CM/AMO Seminar Winter 2009

Unless stated otherwise, seminars take place on Tuesdays at 4:10PM in 335 West Hall.

Date

Speaker and Title

Jan. 13

Dr. Henriette Elvang, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, "Scattering Amplitudes in Gravity and Gauge Theory", 340West Hall

Jan. 20

(Faculty Candidate)

Jan. 27

(Faculty Candidate)

Feb. 3

(Faculty Candidate)

Feb. 10

Prof. Carlo Piermarocchi, MSU, "Spins and excitons in quantum dot lattices" Abstract   Website: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~carlo

Feb. 17

Prof. Michael Moore, MSU, "Collective biphoton emission from atomic vapors", Abstract   Website: http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/mmoore/

Feb. 24

 --- No Seminar ---

March 3

Prof. Mirjana Popovic-Bozic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia, "On the influence of resonance photon scattering on atom interference", Abstract   Website: http://mail.phy.bg.ac.yu/~bozic/

March 10

Prof. Laura Greene, UIUC, "High - Temperature Superconductivity: From Broken Symmetries to The Power Grid", Location: 340 West Hall, Abstract , Website

March 17

 

Thursday March 26
SPECIAL DATE AND TIME

Dr. Paul Lett, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, "Phase Space Dynamics and Quantum Phase Transitions in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate", Location: 4404 Randall, Time: 2PM-3PM , Abstract , Website

March 31

 

April 7 Prof. Chitra Rangan, University of Windsor, Canada, "Trapped-ion qubits: a paradigm for coherent control in infinite-dimensional quantum systems", Abstract, Website: http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/physics/rangan
April 21 Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld, "Undoing evolution with the genetic code: experiments with a biological time machine", Abstract, Website: http://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~nigel