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Joint Seminars, UMD - NIST


Fall 2006 Schedule

Department of Physics, University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA

Talks are on Mondays at 12:30 p.m. in room 1201 of the Physics Building
(#082 on the campus map), unless noted otherwise.

Underlined titles of the talks link to abstracts.
Underlined names of the speakers link to their personal Web pages.
September 11 - No seminar
September 18
Edo Waks  (Department of Electrical Engineering, UMD)
Nanophotonic devices for quantum information processing
UMD Host: Luis Orozco
September 25
Aephraim Steinberg  (University of Toronto)
Observing and manipulating quantum information: some experiments with photons and atoms
UMD Host: Luis Orozco
October 2
Dan Gammon  (Naval Research Laboratory)
Optically coupled quantum dot molecules
NIST Host: Garnett Bryant
October 9 - No seminar: Federal holiday Columbus Day

Joint JQI - Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Thursday October 19, 2 p.m., the same room 1201

Howard Carmichael  (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Quantum jumps and the quasiclassical motion of a trapped ion
UMD Host: Luis Orozco
October 23
Andrew Sachrajda  (Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada)
The few electron triple quantum dot system - stability diagram and transport
 NIST Host: Garnett Bryant
October 30
James Stotz  (Queen's University, Canada)
Spin transport and manipulation in moving quantum dots
NIST Host: Garnett Bryant
November 6
Eugene Polzik  (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, QUANTOP - Danish Center for Quantum Optics)
Quantum teleportation between light and matter
UMD Host: Luis Orozco
November 13
Robert Alicki  (Gdansk University, Poland)
Quantum Information at Meso- and Macroscopic Level
UMD Host: Bei-Lok Hu
November 20
Kristian Helmerson  (NIST, Gaithersburg)
Pinned vortices and persistent currents in a condensate
UMD Host: Luis Orozco
November 27 - No seminar
December 4
Jeffrey Bub (Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland)
Quantum computation from a quantum logical perspective
UMD Host: Luis Orozco
December 11
Carlos Sa de Melo (Georgia Tech)
Evolution from BCS to BEC superfluidity: Phase transitions in Fermi-Fermi mixtures

For past and future schedules see Seminars page.

Last updated on Friday, 24 November 2006 by Victor Yakovenko

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