ME Seminar

House Kapitza Seminar Room, Room 16 Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms

User Rob Smith, AMOP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle?

User Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU München.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Exoplanet Science, the way forward

User Professor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies in the first billion years: probing cosmic dawn

User Pratika Dayal (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Supersymmetric quantum mechanics on vortex moduli spaces

User Nuno Romao (Bonn).

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Claude Duhr, ITP Zuerich.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

House Rutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Some Experiences in Designing SKA-related Sites and Instruments: Engineers, Radio Astronomers and Construction Teams

User Howard Reader (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Dark matter with an asymmetric origin

User James Unwin (Oxford University).

Friday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Mesenchymal stem cell response to nanotopographical features

User Matthew Dalby (Univ Glasgow).

Friday 03 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Complex molecules on surfaces: Synchrotron radiation, scanning probe and in situ electrospray deposition

User James O'Shea, School of Physics, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime

User Dr Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six

On twitter @closefrank

User Professor Frank Close, Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England .

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Fermi surface determination using positron annihilation

User Stephen Dugdale, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 11:15-12:15

(NN)PDFs for the LHC

User Maria Ubiali (Aachen).

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scanning gate microscopy: local mapping of functionality of graphene devices

User Dr Vischal Panchal, NPL, University of London.

Monday 29 April 2013, 14:00-15:15

House MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Abelian and non-Abelian discrete symmetries in models of flavour

User Christoph Luhn (IPPP).

Friday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Patchy colloids: a simple model for complex fluids

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Implementation of viscoelastic Hopkinson bars and their application to the testing of soft materials

User Richard Curry, BISRU, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Vortices and the BKT transition in regions of competing order

User Dr Sam Carr, Kent University.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 14:15-15:45

A single ion in the focus of a parabolic mirror - Building block towards efficient free-space light-matter interaction

User Robert Maiwald (Max Planck Institute).

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 09:30-10:30

Fracture mechanics, quantum mechanics and fractal geometry applied to brittle materials

User Jack Mecholsky, Department of Materials Science, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chemotaxome – A new member with complex biological entities in systems biology.

User Kohidai, Laszlo MD, PhD, Med.Habil. Cell Biology, Assoc. Professor Chemotaxis Research Group – SRI Core Facility Department of Genetics, Cell- & Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Friday 12 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Frequency stabilization of a titanium-sapphire laser and improvement of qubits based on Ca+-ions

User Tobias Macha (University of Mainz).

Thursday 11 April 2013, 10:00-11:30

Stressing Out Cells: flow-induced migration of endothelial cells and cell adhesion on hydrogels

User Prof Gerry Fuller, University of Stanford.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

House Potter Room, CMS, Pav.B, First Floor Common Room (B1.19).

Using Jet Substructure in High Multiplicity Searches

User Jacob Wacker (SLAC, Stanford).

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

House Microelectronics Research Centre (MRC) Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Large N-heteroacenes, synthesis and properties

User Prof. Dr. Uwe Bunz, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!

User Dr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

Monday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Towards a quantitative analysis of core-level and valence photoemission spectra of dye-sensitized solar cell interfaces

User Dr Feliciano Giustino (University of Oxford).

Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Anharmonicity in periodic systems

User Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 11:40-12:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Magnetic Properties of the Spin Chain Antiferromagnet Ca3Co2O6

User Martin Lees, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager: Studying Clusters of Galaxies using the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

User Michel Schammel (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Recent progress and open questions in G2-geometry

User Mark Haskins (Imperial College).

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Jet Vetoes and Azimuthal Decorrelation at ATLAS

User James Robinson (Manchester).

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

From Perovskites to Nanotubes: Novel Materials for High Performance Solar Cells

User Dr Sam Stranks, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

BCJ duality, the double copy and the soft limit

User Chris White (University of Glasgow).

Friday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

H-projective geometry and Kahler metrics of high degree of mobility.

User Stefan Rosemann (Jena).

Thursday 07 March 2013, 17:45-18:30

Some Spacetimes with Higher Rank Killing-Stackel Tensors.

User Tsuyoshi Houri (DAMTP).

Thursday 07 March 2013, 17:00-17:45

Webs, differential equations and Einstein-Weyl structures.

User Wojciech Krynski (DAMTP).

Thursday 07 March 2013, 16:15-17:00

A day in the life of a patent attorney

User John Addiss, Mewburn Ellis LLP.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Holonomy reduction for split-signature conformal 4-manifolds

User Thomas Mettler (DAMTP).

Thursday 07 March 2013, 15:00-15:45

Is the theory of neutral evolution right?

User Thomas Fink, CNRS / LIMS.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Twistor geometry of a pair of second order ODEs.

User Stephen Casey (DAMTP).

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:15-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Fictitious spin waves in a frustrated classical antiferromagnet

User Stefan Schnabel, University of Leipzig.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

Exploring the Dawn of Cosmic Structure with the 21cm Line

*** Seminar CANCELLED, to be rescheduled for a later date ***

User Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial College, London).

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Universal formulae in Lie algebras and Chern-Simons theory

User Sasha Veselov (Loughborough) .

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Rare B decays at LHCb

User Tom Blake (CERN).

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 15:00-16:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Terahertz radiation from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 interlayer Josephson junctions: Progress and future strategies.

User Tim Benseman, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A..

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ON THE PHOTON ENERGY AND FIELD-DEPENDENCE OF CHARGE GENERATION AND EXTRACTION IN POLYMER-BASED SOLAR CELLS

User Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 10:00-11:00

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Strong electroweak symmetry breaking

User Anna Kaminska (DESY-Oxford).

Friday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Extreme Mechanics of Marginal Matter

User Martin van Hecke, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden.

Friday 01 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Fluid-structure interaction in underwater blast

User Andreas Schiffer, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tailoring properties of complex oxides, one atomic layer at a time

User Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Helical correlations and unbroken symmetry in FCC-stacked triangular Ising antiferromagnets

User Dr Fiona Burnell (All Souls, Oxford).

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

"Fundamental BioPhotonics"

User Sylvie Roke École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Institute of Bio-engineering (IBI), School of Engineering (STI), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Lawlessness in low dimensions: Violations of laws, limits and symmetries in quasi-one-dimensional Li0.9Mo6O17

User Nigel Hussey, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 12:15-13:15

How can energies be aligned in ab initio electronic transport calculations?

