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The CUA seminar takes place on Tuesdays starting at 4:00 p.m.
alternating between Harvard (Jefferson
Lab, Room 356) and MIT (Building 26,
Room 26-214), unless otherwise noted. The seminar begins with a short
10 min. talk by one of the local graduate students or postdocs. After
some refreshments the main talk will begin at 4:30 p.m.
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Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule |
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Monday | February 4 | 16:15:00 | Jefferson 250
Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms
10 min. talk: Harvard University Physics Colloquium
"tea in Jefferson 450 @3:30 PM" |
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Tuesday | February 12 | 16:00:00 | Harvard Jefferson 356
Antoine Georges (Centre de Physics Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique)
Adiabatic Cooling and Quasiparticle Imaging of Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices
10 min. talk: Marko Cetina (Vuletic)
"Cold ion-atom collisions" |
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Tuesday | February 19 | 16:00:00 | Harvard Jefferson 356
Yong-Il Shin (MIT)
Mapping and probing the phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with strong interactions
10 min. talk: Darrick Chang (Lukin)
"Crystallization of strongly interacting photons in a nonlinear optical fiber" |
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Tuesday | February 26 | 16:00:00 | MIT Room 26-214
Wes Campbell (Doyle group), Simon Foelling (Greiner group) and Alexey Akimov (Lukin group)
CUA Hot Topics
10 min. talk:
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Tuesday | March 4 | 16:00:00 | MIT Room 26-214
Poul Jessen (Univ. of Arizona)
Quantum Control of Single and Collective Atomic Spins
10 min. talk: Emre Togan (Lukin)
"Progress Towards Spin / Photon Entanglement in Diamond" |
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Tuesday | March 11 | 16:00:00 | Harvard Jefferson 356
Didi Leibfried (NIST, Boulder)
Quantum information processing in a system of trapped ions
10 min. talk: Matt Hummon (Doyle)
"Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Nitrogen and Cotrapping of NH" |
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Tuesday | March 18 | 16:00:00 | MIT Room 26-214
Claus Zimmermann (Univ. of Tubingen)
Cold Rubidium and Lithium in contact with light, surfaces, and each other
10 min. talk: Rob Clark (Chuang)
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Tuesday | March 25 | 16:00:00 | Harvard Jefferson 356
Kohzo Hakuta (Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Manipulating Single Atoms and Single Photons Using Optical Nanofibers
10 min. talk: Ana Maria Rey (Lukin)
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Monday | March 31 | 16:15:00 | Harvard Jefferson 250
Marlan O. Scully
THE PHOTON SHEDS LIGHT ON THE QUANTUM: Fluctuations and correlations tell the story
10 min. talk: Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
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Tuesday | April 1 | 16:00:00 | MIT Room 26-214
Frederic Chevy (ENS)
Swimming in the Fermi Sea
10 min. talk: Amar Vutha (Doyle)
"Search for the electron's electric dipole moment with cold ThO molecules" |
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Wednesday | April 2 | 16:15:00 | Harvard Jefferson 250
Marlin O. Scully
USING QUANTUM MECHANICS TO DETECT ANTHRAX
10 min. talk:
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Tuesday | April 8 | 3:00:00 | Harvard Jefferson 250
Marlin O. Scully
THE LASER-BEC ANALOGY
10 min. talk:
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Tuesday | April 8 | 16:30:00 | Harvard Jefferson 356
David Wineland (NIST, Boulder)
Quantum state manipulation for better spectroscopy
10 min. talk: (no 10 min talk)
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Tuesday | April 15 | 16:00:00 | MIT Room 26-214
Philippe Grangier (Institut d'Optique)
Two-dimensional transport and transfer of individual atomic qubits in optical tweezers
10 min. talk: Jon Simon (Vuletic)
"A Heralded, Polarization Preserving Quantizing Memory" |
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Tuesday | April 22 | 16:00:00 | Harvard Jefferson 356
Eugene Polzik (Niels Bohr Institute)
The power of a quantum measurement
10 min. talk: Charlie Doret (Doyle)
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Tuesday | April 29 | 16:00:00 | MIT Room 26-214
Victor Gurarie (Univ. of Colorado)
Towards realizing two dimensional chiral p-wave fermionic superfluid
10 min. talk: Christian Schunk (Ketterle)
"Determination of the fermion pair size in a resonantly interacting superfluid.
