Fall 2007
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| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE OF TALK |
August 30 |
Hao Ling
UT Austin
Host: Gennady Shvets |
Electrically Small Antennas - Theory, Design and Challenges |
September 6 |
Jim Chelikowsky
UT Austin |
Magnetism and Electronic Properties at Small Length Scales: The Role of Quantum Confinement in the Nanoworld |
September 13 |
Brian La Cour
UT Austin |
Noncontextuality and the Kochen-Specker Theorem: A New Perspective |
September 20 |
L. Frank Register
UT Austin |
Modeling of transport and scattering in nanoscale electronic devices with
"Schrödinger Equation Monte Carlo"
|
September 27 |
open
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October 4 |
Don Eigler
IBM Almaden Research Center
Host: CQS Center |
Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future
|
October 11 |
Boris Altshuler
Columbia University
Host: Mark Raizen |
Many-Body Localization |
October 18 |
Tamar Seideman
Northwestern University
Host: Mark Raizen |
Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale |
October 25 |
open
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November 1 |
Lothar Frommhold
UT Austin |
Spectroscopy of Molecular Collisional Complexes |
November 8 |
Marlan Scully
Texas A&M University and Princeton University
Host: CQS Center |
QUANTUM CONTROL OF LIGHT:
From FAST CARS and Slow Light to anthrax detection and Dicke superradiance
|
November 15 |
Andrew Sykes
University of Queensland
Host: Mark Raizen |
Pair Correlations in the 1D Bose gas |
November 22 |
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Thanksgiving
|
November 29 |
Mark Raizen
UT Austin |
New Frontiers in Trapping of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Molecules: Late-Breaking Results |
December 6 |
Peter Abbamonte
University of Illinois
Host: CQS Center |
Electronic reconstruction at transition metal oxide interfaces |
| Spring 2007 |
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE OF TALK |
February 1 |
Ken Shih
CQS Member |
Quantum Engineering of Nanostructures:
Electronics and Photonics
|
February 8 |
Loren Pfeiffer
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Host: Linda Reichl |
The role of MBE in discovering new physics
|
February 22 |
Seamus Davis
Cornell University
Host: Alex de Lozanne |
Is the elusive 'hidden electronic order' of the cuprates neither hidden nor ordered?"
|
March 1 |
Charles Marcus
Harvard University
Host: Linda Reichl |
Quantum Mechanics in the Information Age |
March 8 |
Open |
March APS Meeting in Denver
|
March 15 |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
March 22 |
Alex Demkov
CQS Member |
Zintl-Klemm intermetallics as glue in
semiconductor/oxide heteroepitaxy
|
March 29 |
Francis Hellman
UC Berkeley
Host: Alex de Lozanne | Amorphous magnetic semiconductors: the enormous magnetoresistance, magnetization, and optical properties of a-GdxSi1-x |
April 5 |
Sanjay Banerjee
UT Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Host: Linda Reichl |
Transport in Mesoscopic Transistors
|
Wedensday
April 11
RLM 11.204 1:00 |
Wing Yim Tam
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Host: Harry Swinney |
Joint Nonlinear Dynamics/Complex Quantum Systems Seminar
From Crystals to Quasicrystals Using Optical Interference Holography
|
April 12 |
Allan MacDonald
CQS Member |
Excitonic Superfluidity
|
April 13
3:00 - RLM 14.318 |
Erich Gust
UT Austin |
Qualifier: Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensation
|
Tuesday
April 17 |
Alessandra Lanzara
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Alex de Lozanne |
One, two, three, infinity. From single layer graphene to infinite layers graphite
|
Tuesday
April 24
RLM 14.318
3:30 |
Sterling Garmon
UT Austin |
Final Defense
The Role of the Van Hove Singularity in the Time Evolution of Electronic States in a Low-Dimensional Superlattice Semiconductor
|
April 26 |
Thomas Taubner
Stanford University
Host: Gennady Shvets |
Infrared microscopy on the Nanoscale: From vibrational spectroscopy to Superlensing
|
Tuesday
May 1
RLM 14.318
2:00 |
Benjamin Holder
UT Austin |
Final Defense
Coherent control of cold atoms in an optical lattice
|
| Fall 2006 |
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE OF TALK |
August 31 |
Dr. Brian LaCour
UT Austin |
Ensemble-based Bayesian Tracking |
September 14 |
Nimrod Moiseyev
Technion |
Adiabatic theorem for open systems: Alignment/entanglement of molecules by lasers |
September 21 |
Gennady Shvets
UT Austin |
Metamaterials in mid-infrared: from superlenses to negative index materials |
October 5 |
Joseph Thywissen
University of Toronto |
Bose and Fermi gases in single- and double-well chip traps |
October 12 |
Qian Niu
UT Austin |
Berry phase in orbital magnetization and the anomalous Nernst effect |
October 17 |
Howard Carmichael
University of Auckland, |
Joint Complex Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar
Quantum Jumps and the Quasiclassical Motion of a Trapped Ion |
October 19 |
Bogdan Damski
Los Alamos National Lab |
Joint Complex Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar
Cold Atoms in a One Dimensional Box |
October 26 |
