Physics Colloquia Physics Colloquia
The Department organises a number of Physics colloquia with guest speakers from UK and International Physics Departments. If you have suggestions for future speakers please contact the local organiser, Dr Eitan Abraham.
Colloquia January - June 2011
Wednesday 26 January – DB114 – 2:30pm Dr Elham Kashefi – University of Edinburgh, Can we trust a Quantum Computer?
Wednesday 16 February – DB114 – 2:30pm Professor Sir Peter Knight, FRS – Imperial College and Principal of Kavli Royal International Centre, Imaging Quantum States
Wednesday 2 March – DB114 – 2:30pm Dr Linda Hadfield – University of Edinburgh, Science Education Research and Reform
Wednesday 9 March – DB114 – 2:30pm Dr Sabrina Maniscalco – Heriot-Watt University, Long life to Quantum Correlations!
Wednesday 23 March – PGC Auditorium – 2:30pm Professor Sir Roger Penrose, FRS – University of Oxford, Can we see through the Big Bang into another world?
Wednesday 13 April – DB114 – 2:30pm Professor Serge Reynaud – University of Paris, Quantum Vacuum and the Casimir Effect
Thursday 5 May - PGC Auditorium – 2:30 pm Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel Laureate – Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris, Using light for manipulating atoms
Wednesday 1 June – DB114 – 2:30pm Professor Renate Loll – University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, Searching for the Quantum Origins of Space and Time
Previous Colloquia - 2010
Wed 29 September - PG Centre Auditorium – 5:30pm Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate – Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany: Thirty Years of the Quantum Hall Effect
Wed 20 October – DB114 – 2:30pm Professor Ben Murdin – University of Surrey: Applications of atomic physics in solid state electronics
Wed 3 November - DB114 – 2:30pm Dr Antony Valentini – Imperial College: Beyond the Quantum
Wed 17 November - PG Centre Auditorium – 3:30pm Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft, Nobel Laureate – University of Utrecht, The Netherlands: Black Holes in Elementary Particles
Wed 8 December - PG Centre Auditorium – 2:00pm Professor Albert Fert, Nobel Laureate – Thales Group, France: The world of spintronics: electrons, spins, computers and telephones
31 March Professor Sir David Wallace, FRS – Director Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge: Five Millennia of Mathematics and its Applications Hosts: Karen Schmid (Petroleum) & Eitan Abraham
Thu 18 March Professor Sir Richard Friend, FRS – University of Cambridge: Charge Separation from Excitons in Organic Semiconductors
3 March Dr Stephen Sweeney – University of Surrey: The Best of Both Worlds – Physics with a Commercial Spin
24 February Professor Ray Bishop – University of Manchester: Magnetic Order and Dimerisation in Low-Dimensional Antiferromagnets
10 February Professor Sir Michael Berry, FRS – University of Bristol: Conical diffraction: imaging Hamilton's diabolical point
3 February Dr Pavel Ostrovsky – University of Karlsruhe: Interaction-induced Criticality in Topological Insulators Host: Misha Titov
27 January Professor Jeremy O’Brien – Bristol University: Photonic quantum logic in waveguide circuits Host: Robert Hadfield
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