Archive of IGERT Presentations

2009-2010

Date Event Title Time Place Speaker

Friday,

October 9th

IGERT Special Seminar

(Co Sponsored with Dept. Of Physics & Astronomy Colloquia):

Having The Cake and Seeing It Too
In Situ:

Observation of Incompressible Mott Insulating Domains in Ultracold Gases

4:00

Tech L211

Wednesday,

October 14th

Optimal Control of Molecular Dynamics: Application to Rotational and Torsional Motion

12:00

Tech F235

Adam Pelzer (Chemistry)

Wednesday,

October 28th

12:00
Tech F235

Joan Marler

(Physics & Astronomy)

Wednesday,

November 11 th

12:00
Tech F235

John Ketterson
(Physics & Astronomy)

Wednesday,

November 18th

12:00
Tech F235

Kathy-Anne Soderberg

(University of Chicago)

Wednesday, December 2nd
12:00
Tech F235

Peter Rabl

Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Thursday,

January 14th

IGERT Special Colloquium

(Co Sponsored by Department of Physics & Astronomy & Condensed Matter Physics)

Opening the Quantum Tool Box:
From Artificial Atoms to Photonic Quantum Phase Transitions

4:00
Tech F235

Jens Koch

Yale University

Wednesday,

January 20th

12:00
Tech F235

Michael Hsieh (EECS)

&
Laszlo Frazer

(Physics & Astronomy)

Thursday,

January 21st

IGERT Special Colloquium

(Co Sponsored by Department of Physics & Astronomy & Condensed Matter Physics)

4:00
Tech F235

Darrick Chang

Caltech

Thursday,

January 27th

12:00
Tech F235

Nathan Gemelke

University of Chicago

Wednesday,

Febuary 3rd

12:00
Tech F235

Dr. Shai Ronen
University of Innsbruck
Austria

Wednesday,

February 17th

Towards O-Band Quantum Telecommunications

/

Entangled Photon Pair Generation in Non-Linear
Crystals

12:00
Tech F235

Matt Hall (EECS)

&

Tim Rambo (EECS)

Wednesday,

February 24th

Putting Fast-Light to Work: Rotation Sensing, Gravitational Wave Detection, and Other Applications

                                 /

   Light Guidance in the Nanoscale: Enchanced   Spectroscopy and Molecular Alignment

12:00
Tech F235

Selim Shahriar (EECS)
&

Matt Sonntag (Chemistry)

Friday,

March 12 th

Half-matter, Half-light Laser Diodes:

Quantum Simulation and Computation Based on Bosonic Stimulated Cooling

4:00 Tech L211

Wednesday,

March 24th

12:00
Tech F235

May Kim

(Physics & Astronomy)

&
Jon Trossman

(Physics & Astronomy)

Wednesday,

March 31st

Derivation of the Quantum Commutation Relations and Evolution Equations from the Invariance of Entanglement to Canonical Transformation

SPECIAL
TIME

4:00 PM

Ryan Hall 4003

Moshe Shapiro

University of
British Columbia:
Weizmann Institute of Science

Wednesday,

April 7th

The Use of Inverse Opals to Study the Coupling of Polaritons, Plasmons, and Excitons

&

The Role of Surface Chemistry of CdSe Quantum Dots in the Response of their Photoluminescence to Continuous Photoexcitation

12:00
Tech F235

R.P. Chang (MSE)

&

Dan Tice (Chemistry)

Wednesday,

April 21st

Quantum Communication and Information Processing in Telecom Fibers

/

Entangled Photon Polarimetry

12:00
Tech F235

Prem Kumar (EECS)
&

Neal Oza (EECS)

Wednesday,

May 5th

Prospects for Full Quantum State Control of Molecular Ions

/

Fast Light Enchancement in Interferometers

12:00
Tech F235

Brian Odom

(Physics & Astronomy)

&

Josh Yablon

(EECS)

Wednesday,

May 19th

IGERT Seminar
12:00
Tech F235

Chris Seck

(Physics & Astronomy)

&

David Tabor

(Physics & Astronomy)

Wednesday,

June 23rd th

Scientific Ethics
12:00
Tech F235

Laurie Zoloth - Director of the Center for Bioethics, Science & Society
(Northwestern University)

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