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Abstract | |
| Friday 11 January | |
Professor Nam Kim
Chungbuk National University, Korea | |
Applications of Holographic Optical Elements using Photopolymer Materials | |
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| Tuesday 29 January | |
Assoc Prof Min Qiu
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden | |
Nanophotonics: Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, Silicon Photonics and Optical Metamaterials | |
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| Monday 18 February | |
Professor Tony Wilson
Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, UK | |
Making Light Work in Microscopy | |
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| Friday 22 February | |
Saeed Ghanbari
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy,
Swinburne University of Technology | |
Superfluid to Mott Insulator Quantum Phase Transition in a Permanent Magnetic Lattice | |
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| Friday 7 March | |
Dr Dario Buso
Centre for Micro-Photonics,
Swinburne University of Technology | |
Sol-Gel Films Containing Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles in Gas Sensin | |
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| Tuesday 11 March | |
Professor Heinrich Hora
School of Physics, University of New South Wales | |
The Option of Fusion Energy by Lasers | |
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| Wednesday 2 April | |
Dr Síle Nic Chormaic
Tyndall National Institute,
University College Cork, Ireland | |
Micro-tapered Fibres: From Applied Optics to Cold Atoms Studies |
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| Friday 16 May | |
Dr Andy Martin
University of Melbourne | |
Vortex Lattice Formation in Rotating Conventional and Dipolar Dilute Gas Bose-Einstein condensates |
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| Thursday 22 May | |
Prof Hans Bachor
ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics,
The Australian National University, Canberra
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Entangling Laser Beams - Present Results and Future Ideas
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| Friday 30 May |
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Dr Edward Botcherby
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford,
UK |
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Aberration Free Refocusing for
High Numerical Aperture Systems
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Friday 13 June |
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A/Prof Robert Scholten
School of Physics, University of Melbourne |
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Electrons from Ultracold Atoms: a New Source for Diffractive
Imaging of Biomolecules
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Friday 27 June |
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Dr Lincoln Turner
School of Physics, Monash University |
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Ultraprecise Magnetometry with Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
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Friday 11 July |
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Dr Joel Van Embden
Centre for Micro-Photonics,
Swinburne University of Technology |
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Synthesis and Optical Properties of CdSe Core and Core/Shell
Semiconductor Nanocrystals
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Friday 8 August |
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Prof Tien Kieu
School of Physics, University of Melbourne &
The Portland House Research Group
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A Random Walk in Econophysics
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Wednesday 13 August |
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Prof Hyatt M. Gibbs
College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA
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Semiconductor Cavity QED
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Wednesday 27 August |
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Dr Dmitri K. Gramotnev
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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Optics on the Nano-scale: a New Realm for Surface Physics, Signal Processing and Sensing
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Tuesday 16 September |
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Dr Rainer Heintzmann
King's College, London, UK
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Interferometric Resolution and Efficiency Enhancement for
Scanning Fluorescence Microscopes
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Monday 27 October |
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A/Prof Andrew C. Wilson
Quantum Science & Technology
Physics Department, University of Otago, NZ
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Death at the Band Edge - where Degenerate Bose Gases Degenerate
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Thursday 30 October |
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Prof Chunlei Du
Microoptics Research Group,
Institute of Optics and Electronics,Chinese Academic of Sciences,
China
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Research Activities for Micro/nano Optics in the Laboratory
of Chengdu, China
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Monday 24 November |
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Prof Howard Carmichael
University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Quantum Teleportation of Light and the Laser Quantum State
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Wednesday 10 December |
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Prof Alain Aspect
Institut d’Optique,Campus Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
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Anderson Localization of Matter-Waves
in a Controlled Disorder: a Quantum Simulator? |
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Friday 12 December |
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Dr John McFerran
Frequency Standards and Metrology Group, University of Western Australia
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An Astro-Comb Based on a Harmonically Mode-locked Fibre-Laser
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