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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

This Colloquium series hosts prominent scientists who will discuss some of the newest developments in physics and astronomy. It is aimed at a general physics audience at a level accessible to physics PhD students.

All Colloquia will be held in room B13 Physics building at 4pm followed by refreshments in room C10.

Academic year 2011/2012

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TALK TITLE

23/11/2011

                

Professor Shimon Vega                

Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

From the Solid Effect to Thermal Mixing in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization 

25/01/2012

Professor Werner Krauth

Laboratoire de Physique Statistique  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

Melting of hard disks

29/02/2012

Professor Richard Berndt

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel

Molecular conductors and switches at surfaces

28/03/2012

Professor Joao Magueijo

Department of Physics, Imperial College London

Matters of Gravity: LISA Pathfinder and a test of modified gravity in the solar system

02/05/2012

Professor  Hanns-Christoph Naegerl

Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences

Molecools: Ultracold samples of ground-state molecules near quantum degeneracy

06/06/2012

Professor Jeff Forshaw

School of Physics & Astronomy, 

The University of Manchester

Teaching Quantum Physics: Particles, Waves & Fields 
 

28/06/2012

Professor Markus Oberthaler

Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University

 

Quantum atom optics: about the concepts vacuum, squeezing and entanglement for matterwaves

 Academic year 2012/2013 

31st October 2012, Professor Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna
28th November 2012, Professor Tom Duke, University College London
30th January 2013, Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford 
27th February 2013, Professor Volker Springel, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics

 

Organisers:

Juan P. Garrahan (Condensed-matter theory)

Peter Beton (Experimental CM/Nanoscience)

Josef Granwehr (Magnetic Resonance)

Lucia Hackermuller (Cold Atoms)

Will Hartley (Astronomy)

Tony Padilla (Particle Theory)

School of Physics and Astronomy

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