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.
Spring 2005 Seminar Schedule |
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Tuesday
| February 22, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Dmitry Petrov (Harvard University)
"Scattering properties of weakly bound dimers"
10 min. talk: Dave Patterson (Harvard, Doyle
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Tuesday
| March 1, 2005| 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Bill Reinhardt (University of Washington)
"Fragmentation and phase engineering of entangled number states in multi well BECs"
10 min. talk: Dan Miller (MIT, Ketterle group)
High contrast interference in a thermal cloud of atoms
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Tuesday
| March 8, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Franco Wong (MIT)
"Bi-photons: entanglement, indistinguishability, and quantum computing"
10 min. talk: Diego Vas Bevilacqua (Harvard, Doyle group)
Fidelity decay for phase space displacements |
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Tuesday
| March 15, 2005 | 4:30 p.m. | MIT Stata Center 32-123
Special Event
33rd Annual Killian Faculty Achievement Award Lecture
Wolfgang Ketterle
"When freezing cold is not cold enough..." |
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Tuesday
| March 22, 2005
NO SEMINAR (SPRING HOLIDAY) |
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Tuesday
| March 29, 2005
NO SEMINAR (SPRING HOLIDAY) |
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Tuesday
| April 5, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Paul Haljan (U. of Michigan)
"TBA"
10 min. talk: Katsunari Enomoto (Harvard, Doyle group)
Buffer-gas cooling of NH molecules |
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Tuesday
| April 12, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. |Harvard-Jefferson 356
Sasha Sergienko (BU)
"TBA"
10 min. talk: Ken Brown (MIT, Chuang
group) |
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Tuesday
| April 19, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Alex Cronin (University of Arizona)
De Broglie wave phase shifts induced by surfaces 20 nm away
10 min. talk: Rasil Warnakulasooriya (MIT, Pritchard group)
Learning and problem-solving transfer between physics problems using web-based homework tutor
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Tuesday
| April 26, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Dana Z. Anderson (U.C. Boulder)
An Atom Michelson Interferometer and Atom Chip Technology
10 min. talk: Yu-Ju Lin/Igor Teper (MIT, Vuletic
group) |
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Tuesday | May 3, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. | MIT Room 26-214
Allan Griffin (U. of Toronto)
Quasiparticles, Collective Modes and Two-Fluid Hydrodynamics in the Bcs-Bec Crossover
10 min. talk: Mukund Vengalattore (Harvard, Prentiss group) |
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Tuesday | May 10, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356
Dan Stamper-Kurn (Berkeley)
Seeing spinning condensates
10 min. talk: Martin Zwierlein (MIT, Ketterle group) |
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