User Robert Bell (TCM).

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:40-12:00

LOFAR Capabilities and Early Results

User Michiel Brenjens (ASTRON).

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Null Geodesics and the Generalisation of the Optical Metric

User Stephen Casey (DAMTP).

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

(NN)PDFs for the LHC

User Maria Ubiali (Aachen).

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

The Evolution of GPU Accelerated Computing

*** Special Seminar ***

User Steve Scott (Chief Technology Officer for Tesla at NVIDIA).

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Sustainability and Architecture

User Prof Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture.

Monday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Higgs physics at hadron colliders

User Julien Baglio (Karlsruhe ITP).

Friday 22 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Polymer and hybrid nanostructures for applications in organic solar cells investigated with advanced x-ray techniques

User Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technische Universität München ).

Friday 22 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Pipe dreams

User Matt Causier, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Special Seminar: Threshold Resummation in QCD vs SCET

Please note unusual date

User Giovanni Ridolfi, INFN.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Entanglement spectra: A novel spectroscopic tool to investigate quantum many body wave functions

User Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Universität Innsbruck.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs Boson

User Professor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Observation of a distinct surface molecular orientation in films of a high mobility conjugated polymer

User Dr. Chris McNeill, Monash University, Australia.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

House TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Spin-resolved momentum densities: What we can learn from magnetic Compton scattering.

User Jonathan Duffy, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 11:15-12:15

Searching for a Gravitational Wave Background using Pulsar Timing Arrays

User Lindley Lentati (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-17:30

The Faint Source Population at 15.7 GHz

User Imogen Whittam (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:30-17:00

Asymptotic safety in the f(R) approximation

User Tim Morris (Southampton).

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma - recent results from ALICE at the LHC

User Prof. David Evans (Birmingham).

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Charge separation in bulk heterojunctions

User Dr. Martijn Kemerink, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Graphene: one, no one and one hundred thousand

User Saverio Russo (University of Exeter).

Monday 18 February 2013, 15:30-17:00

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

keV Neutrino Model Building

User Alex Merle (University of Southampton).

Friday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Physics of Novel Materials

User Dr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Nano-optics of complex media

User R. Sapienza, King's College London.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

The working of ductile metals and the doctrine of maximum entropy

User Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach

User Gertud Zwicknagl, University of Braunschweig.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach

User Dr Gertrud Zwicknagl, TU Braunschweig.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Coherent control of Rydberg atoms in thermal vapor cells

User Daniel Barredo (Universitat Stuttgart).

Thursday 14 February 2013, 10:00-11:30

Quantum computing with error prone components joined by a 'noisy network'

User Simon Benjamin (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:30

Charge transfer in carbon nanotubes?

User Robert Bell.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:10-12:30

Nonequilibrium dynamics in the Hubbard model

User Michael Moeckel (Chem).

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 11:30-12:10

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Electronic Structure of LuRh2Si2: ”Small“ Fermi Surface Reference of YbRh2Si2

User Sven Friedemann, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 11:15-12:15

Beyond the fundamental group

User Philip Boalch (Paris).

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Coherence between singlet and triplet spin states in a coupled quantum dot

User Jeroen Elzerman (UCL).

Monday 11 February 2013, 15:30-17:00

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Fitting the Fermi line with neutralino dark matter

User Christopher McCabe (IPPP).

Friday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Euler's elasticas and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibers

User Prof Helmut Schiessel (Leiden).

Friday 08 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Recent perspectives in the science of granular matter

User Rafi Blumenfeld, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Topological Insulators

User Dr Jonathan Edge, Leiden University.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 14:15-15:45

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility

User Professor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Controlling the magnetic state with electricity

User Dr Andrew Ferguson, Microelectronics, Cavendsh Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Fluctuation-induced pair density wave in itinerant ferromagnets

User Gareth Conduit, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Superconducting Spintronics: a tantalizing possibility for dissipation-free logic

User Dr Jason Robinson, Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Soliton models with SDiff symmetry

User Andrzej Wereszczynski (Krakow).

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Non-radiative processes in organic semiconductors"

User Dr Jenny Clark, Optoelectronics, Cavendish.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title: Optical IR investigation and control of molecular nanosystems

User Dr Artem Bakulin, FOM Institute AMOLF.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Non-radiative processes in organic semiconductors"

User Dr Jenny Clark, Optoelectronics, Cavendish.

Monday 04 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Higgs Boson self-coupling measurements at the LHC

User Andreas Papaefstathiou (University of Zurich).

Friday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Observations of a mathematician running a wet-lab: decades of pharmacology, MICs, efflux pumps, drug interactions and antibiotic resistance in the context of models and genomics

User Prof Robert Beardmore (Exeter University).

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Nuclear quantum effects, path integrals and coloured noise

User Michele Ceriotti, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Quantum limited transport in ultracold atomic gases

User Tilman Enss, TU München.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

House TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Visualization of Novel Electronic Structures in Topological Quantum Matter

User Yulin Chen, Physics Department, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:15-12:15

Machine learning for predictive condensed-phase quantum chemistry: clusters, ice and liquid water

User Gabor Csanyi (Engineering).

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:00-12:00

The European Extremely Large Telescope

User Jason Spyromilio (ESO, Garching).

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

The supersymmetric nuts and bolts of holography

User Dario Martelli (Kings College London).

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Taming light -matter interaction on the nanometer scale

User Dr Romain Quidant (ICFO-Barcelona).

Monday 28 January 2013, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Hard Jets and Higgs Bosons

User Jeppe Andersen (University of Durham).

Friday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Molecular bionics: copying Nature to control Nature

User Prof Beppe Battaglia (University of Sheffield).

Friday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Exact Density-Functional Potentials for Time-Dependent Quasiparticles

User Rex Godby, University of York.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

User Prof Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

House TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Fermi surface and superconductivity in URhGe and other nonsymmorphic crystals

User Ed Yelland, University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:15-12:15

Herschel Observations of Dust, Star Formation and Dark Matter from z=0 to z=5

User Steve Eales (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Cardiff).

