Seminars for 2006/07 Academic Year

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3rd Term

Date Speaker Institution
 Title
25 April Ben Whitaker University of Leeds Probing and controlling the electronically excited states of molecules
2 May Lorenzo Campos Venuti INFN, Bologna Qubit Teleportation and Transfer based on Long-Distance Entanglement in Spin Chains
9 May Gabriela Halmova  AMOPP Group R-matrix calculations of electron-molecule collisions with C2 and C2-
  Ralf Gommers AMOPP Group Transport and Symmetry in Cold Atom Ratchets
11 May (FRIDAY, 12 pm in A1) Oleg Boiarkine  EPF Lausanne  Overtone spectroscopy of water molecules above and below dissociation 
16 May  Dan Murtagh  AMOPP Group Excited state positronium formation from helium and argon
  Peter Douglas  AMOPP Group Progress towards laser cooling and trapping of single atoms
23 May  Mischa Stocklin  AMOPP Group Quantum chaos and the double-delta-kicked rotor
  Chris Hadley  AMOPP Group Supersinglets and entanglement in spin chains
30 May Bruno Silva AMOPP Group Theoretical spectroscopy of H3+ and D2H+ at dissociation
  Josie Beale AMOPP Group  Positronium fragmentation in collision with He and Xe
6 June (ROOM MATH 500) Joe Wood AMOPP Group Molecular wavepacket revivals in fast quantum systems
13 July (FRIDAY, 11 AM in E1) Joan Marler  Lawrence University  High resolution positron scattering from atoms and molecules
18 July (4 PM in A1) Arul Lakshminarayan  Dresden University  The impact of quantum chaos on entanglement

1 Aug

(4 PM in E7)

 Albert Stolow  Steacie Institute of Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada Polyatomic molecules in laser fields: non-adiabatic dynamics, quantum control, strong field physics
22 August Christoph Bruder University of Basel Noise and current correlations in electronic systems
17 September (Monday, 11am in E1) Danica Cvejanovic  University of Western Australia  Probing electron correlations and angular momentum effects by electron scattering from zinc atoms 

2nd Term

Date Speaker  Institution Title
10 Jan Aidan Arnold University of Strathclyde  Going around the bend with Bose-Einstein condensates 
17 Jan Ed Grace Imperial College  Corkscrew beams 
24 Jan Ruediger Schack  Royal Holloway  Quantum random numbers
31 Jan Steve Meech  UEA  Lighting and rewiring the green fluorescent protein 
7 Feb Tomaz Prosen University of Ljubljana  Quantum chaos in many body systems: transport and efficiency of computer simulations 
21 Feb Mike Tarbutt  Imperial College  Cooling and decelerating polar molecules 
28 Feb Tim Freegarde  University of Southampton  Cooling atoms and molecules using light 
7 Mar Giovanna Morigi  University of Barcelona   
14 Mar Alexander Dorn  MPI, Heidelberg  Studies of electron-impact induced ionization of atoms and molecules using multi-particle imaging techniques 

1st Term

Date  Speaker  Institution Title
4 Sep  Raul Barrachina  Centro Atomico Baraloche  The most beautiful experiment in Physics.... 
27 Sep  Vittorio Giovannetti  Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa  Entanglement and statistics in Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry 
4 Oct  Yuri Ovchinnikov  National Physical Laboratory, Teddington  Towards integrated atom optics based on optical dipole traps 
11 Oct  Jan Arlt  IQ, Hannover  Production and manipulation of quantum degenerate mixtures: Controlling Potassium with Rubidium 
18 Oct  Duncan O'Dell  Imperial College  Atomic Rainbow Caustics: The Application of Catastrophe Theory to Atom Optics 
20 October Igor Bray Murdoch University, Perth New positron-atomic hydrogen results
25 Oct  Wojciech Gawlik  Jagiellonian University, Krakow  Nonlinear spectroscopy of cold atoms 
1 Nov  Carla Faria  City University  Laser induced non-sequential double and multiple ionization: electron-electron dynamics, absolute-phase diagnosis and attosecond thermalization 
8 Nov  David Moncton  MIT  Bragg Lecture 
15 Nov  Paul Campbell  University of Dundee  Postponed
22 Nov  Jochen Arlt  University of Reading  Applications of optical tweezers in biology and soft matter physics 
29 Nov  Daniel Burgarth  AMOPP Group   
6 Dec  AMOPP Open Day