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| FEBRUARY 2008 |
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| • 25 February |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
| “Exploring many-body dynamics with cold atoms in
optical lattices” |
| Andrew Daley, University of Innsbruck |
| 12:30 PM Physics Bldg.,
Room 1201 |
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| MARCH 2008 |
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| • 10 March |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
| "Experiments on Disorder and Transport in the Bose-Hubbard model" |
| Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 17 March |
| Office of Naval Research atom-on-chip workshop |
| US Naval Observatory 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
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| • 17 March |
| LPS Seminar |
| "Fast tuning of a high-Q microwave cavity for qubit coupling and demonstration of dressed states in a superconducting qubit." |
| Per Delsing, Chalmers Univ. of Technology |
| Laboratory for Physical Sciences |
| Seminar Room, Lower Level, 3:30 PM |
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| • 24 March |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
| “Superfluid-insulator transition in Fermi-Bose
mixtures and the orthogonality catastrophe” |
| Gil Refael, Caltech |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 25 March |
| NIST Atomic Physics Division Seminar* |
| “Vibrational dependence of collisional and field-induced interactions of cold molecules.” |
| Svetlana Kotochigova, Temple University |
| B145 Physics Building, 10:30 AM (coffee and tea at 10:15) |
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| • 26 March |
| Quantum Information/Bose-Einstein Condensation (QIBEC) Seminar* |
| "Phase-sensitive Parametric Amplifiers" |
| Julius Goldhar, University of Maryland |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 PM |
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| • 27 March |
| Nanokelvin Science Seminar |
| “Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems” |
| Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 2:00 p.m. |
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| • 31 March |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
| “Controlling single nuclei and lighting nanowires: New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science” |
| Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| APRIL 2008 |
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| • 2 April |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting* |
| “Synthetic magnetic fields for atoms in optical lattices” |
| Ian Spielman, JQI/NIST |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 7 April |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
| "Quantum Walks on Circles in Phase Space via Cavity QED" |
| Barry Sanders, University of Calgary |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 9 April |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting* |
| “Synthetic magnetic fields for atoms in optical lattices, Part II” |
| Yu-Ju Lin, NIST |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 11 April |
| Atomic Physics Division Seminar |
| "Electron spin decoherence in semiconductor quantum dots" |
| Xuedong Hu, State University of New York at Buffalo |
| B365 Metrology Building, 2:00 p.m. |
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| • 11 April |
| University of Maryland SPIE/OSA Student Chapter Seminar |
| The Business of Optics in the Next Ten Years |
| Robert Breault, Chairman and Founder of Breault Research Organization, Inc. |
| Kim Building Pepco Lecture Hall, UMCP, 4:30 p.m. |
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| • 14 April |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
| "Quantum Imaging: Enhanced Image Formation Using Quantum States of Light" |
| Robert Boyd, University of Rochester |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 15 April |
| Atomic Physics Division Seminar |
| Engineering a Quantum Information Processor |
| Jungsang Kim, Duke University |
| B145 Physics Building, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 16 April |
| Quantum Information/Bose-Einstein Condensation (QIBEC) Seminar* |
| “Comprehensive Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion” |
| Mark Raizen, University of Texas |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 18 April |
| CNST Nanofabrication Research Group Seminar |
| "Cavity QED with Charged Quantum Dots" |
| Matthew Rakher, UCSB |
| H107 Buiilding 217, 1:30 p.m. |
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| • 18 April |
| NIST Colloquium* |
| "The Making of Absolute Zero" |
| Russell Donnelley, University of Oregon |
| Green Auditorium, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 21 April |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
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| Leonid Glazman, Yale University |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 22 April |
| Atomic Physics Division Seminar |
| "Single Photon Technology, Metrology, and perhaps a bit of Ontology" |
| Alan Migdall, NIST |
| B145 Physics Building, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 23 April |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting* |
| “Observing Unruh radiation with ultracold atoms” |
| Bei-Lok Hu, Ted Jacobson and Bill Phillips |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 24 April |
| CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium |
| http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/condmat/seminar/ |
| "Geometric Phase Effects on Electron Properties" |
| Qian Niu, University of Texas |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland, 2:00 p.m. |
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| • 28 April |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
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| John H. Marburger III, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 30 April |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "Experimental test of non-local realism using a fiber-based source of polarization-entangled photon pairs" |
| Matt Eisaman |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| MAY 2008 |
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| • 1 May |
| CNST Nanotechnology Seminar Series |
| "The bright future of nanophotonics: recent advances and challenges" |
| Federico Capasso, Harvard University |
| C103-106 Building 215, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 1 May |
| CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium |
| http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/condmat/seminar/ |
| "STM Measurements of Bosonic Excitations in Cuprates: Clues to the Paring Mechanism" |
| Vidya Mahavan, Boston College |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland, 2:00 p.m. |
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| • 5 May |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
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| Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 7 May |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "Creating a supersolid in one-dimensional Bose mixtures" |
| Ludwig Mathey |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 8 May |
| CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium |
| http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/condmat/seminar/ |
| "Generalized Symmetries and Topological Orders" |
