AMOP list

High-performance Semiconductor Quantum Light Sources

Dr Jin Liu.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 13 September 2024, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Nonlinear and Quantum Technologies in Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

Dr Kartik Srinivasan .

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 13 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Quantum Computing with Silicon and Germanium Hole Spins

Professor Dominik Zumbühl.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 20 August 2024, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Analogue Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms

Dr Alexei Bylinskii, QuEra Computing Inc, Boston.

Cambridge Graphene Center Conference Room (entrance via Electrical Engineering reception, West Cambridge) .

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Interacting quantum gases in optical lattices with periodic driving.

Prof. Elmar Haller, University of Strathclyde.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Topological charge pumping with ultracold atomic gases

Prof Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (University of Göttingen).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 19 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

AMOP list

Quantum computing with neutral ytterbium atoms

Jeff Thompson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 10:00-11:00

AMOP list

Ultracold RbCs Molecules: Robust Storage Qubits and Rotationally Magic Traps

Prof Simon L. Cornish, Department of Physics, Durham University.

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

AMOP list

Orbital interactions between strongly confined fermions

Prof Joseph Thywissen, Toronto.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 13 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

AMOP list

Quantum gas microscopy of magnetic phases with and without doping

Dr Timon Hilker, MPQ Munich .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 06 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Optoelectronics Group

*Talk Cancelled* Spins at Work in Energy Conversion and Storage Devices

Talk Cancelled

*Talk Cancelled* Prof. Dr. Jan Behrends - Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Talk Cancelled.

Tuesday 22 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Ion Transport in Perovskites

Prof. Dr. Joachim Maier - Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86378888140?pwd=Tmt0SW54QmErOGIyZkh0ZlJDeFRqZz09.

Monday 21 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Optoelectronics Group

Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics in Organic Semiconductors

Omer Yaffe.

https://zoom.us/j/96904896974?pwd=aWY2K0ZkVmFldXBBWC9OUDlRZXFnUT09.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Optoelectronics Group

Controlling charge, spin and light in Lead-Halide Inspired Hybrid Semiconductors

Matthew C. Beard.

https://zoom.us/j/93354763593?pwd=Slk1V2psUDNqZzFFSVZHbWEzejNQZz09.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Linking microstructure to transport at several lengthscales in conjugated polymers

Alberto Salleo, Stanford University.

https://zoom.us/j/91794014655?pwd=NFljRHpjS0J3Z1ZaemFWaTVLOTc4QT09 Meeting ID: 917 9401 4655 Passcode: 080277.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Excitons, Disorder, and Nonequilibrium Transport in Hybrid Semiconductor Nanomaterials

William A. Tisdale, MIT.

https://zoom.us/j/2922994504?pwd=bEh5cG1WSDVVY1lQWE1TLzlSMHhxQT09; password - OEseminar.

Monday 07 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Molecular strategies to increase robustness of organic semiconductor thin films for application in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices

Kevin Sivula EPFL.

Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductors for Applications in Opto-electronic

University of California, Santa Barbara.

Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Building a dark matter wind chime

Jake Taylor, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Combination of transient and steady-state photoluminescence for the characterization of halide perovskite-based layer stacks

Thomas Kirchartz; Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH.

Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Conversion between singlet and triplet states in the strong and weak coupling regimes.

Karl Börjesson; University of Gothenburg.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 14:00-15:30

AMOP list

To catch and reverse a quantum jump mid-flight

Dr. Zlatko K. Minev, Research Scientist, IBM Quantum Computing.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 13 September 2019, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Building a quantum computer with neutral atoms

Prof. David Weiss, Penn State University.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 06 September 2019, 11:00-12:15

AMOP list

Extending the life of quantum information with smart control schemes

Ed Barnes.

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Thursday 05 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

Time Scales in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar aAbsorbers

Michael F Toney.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 July 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Soft Ways to Shape Semiconductors with Tough Properties

Sebastian Polarz at the University of Konstanz.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 02 July 2019, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Exciton Superfluid and Ferromagnetic Superconductivity in Graphene

Prof Philip Kim, Harvard University .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 31 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Terahertz lights up the nanoscale: Paving the way for nanotechnology via terahertz spectroscopy.

Please contact the organsier if you would like to arrange a meeting with Jessica

Jessica Boland; The University of Manchester.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Quantum Materials

Prof Dr Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Excitons and Symmetry: Studying Structural Effects on Complex Excited-State Phenomena in 2D and Molecular Crystals

Please contact the organiser if you would like to arrange a meeting with Sivan

Sivan Refaely-Abramson; Weizmann Institute of Science.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 15:30-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Excitons in Flatland: Exploring and Manipulating Many-body Effects on the Optical Excitations in Quasi-2D Materials

Please contact the organiser if you would like a meeting with Diana

Diana Y. Qiu; University of California at Berkeley.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 15:00-15:30

AMOP list

Crystal and Magnetic Structures of a Family of Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnets

Dr Lucy Clark, University of Liverpool.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 26 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Control of Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Materials

Professor Vinod Menon (City University of New York).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 April 2019, 10:30-11:30

Optoelectronics Group

Perovskite PV Research at ANU: From Drift-Diffusion Models to High Efficiency Tandems

A/ Professor Tom White (Australian National University).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Light-Conversion Mechanisms in Metal Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Prof Laura Herz (University of Oxford).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Highly Luminescent Nanocrystals of Caesium and Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskites: From Discovery to Applications

Prof Dr Maksym Kovalenko.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 04 March 2019, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Flexible a-IGZO TFT Technology: Recent Developments & Applications

