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.
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Academic year 2011/2012
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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AFFILIATION
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TALK TITLE
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23/11/2011
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Professor Shimon Vega
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Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
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From the Solid Effect to Thermal Mixing in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
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25/01/2012
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Professor Werner Krauth
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Laboratoire de Physique Statistique Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
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Melting of hard disks
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29/02/2012
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Professor Richard Berndt
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Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel
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Molecular conductors and switches at surfaces
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28/03/2012
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Professor Joao Magueijo
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Department of Physics, Imperial College London
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Matters of Gravity: LISA Pathfinder and a test of modified gravity in the solar system
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02/05/2012
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Professor Hanns-Christoph Naegerl
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Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Molecools: Ultracold samples of ground-state molecules near quantum degeneracy
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06/06/2012
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Professor Jeff Forshaw
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School of Physics & Astronomy,
The University of Manchester
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Teaching Quantum Physics: Particles, Waves & Fields
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28/06/2012
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Professor Markus Oberthaler
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Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University
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Quantum atom optics: about the concepts vacuum, squeezing and entanglement for matterwaves
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Academic year 2012/2013
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31st October 2012, Professor Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna
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28th November 2012, Professor Tom Duke, University College London
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30th January 2013, Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford
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27th February 2013, Professor Volker Springel, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics
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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)