WORKSHOPS:

Friday 15 August 2008, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Summary of results on quantum dot #2
Andrew See

Monday 11 August 2008, Room 6 OMB (3-4pm):
Renormalisation Group Theory and the 2D metal-insulator transition
Alex Hamilton

Friday 4 July 2008, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Summary of results from Heliox run
Jason Chen

Friday 27 June 2008, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Summary of VTI run
Wilson Pok

Thursday 12 June 2008, Room 5 OMB (2-3pm):
Spin orientation of holes
Prof. Roland Winkler, Argonne National Laboratory.

Friday 6 June 2008, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Literature overview for Honours projects
Dan and Sam

Friday 30 May 2008, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Chaotic Dirac billiards in graphene QD, Science 320, 356 (2008)
Literature review: Dr. Ted Martin

Friday 23 May 2008, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Measuring current by counting electrons in a nanowire QD, APL 92, 152101 (2008).
Literature review: Jason Chen

Friday 16 May 2008, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Fun things to do with holes
Dr. Adam Micolich

Friday 9 May, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Spin-density funtional theory, QPCs and the 0.7 anomaly. (Rejec & Meir, Nature 442, 900 (2006)).
Sarah MacLeod

Friday 2 May, Room 5 OMB (4-5pm):
Spin Dependent Transport in Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors
Dr. Dane R. McCamey, Department of Physics, University of Utah

FRIDAY, 18 APRIL:
Lecture 4: Quantum Limits on Measurement
Prof. Rob Schoelkopf (Yale)

WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL:
Lecture 3: Qubits as Spectrometers of Noise and the Back action of an SET
Prof. Rob Schoelkopf (Yale)

FRIDAY, 11 APRIL:
Lecture 2: Shot Noise and the Non-Equilibrium Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem
Prof. Rob Schoelkopf (Yale)

WEDNESDAY, 9 APRIL:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Quantum Noise
Prof. Rob Schoelkopf (Yale)

Friday 11 April 2008 from 3-4pm
Lasse's NML fridge run
Dr. Lasse Taskinen

Friday 04 April 2008 from 4-5pm
Andreas' five-terminal STM dot device
Martin Fuechsle

Friday 28 March 2008 from 4-5pm
Andrew's VTI run
Andrew See

Friday 22 February 2008 from 2-4pm
Series on informal mini-seminars
Dr Don Eigler, IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden, California, USA
Professor Lars Samuleson, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Roland Wiesendanger, Hamburg University, Germany
Professor Lieven Vandersypen, DELFT University, The Netherlands

Thursday 21 February
ICONN2009 talks rehearsals
Dr. Ted Martin
Dr. Oleh Klochan

Friday 30 November
Competing transport mechanisms in mesoscopic 2D electron systems at observable temperatures
Professor David Neilson, University of Camerino, Italy.

Friday 23 November
New routes to organic electronics
Dr. Adam Micolich

Friday 16 November, Room 5, 4 pm
Quantum dots and radio-frequency single electron transistors in silicon
Susan Angus

Friday 9 November, Room 5, 4 pm
VTI run: results and issues
Bent Weber, Wilson Pok and Martin Fuechsle

Friday 2 November, Common room, 4 pm
Fast Charge Detection in GaAs Quantum Dot Structures
Maja Cassidy

Friday 26 October
How does a nearby ground plane affect the Coulomb energy and r_s of a 2D system?
Lap-hang Ho

Friday 19 October
Measuring the electron-phonon interaction with NIS junctions
Dr. Lasse Taskinen

Friday 12 OCtober
The Spin on Electronics!
Stuart Parkin, IBM Almaden (talk is at Ansto, school van leaving UNSW at 9am).

Friday 14 September
Magnetisation and other spurious signals
Summary of a fridge run: Lap-Hang Ho

Friday 1 September
Tunnelling between two 2D hole systems
Quantum Lifetime of Two-Dimensional Holes, J.P. Eisenstein et al, Solid State Communications 143, 365 (2007)
Literature Review: Jason Chen

Tuesday 21 August
Magnetoconductance fluctuations in quantum dots: part II
Dr. Ted Martin

Tuesday 14 August
Magnetoconductance fluctuations in quantum dots: part I
Dr. Ted Martin

Tuesday 10 July
A welcome, and screening and scattering in 2D
Lasse Taskinen and Sarah MacLeod

Wednesday 26th June
No workshop this week - but instead there is a public lecture by
Nobel Laureate Carl E. Wieman, on Bose-Einstein Condensates.

Thursday 20th June - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
Disappearance of Metal-Like Behavior in GaAs Two-Dimensional Holes below 30 mK - PRL 98, 226801 (2007)
Literature Review: Alex Hamilton

Thursday 14th June - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
Circuit-QED, Part 3:
Alex Hamilton & Tim Duty

Thursday 7th June - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
Circuit-QED using the Cooper-pair box, Part 2:
Classical fields: a.c. susceptibility, quantum capacitance, and longitudinal dressed states under microwave driving.
Dr Tim Duty - CQCT, UNSW

Thursday 31st May - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
Compressibility measurements of 1D systems
(Charge Rearrangement and Screening in a Quantum Point Contact, PRL 2007, Goldhaber-Gordon's group;
Closely spaced one-dimensional wires: Coupled ballistic conduction and compressibility measurements, 1998, Cambridge group)
Literature Review: Alex Hamilton

Thursday 10th May - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
Circuit-QED using the Cooper pair-box, Part 1: The Cooper-pair box
Dr Tim Duty - CQCT, UNSW

Thursday 26th April - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
Lord of the Rings, Part 3
Dr Andreas Fuhrer- AFF, UNSW

Thursday 19th April - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
DNA-Based Nanostructures in 1D, 2D, and 3D
Tom Sobey - Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximillian-Universität, Munich Germany

Thursday 22nd March - 3:30pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
Aharanov-Bohm effect in semiconductor rings, Part 2
Dr Andreas Fuhrer- AFF, UNSW

Friday 16th March - 3:00pm - Committe Room 5, Old Main Building
AFM device fabrication and Aharanov-Bohm effect in semiconductor rings
Dr Andreas Fuhrer- AFF, UNSW