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Gravitational Instantons and charged particles

User Guido Franchetti (DAMTP).

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Detector challenges at CLIC, contrasted with the LHC case

User Erik van der Kraaij (CERN).

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Loss mechanisms in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells

User PD Dr. Carsten Deibel, Experimental Physics VI, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg Am Hubland, Germany .

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Improving industrial energy efficiency through technology, process and behaviour innovation - policy applications of research

User Niall Mackenzie, DECC.

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Diffusion experiments of a metter wave on a finite size optical lattice

User Pierrick Cheiney (Toulouse).

Monday 21 January 2013, 15:30-17:00

Leverhulme Lecture: The translocation of polymers across nanometer sized pores in membranes

User Prof Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern University).

Friday 18 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Understanding 3HeSE measurements of pentacene surface diffusion via computer simulation

User Paul Rotter, Department of Physics, University of Marburg, Germany.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Superfluid behaviour of a two dimensional Bose gas

User Christof Weitenberg (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel-CNRS).

Monday 10 December 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Electronic Impurity Doping of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals

User Prof. David J. Norris, Optical Materials Engineering Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Friday 07 December 2012, 14:30-15:30

Quantum chemistry and cold atoms: insights into magnetism

User Pascal Bugnion (TCM Group).

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:40-12:00

Orbital dependent backflow transformations

User Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM Group).

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-11:40

High order harmonic generation and the control of quantum paths

User Amelle Zair (Imperial College, London).

Monday 03 December 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Strain engineering of electronic correlations in graphene

User Dr Lucian Covaci, University of Antwerp.

Monday 03 December 2012, 14:15-15:15

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK.

Friday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Parton distributions with LHC data

User Nathan Hartland (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 29 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Monte Carlo Modeling of π-bonded Transition-metal Organometallics

User Prof Ivan Stich,Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

New observations in flavour physics and their implications Beyond the Standard Model

User Dr Marc-Olivier Bettler, HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sparse Sampling of Sky

User Paniez Paykari (CEA-Saclay, Paris).

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Twistor approach to string compactifications

User Sergei Alexandrov (Montpellier).

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Signatures of Naturalness at the LHC

User Franceso Riva, IFAE Barcelona and EPF Lausanne.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Intersubband polaritons in photonic crystal cavities

User Simone Zanotto, Scuola Normale Superiore.

Monday 26 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

How One Cell Eats Another - Physical Principles in Phagocytosis

User Dr Robert Endres, University College London, UK.

Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

X-rays and light from diffuse mechanical energy

User Jonathan Hird, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Lepton Flavour and Number Violation in Left-Right Symmetric Models

User Frank Deppisch (UCL).

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory.

Fluctuation-induced pair density wave in itinerant ferromagnets

User Prof Andrew Green, UCL.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:15-15:45

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physics

User Professor Mike Hobson, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Some ideas about QMC and molecular dynamics

User Mike Towler (TCM Group).

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Initial New Domain Structures: Statics and Dynamics

User Prof. J. M. Gregg, Queens University, Belfast.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:15-12:15

Bayesian reconstruction of free energy profiles from umbrella samples

User Thomas Stecher (Engineering).

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

Weighing Supermassive Black Holes from Zero to High Redshift

*** Note change of time

User Alessandro Marconi (University of Florence, Italy).

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 10:30-11:30

Loop quantum gravity, twisted geometries and twistors

User Simone Speziale (Marseille).

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Multivariate Visualisation and Searches for Lepton Jets at CMS

User Benjamin Radburn-Smith (RAL).

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Social Fluids

User Professor Matthew Turner, University of Warwick, UK.

Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

From babbling brooks to boiling kettles

User Alan Walton, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Jet quenching in the light of perturbative QCD

User Korinna Zapp (CERN).

Thursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation

User Vladimir M. Stojanovic, University of Basel.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Committee Room 213, Cavendish Laboratory.

Finite Volume Methods for Wave Propagation in Elastic and Poroelastic Materials

User Randall J LeVeque, Applied Mathematics Dept, University of Washington.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 15:00-17:00

Submm and cm-Wavelength Emission Lines as Probes of Massive Galaxy Formation at High-Redshift

User Jeff Wagg (ESO Chile).

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Solitons from geometry

User Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Jet Origins and Structure for New Physics Searches with ATLAS

User Zach Marshall (CERN).

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?

User Dr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School.

Monday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Controlled emission of single-electron wavepackets in solid-state circuits

User Dr Jonathan Fletcher (National Physical Laboratory).

Monday 12 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Influence of the Glass Transition on the Liquid-gas Spinodal Decomposition

User Professor Walter Kob, Universite Montpellier 2, France.

Friday 09 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

The use of H atom band structures in the first principles determination of H atom surface diffusion

User John Ellis, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Phenomenology of vector-like quarks

User Luca Panizzi (University of Southampton).

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Random-matrix theory of topological states of matter

User Prof Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:15-15:45

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

“Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?”

User Professor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Van der waals interactions in acenes and C60

User Alston Misquitta (Queen Mary).

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

Redox active species in liquid water compared to charged defects in solid oxides

User Michiel Sprik (Chemistry).

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

Measuring Distances in the Universe with Strong Gravitational Lenses

User Phil Marshall (Department of Physics, University of Oxford).

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Dispersionless integrable systems in 3D and Einstein-Weyl geometry

User Jenya Ferapontov (Loughborough).

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Measuring the Top Quark Mass at the LHC with Applications to New Physics

User Benjamin Nachman (DAMPT).

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Coherent control of dense Rydberg gases

User Tilman Pfau (University of Stuttgart).

Monday 05 November 2012, 15:30-17:00

Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields

User Professor Stefan Egelhaaf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Friday 02 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Unusual phase diagrams in ferroelectric crystals

User Jim Scott, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations

User Dr Dimitry Kovrizhin, Imperial College London.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Chile – A great place for work and play

Additional AP Seminar

User Prof. Richard Hills.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

"Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics"

User Professor Duncan Steel, The Robert J. Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Application of the Focused Ion Beam to Transport Measurements under High Pressure

User Jakob Kanter, ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 11:15-12:15

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Uncertainties of electron/positron cosmic ray fluxes

Note unusual time

User Csaba Balasz (Monash University).

