Autumn 2008

Thu 18 - Fri 19 Sept
University Open Day

Wed 24 Sept, 10.00, W2.19
Staff meeting

Fri 26 Sept, 09.00, W2.21
Freshers' Induction Day

Mon 29 Sept
Term starts

Tue 14 Oct, 17.00, W2.19 Landau seminar
Fabio Marchesoni (Camerino)
Single molecule experiments: a physicist's perspective
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Wed 22 Oct, 14.00, W2.19 Landau seminar
Oleg Makarovsky (Nottingham)
Imaging bound electron wavefunctions in ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructures
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Wed 29 Oct, 14.00, W2.19 Departmental seminar
Joanna Waldie (Cambridge)
Transport experiments in electron-hole bilayers — The search for exciton condensation
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Mon 3 Nov, 14.00, W2.19
Neil Kemp (Strasbourg),
Molecules Get Wired: Towards Spin-Polarized Transport through a Single Molecule

Mon 3 Nov, 15.00, W2.19
Roberto D'Agosta (San Sebastian)
Investigating electron transport at the nanoscale

Mon 3 Nov, 16.00, W2.19
Christophe Silien (St Andrews)
Nanometre scale confinement of electrochemical metal deposition on thiol-modified Au(111) electrodes

Fri 7 Nov, 11.00, W2.19
Joseph Betouras (St. Andrews/Leicester)
Examples of thermal and quantum phase transitions in condensed matter

Fri 7 Nov, 14.00, W2.19
Kaiyou Wang (Cambridge)
Towards Nanospintronic Devices

Fri 7 Nov, 15.00, W2.19
Vlado Lazarov (Oxford)
Polar Oxide films and Interfaces: from fundamentals to Spintronic Applications

Wed 12 Nov, 14.00, W2.19
Poster presentations by returning exchange students

Wed 12 Nov, 14.00, W0.02
Maria Sushko (UCL)
Electronic and mechanical properties of organic/inorganic interfaces

Fri 14 Nov, 10.00, W2.19
Axel Pelster (Duisburg/Berlin)
Condensed Matter Physics with Ultracold Quantum Gases

Fri 14 Nov, 11.00, W2.19
Dimitris Tsomokos (London)
Many-Body Physics and Quantum Information Science

Fri 14 Nov, 14.00, W2.19
Edward Tarte (Birmingham)
From biomagnetism to quantum devices and neural prostheses: design, fabrication and measurement

Fri 21 Nov, 11.00, W2.19
Denzil Rodrigues (Nottingham)
Back-action in Nanoresonators: From Cooling to Lasing

Wed 26 Nov, 14.00, W2.19
Klaus Morawetz (Dresden)
Quantum Kinetic Theory beyond Quasiparticle Picture - Bernoulli Potential in Superconductors

Wed 3 Dec, 14.00, W2.19
Mauro Pereira (Sheffield Hallam)
Nonequilibrium Manybody Approach to Intersubband Transport and Optics

Wed 10 Dec
Afternoon visit for prospective students. Invitations will be sent.

Mon 15 Dec, 10.30
Winter graduation - congratulations to all our graduates

Wed 17 Dec, 10.00, W2.19
Ilya Eremin (Dresden)
Superconductivity at dawn of the iron-age: pairing fluctuations and fermiology

Thu 18 Dec, 10.00, W2.19
Staff meeting

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