of Arizona	Explicitly Correlated Gaussian Functions in Very High Accuracy Variational Calculations of Small Hydrogen Clusters: H3+, H4+, and H4
13 May	Laszlo Sarkadi	Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Electron-electron dynamics in energetic atomic collisions studied by means of zero-degree electron spectroscopy
22 May FRIDAY! Exceptionally in E1 at 11:30 a.m.	James Sullivan	Australian National University	Low energy positron experiments - benchmarks and biomolecules
03 June	Olivier Dulieu	Laboratoire Aimé Cotton	Electronic structure of alkali dimers and trimers. Prospects for alignment and orientation effects
10 June	Almas Sadreev	Siberian Federal University	Resonances in nonlinear systems
17 June	David Cooke/Jose Reslen	AMOPP PhD talks	Positron Impact Ionization of Molecules/Long Range Correlations In Boson Chains
01 July	Nick Coppendale/Rui Zhang	AMOPP PhD talks	Towards chirped optical Stark deceleration of molecules/Positron-molecule collision studies using the R-Matrix with pseudostates method
03 July FRIDAY! Exceptionally at 11:30 a.m. in E1	David B Cassidy	University of California, Riverside	Laser spectroscopy of atomic and molecular positronium
08 July	Imma Procino	AMOPP PhD talks	Laser induced molecular axis alignment: measuring it and using it in a high harmonic generation experiment
15 July	Brendon Lovett	University of Oxford	Optical control of quantum coherence in matter systems

2nd Term

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
08 January THURSDAY!	Ivette Schuller	Technical University of Berlin	Entanglement in non-inertial frames and curved spacetime
14 January	Hendrik Ulbricht	University of Southampton	Molecule interferometry and metrology applications
21 January	No Seminar	No seminar	AMOPP Open Day
11 February	Tobias Osborne	Royal Holloway	Information propagation through quantum spin systems
18 February	No Seminar	No Seminar	Physics Colloquium Massey Lecture Theater, 4pm Léon Sanche (University of Sherbrooke) LOW ENERGY ELECTRON INDUCED PROCESSES IN DIELECTRICS, ICY SATELLITES, STRATOSPERIC CLOUDS, NANOLITHOGRAPHY AND RADIOTHERAPY
25 February	Florian Marquardt	University of Munich	Optomechanics
4 March	David Marcus Appleby Cancelled due to speaker's illness	Queen Mary College	God, dice and other matters: idiosyncratic remarks on quantum foundations
11 March	Andrew Ho	Royal Holloway	Quantum Simulation of the Hubbard Model: The Attractive Route
18 March	Susan Perkin	University College London	Sticky, charged, and slippery: Films of water and ionic liquids, and the molecular basis of lubrication
25 March Exceptionally at 15:30	Maurizio Musso	University of Salzburg	Raman spectroscopy of molecular liquids and of biomaterials
1 April	Ken Taylor	Queen's University Belfast	Atoms and small molecules exposed to intense light
15 April Exceptionally in E7	Alan Aspuru-Guzik	Harvard University	Time-dependent current density functional theory for open quantum systems

1st Term

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
16 September TUESDAY!	Charles Creffield	Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Madrid	Quantum control of cold bosonic atoms using periodic driving fields
1 October	Christopher Hooley	University of St Andrews	Scaling and criticality in optical lattice systems: the influence of the trapping potential
8 October	No Seminar (Bragg Lecture)	No seminar(Bragg Lecture)	Bragg Lecture: Professor Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, Japan), The 17 year old carbon nanotubes Location: Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, 25 Gordon Street
15 October	Agapi Emmanouilidou	University of Massachussets	Quasiclassical tools for exploring how electrons escape in multi-electron atoms during their ionization by single photon absorption or by strong laser fields
21 October TUESDAY!	Sean Barrett	Imperial College London	Phase transitions in the computational power of a many-body system
29 October	Francesca Baletto	King's College London	Water clusters in atmosphere
5 November	Dmitry Shalashilin	University of Leeds	Quantum simulations with Coupled Coherent States. From vibrational dynamics to electron dynamics in strong laser field
12 November	Kai Dieckmann	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich	Ultracold Heteronuclear Fermi-Fermi Molecules
19 November	Baowen Li	National University of Singapore	Computation with phonons/heat
26 November	Pieter Kok	University of Sheffield	Optical quantum computing with photonic and matter qubits
03 December	Simon Brawley	student seminar (UCL)	Positronium collisions with atoms and molecules
10 December (exceptionally from 15:00 to 16:00)	Madalin Guta	University of Nottingham	Local asymptotic normality in quantum statistics
17 December	Andrey A. Vigasin	Russian Academy of Sciences	Infrared spectroscopy of the OH stretching bands in small water clusters