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2006 Seminar Programme


Date Speaker Title Abstract
Thursday 2 February Prof. William Phillips
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA		 A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics
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Wednesday 15 February Assoc. Prof. Alessandro Martucci
The University of Padua, Italy		 Sol-gel nanocomposite films as gas sensing and active optical materials
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Tuesday 21 February Prof. Byoungho Lee
School of EE, Seoul National University, Korea		 Analysis, Synthesis and Applications of Diffractive Optics
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Thursday 23 February Assoc. Prof. Timothy Roach
College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA		 Manipulation of cold atom clouds: gravitational effects & magnetic media
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Friday 17 March Dr. Chris Vale
Department of Physics, University of Queensland		 Interfering Atom Lasers
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Monday 20 March Dr Steve Morgan
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham		 Optical Imaging and Characterisation of Tissue
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Friday 31 March Dr. Andrew Greentree
School of Physics, The University of Melbourne		 Adiabatic Passage through Space: Robust coherent transport in solid-state systems
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Thursday 6 April Dr. Martin J. Booth
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK		 Adaptive optics for microscopy, optical data storage and micromachining
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Friday 12 May Prof. Greg Hartland
University of Notre Dam, Indiana, USA		 How do the Size, Shape and Crystal Structure of Materials affect their Mechanical Properties
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Friday 26 May Dr Michael Volk
Institute of Quantum Optics, University of Hannover, Germany and CAOUS, Swinburne University of Technology		 Neutral Atoms for Quantum Information Processing
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Friday 30 June Shannon Whitlock
CAOUS, Swinburne University of Technology		 Bose-Einstein Condensates on a Magnetic Film Atom Chip
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Friday 7 July Mark Tobin
Infrared Beamline Scientist, Australian Synchrotron Project		 Infrared Microspectroscopy at the Australian Synchrotron
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Wednesday 2 August Dr Peter Krug
Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada		 A Self Adjusting Gain Equaliser for WDM Communications
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Friday 1 September Craig Bullen
CMP, Swinburne University of Technology		 The Real Chemistry of Artificial Atoms: recent progress in the chemistry of semiconductor nanocrystals
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Friday 15 September Dr David Kielpinski
Griffith University, Brisbane		 Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions
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Friday 15 September Dr. Kyongsik Choi
CMP, Swinburne University of Technology		 Diffractive Optics for 3D Display and Surface Plasmon Resonance Excitation
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Wednesday 20 September Dr Joel Corney
ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, The University of Queensland		 Simulating Ultracold Bosons and Fermions with Quantum Phase-Space Methods
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Friday 29 September Dr. Adel Rahmani
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Macquarie University		 Near-field Optics of Photonic Crystal Microcavities
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Friday 13 October Dr Maximillian Schlosshauer
The University of Queensland, Brisbane		 Schrödinger-Cat States and Decoherence in Quantum-Electromechanical Systems
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Thursday 26 October Professor Hans A Bachor
ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Australian National University, Canberra		 Spatial Quantum Optics - Towards Super Resolution and Einstein Podolsky Rosen Entanglement
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Wednesday 13 December Professor John Hall
JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA		 The Optical Frequency Comb – Tool of Many Uses
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