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2007 Seminar Programme


Date Speaker Title Abstract
Monday 19 February Prof. Tony Wilson
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford		 Making light work in microscopy
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Wednesday 7 March Prof. Yasushi Koyama
Faculty of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan		 The Natural Selection of Configurations and Conjugation Lengths in Carotenoids Bound to the Antenna and Reaction Center Complexes
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Friday 23 March Dr. Chris Vale
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology		 Bose-Einstein Condensates in Combined Optical and Magnetic Potentials
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Wednesday 28 March Dr. Murray Olsen
Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, University of Queensland		 Quantum Statistics of Atom Laser: Measurement, Entanglement and Teleportation
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Tuesday 17 April Annabel Alexander
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University		 Investigating Quantum Information Storage Using Reversible Inhomogeneous Broadening in Rare Earth Ion Doped Materials
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Wednesday 9 May Dr Ken Baldwin
ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, The Australian National University		 A Tale of Two Heliums: Triplet and Singlet States for Atom Optics and Precision Measurement
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Friday 11 May E.A. Hinds
Royal Society Research Professor, Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College, London, UK		 Probing the Electron EDM with Cold Molecules
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Friday 1 June Dr Jing-Liang Li
Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology.		 Application of Biofunctional Gold Nanoparticles in Cancer Targeting and Therapy
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Friday 15 June Dr Zeev Bomzon
Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology.		 Mixing Physics and Biology: Can the Art of Simplification Help to Unravel the Complexities of Life and Provide a Better Understanding of Life and Provide a Better Understanding of Cancer?
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Tuesday 3 July Prof Robert W. Boyd
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA.		 Controlling the Velocity of Light: Fundamentals and Applications
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Thursday 19 July Prof Barry R. Masters
Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.		 Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET): from Experiments to Modern Theories
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Friday 21 September Prof David N. Jamieson
School of Physics, University of Melbourne		 On the Path to Building the World’s First Silicon-Based Quantum Computer: Control of Electron States on Single Phosphorus Atoms
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Friday 5 October Dr Christopher Ticknor
CAOUS		 On Scattering of Ground State Polar Molecules
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Friday 19 October Prof Warrick Couch
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology		 The Accelerating Universe, Galaxy Evolution and ELTs
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Wednesday 24 October Dr Ying Chen
ARC Centre of Excellence in Functional Nanomaterials, Australian National University		 Synthesis and Optical Properties of Boron Nitride Nanotubes, Nanowires and Nanorods
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Friday 9 November Dr Michael Murphy
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology		 High-Precision Calibration of Astronomical Spectrographs with Laser Frequency Combs
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Tuesday 20 November Dr Taras Plakhotnik
School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland 		Future is Brilliant
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Friday 23 November Dr Annelene Dethlefsen
CAOUS		 Raman Spectroscopy on Tunable GaAs Double Quantum Wells and Wires
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Monday 26 November Prof Alain Aspect
Institut d'Optique, France		 Wave Particle-Duality with a Single Photon: the Delayed Choice Gedanken Experiment - at last a Real Experiment
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Friday 30 November Prof Eugene Polzik
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University		 Massive Entangled State Engineering and Control of Cold Atoms
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Tuesday 11 December Professor Xue-Hua Wang
School of Physics & Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, People’s Republic of China 		Novel Quantum Optics Phenomena and Quantum Entanglement in Nano-Structures
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