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Tuesday | May 6 | 16:00:00 | Harvard Jefferson 356
Sandro Stringari (Univ. of Trento)
Effects of polarization, rotation and tunneling in the unitary Fermi gas
10 min. talk: Waseem Bakr (Greiner)
"A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical surface trap" |
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Tuesday | May 13 | 16:00:00 | MIT Room 26-214
Till Rosenband (NIST, Boulder)
A measurement with 17 significant digits: The ratio of Al+ and Hg+ optical clock frequencies
10 min. talk: Alexey Gorshkov (Lukin)
"Repulsive shield between polar molecules" |
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Tuesday | September 23 | 16:00:00 |
Massimo Inguscio
10 min. talk:
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Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule |
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Tuesday | September 25 | 4pm | Harvard Jefferson 356
Jack Harris (Yale University)
Strong dispersive coupling between an optical cavity and a micromechanical membrane
10 min. talk: Jae Choi (Ketterle)
"Atom interferometry with phase fluctuating condensates" |
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Tuesday | October 2 | 4pm | MIT 26-214
Gerhard Rempe (Max Planck Gesellschaft)
Strongly Coupled and Strongly Correlated Atoms, Molecules and Photons
10 min. talk: Jon Gillen (Greiner)
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Tuesday | October 9 | 4pm | Harvard Jefferson 356
Roman Krems (University of British Columbia)
Electric field control of atomic and molecular collisions at cold and ultracold temperatures
10 min. talk: Misho Bajcsy (Lukin)
"Cold atoms inside a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber." |
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Tuesday | October 16 | 4pm | MIT 26-214
Boris Altshuler (Columbia University)
Many-Body Localization
10 min. talk: Robert Cherng (Demler)
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Tuesday | October 23 | 4pm | Harvard Jefferson 356
Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard)
A quantum algorithm for the simulation of chemical reaction dynamics on a quantum computer
10 min. talk: CHANGE: David Leibrandt (Chuang)
"Ion trap on a chip" |
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Tuesday | October 30 | 4pm | MIT 26-214
Volker Schweikhard (JILA - University of Colorado)
2D Josephson junction arrays in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless regime
10 min. talk: Alexey Tonyushkin (Prentiss)
"Coherence revival in Atom-optics kicked rotor" |
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Tuesday | November 6 | 4pm | Harvard Jefferson 356
Robert Levis (Temple University)
Complexity Management in Strong Field-Molecule Interactions: Lessons from
Evolution and Dimensionality Reduction
10 min. talk: Andrew Grier (Vuletic)
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Tuesday | November 13 | 4pm | MIT 26-214
Tilman Esslinger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
Bose-Einstein condensation meets Cavity QED
10 min. talk: Wes Campbell (Doyle)
"Isotope Effects and Vibrational States of Trapped Molecules" |
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Tuesday | November 20 | 4pm | Harvard Jefferson 356
No Seminar
10 min. talk: No Seminar
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Tuesday | November 27 | 4pm | Harvard Jefferson 356
Gerard Meijer (Fritz-Haber Institute der Max Planck Gesellschaft)
Deceleration and trapping of neutral polar molecules
10 min. talk: Yong-Il Shin (Ketterle)
"Phase diagram of a spin-polarized Fermi gas with resonant interactions" |
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Tuesday | December 4 | 4pm | MIT 26-214
Wilhelm Zwerger (TU Munich)
BCS and beyond: New Insights into Fermionic Superfluids from Ultracold Gases
10 min. talk: Vladmir Gritsev (Demler)
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Tuesday | December 11 | 4pm | Harvard Jefferson 356
Serge Haroche (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)
Quantum Non-Demolition measurement of light and tomography of photonic Schroedinger cats in Cavity QED
10 min. talk: Paola Cappellaro (ITAMP)
"High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale
resolution" |
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Tuesday | December 18 | 4pm | MIT 26-214
