ITAMP Seminars
and Colloquiums
ITAMP sponsors and co-sponsors talks and presentations
on forefront AMO/Condensed Matter Physics Topics from
notable Scientists, Researchers and Professors. Future dates
for talks, colloquiua and other events can be found on the ITAMP
events Calendar http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html.
If
you would like to be added to our e-mail list about our events
please send the request to Lisa Bastille, ITAMP Coordinator at:
lbastille at cfa dot harvard dot edu.
The Joint Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Colloquium (JAQuO)
is co-sponsored by ITAMP and the Harvard Quantum Optics Center.
These colloquia are
held on Wednesdays during Term in Jefferson Lab 356 at 4:30 p.m.
unless otherwise noted. Tea is served at 4 p.m. and provides
a chance to scientific interaction before the talk.
The Lunchtime Topical Discussion Series is held through the semester
and features local scientists and visitors. These talks are informal
in nature and cover a range of topics. Lunchtime talks are either
brown bag optional or pizza is provided. Talks are generally
held in the Tea Room at the ITAMP offices at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
ITAMP COLLOQUIUM TALKS AND TOPICAL DISCUSSIONS 2011-2007
2011
12/7 Francesca
Ferlaino, University of Innsbruck, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
"Universal few-body physics with ultracold atoms"
12/1 Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck
Institute of Quantum Optics, "Quantum Many-Body Systems Division"
11/9 David Wineland, NIST, "Prospects
for scaling trapped-ion quantum information processing"
10/12 Brian DeMarco, U. of Illinois, "3D
Anderson Localization of an Ultra-cold Fermi Gas"
10/5 Gerard
Meijer, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
9/28
Maciej Lewenstein, ICF, "Ultracold Atoms in Synthetic Gauge Fields:
From topological insulators to frustrated antiferromagnetism"
9/21
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, Institute for Experimental Physics,
University of Innsbruck, "Molecools - Ultracold samples of ground-state
molecules near quantum degeneracy"
8/09
Simone Montangero, Institute for Quantum Information Processing,
Univ. of Ulm. "Control of strongly correlated quantum systems"
5/04
Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa, "Laser Induced Molecular Imaging"
4/27 Stefan
Kuhr, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, "Probing
quantum States in Optical lattices with single-atom resolution"
4/26
Stefan Kuhr, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, "Single-site-resolved
detection and manipulation of atoms in an optical lattice"
4/13 Prof.
Dr. Hans Peter Büchler, Institute for Theoretical Physics, "Center
for Free-Electron Laser Science, University of Hamburg"
3/30
Robin Santra, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science,
University of Hamburg "Ultrafast processes at high x-ray intensity"
3/09 Gerald
Gabrielse, Harvard University, "Probing for an electron edm with
cold molecules"
2/23 Randolf
Pohl, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, "The size
of the proton"
2/09 Oskar
Painter, CalTech, "Radiation pressure at the nanoscale: classical-
and quantum-optical application"
2010
12/01 Charles
Mathy, ITAMP Postdoc, "Universal
features of strongly polarized mass imbalanced fermi gases"
12/01 Johannes
Feist, ITAMP Postdoc, "Attosecond
pump-probe setups for studying doubly excited wave packets
in helium"
12/01 Barbara
Capogrosso-Sansone, ITAMP Postdoc, "Quantum
phases of lattice bosons"
11/17 Florian
Schreck, Institute for Quantum Optics
and Quantum Information, "Ultracold
atoms at IQOQI: Strongly interacting 6Li 40K Fermi mixture & Quantum
degenerate strontium gases"
11/10 Phil
Hemmer, Texas A&M, "Beyond the nitrogen-vacancy"
11/3 Prof.
Konrad Lehnert, JILA, "Can acoustics be quantum?"
10/5 Dieter
Meschede, Universität Bonn, "Coherent Splitting, Rocking
and Blinding of Single Atoms"
10/06 Florian
Marquardt, Erlangen Germany, "Optomechanics - Interaction Between
Light and Nanomechanical Motion"
6/03 Renate Pazourek, TU Wien, "Measurement
of time delays in atomic photoionization through attosecond streaking"
5/20 Prof. Michael Moore, Michigan
State University, "Biphoton generation from atomic vapors"
5/19 Joint ITAMP/CUA Special Seminar:
Tilman Pfau-Stuttgart, "Coherent Control of Strongly Interacting
Rydberg Atoms and Molecules"
5/12 Hanns-Christoph Naegerl, University
of Innsbruck, "Quantum phase transitions, strong correlations,
and novel many-body systems"
5/05 Prof. Poul Jessen, U. of Arizona, "Quantum
Chaos and Entanglement in Atomic Spin Systems"
4/28 Prof. David DeMille, Yale University, "Laser
cooling of a diatomic molecule"
4/21 Prof. Joerg Schmiedmayer, Univ
of Vienna, "Probing coherence and correlations in 1d many body
quantum systems"4/14 Prof. Luming Duan, University
of Michigan, "Quantum simulation of many-body physics with cold
atoms and trapped ions"
4/13/10 Guido Pupillo, IQOQI
Innbruck, "Solids and supersolids with dipolar quantum gases"
4/08 Dr. Peter Rabl, ITAMP Postdoc, "Mechanical
Systems In The Quantum Regime"
3/31 Marko Loncar, SEAS “Nanoscale Devices for Optical
and Quantum Information Processing”
3/30 ITAMP/AMP Topical Talk: Prof.