Suhail Zubairy
Texas A&M University |
Quantum interferometry: From quantum eraser to quantum lithography |
November 2 |
Antonio Castro Neto
Boston University |
The Amazing Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon |
November 7 |
Erich Gust
UT Austin |
Qualifier
Dynamics of Bose-Einstein
Condensation
|
November 9 |
J. R. Kirtley
IBM Watson Research Center, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, and Center for Probing the Nanoscale, Stanford University |
Past, present, and prospects for superconducting Šrings |
November 16 |
Maxim Tsoi
UT Austin |
Spintronics: from ferromagnets to antiferromagnets |
November 21 |
Han Hsu
UT Austin |
Final Defense
Interaction of Intense Laser Fields with Carbon Nanotubes> |
November 23 |
open |
(Thanksgiving Week) |
November 28 |
Tim Coffey
UT Austin |
Qualifier
Uniqueness of Bohmian Trajectories
|
November 30 |
Alexander Barr
UT Austin |
Qualifier
Saddle-Node Bifurcations in
HCP: Classical and Quantum Manifestations
|
November 30 |
Lincoln Carr
Colorado School of Mines |
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Entangled States in Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| Spring 2006 |
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE OF TALK |
January 19 |
Jonathan Bird
SUNY Buffalo |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Quantum Switching of Electrons in Coupled Quantum Wires |
February 2 |
Sami Mitra
American Physical Society |
Physical Review Letters: The editorial office, the peer-review process, and recent changes |
February 9
2:00 RLM 7.118 |
Gerhard Hegerfeldt
University of Gottingen |
The quantum jump approach and quantum trajectories in quantum optics |
February 16 |
Qian Niu
UT Austin |
Berry phase effects on the electron |
February 23
RLM 5.126 |
Michael Snyder
UT Austin |
Final Defense
Quantum computation with ballistic electron waveguides |
February 28
Tuesday
RLM 5.104 |
Ennio Arimondo
Universita di Pisa |
Joint Condensed Matter/CNLD/Complex Quantum Systems Seminar
For a rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate in an accelerated periodic
potential |
March 2 |
German Luna Acosta
Universidad Autonoma de Puebla |
Mixed chaos, dynamical tunelling, micro-lasers and beam splitters |
March 9 |
Han Pu
Rice University |
Joint Complex Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar
Dipolar Condensate in Atomic Gases |
March 16 |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
March 23 |
Mark Reed
Yale University |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Atomic and molecular scale electronic transport |
March 30 |
Girish Agarwal
Oklahoma State University |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Measurement Induced Quantum Entanglement in a Collective System |
April 6 |
Christian van den Broeck
Hasselt University |
From Maxwell demon to Brownian refrigerator |
April 13 |
Nikolai Sergeev
UT Austin |
Ab initio study of inelastic transport in molecular electronic devices |
April 20 |
Harold Baranger
Duke University |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures |
April 27 |
Marlan Scully
Texas A&M University |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
From Bose and Einstein to Bogoliubov and Beyond:
a rich tradition of optical and statistical physics
|
Tuesday
May 2
RLM 5.104 |
Valery Pokrovsky
Texas A&M University |
Joint Condensed Matter/CNLD/Complex Quantum Systems Seminar
Electronic paramagnetic resonance in low-dimensional metals |
May 4 |
Mark Raizen
UT Austin |
Experiments with a "Particle in a Box":
Bose Einstein condensates, and Maxwell's Demon
|
| Fall 2005 |
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE OF TALK |
September 22 |
Mr. Sterling Garmon
UT Austin |
Anomalous Photo-absorption in a Semiconductor Superlattice, RLM 11.204 |
October 13 |
Mr. Dongil Kim
UT Austin |
von Neumann measurement theory vs. the Schrödinger equation in a three level quantum system, RLM 13.202 |
October 20 |
Massimiliano Di Ventra
University of California San Diego |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Transport in nanoscale systems: physical issues and open questions |
October 27 |
Supriyo Datta
Purdue University |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Nanodevices and Maxwell´s Demons |
November 3 |
Chikako Uchiyama
University of Yamanashi |
Open Quantum Systems |
November 10 |
Alex de Lozanne
UT Austin |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Seeing phase transitions with magnetic force microscopy |
Wednesday, November 16 |
Ms. Daungruthai Jarukanont
UT Austin |
Qualifier
Quasi-Bound States in the Driven Morse System
RLM 13.202 2:00PM |
November 17 |
Barry Sanders
University of Calgary |
Joint Stat Mech/Nonlinear Dynamics & AMO Seminar
Large Double-EIT and Mutual Phase Shifts in Rebidum |
24 November |
open |
(Thanksgiving Week) |
Friday, December 2 |
Luming Duan
University of Michigan |
NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Quantum simulation and computation with cold trapped atoms
4:00 pm
|
Friday, December 9 |
Christof Jung
Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, Cuernavaca |
How to describe and classify highly excited molecular vibrations
4:00 pm |