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

The Brightest Lensed Sub-mm Galaxies, as seen by ALMA and HST

User Matthew Bothwell (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

User Prof. Elad Harel, Department of Chemistry: Northwestern University (USA)..

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

Future High Energy Electron-Proton Scattering: The LHeC Project

User Paul Newman (Birmingham).

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Dynamical Monte Carlo Modelling of OLEDs

User Prof. Alison Walker, Department of Physics, University of Bath, UK.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Formation of solution-processed organic semiconductor thin films for electronic and photovoltaic applications

User Prof. Aram Amassian, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (OEPV) Lab, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Entangled states of trapped ions for quantum simulations and quantum logic spectroscopy

User Christian Roos (Institut fur Quantenoptik, Innsbruck).

Monday 29 October 2012, 15:30-17:00

Bioactive glasses and their hybrids as scaffolds for regenerative medicine

User Dr Julian Jones, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK.

Friday 26 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Quantum effects in surface diffusion and scattering

User Eliza McIntosh, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Lie-point symmetries and their application to model building

User Damien George (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Dark Side of the Universe: Enlightenment Through Gamma-Rays

Additional AP Seminar

User Andi Hektor (CERN).

Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

Superfluid Helium-3 in Confined Geometry

User Lev Levitin (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

The challenge of nanotechnology

User Mike Payne (TCM Group).

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:40-11:50

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

User Jason Lashley, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:15-12:15

Cold atoms unspun

User Gareth Conduit (TCM Group).

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:00-11:40

Back to Normal – Box-Cox Transformations in Cosmology

User Benjamin Joachimi (Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh).

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Instability of extreme black holes

User Harvey Reall (DAMTP).

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions

User Prof. Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

“Fast controlled single-electron transport in a quantum dot electron pump”

User Dr Stephen Giblin National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK.

Monday 22 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Coarse-grained modelling of DNA for biophysics and nanotechnology

User Dr Ard Louis, Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK.

Friday 19 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

NLO+PS matching and multijet merging at NLO

User Marek Schoenherr (Durham University).

Thursday 18 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Kapitza Seminar Room, Room 16 Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Silk, the bio-nanocomposite: Findings from high-speed impact

User Dan Drodge, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford .

Thursday 18 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Testing the Dark Energy Paradigm and Beyond

User Ofer Lahav (Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University College, London).

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Conformal gravity and twistor-string theory

User Timothy Adamo (Oxford).

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Flavour on the lattice

User Matthew Wingate, DAMTP.

House Small Lecture Theater.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

az302's list

Dynamic arrest in polymer gels

User Johan Mattsson, Soft Matter Physics Group School of Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds.

Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Hitting a Natural Higgs in SUSY

User Chris Wymant (Durham).

Thursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Biological materials and mechanics: An overview

User Marc Meyers, University of California at San Diego.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

The many structures of foams

User Denis Weaire FRS, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays”

User Professor Malcolm Longair ( Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge).

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

A Flight of Adaptive Optics; EAGLE, CANARY and CHOUGH

User Nazim Ali Bharmal (Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, University of Durham).

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Vortices terminated by Monopoles

User Daniele Dorigoni (DAMTP).

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Shedding light on Dark Matter at CMS using monojets

User Sarah Alam Malik.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

The angular momentum controversy: what's it all about and does it matter?

User Elliot Leader (Imperial College London).

Thursday 04 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Few-fermion quantum systems: How may are many?

User Selim Jochim (Heidelberg University).

Monday 01 October 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Driving Force and Dielectric Constants: What Quantum Dot Acceptors Can Teach Us About Organic Solar Cell Performance

User Prof. David Ginger, University of Washington, USA.

Thursday 27 September 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Nanostructured solar cells

User Prof. Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Wednesday 26 September 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Rational Build-up of Structural Complexity in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanostructures

User Prof. Yinthai Chan, National University of Singapore.

Tuesday 25 September 2012, 14:30-15:30

Climate finance: barriers and opportunities

User Dr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University.

All Cavendish Laboratory Seminars

Monday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronic Processes in Organic Materials

User Prof Neil Greenham (University of Cambridge).

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 20 September 2012, 10:30-16:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Engineering quantum coherence in the integer quantum Hall effect

User Dr Phuong-Anh Huynh - Solid State Physics Laboratory (SPEC), Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Saclay, France.

Monday 10 September 2012, 14:15-15:15

gc121's list

Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications

User Dr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory).

House TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 03 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Carlo Beenakker.

Thursday 16 August 2012, 14:15-15:45

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Magnetic versus dielectric pairing in cuprate superconductors

User Jeff Tallon,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Wednesday 15 August 2012, 11:15-12:15

TBA

User Jenya Ferapontov (Loughborough).

Saturday 28 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

What scientists can do for sustainability that CEOs and Ministers can't

User Matthew Brown.

Monday 23 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Expanding the topological insulator horizon

User Nicholas P. Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.

Wednesday 18 July 2012, 11:15-12:15

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Nanoparticle-based electrodes for sustainable energy

User Dr Scott Warren, Northwestern University.

Tuesday 17 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Data Modelling With Neural Networks (II): Content-Addressable Memories And State-Of-The-Art Error-Correcting Codes

Last Lecture!

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 16 July 2012, 14:30-16:30

"A Practical Description of Spinning Dust Emission” "CARMA Observations of AME in Perseus”

*** Special Seminar ***

User Matthew Stevenson and Jackie Villadsen (CALTECH).

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 16:30-17:30

Early Science with the Murchison Widefield Array

*** Special Seminar ***

User Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR, Australia).

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 11:30-17:30

Einasto-Like Profile from Finite Temperature Scalar Field Dark Matter

*** Special Seminar ***

User Tonatiuh Matos (CINVESTAV, Instituto Politecnico National, Mexico).

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 16:30-17:30

House Rutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

"MMICs and QUIET" "Update on C-BASS"

*** Special Seminar ***

User Tony Readhead and Tim Pearson (CALTECH).

Monday 09 July 2012, 16:30-17:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Approximating Probability Distributions (IV): Variational Methods

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 09 July 2012, 14:30-16:30

The limits to energy and material efficiency

User Jonathan Cullen.