Mladen Pavicic, University of Zagreb, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden
Street
3/24 Prof. Anders Sorensen, Bohr
Institute, U. of Copenhagen, “Generating and detecting strongly
correlated states of ultra cold atoms”3/18 Dr. Shannon Wang from the group
of I. Chuang at MIT, "Heating of ions in cryogenic surface-electrode
traps"
3/04 Dr. Kaden Hazzard Cornell University, “Measuring
universal quantum critical behavior in cold gases.”
2/25 ITAMP Topical Discussions: Teragrid discussion
2/18 Prof. Agapi Emmanouilidou,
Univ. College London & UMASS-Amherst, “Electronic correlation
triggered by strong laser fields in atomic and molecular systems”
2/11 Prof. Selim Jochim, Max Planck
Institute for Nuclear Physics, informal discussion on ongoing work
in his group on cold Fermi gases2/10 Prof. Selim Jochim, Max Planck
Institute for Nuclear Physics, “Few-body
physics with ultracold atoms”
1/05 Special ITAMP/CMT Seminar, Mr. Chris Laumann, Princeton
University, “Quantum Satisfiability
2009
12/17 Chris Ticknor, "Scattering
of Three Dipoles"
12/16 Prof. Liang Jiang, CalTech, “Repetitive
Readout of a Single Electronic Spin via Quantum Logic with Nuclear
Spin Ancillae”
12/10 ITAMP Topical Discussion,
Yusuke Nishida, MIT, "Universal few-body and many-body physics
in mixed dimensions"
12/08 Vladimir Yurovsky from Tel
Aviv University, "The Memory of Initial Conditions in Incompletely-Chaotic
Quantum Systems"
12/02 Prof. V. Sandoghdar, Laboratory
of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, “Cavity-free coherent
coupling of photons and emitters”
11/12 Prof. Michael Fleischhauer,
Fachbereich Physik, Uni Kaiserslautern, “Single- and many-body
physics with stationary-light polaritons”
11/4 Prof. Thierry Giamarchi,
DPMC-MaNEP, University of Geneva “Disorder in cold atomic
gases”
10/21 Dr Sebastiaan van
de Meerakker, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, “Collision
Experiments with Stark Decelerated Beams”
10/15 Dr. Seth Rittenhouse, ITAMP
Postdoc., " Semi-Classical Methods and N-Body Recombination or
why WKB is Smarter than you think"
10/7 Prof. Charles W. Clark, Joint
Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology
and University of Maryland, “Relativity at a billionth
of the speed of light”
9/23 Prof. Chris Greene, JILA
and University of Colorado, “Four-body collisions, universality,
and the Efimov effect”
9/17 Topical Discussion: Prof. Bo
Gao, University of Toledo, "Quantum-defect
theory for ion-atom interactions"
9/10 Topical Discussion: Dr. Christopher
Ticknor, "Dipolar Scattering in 2D"
9/9 Prof. Ami Vardi, Ben Gurion
University, “Dephasing and noise in weakly coupled Bose-Einstein
condensates”
6/23 Special Event, Prof. Dmitry
Fursa, Curtin University, Australia “Relativistic Convergent
Close-Coupling method for excitation and ionization processes in
electron collisions with atoms and ions”
6/04 Dr. Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone,
ITAMP Postdoc., "Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of lattice models
for cold atoms and molecules"
5/13 Prof. Andreas Buchleitner,
Univ. of Freiburg, “Entanglement
in open quantum systems”
4/29 Prof. Mark Raizen, UT-Austin, “Towards
Trapping and Cooling of Atomic Tritium for Precision Measurement
of Beta Decay”
4/22 Prof. Alexey Gorshkov, Harvard
University, “Quantum Information and Quantum Simulation
with Ultracold Alkaline-Earth Atoms in Optical Lattices”
4/1 Paul Julienne, NIST, “Ultracold
Polar Molecules: A Case Study with KRb”
3/18 Andrei Derevianko, Univ of
Nevada – Reno, “Improved test of the standard model
of elementary particles with atomic parity violation”
3/4 Prof. John Bohn, JILA, University
of Colorado-Boulder, “Which way is up? Or, How a BEC lives
with dipolar interactions”
1/28 Prof. Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart, “Rydberg
atoms in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
