Spring 2009

Wed 14 Jan 2009
Afternoon visit for prospective students. Invitations will be sent.

Fri 23 Jan, 17.00, W0.02
Igor Mekhov (Innsbruck)
Quantum optics with ultracold quantum gases
abstract of talk

Wed 4 Feb
Afternoon visit for prospective students. Invitations will be sent.

Wed 11 Feb, 14.00
Staff meeting

Wed 18 Feb
Afternoon visit for prospective students. Invitations will be sent.

Fri 20 Feb, 11.00, W2.19
James Annett (Bristol)
Orbital magnetic moment in a chiral p-wave superconductor

Wed 25 Feb, 13.00, W2.19
Staff Student Committee meeting

Wed 25 Feb, 16.00, W2.19, Landau seminar
Alexander Gorban (Leicester)
From simple kinetics to fluid dynamics: exactly solvable reduction problem
abstract of talk

Wed 4 Mar
Afternoon visit for prospective students. Invitations will be sent.

Wed 4 Mar, 17.00, W2.19, Landau seminar
Kakeya Itsuhiro (Kyoto)
Studies on HTSC intrinsic Josephson junctions by using micro-fabrication techniques
abstract of talk

Wed 11 Mar, 16.30, T0.03. Fourteenth Sir Nevill Mott lecture
Sir Roger Penrose, FRS
Gravity and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Wed 18 Mar
Afternoon visit for prospective students. Invitations will be sent.

Fri 20 Mar, 13.00, W2.19
Alexander Nikitin (Warwick)
A hierarchy of phase transitions in optimal neuronal coding: from binary to M-ary discrete optimal codes
abstract of talk

Wed 25 Mar
Afternoon visit for prospective students. Invitations will be sent.

Fri 27 Mar, 17.00, W2.19, Landau seminar
Natalia Janson (Mathematical Sciences)
Neural networks: an overview

Wed 29 Apr, 14.00, W2.19
Carl Strutt (Wolfram Research)
Demonstration of Mathematica 7

Fri 8 May, 17.00, W2.19, Informal Review Seminar in the frames of Landau seminar
Alexandre Zagoskin
Quantum engineering: Housetraining Schroedinger cats.
abstract of talk

Wed 13 May, 13.00, W2.19
Staff Student Committee meeting

Fri 15 May, 17.00, W0.04, Landau seminar
Valery Nakariakov (Warwick)
Waves and oscillations in the solar corona
abstract of talk

Fri 22 May, 17.00, W2.19, Landau seminar
Daniel Burgarth (Imperial) CANCELLED
Indirect Hamiltonian Estimation and Restricted Control
abstract of talk

Wed 27 May, 13.00, W2.19
Gennady El (School of Mathematics)
Dispersive shock waves and related phenomena in Bose-Einstein condensates.
abstract of talk

Fri 30 May, 17.00, W2.19
Sergey Kravchenko (Northeastern University, USA)
Interaction-induced metal-insulator transition in two dimensions.

Wed 3 June, 15.00, W0.03
Vadim Cheianov (Lancaster)
Ordered states of dilute adatom systems in graphene.
abstract of talk

Wed 10 Jun, 10.00
Staff meeting

Wed 10 June, 14.00, W2.19
Andrew Armour (Nottingham)
Dynamical instabilities in nanoelectromechanical systems.

Sat 13 Jun, 15.00 (events in Department), 19.00 (reception and dinner in Burleigh Court)
Loughborough University Centenary Physics Alumni Reunion

13 – 17 Jun
2nd Symposium on Neural Networks and Econophysics: from superconducting junctions to financial markets
Registration

Wed 24 June, 14.00, W2.19
Alexander Boris (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research)
Exciton doublet in edge-sharing CuO4 chains.
abstract of talk

Fri 26 June, 13.00, W2.19
John Tyrer (Wolfson School)
Underwater Laser Beam Propagation.
abstract of talk

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