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2013 Seminar Programme


Date Speaker Title Abstract
Friday 8 February

Dr Nil Rotenberg
FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Controlling Plasmonic Coupling with Geometry
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Friday 22 February Dr Ben Mashford
Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Colloidal Quantum-Dot Light-Emitting Technologies
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Friday 1 March Prof. David J. Moss
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
CMOS Compatible All-Optical Photonic Integrated Circuits
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Friday 8 March Dr Naoyuki Sakumichi
Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Criteria of Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order in Bose and Fermi Systems Based on the Lee-Yang Cluster Expansion Method
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Tuesday 12 March Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
Dipole Organization and Membrane Biophysics: a Tale of Two Studies
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Friday 22 March Dr Ba Khuong Dinh
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Phase-Matched High Order Harmonic Generation and Applications
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Friday 19 April Dr Ivan Herrera
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
A Multi-state Interferometer and Dynamical Quantum Zeno Effect on Atom Chip
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Friday 31 May Prof. Alister Graham
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Astronomy at Swinburne in the Media
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Tuesday 18 June A/Prof. Han Pu
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, China
Adventures in the Ultracold World
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Friday 26 July Prof. Chang-Pu Sun
Beijing Computational Science Research Centre and Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Waveguide QED: Multichannel Interference for Fano-Feshbach Resonance
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Friday 9 August A/Prof. Irina Novikova
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Cool quantum optics with hot Rb atoms
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Friday 23 August Prof. Qijin Chen
Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Exotic Pairing in Strongly Interacting Ultracold Fermi Gases at High Densitiesy
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Friday 23 August Prof. Oleg Sushkov
School of Physics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney

Topological Insulating States in Laterally Patterned Ordinary Semiconductors

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Thursday 5 September Dr Shannon Whitlock
Physics Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Shining Light on Excited Atoms
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Wednesday 18 September Prof. Dan Li
Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne
Graphene-based Functional Soft Materials
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Friday 20 September Prof. Saulius Juodkazis
Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Light-field Enhancement at the Nanoscale for Sensing
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Friday 18 October A/Prof. Wei Zhang
Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Exotic Pairing States in Two-dimensional Fermi Gases with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling
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Friday 1 November Dr Lincoln Turner
School of Physics, Monash University, Melbourne
Scalar, Vector and Tensor Interfaces between Light and Ultracold Spins
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Friday 15 November Prof. John Love
Physics Education Centre, ANU, Canberra, Australia
Mode-Selective Couplers for Few-Mode Optical Fibre Transmission Systems
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Thursday 28 November Prof. Paul Curmi
School of Physics University of New South Wales, Sydney
Evolution of Algal Light Harvesting Proteins & the Emergence of Coherent Beats: Does Quantum Mechanics Play a Role in Biology?
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Friday 29 November A/Prof. Andrew D. Greentree
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Progress with Adiabatic Passage for Quantum Transport
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Friday 6 December Dr Alexey Akimov
Russian Quantum Centre, Skolkovo, Moscow
Laser Cooling of Tm Atoms
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Wednesday 11 December Dr Andrea M Armani
Mork Family Dept of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California, USA
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Integrated Photonics
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Monday 16 December Dr Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic
School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Fluorescent Nanoparticles for Biosensing Applications
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