Colloquia 2008 at School of Physics UNSW

School Colloquia

Colloquia 2008

Date	Title	Speaker
March 18th	Comets and Icy Satelllites in the Solar System	Prof. Akiva Bar-Nun
April 8th	Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Dependence	Prof. Harald Fritzsch
May 6th	CP-Violating Magnetic Moments of Atoms and Molecules	A/Prof. Andrei Derevianko
May 27th	Spin, Charge, and Orbital Correlations in Transition Metal Oxides (Titanates, Vanadates, Ferrates)	Dr. Clemens Ulrich
May 29th	Quantum Phase Transitions and the New Condensed Matter Physics Landscape	Asst Prof. Christopher Wiebe
June 4th	Nanomagnetism, Spintronics & Polarized Neutrons	Dr Frank Klose
June 10th	Spinning Electrons	Prof. Roland Winkler
June 17th	How Frustrating! A look at recent neutron scattering results from the frustrated pyrochlores Tb₂Ti₂O₇ and Tb₂Sn₂O₇	Dr Kirrily Rule
July 1st	The Diversity of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets	Dr Jade Bond
Midyear Break
August 5th	Identifying phases of matter that are universal for quantum computation	Dr Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney
August 19th	Turbulent phase advection: Shapes, geometry and multiscaling in the inertial and in the large scale decay ranges	Dr Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi, University of Helsinki, Finland
August 26th	Precision Measurement of the Weak Charges of Quarks	Dr Ross Young, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A.
September 9th	Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductor Devices	Dr Chris McNeill, Cambridge University, U.K.
September 16th	Readout and Quantum Control of a Single Electron Spin-state	Dr David Reilly, Harvard University, U.S.A. & University of Sydney
September 23rd	Coherent Control of Quantum Bits: Ideas against Decoherence	Prof. Goetz Uhrig, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany
October 7th	Spin-dependent electron transport in Si artificial atoms	Prof. Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
October 14th	The Oceans and Climate Change	Prof. Matthew England, University of NSW
October 21st	Probing the Atmosphere of Venus using the Anglo-Australian Telescope and the Venus Express Spacecraft	A/Prof Jeremy Bailey, University of NSW
October 28th	Microphotonic Control: Applications in Biophotonics and Optofluidics	Dr Peter Reece, University of NSW
November 4th	Melbourne Cup	No Speaker
November 11th	Emergent Architectures for Quantum Computing with Spins	Prof. Mark Friesen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
November 18th	Quantum Information Science with Photons on a Chip	Prof. Jeremy O'Brien, University of Bristol
November 21st	What we know about Francium	Prof. Luis Orozco, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
December 2nd	Quarks, hadrons and the constants of nature	Dr Craig Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A.
December 9th	Electronic reconstruction at the interface between correlated oxides	Prof. Giniyat Khalliulin, MPI for Solid State Research, Germany
COMING UP
December 17th	Catalysis of Primordial Nucleosynthesis	Dr Maxim Pospelov, Univ. of Victoria and Perimeter Inst., Canada.

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