Last Updated: May 15, 2000
QUANTUM OPTICS AND CONDENSED MATTER
1999 - 2000 SEMINAR PROGRAM
This is the current QOCMP Monday seminar schedule, updated as speakers are confirmed. Suggestions and/or volunteers for speakers are always welcome. (send a message to Aephraim Steinberg)
All are welcome!
Title and Abstract of upcoming seminars
Unless otherwise noted all Winter/Spring 2000 seminars will be held on Monday at 12:00 p.m. in MP408, McLennan Physical Labs, 60 St. George Street, Toronto.
June 5, 2000 - Prof. Yoshiteru Maeno, Kyoto University
"The physics of ruthenates: from superconductors to magnetic insulators"
For further information, please contact:
J. Fotherby
Tel: (416) 978-7135
Fax: (416) 978-2537
Email:
fotherby@physics.utoronto.ca
Speaker: Dr. Turab Lookman
Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Western Ontario
Title: Phase separation and shape deformation of two-component membranes
Host: Prof. Rashmi Desai
Speaker: Dr. Jamie Williams
JILA
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Now at Department of Physics, University
of Toronto
Title: A Vortex in a Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate
Host: Allan Griffin
Speaker: Mona Berciu
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Title: D-wave Charge Carrier Pairing in a Purely Repulsive 2D Electron System
Host: Sajeev John
Speaker: Igor Sokolov
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Title: Synthetic Seashells or Self-Assembly of Curved Mesoporous Silica Shapes
Host: Stephen Morris
Speaker: Prof. Eric
Hessels
Department of Physics
York University
Title: Two-Stage Rydberg charge exchange: An efficient method for producing antihydrogen
Host: Aephraim Steinberg
Speaker: Dr. Daniel
Agterberg
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Tallahassee, Florida
Title: Spin triplet superconductivity in Sr2 RuO4
Host: Michael Walker
Speaker: Prof. Brad MarstonSPECIAL QOCMP SEMINAR
Title: Using Supersymmetry and the Density-Matrix RG to Understand Disorder and Quantum Criticality
Host: Rashmi Desai
Speaker: Dr. Mona Berciu
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Title: D-Wave Charge Carrier Pairing in a Purely Repulsive 2D Electron System
Host: Sajeev John
Speaker: Dr. An-Chang
Shi
Xerox Research Centre of Canada
Mississauga, Ontario
Title: Nature of Anisotropic Fluctuation Modes in Ordered Systems
Host: Rashmi
Desai
Speaker: Prof. Dave May
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Title: Molecular dynamics and a simplified master equation for spectral line shapes
Host: Aephraim Steinberg
Speaker: Prof. Daniel J. Heinzen
Department of Physics
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Title: Molecules in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Host: Aephraim Steinberg
JOINT QOCMP / - NONLINEAR GROUP SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Xiao-Lun Wu
Dept. of Physics
University of Pittsburg
Pittsburg, PA
Title: Collective Dynamics in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Bacterial Bath
Host: Stephen
Morris
JOINT QOCMP / - NONLINEAR GROUP SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof.L. C. Krysac
Dept. of Physics
University of the Pacific
Stockton, Ca 95211
Title: Damping Stress Wave Induced Fracture with Ferrofluids
Host: Stephen
Morris
Speaker: Dr. Seyed
Mostafa Sadeghi
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Title: Nonlinear optics of excitons in infrared-coupled quantum wells
Host: James Fraser
Speaker: Robin Marjoribanks,
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Title: 'Frustrated' Debye shielding in ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions
Host: Aephraim Steinberg
Speaker: Prof. Mark
I. Stockman
Departments of Physics and Astronomy
Georgia State University
University Plaza
Atlanta, GA
Title: Enhanced chaotic optical responses of disordered clusters and composites
Host: John Sipe
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Sachrajda
Institute for Microstructural Sciences
National Research Council Canada (NRC)
Ottawa, Ontario
Title: Transport Spectroscopy of Few Electron Quantum dots with Spin Polarized Electrons
Host: James Fraser
Speaker: Prof. Tom
Devereaux
Dept. of Physics
University of Waterloo
Title:
How Raman Light Scattering Can Unveil the Physics of High
Temperature Superconductors
Host: Allan Griffin
Speaker: Dr. John Behr
TRIUMF
Vancouver, B.C.
Title: "Radioactive Atom Trapping and Symmetry Tests at TRIUMF"
Host: Aephraim Steinberg
Speaker: Dr. Willem
Vos
van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut,
University of Amsterdam
Title: Photonic Crystals: Building a Cage for Light
Host: Henry van Driel
Speaker: Prof. Michael
Schick
Department of Physics,
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA USA
Title: Self-Assembly of Biological Lipids
Host: Rashmi Desai
Speaker: Prof. Shaul Goren
Department of Physics
Ben Gurion University
Title: Incorporating Halogens into the Cuprates
Host: Bryan
Statt
Speaker: Dr. Valery Rupasov
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
(Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia)
Title: Kondo Physics of Unconventional Magnetic Alloys
Host: Aephraim
Steinberg
March 20, 2000 SEMINAR CANCELLED
Speaker: Prof. Yuri Kivshar
Optical Sciences Centre
Australian National University
Canberra Australia
Title: Optical Spatial Solitons and Vortices
Host: John
Sipe
Speaker: Professor Arthur L. Smirl
Laboratory for Photonics and Quantum Electronics
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Title: Do Semiconductors and Atoms Emit Coherent Light Differently?
Host: Henry
van Driel
Speaker: Britton Plourde
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Vortex dynamics in superconducting systems imaged by Scanning SQUID Microscopy
Host: John
Wei
Speaker: Dr. Slava V. Rotkin
Beckman Institute
UIUC
Urbana, IL, USA
Title: "Energetics of carbon clusters"
Host:
Constantine Nenkov
Speaker: Professor Andrew Ng
Dept. of Physics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C.
Title: "Studying warm dense matter with intense, femtosecond lasers"
Host:
Robin Marjoribanks
Speaker: Prof. Yoshiteru Maeno
Department of Physics
Kyoto University
Japan
Title: "The physics of ruthenates: from superconductors to magnetic insulators"
Host: Louis
Taillefer
Link to previous QOCMP Seminars
Schedule for 1998-99 Schedule for 1997-98 Schedule for 1996-97
Schedule for 1995-96 Schedule for 1994-95