2008
12/10 Prof. Markus Aspelmeyer,
University of Vienna
11/19 Prof. Thad Walker, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, “Observation of Rydberg Blockade
between Pairs of Atoms”
10/22 Dr. Paul Lett, NIST, “Entangling
images with four-wave mixing”
10/15 Dr. Franco Nori, RIKEN, “Designing
superconducting qubit circuits that exhibit atomic-physics-like
phenomena on a chip”
10/8 Prof. David Cory, MIT, “Error
Finding and Control for Quantum Processors”
9/24 Prof. Maxim Olshanii, University
of Massachusetts, Boston, “Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis
and quantum thermodynamics”
6/11 Dr. Thomas Giesen, I. Physikalisches
Institut, University of Cologne, Germany, “Terahertz Spectroscopy
for Astrophysical Applications”
5/7 Dr. Eric Akkerman, Technion, “Photon
localization and Dicke superradiance : a cross-over to small
world networks”
4/30 Prof. Olga Kocharovskaya, “Coherent
Control of the Atomic Optical and Nuclear Gamma-Ray Transitions
in Solids”
4/23 Prof. Matthias Weidemuller,
Physics Institute, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany, “ ‘Rydberg
Matter’- Many-body phenomena in an ultracold gas of Rydberg
atoms”
4/22 Prof. V.G. Veselago, Prokhorov
Institute of General Physics, Moscow, “Some Additional
Remarks about Electrodynamics of LHM”
4/9 Prof. Sankar Das Sarma, University
of Maryland, “Computing
with Quantum Knots: Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum
Computation”
3/19 Prof. Belen Paredes, University
of Mainz, “Minimum instances of topological matter in an
optical plaquette”
2/27 Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov,
Boston University, “ Interference
and non-adiabaticity
2/13 Prof. Lorenza Viola, University of Dartmouth, “A
quantum-entangled view of quantum critical phenomena”
2007
12/12 Prof. David Weiss, Penn
State University, “Experiments with gases in 0D, 1D and
more”
12/05 Prof. Doerte Blume, Washington
State University, “Microscopic
Study of Fermi Gases at Unitarity”
11/28 Prof. Pierre Meystre, University
of Arizona, “Cooling of nanoscale mirrors”
11/14 Prof. Austen Lamacraft,
University of Virginia, “Long wavelength spin dynamics
of ferromagnetic condensates”
10/25 Special Seminar, Prof. Immanuel
Bloch, Johannes Gutenberg-University, “Exploring quantum
matter in artificial crystals of light”
10/17 Prof. Marianna Safronova,
University of Delaware, “Polarizabilities, atomic clocks,
and magic wavelengths”
10/03 Prof. Alan Mills, UC Riverside, “Positronium
molecules and the annihilation gamma ray laser”
5/23 Prof. Ignacio Cirac, Max-Planck,
Garchig, “Quantum
simulations with classical and quantum systems”
5/09 Prof. Tom Killian, Rice University, “Collisional
and collisionless expansion of ultracold neutral plasmas”
5/02 Prof. Paolo Tombesi, University
of Camerino, “A scheme for scalable quantum computers with
electrons in Penning traps”
4/25 Prof. Lily Childress, Harvard
University, “Coherent manipulation of single electronic
and nuclear spins in diamond”
4/11 Dr. Tommaso Calarco, Harvard
University, “Quantum Optimal Control: a tool for scalable
Quantum Information Processing”
3/15 Prof. Gora Shlyapnikov, CNRS,
Paris, “Anderson localization of expanding Bose-Einstein
condensates”
3/14 Prof. Rudi Grimm, Universität
Innsbruck, “Strongly interacting Fermi gases: recent results
from Innsbruck”
3/14 Prof. Murray Batchelor, Australian
National University, “Pairing and quantum phase transitions
in the integrable 1D atomic Fermi gas”
2/28 Prof. Guifre Vidal, University
of Brisbane, “Classical simulation of quantum many-body
systems using a tensor network”
2/14 Dr. Jake Taylor, MIT, “Artificial
atoms and molecules in quantum information science”
1/16 Prof. Dimitra Koutroumpa, Service d'Aeronomie du CNRS,
France “Charge-Exchange Induced EUV/Soft X-ray emissions
from the Heliosphere and Mars"
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