The CUA seminar takes place on Tuesdays starting at 4:00 p.m. alternating between Harvard (Jefferson Lab 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.
Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule |
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Tuesday | September 12 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Simon Foelling (University of Mainz)
Manipulating and probing strongly correlated atoms in optical lattices
10 min. talk: Saijun Wu (Harvard, Prentiss Group)
"Interferometer with guided atoms " |
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Tuesday | September 19 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Gerard Gabrielse (Harvard)
New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant
10 min. talk: Jit Kee Chin (MIT, Ketterle group)
"Evidence of Superfluidity of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice"
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Tuesday | September 26 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge)
Vortex Lattices and Vortex Liquids in Atomic Bose Gases
10 min. talk: Haruka Tanji (MIT, Vuletic Group)
"Eliminating the vacuum from single photon sources." |
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Tuesday | October 3 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Giovanni Modugno (LENS)
Atomic Fermi-Bose mixture with tunable interaction
10-minute talk: Micah Boyd (MIT, Ketterle Group)
"A Mott Insulator Atomic Clock"
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Tuesday | October 10 | 4:00 | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Wilhelm Zwerger (TU Munich)
From fermions to bosons: strong interactions and universality in dilute gases
10-minute talk: Darrick Chang (Harvard, Lukin Group)
"Quantum and nonlinear optics using surface plasmons" |
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Tuesday | October 17 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Robin Côté (University of Connecticut)
Ultracold polar molecules: forming, trapping, cooling, and using them
10-minute talk: Gyuboong Jo (MIT, Ketterle Group)
"Long phase coherence time and number squeezing of two Bose-Einstein condensates on an atom chip"
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Tuesday | October 24 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Kevin Jones (Williams)
Photoassociation of Ultracold atoms: long range states and scattering, a review
10 min. talk: Peter Zarth (MIT, Ketterle Group)
"Zeeman Slower for Fermionic Potassium Atoms" |
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Tuesday | October 31 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Jae Hoon Choi (MIT)
Rydberg atoms and neutral plasmas: Cold, magnetized, and trapped
10-minute talk: Adilet Imambekov (Harvard, Demler Group)
"Full counting statistics of interference experiments" |
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Tuesday | November 7 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Nergis Mavalvala (MIT)
Quantum states of light and giants
10 Minute Talk:
Robert Cherng (Harvard, Demler group)
"Quantum Noise Analysis of Spin Systems Realized with Cold Atoms" |
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Tuesday | November 14 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Christof Wetterich (University of Heidelberg)
Universality in ultracold fermionic atom gases
10 Minute Talk: Wes Campbell (Harvard, Doyle Group)
"Magnetic Trapping of NH Radicals"
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Tuesday | November 21
NO SEMINAR
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Tuesday | November 28 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
J. T. Devreese (University of Antwerp)
Path Integrals and the BEC/BCS Crossover
10-minute talk: Vladimir Gritsev (Harvard, Demler Group) |
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Tuesday | December 5 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Gurudev Dutt (Harvard)
Long-lived electron and nuclear spin qubits in diamond: AMO physics meets solid-state
10-minute talk:
Liang Jiang (Harvard, Lukin Lab) |
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Tuesday | December 12 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Lorraine Sadler (Berkeley)
Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates: Precision Measurements and Phase Transitions
10-minute talk: Bonna Newman (Kleppner/Greytak/Doyle group) |
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Tuesday | December 19| 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 10-250
RLE 60th Anniversary Colloqium
Dr. William D. Phillips (NIST)
A Bose condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases confront solid state physics
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