Monday 02 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Excited State NonAdiabatic Molecular Dynamics in dendrimers: crossings, energy funneling and state-specific vibrations

User Prof. Sebastian Fernandez-Alberti, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina.

Thursday 28 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

Bragg spectroscopy of a strongly interacting fermi gas

User Peter Hannaford (Swinburne University, Australia).

Thursday 28 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Multi-scale modelling of organic photovoltaic materials: from molecules to devices

User Prof. Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, London.

Tuesday 26 June 2012, 14:30-15:30

Optical control of two quantum dots

User Daniel Gammon (Naval Research Lab).

Monday 25 June 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 25 June 2012, 14:30-17:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Creative Mind and Physical Reality

Video now available at http://youtu.be/6FdLOIc6bvM

User Prof. Brian Josephson, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House Old Combination Room, Trinity College.

Friday 22 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

“A New Way To See It”: Volunteering in Central Africa

User Eloy de Lera Acedo.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors

User Anton Akhmerov, University of Leiden.

Monday 18 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

How low can SUSY go? Matching, monojets and compressed spectra.

User Jamie Tattersall (Bonn).

Thursday 14 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Dynamics of quantum thermalization

User Alexander Altland, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Cologne, Germany.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 14:15-15:45

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Noise and signal integration in cell cycle control

User Dr Stefano Di Talia, Princeton University.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Emergent chirality in charge ordered materials

User Jasper van Wezel, Argonne.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 11:15-12:15

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Probing Structure and Mechanics: from Nanoscopic Virus Squeezers up to Cell/System-Sized Beds of Nails

User Dr Wouter Roos, Natuur- en Sterrenkunde and LaserLab, Vrije Universiteit, De.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

The Physics of Bacterial Biofilms

User Dr Knut Drescher, Princeton University.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 09:00-10:00

Reconstruction of the Dark Energy Equation of State and the Primordial Power Spectrum P(k)

User Jose Vazquez (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Approximating Probability Distributions (I)-(II): Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference

Two lectures!

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 11 June 2012, 14:30-17:00

QCD phenomenology in (Quasi) Multi-Regge kinematics

User Clara Salas (IFT, Madrid).

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Heavy atom diffraction in scattering from surfaces

User Eli Pollak, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Status and Outlook of Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments: Evidence of Nonabelions?

User Steven H Simon, Oxford University.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Colorons at the LHC

User Edwin Stansfield (Cambridge).

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Chinese university and industrial espionage

User Clark Barrett, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Vortex lines, loop models, and SU(n) magnets

User Adam Nahum, University of Oxford.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 14:15-15:45

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Synchronisation of eukaryotic flagella

User Dr Marco Polin, DAMTP, Cambriidge.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 09:30-10:30

Strongly correlated electrons driven by an electric field

User Camille Aron (Rutgers).

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:20-12:00

Gaussian Approximation Potentials at work: from silicon to water

User Albert Bartok-Partay.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:00-11:20

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Molecular imaging of cancer: understanding chemotherapy response and resistance.

User Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Stanford University.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Optical Interferometry and Adaptive Optics: False Friends?

User Alex Rea (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Sir Martin Wood Lecture Series

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron

User Dr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Studying magnetism at the nanoscale

User Dr Jan Dreiser (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerand).

Monday 28 May 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

An Introduction to Statistical Inference, Data Modelling & Pattern Recogntion

Two Lectures!

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 28 May 2012, 14:30-17:00

Sustainable Manufacturing and the Myth of Efficiency

User Winton Community.

Monday 28 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Biotechnology and biophysical phenotypes: the physics of pluripotency and differentiation

User Dr Kevin Chalut, BSS Sector, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

A new concept for high strain rate testing of materials based on the use of inertial forces

User Fabrice Pierron, ParisTech, Chalons-en-Champagne, France.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Generalised small-x double log resummation

User Steve Chun-Hay Kom (Liverpool).

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Order-by-Disorder Near Criticality and the Secret of the Partially Ordered Phase of MnSi

User Frank Kruger, University of St Andrews.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Enzyme catalysis from linear-scaling DFT: application to chorismate mutase

User Greg Lever (TCM).

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:40-12:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Magnetothermopower in heavy fermion metamagnets CeRu2Si2 and YbRh2Si2

User Ramzy Daou.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:15-12:15

Multiscale simulation of brittle fracture in oxides and semiconductors

User James Kermode (KCL).

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:00-11:40

The Detection of Galaxy Cluster Motions Using Data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and BOSS

User Nick Hand (University of California, Berkeley).

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Future High Energy Electron-Proton Scattering: The LHeC Project [Postponed]

User Paul Newman (Birmingham).

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cavity optomechanics in the single-photon strong-coupling regime

User Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Basel).

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Communication over noisy channels (III)

Note unusual time

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 21 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Shocks in fragile matter

User Professor Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Strain localization in granular materials

User Stephen Walley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Squark Flavor Implications from B --> K^(*) l^+ l^-

User Christian Gross (Basel).

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Superconductors, multiferroic and magnetic materials

User Geetha Balakrishnan.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 11:15-12:15

Buckling of Hopf solitons

User Derek Harland (Loughborough).

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Numerical many-body simulations of interacting 2D bosons using the MCTDHB method

User Rostislav Doganov (University of Heidelberg).

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Double Parton Scattering

User Jo Gaunt (HEP Theory).

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems

User Prof Fuchun Zhang, Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences at Hong Kong University.

Friday 11 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials

User Professor Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

What can and do data from LHCb tell us about physics at the TeV scale?

User Sebastian Jaeger (Sussex).

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Structural modification of energetic materials using high pressures and co-crystallisation

User Colin Pulham, School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

COSMIC RAYS, CLIMATE AND THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENT

User Jasper Kirkby, CERN.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Diffusion Monte Carlo, nodal surfaces and pairing functions

User Pascal Bugnion (TCM).

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 11:40-12:00

Dynamical mean-field theory applied to linear scaling density functional theory

User Cedric Weber (TCM).

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 11:00-11:40

The Schwinger model at 50

User David Stuart (DAMTP).