| Zohar Nussinov, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland, 2:00 p.m. |
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| • 9 May |
| Quantum Telecommunications Seminar |
| "A quantum random number generator" |
| Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois |
| B145 Physics Building, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 9 May |
| Laser Cooling and Trapping Group Seminar |
| "Matter wave interference due to interactions and an ultracold gas of deeply bound Cs2 Molecules" |
| Matthias Gustavsson, University of Innsbruck |
| H107 Building 217, 1:30 p.m. |
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| • 12 May |
| Joint Quantum Institute Seminar |
| "Measuring Nanomechanical Motion with a Microwave Cavity" |
| Cindy Regal, Cal Tech |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland 12:30 p.m. |
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| • 12 May |
| CNAM Condensed Matter Special Seminar |
| http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/condmat/seminar/ |
| "1/f flux noise in qubits and SQUIDs: The saga continues" |
| John Clarke, UC Berkeley |
| 1201 Physics Building, University of Maryland, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 13 May |
| CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium |
| "The ubiquitous SQUID: from cosmology to medicine" |
| John Clarke, UC Berkeley |
| 1410 Physics Building, University of Maryland, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 14 May |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting* |
| "Cavity quantum electrodynamics in nanophotonic devices" |
| Kartik Srinivasan |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 21 May |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "Cooling dynamics of BEC mixtures" |
| Mark Edwards |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 28 May |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting NOT Due to DAMOP Meeting this week* |
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| JUNE 2008 |
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| • 4 June |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "The Supersolid Phase of Helium-4: to Flow or not to Flow" |
| Lode Pollet, ETH Zuerich |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 10 June |
| Atomic Physics Division Seminar |
| "Quantum Resonant Dynamics in Clouds of Cold Atoms" |
| Simon Gardiner, Durham University |
| B145 Physics, 1:30 p.m. |
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| • 11 June |
| QIBEC Wednesday Pre-Seminar |
| Quantum Effective Potential and Charge Transport in Nanostructures |
| Radha Balakrishnan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India |
| B105 Radiation Physics, 1:30 p.m. |
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| • 11 June |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "Classical Probability and Quantum Outcomes" |
| James D. Malley, National Institutes of Health |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 12 June |
| CNST Nanofabrication Research Group Seminar |
| "Single Photon Avalanche Diodes: towards Arrays and Near-Infrared applications" |
| Franco Zappa, Politecnico di Milano |
| H107 Building 217, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 12 June |
| NIST Diresctor's Office Seminar |
| "Quantum Information with Superconducting Qubits and Cavities" |
| Ray Simmonds |
| Green Auditorium, 11:00 a.m. |
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| • 14 June |
| CNAM/JQI Annual Picnic |
| University of Maryland, College Park |
| Engineering Field, 1:00-4:00p.m. |
| Parking available at Regents Parking Garage |
| RSVP by June 11, send email to Belta Pollard at beltapol@umd.edu or call 301-405-8285 |
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| • 18 June |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "Ultra stable frequency transfer using laser optical phase on a fiber telecom network" |
| Scott Crane, US Naval Observatory |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 19 June |
| AMO/Nuclear Frontier Seminar |
| "Possibility of Observing Dark Matter via the Gyromagnetic Faraday Effect" |
| Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 2:00 p.m. |
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| • 20 June |
| AMO Physics Rapid Deployment Force Seminar |
| "A New Technique for Electron Transport Calculations with Applications to Fabricated Graphene Nanoribbons with Defects" |
| Douglas Mason, Harvard University |
| B105 Radiation Physics, 2:00 p.m. |
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| • 25 June |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "BEC mixtures in double-well potentials" |
| Mark Edwards and Indu Satija |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 2 July |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| Ground state phases of Fermi-Fermi mixtures with mismatched Fermi surfaces |
| Menderes Iskin |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 9 July |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting NOT |
| All-Star Break |
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| • 11 July |
| Kamp Kwal-i-fire |
| Discussion of isospin symmetry in nuclear and particle physics, and some molecular spectroscopy |
| B105 Radiation Physics, 10 a.m. |
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| • 16 July |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "The Life and Adventures of Twin Photons" |
| Sergey Polyakov |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 18 July |
| Laser Cooling Seminar |
| "All-optical production of chromium BECs / Ultra-cold chromium atoms in strong rf fields" |
| Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, Institut Galilee-Universite Paris |
| H107 Building 217, 10:00 a.m. |
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| • 21 July |
| Atomic Physics Division Seminar |
| "Next-Generation Infrared Photodetectors Using Novel InAs/GaSb Superlattices" |
| Shin Mou, IBM |
| B145 Physics, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 21 July |
| CNST Electron Physics Group Seminar |
| "Low energy-spread ion beams from a trapped atomic gas" |
| Edgar J. Vredenbregt, Eindhoven University of Technology |
| H107 Building 217, 10:30 a.m. |
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| • 23 July |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| "Quantum Optics with a Tunneling Atom" |
| Daniel Braun, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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| • 23 July |
| Atomic Physics Division Seminar |
| "Randomized Benchmarking of Quantum Gates" |
| Manny Knill |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 10:00 a.m. |
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| • 25 July |
| Fundamental Physics Seminar |
| "Constraining Isotropic Shifts in the Speed of Light" |
| Michael Hohensee, Harvard University |
| B105 Radiation Physics, 3:00 p.m. |
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| • 30 July |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting NOT |
| Due to conflict with ICAP meeting |
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| • 6 August |
| QIBEC Wednesday Meeting |
| Part I: "Eyewitness account of nuclear blasts" |
| Josephaaa Motz |
| Part II: "Entanglement Mechanisms in One-Dimensional Potential Scattering" |
| Nate Harshman |
| B105 Radiation Physics Building, 4:00 p.m. |
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