Walter Hofstetter
Strong Correlations in Multicomponent Quantum Gases
10 min. talk: Andre Schirotzek (Ketterle)
"RF spectroscopy of imbalanced Fermi gases" |
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Tuesday | February 6 | 4:00 pm | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
Dissipative atomic Hubbard Models: cooling by superfluid immersion
10 min. talk: Jaroslaw Labaziewicz (MIT, Chuang Group)
"Cryogenic planar ion traps" |
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Tuesday | February 13 | 4:00 pm | MIT Room 26-214
Vladan Vuletic (MIT)
Entanglement between atomic ensembles via optical transfer of a spin-wave
quantum
10 min. talk: Dan Miller (MIT, Ketterle Group)
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Tuesday | February 20 | 4:00 pm | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Nikolai Prokof'ev (UMASS Amherst)
Critical temperature of the resonant Fermi gas
10 min. talk: Alexey Gorshkov (Lukin Group)
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Tuesday | February 27 | 4:00 pm | MIT Room 26-214
Leonid Butov (University of California)
Phenomena in Cold Exciton Gases
10 min. talk: Ari Turner (Demler Group)
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Tuesday | March 6 | 4:00 pm |
NO SEMINAR
10 min. talk:
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Tuesday | March 13 | 4:00 pm | MIT Room 26-214
Rudolf Grimm (University of Innsbruck)
Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms
10 min. talk: Jongchul Mun (Ketterle Group)
"Sudden breakdown of superfluid flow at the Mott insulator transition" |
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Tuesday | March 20 | 4:00 pm | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Jun Ye (University of Colorado)
Stable cold polar molecules
10 min. talk: Rob Clark (Chuang Group)
"Experimental Investigation of Lattice Ion Traps" |
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Tuesday | March 27 | 4:00 pm |
SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR
10 min. talk:
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Tuesday | April 3 | 4:00 pm | MIT Room 26-214
Yoshiro Takahashi (Kyoto University)
High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Ultracold Ytterbium
10 min. talk: Scott Sanders (Heller group)
"Scattering without Decoherence" |
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Tuesday | April 10 | 4:00 pm | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Brian DeMarco (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Simulating quantum magnetism (and other Hubbard physics) using optical lattices
10 min. talk: Monika Schleier-Smith (Vuletic group)
"Towards Spin Sqeezing with Cold Atoms in an Optical Cavity" |
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Tuesday | April 17 | 4:00 pm | MIT Room 26-214
Luming Duan (Univ. of Michigan)
Simulation and detection of many-body physics with ultracold atoms
10 min. talk: Aryesh Mukherjee
"Coupling single photons of light to single surface plasmons in silver nanowires" |
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Tuesday | April 24 | 4:00 pm | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Mark Raizen (University of Texas)
Coherent slowing of supersonic beams: from atom optics and surface scattering towards fundamental tests
10 min. talk: Marko Cetina (Vuletic Group)
"Bright Source of Cold Ions for Surface-Electrode Traps" |
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Tuesday | May 1 | 4:00 pm | MIT Room 26-214
Klaus Sengstock (University of Hamburg)
Mixtures of ultracold fermionic and bosonic quantum gases
10 min. talk: Liang Jiang (Lukin group)
"Coherence of Optically Detected Single Nuclear Spin Qubit" |
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Tuesday | May 8 | 4:00 pm | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Immanuel Bloch (University of Mainz)
Towards Quantum Magentism with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
10 min. talk: Gyuboong Jo (Ketterle Group)
"Phase-Sensitive Recombination of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip" |
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Tuesday | May 15 | 4:00 pm | MIT Room 26-214
Robert Boyd (Rochester)
Controlling the Velocity of Light: Fundamentals and Applications
10 min. talk: TBA
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