Seminars for 2007/08 Academic Year

3rd Term

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
10 April THURSDAY!	Jean-Claude Garreau	Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille	Experimental observation of an Anderson-type phase-transition with laser-cooled atoms
6 May TUESDAY!	Anna Sanpera	Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona	Witnessing magnetic order of strongly correlated systems
14 May	Jeremy Hutson	University of Durham	Controlling collisions of ultracold molecules
28 May	Sergey Saveliev	Loughborough University	Controlling the motion of interacting small particles far from equilibrium
11 June	Dieter Bauer	Max-Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany	Few and many electron systems in intense laser fields – a time-dependent density functional theory perspective
18 June	Igor Ptashnik	Department of Meteorology, University of Reading	Recent investigations of the water vapour continuum absorption
25 June	Martin Brown/Hemal Varambhia	University College London	Numerical simulations of cold atom ratchets /Low-Energy Electron Scattering by Astrophysically Important Molecules, and Quantemol
2 July	Tom Boness/Alex Harvey	University College London	Dynamics of a Periodically Kicked Heisenberg Chain/Electron re-scattering in aligned molecules using the R-matrix method
8 July TUESDAY!	G S Agarwal	Oklahoma State University	Quantum Imaging beyond Rayleigh Resolution
11 July FRIDAY!	F.A. Gianturco	University of Rome	Collisional dynamics at ultralow energies: controlling efficiency by changes in potentials and initial internal states

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
9 Jan	Françoise Masnou-Seeuws	Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France	Prospects for formation of stable ultracold molecules via photoassociation with chirped laser pulses
16 Jan	Witold Chalupczak	National Physical Laboratory	Atomic fountain - clock vs. measurement tool
23 Jan	Jordi Mur Petit	AMOPP Seminar	Understanding and controlling spin dynamics in spinor condensates
30 Jan	Daniel Segal	Imperial College London	Two-ion Coulomb crystals of Ca+ in a Penning trap
06 Feb	Stefan Scheel	Imperial College London	QED in dielectrics – what’s all the (quantum) noise about?
13 Feb	Ben Sauer	Imperial College London	Testing Time Reversal Symmetry
20 Feb	Dieter Bauer	Max-Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany	Few and many electron systems in intense laser fields – a time-dependent density functional theory perspective
27 Feb	Robert Potvliege	University of Durham	Above-threshold ionization in intense laser fields: from few-cycle pulses to the long pulse limit
5 Mar	James Walters	Queen’s University, Belfast	Coincidence Studies with Matter and Antimatter
12 Mar	Kai Bongs	University of Birmingham/Universität Hamburg, Germany	Dark and dark-bright solitons in matter waves
19 Mar	Yuri Ovchinnikov	National Physical Laboratory	Laser cooled sources of slow atoms

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
3 Oct	Stefan Willitsch	Dept of Chemistry, UCL	Ion-molecule chemical reactions at very low temperature
10 Oct	Winfried Hensinger	Sussex University	Architectures for ion quantum technology
16 Oct (Tuesday) 3 pm in E7	Alexandra Olaya Castro	Oxford University	Quantum interference, entanglement, and the efficiency of excitation transfer in light-harvesting systems
17 Oct*	Don Eigler	IBM Almaden Research Center	W H Bragg Lecture: The small frontier
24 Oct	Jacob Dunningham	Leeds University	Nonlocality of a single partcle
31 Oct	Matt Jones	Durham University	Ultracold Rydberg and plasma physics with strontium atoms
7 Nov	Weifeng Yang	Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China	Phase dependence of ultrafast multiphoton processes in polar molecule media
14 Nov**	Jan Michael Rost	MPI Dresden	Massey Lecture: From ultracold to ultrafast: matter under extreme conditions
21 Nov	David Andrews	UEA	Moving heaven and earth: new interactions of laser light
27 Nov (Tuesday) 4 pm in E1	Stephen J Buckman	Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies (ANU)	Low Energy Lepton Interactions - Electron and Positron Interactions
28 Nov	Grant Ritchie	Oxford University	Laser studies of chemical dynamics
5 Dec	AMOPP Open Day
12 Dec	Roy Newell	AMOPP Research seminar