Seminars for the 2012/13 Academic Year

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3rd Term April - June 2013

Please note: this schedule is for the next term, but it has been included here since it is almost fully booked. For this term (January-March 2013) please look below.


 		Speaker University Title
17 April
 David Vitali
 University of Camerino, Camerino (MC), Italy Quantum cavity optomechanics with nanomembranes

24 April

PLEASE NOTE: Exceptionally at 3pm to avoid overlaps with the Departmental Lecture

 Simon Cornish
 University of Durham

Bose-Einstein condensation with tunable interactions: from solitons to molecules
1 May

Livio Gianfrani

 Second University of Naples

Determination of the Boltzmann constant by means of Doppler broadening thermometry

8 May

PLEASE NOTE: Exceptionally at 3pm to avoid overlaps with the Departmental Colloquium

Matt Jones
 University of Durham
 Many-body physics with Group II Rydberg atoms
15 May
 Olivier Pirali
 Universite' Paris Sud, Orsay

High resolution spectroscopy in the far-infrared using the synchrotron emission continuum extracted by the AILES beamline of SOLEIL facility
22 May
 Antonio Politi
 University of Aberdeen Equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation
29 May
 Angel Sanz
 Instituto de Fisica Fundamental, Madrid

Applied Bohmian Mechanics: Exploring AMO Physics with Quantum Streamlines
5 June
 TBA
 TBA
 TBA
12 June
 TBA
 TBA
 TBA
19 June
 TBA
 TBA
  TBA

2nd Term January - March 2013


 		Speaker University Title
23 January
 No AMOPP Seminar

 No AMOPP Seminar
 MAPS open day
30 January Simon Hamma
 Bristol University Optimising forces and torques for optical micromanipulation
6 February
 Anatole Kenfack
 Free University Berlin

Directed transport in systems out of equilibrium & quantum flux in molecules
13 February
 Will Brigg
 UCL
 Electron molecule collision using Quantemol
20 February
 Amelle Zair
 Imperial College London
 On the control of quantum path in high order harmonic generation
 21 February
Extraordinary Seminar

Time: 11am
Place: E3/E7
 Emilio Mariotti  University of Siena
 Trapping of radioactive francium
27 February
 Akos Kover
 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), Debrecen, Hungary Higher-Order Effects in the Angular Distribution of Photoelectrons
6 March
 No AMOPP seminar
 No AMOPP Seminar
 Spreadbury lecture
13 March
 Mike Tarbutt
 Imperial College London
 Cold molecules as probes of new physics
  20 March
 Peter Leek
 Oxford University
 Cavity quantum electrodynamics in superconducting microwave circuits
  27 March
 Frank Grossman
 Technical University Dresden Semiclassical initial value representations and selected applications

1st Term Oct-Dec 2012


 		Speaker University Title
3rd October
 Stephen Hogan
 UCL
 Rydberg atom and molecule optics
10 October
 Matthias Keller
 Sussex University

Cavity-QED with trapped ions: A tool for QIP and molecular physics
17 October
 Janne Ruostekoski
 Southampton University

TBA
24 October
  
No AMOPP Seminar (Bragg lecture)
31 October
 Stefano Lepri
Florence TBA
7 November
 Pietro Cicuta
 Cambridge
 Emergence of collective states in active colloids
14 November
 Dmitry Shalashilin
 Leeds
 Gaussian based methods of quantum dynamics for simulating manybody problems
21 November
 George McBane USA/Durham Multi-state effects in classical models of triatomic photodissociation
 5 December
 Nigel Mason
 Open University
 TBA
 12 December
 Mete Atature
  Cambridge  TBA

3rd Term Jan-Mar 2012


 		Speaker University Title
25 April
 John Goldwin
 Birmingham
 TBA
09 May
 Ian Ford
 UCL Fluctuation relations and entropy change: a rough guide
16 May
 Paul Coleman
 Bath

Ice and atoms: experiments with simple positron beams
23 May
 Adrian Baule
 Queen Mary
 Singular features in noise-induced transport with dry friction
30 May
Riccardo Mannella
 Pisa High-fidelity quantum driving
20 June
 P. Lambropoulos
 Heraklion
 The reincarnation of multiphoton processes
27 June
   

2nd Term Jan-Mar 2012


 		Speaker University Title
18 January  Vitali Averbuch Imperial College
 Laser-enabled Auger transitions: probing electronic correlation in inner-valence-ionized states
01 February Mike Charlton   Swansea Antihydrogen Trapping and Physics (Host: Peter Baker)
08 February Alessio Serafini  UCL TBA
15 February
 Grabirele de Chiara  Queen's University Belfast TBA (Host: Tania Monteiro)
22 February David Carberry   Bristol  TBA
07 March  Pieter Kok Sheffield TBA (Host: Dan Browne and Janet Anders)

14 March

Special Lecture

  Prof Jon Butterworth UCL Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture
21 March  Rosemary Harris Queen Mary Transport properties of non-equilibrium systems