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Communication over noisy channels (II)

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 07 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Single molecule imaging of protein pore assembly using droplet interface bilayers

User Dr Mark Wallace, University of Oxford.

Friday 04 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

New Strong Dynamics for EWSB and DM

User Mads Frandsen (Oxford).

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Role of computer simulations in understanding surface processes

User Lev Kantorovich, Department of Physics, King's College, London.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle?

User Professor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Magnetic defects in Yang-Mills theories

User Luis Oxman (DAMTP).

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Final Higgs results from the Tevatron

User Aidan Robson (Glasgow).

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Energy Efficient Lighting

User Winton Community.

Monday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

A miniature trapped-ion frequency standard with 171Yb+

User Heather Partner (University of New Mexico).

Monday 30 April 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Communication over noisy channels (I)

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 30 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Engineering cellular systems

User Dr Jim Hasellof, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Imaging structural performance

User Janice Barton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Automatic NLO calculations with GoSam

User Gionata Luisoni (IPPP, Durham).

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quasiparticle Self-consistent GW Approximation as a Universal Framework for Electronic Structure

User Prof Mark v. Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

Star Formation Activity in AGN Host Galaxies as seen by Herschel

*** Special Seminar ***

User Paola Santini (Astronomical Observatory of Rome).

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Superconducting phase and pseudogap in the high-temperature cuprate superconductors.

User Patrick Rourke, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 11:15-12:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Entropy and data compression (IV)

New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 23 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Vladimir Bulovic Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, USA.

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

The end of simulation?

User Mike Payne (TCM Group).

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 11:00-11:40

Biofuels

User Winton community.

Monday 16 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Entropy and data compression (III)

New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 16 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler

*** Special Seminar ***

User David Kipping (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Tuesday 03 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Tailoring Physical Properties of Functional Materials by Bottom-Up Nanofabrication

User Dr Massimiliano Cavallini (Institute for Nanostructured Materials, CNR, Bologna, Italy).

House Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

Friday 30 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Spin quantum beating in OLEDs

User Prof. John Lupton University of Regensburg, Germany.

Tuesday 27 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Quantum phases of ultracold bosonic atoms in a one dimensional optical superlattice

User Prof Bhanu Das (Indian Institute of Astrophysics).

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Monday 26 March 2012, 15:30-17:00

Periodic Fibre Devices: Photonic Applications in All-Optical Wavelength-Conversion and Pulse Shaping, and Fibre Lasers

User Dr Morten Ibsen (University of Southampton, UK).

House Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

Friday 23 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Coherence and coupling of GaAs two-electron spin qubits

User Prof. Hendrik Bluhm, RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Thursday 22 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Magnetism in triangular and hexagonal optical lattices

User Klaus Sengstock (Hamburg University).

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Monday 19 March 2012, 15:30-17:00

Nanophotonics Approaches For Terahertz Detection

User Dr Miriam Vitiello (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy).

House Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

Friday 16 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Non stick surfaces and self motile particles: some old and new problems in colloid physics

User Professor Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK.

Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Ceramic armour: Past, present and future

User Paul Hazell, Dynamic Response Group, Shrivenham Campus, Cranfield University.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

An alternative NLO subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper Dipoles

User Tania Robens (TU Dresden).

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Localization of ultracold atoms in a disordered potential at three dimensions

User Fred Jendrzejewski (Laboratoire Charles Fabry Institut d'Optique).

Thursday 15 March 2012, 10:00-11:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

The Flux Reconstruction Approach to High-Order Methods

User Dr Peter E Vincent (Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College).

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:30-14:00

General vs. geometrical reaction coordinates on QM and QM/MM surfaces

User Letif Mones (Engineering).

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:00-12:20

New bulk phases of alumina from random searches

User Matthew Lyle (TCM).

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 11:40-12:00

Water clusters, ice and liquid: Improving ab initio energetics

User Mike Gillan (University College, London).

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 11:00-11:40

The early stages of low-mass star formation: subsonic turbulence, isothermal filaments and a First Hydrostatic Core Candidate

User Jaime Pineda (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester).

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 16:30-17:00

Skyrmion interactions

User Dankrad Feist (DAMTP).

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Asymmetric Dark Matter

User Stephen West (Royal Holloway).

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

To be confirmed

User Stefan Meskers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

User Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms

User Hannah Price (University of Cambridge).

Friday 09 March 2012, 15:00-15:30

Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields

User Pascal Bugnion (TCM, Physics, Cambridge).

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:30-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Topics in quantum matter research

User Malte Grosche, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

A novel derivation of the gravitational cusp anomalous dimension

User David Miller (Glasgow).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Ab-initio simulation of water and its ions

User Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Mobile Phone Positioning: Improving GPS Performance

User Nicolas Couronneau (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Computational complexity in the formalism of quantum physics

User Richard Jozsa (DAMTP).

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

QCD at the LHC

User Joey Huston (Michigan State University).

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

User Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum-enhanced measurement of magnetic fields

User Morgan Mitchell (ICFO).

Monday 05 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Entropy and data compression (II)

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no lectures during the Easter break (12 March - 9 April). Lectures will resume on 16 April.

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 05 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Peter Smith, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Nanomechanics of coatings for electronic and optical applications

User Steve Bull, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Phenomenology of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons and their ongoing searches at the LHC

User Andrew Akeroyd (Southampton).

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Ligand discrimination in myoglobin from linear-scaling DFT+U

User Daniel Cole (TCM).

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 11:40-12:00

Materials discovery: the systematic prediction of new classes of organic non-linear optical materials

User Jacqui Cole.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 11:00-11:40

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standard location**).

AGN and Star Formation Feedback in Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Times

User Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Mathematical aspects of the supergravity c-map.

User Vincente Cortes (Hamburg).

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

V+jets Ratios and the Search for New Physics in ATLAS

User Stefan Ask (Cambridge).

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

The effect of conjugation length on exciton dissociation

User Anna Kohler, Bayreuth University.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

A high order cell centred Lagrangian Godunov scheme for cylindrical geometry

User Dr Andy Barlow (AWE).

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 12:30-14:00

Tea time conversation

User Winton community.

Monday 27 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Entropy and data compression (I)

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 27 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Photons, dust, and honeybees

User Diederik Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy.

Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Exploring structural phase transitions in nanofriction

User Andrea Benassi, Statistical Materials Modeling Laboratory, Institute for Energetics and Interphases, Milan, Italy.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Calculating the Higgs to diphoton decay amplitude on the lattice

User Francis Bursa (Swansea).

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Filaments in the Interstellar Plasma Probed by Pulsar Scintillation

User Barney Rickett (University of California, San Diego).

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:30-17:00

Weyl metrisability for projective surfaces

User Thomas Mettler (MSRI, Berkeley)..

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

The SuperB Project

User Adrian Bevan (QMUL).

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Slug initiation modelling and two-phase flow prediction

User Dr Stamatis Kalogerakos (Cranfield University).

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 12:30-14:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Introduction to information theory

User David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

Monday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Prospects for Superconducting Qubits

User David DiVincenzo (RWTH Aachen).

Monday 20 February 2012, 15:30-17:00

Hydrogen fuel cells

User Winton community.

Monday 20 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Repulsive polarons in 2D Fermi gases

User Wave Ngampruetikorn (University of Cambridge).

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-16:30

Power-law distributions for the areas of the basins of attraction on a potential energy landscape

User Robert Baldock (University of Cambridge).

Friday 17 February 2012, 15:30-16:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Reinhard Miller, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Probabilistic automated alloy development

User Bryce Conduit, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

A brief discussion about weak measurements

User Mike Towler.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:55-12:05

Cold atoms in a spin

User Gareth Conduit.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:40-11:55

Convergence of wave function expansions using a plane wave basis: from the homogeneous electron gas to the solid state

User James Shepherd (CUC3).

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:00-11:40

Twistors and conformal theories from six dimensions

User Martin Wolf (Surrey).

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Juergen Eschner (Saarbruecken).

Monday 13 February 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Shaping the Future of Manipulation

User Professor Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Probing micro-mechanical deformation behaviour with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction.

User Benjamin Britton, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Spin before mass at the LHC

User Tom Melia (Oxford).

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Graphene: Materials in the Flatland

User Sir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Hole Doping and Dimensionality in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets

User Siân Dutton, QM Group, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 11:15-12:15

The Penrose transform and Gerbes in 6-dimensions

User Lionel Mason (Oxford).

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

To be confirmed. General topic: Langevin and trap limited recombination in OLEDs

User Martijn Kuik, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Planck Early Results on the Galaxy

*** Note change of date

User Clive Dickinson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester).

Friday 03 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

The moment of truth for WIMP Dark Matter

User Gianfranco Bertone (Amsterdam).

Friday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Functionalised nanoparticles and SERS for bioanalysis

User Professor Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

A conservative level-set based method for multi-components problems on fixed grids

User Ben Obadia (Cranfield University).

Friday 03 February 2012, 11:00-12:30

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Screen-printable energetic inks for mining detonators

User Tuuli Sutinen, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

PDFs and the relation to LHC and Higgs Physics

User Robert Thorne (UCL).

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Weak Measurements: Wigner-Moyal and Bohm in a New Light?

User Basil Hiley (Birkbeck College).

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 11:00-12:00

Deformations of G2-structures with torsion

User Sergey Grigorian (Stony Brook).

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

DEAP/CLEAN-ing Dark Matter: the Search for Direct Detection with Liquid Argon

User Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway).

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 15:00-16:00

Quantum correlated photons in arrays of weakly nonlinear cavities

User Vincenzo Savona(EPFL).

Monday 30 January 2012, 15:30-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mesoscopic Systems: Synthesis, Interactions and Analysis

User Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University Konstanz, Germany.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

On origins

User Brian Josephson, Trinity College.

House Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 18:00-19:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Surface diffusion on the atomic scale

User Graznya Antczak, Department of Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

The other Higgses, at resonance, in the Lee-Wick Extension of the Standard Model

User Terrance Figy (Manchester).

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor Microcavities

User Professor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evidence for a Cosmic Battery

User Denise Gabuzda (University College Cork).

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Invisibility Cloaks, Transformation Optics, Liquid Crystals and General Relativity.

User Gary Gibbons (DAMTP).

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Boosted Jets in searches for New Physics

User Michael Spannowsky (IPPP Durham).

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Photochromics meet Organic Electronics: a Novel Generation of Functional Materials and Interfaces

User Emanuele Orgiu, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.), Université de Strasbourg, France.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Recent progress in force-detected MRI

User Martino Poggio (University of Basel).

Monday 23 January 2012, 15:30-17:00

Observing holographic superconductivity in the laboratory

User Jan Zaanen, Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Friday 20 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Deconstructing Nuclear Pore Complex Function by Bio-Synthetic Reconstruction

User Professor Roderick Lim, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

A new finite element shallow water model on the sphere: Model setup, grid refinement, and boundary separation

User Peter Dueben (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany).

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 12:30-14:00

Perfect parallel scaling for quantum Monte Carlo on hundreds of thousands of cores

User Mike Towler (TCM).

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 11:40-12:00

Absorption energy decay rates show peptide phosphate bonding structures

User Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences).

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 11:00-11:40

Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture

User Dr. Pietro Massignan, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

Thursday 15 December 2011, 14:15-15:15

Landau-Zener transitions in pairs of frozen Rydberg atoms

User Anne Cournol (Universite Paris-Sud).

Tuesday 13 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Potter room, B1.19, DAMTP. CMS *** please note unusual venue ***.

CERN Higgs webcast

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 13 December 2011, 13:00-15:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

User Ian Howard Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.

Thursday 08 December 2011, 14:30-15:30

Recent Developments at Arecibo - Scientific and Administrative

User Chris Salter (Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico).

Tuesday 06 December 2011, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Clive Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK.

Friday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Evasive Higgs Maneuvers at the LHC

User Christoph Englert (IPPP, Durham).

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Do biological cells care about physics?

User Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cosmic Evolution from Galaxy Zoo

User Karen Masters (Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, Portsmouth).

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Particles -- are they 4-manifolds?

User Nick Manton (DAMTP).

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Prospects for NNLO measurements using jets at the LHC

User Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham).

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

User Matthias Opel, Walther Meißner Institute in Garching, Germany..

