Upcoming Talks - Quantum

December 2009

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Annenberg 107

Emulation of a Quantum Spin using a Superconducting Phase Qudit

Matthew Neeley, graduate student, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

10:00am – 11:00am

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Nanoscopy with Focused Light

Stefan Hell, scientific member of the Max Planck Society and a director, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Quantum Criticality: From Antiferromagnets to the Cuprate Superconductors

Subir Sachdev, professor of physics, Harvard University,

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Annenberg 105

Photonic Non-equilibrium Quantum Transport in a Nonlinear Medium

Mohammad Hafezi, postdoctoral scholar, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Research on a New Generation of Optoelectronic Devices

Amnon Yariv, Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering, Caltech,

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Annenberg 107

Topological Quantum Order: Stability Under Local Perturbations

Spiros Michalakis, postdoctoral scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Annenberg 105

Quantum Electromechanics and Optomechanics of Tunneling Systems

Aashish Clerk, professor of physics, McGill University,