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Physics diary spring/summer 2008

 

(Note: All events organised by the Department of Physics apart from the Loughborough Physics Centre talks)

Spring/summer 2008

Wed 9 Jan 2008, 10.00
Staff meeting

Fri 18 Jan, 16.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Natalia Kovaleva (MPI-FKF and Loughborough)
Spin-and-orbital effects in Mott-Hubbard optical bands in two limits of Jahn-Teller instability

Wed 23 Jan
Afternoon visit for prospective students Invitations will be sent

Wed 30 Jan, 14.00, W2.19
Physics seminar
Kazuto Hirata (National Research Institute for Metals, Tsukuba)
Introduction of NIMS and research activities on superconductivity in superconducting materials centre

Mon 4 – Tue 5 Feb, 13.30–18.00, W0.01
Symposium on Neural Networks and Cellular Automata: from superconducting junctions to biology
(Copies of presenetations now available on above page)

Wed 6 Feb
Afternoon visit for prospective students Invitations will be sent

Fri 15 Feb, 16.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Marzena Szymanska (Warwick University)
Dissipative systems and non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation: from microcavity polaritons to atom lasers

Wed 20 Feb
Afternoon visit for prospective students Invitations will be sent

Wed 27 Feb, 14.00
Physics seminar
James Annett (Bristol)
Spin-orbit effects in unconventional superconductors

Tue 4 Mar, 19.30, de Lisle Catholic Science College
Lucie Green (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
Living in the Sun's atmosphere
Loughborough Physics Centre

Wed 5 Mar
Afternoon visit for prospective students Invitations will be sent

Fri 7 Mar, 16.0, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Mark Everitt (Loughborough and British University in Egypt)
On the correspondence principle: implications from a study of the chaotic dynamics of a macroscopic quantum device
see arXiv:0712.3043

Wed 12 Mar, 13.00, W2.19
Staff-Student Committee meeting

Wed 12 Mar, 16.00, W0.01
Thirteenth Sir Nevill Mott lecture
Raymond E Goldstein (Cambridge)
Physics and the Evolution of Biological Complexity
Slides of the presentation (92.7 MB!)

Wed 19 Mar
Afternoon visit for prospective students Invitations will be sent

30 Mar — 6 Apr
Joint International Workshop on
A new generation of ultra-sensitive detectors for dark energy and cosmology experiments
Björkliden, Sweden
Supported by AQDJJ network
Chair F V Kusmartsev, Loughborough

Wed 16 Apr, 11.00
Staff meeting

Wed 16 Apr, 14.00, W2.19
Physics seminar
Irina Grigorieva (Manchester)
Vortex configurations in nano-structured superconductors: direct observations using Bitter decoration
abstract of talk

Fri 18 Apr, 16.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Amalia Patanè (Nottingham)
Tailoring electron motion in artificial crystals
abstract of talk

Wed 23 Apr
Afternoon visit for prospective students Invitations will be sent

Fri 25 Apr, 16.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Viktor Kabanov (Jozef Stefan and Loughborough)
Magnetic quantum oscillations in doped antiferromagnetic insulators
abstract of talk

Tue 29 Apr, 19.30, de Lisle Catholic Science College
Alan Davies (University of Hertfordshire)
Rainbows, halos and glories
Loughborough Physics Centre

Fri 2 May, 16.00, W0.02
Landau Seminar
Shaaban Khalil (British University in Egypt)
New Physics at Large Hadron Collider

Wed 7 May, 13.00, W2.19
Staff-Student Committee meeting

Fri 9 May 16.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Andriy Moskalenko (Bath)
Magnetic Force Imaging as a bio-imaging method for detection of single proteins
abstract of talk

Fri 16 May, 16.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Mark Fromhold (Nottingham)
Dynamics of cold atoms near semiconductor surfaces

Fri 30 May, 16.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
József Lörinczi (Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough)
The ground state properties of Nelson's Hamiltonian by functional integration
abstract of talk

Fri 13 Jun, 16.00, W2.19
Landau seminar
Kliment Kugel (Loughborough)
Orbital ordering and phase separation
abstract of talk

Fri 20 Jun, 16.00, W2.19
Alexander Boris (MPI Stuttgart and Loughborough)
Signatures of Electronic Correlations in Optical Properties of LaFeAsO1-xFx
abstract of talk

Tue 24 Jun, 16.00, W2.19
Alexander Boris (MPI Stuttgart and Loughborough)
Itinerant to localized electronic transition in heterostructured LaNiO3 ultrathin films
abstract of talk

Fri 27 Jun, 16.00, W2.19
Landau seminar
Ferruccio Renzoni (UCL)
Symmetry and transport in an ac driven ratchet for cold atoms
abstract of talk

Mon 7 Jul, 10.00
Staff meeting

Thu 17 Jul
Graduation

13–19 Aug
CMT32: 32nd International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Loughborough to commemorate birth centenary of L D Landau short photo album long photo album (Kugel)

Wed 20 Aug, 14.00, W2.19
Landau Seminar
Alexey Shorokhov
Theoretical backgrounds of nonlinear THz spectroscopy of semiconductor superlattices

Archive of earlier events


For further information contact
Binoy Sobnack (01509) 223307(Physics Department Seminars)
John Samson (01509) 223304 (Quantum Information Seminars)
Sergey Savel'ev (01509) 223302 (Terahertz Landau seminar discussions)
Mike Petty (01509) 283069 (Loughborough Physics Centre)

See also Seminar programmes in Department of Mathematical Sciences

 

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