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Quantum gases in micro-engineered environments near surfaces

User Peter Kruger (Nottingham University).

Monday 28 November 2011, 15:30-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Insulators on InGaAs

User Mr Marc Fletcher, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Monday 28 November 2011, 14:15-16:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Mechanisms of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylenes subjected to ballistic impact

User Benjamin Russell, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Polymer Solar Cells

User Prof Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Michael Hausser, Univeristy College London, UK.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

BAMBI: Combining Neural Networks and Nested Sampling for Rapid Bayesian Analysis

User Philip Graff (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 17:00-17:30

Bias-Free Bispectrum Estimation for Optical Interferometry

User James Gordon (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:30-17:00

Living in curved momentum space.

User Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman (Wroclaw).

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Counting Dark Matter particles in LHC events

User Ben Gripaios (Cambridge).

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Exploring the relationship between organic PV performance to bulk and surface morphology: A joint morphological and charge transport modelling approach

User Chris Groves, Durham University.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

House Microelectronics Research Centre (MRC) Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

http://www.cm.utexas.edu/david_vandenbout

User David Vanden Bout, University of Texas.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Theoretical Biology: Comprehending the Noisy Edge of Travelling Waves

User Sam Greenbury, TCM.

Friday 18 November 2011, 16:00-16:30

A review of structure-searching methods

User Matthew Lyle (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 November 2011, 15:30-16:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Crystallization and Structure Formation in Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers for Applications in Organic Photovoltaics

User Professor Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Martin Luther Unversity, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Current research at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory

User Arthur Blackburn, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Fluctuation-driven first order transition in the chiral magnet MnSi

User Markus Garst, University of Cologne.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Just a few atoms: Imaging for matter-waves optics

User Wolf von Klitzing (FORTH, Crete).

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

House Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Building.

The Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization

User Chris Carilli (NRAO, USA).

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Projective Structure in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

User Graham Hall (Aberdeen).

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

First Results from the T2K Experiment

User Matthew Malek (Imperial College London).

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Pushing the frontiers of nanoscale spin detection

User Christian Degen (ETH Zurich).

Monday 14 November 2011, 15:30-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Quantum information processing with superconducting qubits at IBM

User Dr Antonio Corcoles, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (USA).

Monday 14 November 2011, 14:15-16:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft matter of living cells at the single molecule level

User Dr Mark Leake, University of Oxford, UK.

Friday 11 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Modelling the behaviour of multiscale cellular materials

User Philippe Viot, Institut de Mécanique et Ingénerie, Bordeaux, France.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Dilepton transverse momentum distribution variables at hadron colliders

User Simone Marzani (IPPP, Durham).

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Order-disorder in trajectory space and the glass transition

User Prof. David Chandler, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies.

User Prof Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Probing the Innermost Dusty Accretion in AGN Tori with Infrared Interferometry

User Makoto Kishimoto (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn).

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Hyperbolic monopoles and pluricomplex geometry

User Roger Bielawski (Leeds).

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Searches for CP violation in charm decays at LHCb

User Matthew Charles (Oxford).

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Title to be confirmed

http://www.rug.nl/staff/m.s.pchenitchnikov/index

User Maxim Pchenitchnikov, University of Groningen.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Single-Photon shaping and phase control

User Axel Kuhn (Oxford University).

Monday 07 November 2011, 15:30-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

TBA

User Dr Neil Wilson, Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

Monday 07 November 2011, 14:15-16:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Combining Optical and Electrochemical Devices to Investigate Activities of Biological Nano-Structures

User Dr Stephane Arbault, University of Bordeaux, France.

Friday 04 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Organic electronics: Applied nanotechnology

User Paul Dastoor, Centre for Organic Electronics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Implications of LHC Searches on Constrained Supersymmetric Models

User Matthew Dolan (IPPP, Durham).

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Quantum mechanical perspective on dynamical glass transitions

User Dr Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University of London.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Building.

Searching the WISE Sky

User Andrew Blain (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester).

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time

User Paul Mansfield (Durham).

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Many-body physics with cold Rydberg gases

User Matthew Jones (Durham University).

Monday 31 October 2011, 15:30-17:00

Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins

User Prof. Chin-Kun Hu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Monday 31 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Magneto-transport through graphene nanoribbons : numerical simulations

User Dr Alessandro Cresti, IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble (France).

Monday 31 October 2011, 14:15-16:00

Computational enzymology

User Greg Lever (Cavendish Lab. (TCM) & Magdalene College).

Friday 28 October 2011, 16:00-16:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Probing liquid crystal elastomers with light

User Professor Martin Copic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Friday 28 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Interaction of phonons and Dirac fermions on the surface of Bi2Se3: A strong Kohn anomaly

User Michael El-Batanouny, Department of Physics, Boston University, USA.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Superpotential Renormalisation and Supersymmetric Radiative Flavour

User Joseph Conlon (Oxford).

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Some Results from the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (HeViCS)

User Marcel Clemens (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Superconformal index and duality

User Hugh Osborn.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Introduction to ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale

User Dief Alexander, Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP).

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

House Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Charge recombination dynamics in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors

http://www.phys.umontreal.ca/~silva/

User Carlos Silva, University of Montréal.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Simulating a gravity-wave observatory with a few thousand atoms

User Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley).

Monday 24 October 2011, 15:30-17:00

Crystallography on curved surfaces

User David Nelson, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University.

Monday 24 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Single Electron Displacement in Nanostructures

User Dr Tristan Meunier, Institut Néel, CNRS, and Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France).

Monday 24 October 2011, 14:15-16:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Hydrodynamic interactions: from Brownian motion to swimming bacteria

User Dr Roberto Dileonardo, University of Rome, Italy.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Charge transport physics of high mobility organic semiconductors

User Henning Sirringhaus, Microelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Two ways to get superluminal neutrinos but not enough to explain OPERA

User Tim Morris (Southampton).

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Structure and dynamics of water-solid interfaces

User Prof. Angelos Michaelides, London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

House Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Building.

AGN Space Densities and the FR Dichotomy

User Melanie Gendre (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester).

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Improved measurement of the electron EDM

User Prof. Edward Hinds (Imperial College London).

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 15:00-16:00