Dr Auke Kronemeijer (Holst Centre, TNO).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Deep Blue Organic TADF Emitters for Electroluminescent Devices

Prof Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Nanosatellites for Quantum Science and Profit

Dr Daniel Oi, University of Strathclyde.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 21 January 2019, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Quantum gas microscopy of the doped Fermi-Hubbard model

Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching, Germany.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Recent results in 87Rb box trap

Dr Jinyi Zhang , University of Cambridge .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Linear-and-quadratic reservoir engineering of non-Gaussian states in cavity optomechanics

Dr Matteo Brunelli , University of Cambridge .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Strong induced chiroptical effects in light emitting polymer blends

Dr Jess Wade, Imperial College London.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Road to ultra-low switching energy Memories for artificial neurons

Professor Thirumalai Venkatesan.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Monday 05 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

New Phenomena in Driven Quantum Systems

Shankari Rajagopal, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 01 November 2018, 10:00-11:00

Optoelectronics Group

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals: the interplay between morphology and optical properties

Prof Dr Alexander Urban.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:45-15:45

AMOP list

Experiments with ultracold Li and cold Cs atoms

Dr Lucia Hackermüller, University of Nottingham.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 08 October 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Interfacing Spins with Photons for Quantum Simulation and Quantum Control

Prof. Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 06 September 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic materials

Dr. Davide Bossini, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 17 August 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Quantum transport in strongly interacting Fermi gases

Prof. Martin Zwierlein Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA.

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Interaction instability of localization in quasiperiodic systems

Prof. Marko Žnidarič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Anomalous momentum diffusion of strongly interacting bosons in optical lattices

Dr. Fabrice Gerbier, Ecole Normale Supeerieure Paris, France.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 11 June 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Cavity-mediated interaction in a quantum gas - From supersolids to spin textures

Dr. Tobias Donner, ETH Zurich Switzerland .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 04 June 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Quasiperiodic lattices as tunable quantum reservoirs: exploring the Markovian to non-Markovian crossover

Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco, University of Turku, Finland.

TCM Seminar Room, Mott Building Room 530, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 20 March 2018, 10:00-11:00

AMOP list

Light-matter interaction in atomically thin semiconductors: darkness, brightness, spins and valleys

Dr. Bernhard Urbaszek, CNRS – Toulouse University, France.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 19 March 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Quantum Simulation of Mesoscopic Fermi Systems

Dr. Philipp Preiss, Heidelberg University, Germany .

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 16 January 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Double Feature: Controlling mesoscopic nuclear spin ensembles & Quantum Walks in four dimensions

Dorian Gangloff & Ed Carter , Cavendish.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 11 December 2017, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Ultracold Bose soup: where few-body meets many-body physics

Professor Eric Cornell ( University of Colorado, Boulder).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 27 November 2017, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

nfluence of molecular weight and solvent quality on the microstructure and charge transfer properties of thin films of the n-type polymer P(NDI2OD-T2)

Assoc. Prof. Chris McNeill, Monash University.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

On the role of excess energy on free charge generation and recombination in polymer:fullerene blends

Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher, University of Potsdam.

MRC Seminar Room, MRC, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 11:10-11:50

Optoelectronics Group

Visualizing and suppressing interfacial recombination for high efficiency large area pin-perovskite solar cells

Dr. Martin Stolterfoht, University of Potsdam.

MRC Seminar Room, MRC, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 10:30-11:10

AMOP list

Double Feature: Loss, correlation and energy dynamics of a Bose gas quenched to unitarity & Nonreciprocity through reservoir engineering in cavity optomechanics

Christoph Eigen & Daniel Malz, Cavendish.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 13 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Evolution of Gaussian wave packets in the presence of losses and gains

Dr. Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 30 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

From Lithium Batteries to Perovskite Solar Cells: Atomic-Scale Insights into Energy Materials

Professor M. Saiful Islam, University of Bath.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Hanbury Brown-Twiss, Hong-Ou-Mandel, and other landmarks in quantum optics: from photons to atoms

Prof. Alain Aspect.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 16 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Strategies to boost the power conversion efficiencies in quantum dot sensitised solar cells

Professor Sayan Bhattcharya, IISER Kolkata.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

The roles of exciton and molecular diffusion in real-time sensing

Dr. Paul Shaw, University of Queensland.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

TBD

Professor Frank Wuerthner, University of Wurzburg.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Vibrational coherence spectroscopy applied to biomimetic molecular photoswitches

Dr. Jeremie Leonard, University of Strasbourg.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Probing morphology, electronic structure, and triplet routes: the case for time-resolved EPR in organic electronics

Dr. Till Biskup, University of Freiburg.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Quantum metrology with Bose Einstein condensates

Markus Oberthaler (Universitat Heidelberg).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 22 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Role of Morphology in Organic Thermoelectric Materials

Professor Michael Chabinyc.

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Spin-wave quantum memories for single photon storage and generation

Hugues de Riedmatten (ICFO).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 15 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Revealing the charge carrier dynamics in metal halide perovskites using time-resolved microwave conductivity

Professor Tom Savenije, Delft University of Technology.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Quantum emitters in 2D semiconductors

Artur Branny (Heriot-Watt).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 21 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

On-chip quantum photonics using quantum dots

Peter Lodahl (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Excitons in emerging materials: single layer transition metal dichalcogenides and hybrid perovskites

Paulina Plochocka.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Friday 24 March 2017, 10:00-11:00

Localized Phonon Polaritons: A Novel Platform for Mid-Infrared Quantum Polaritonics

Dr Simone De Liberato.

Kapitza Building Seminar Room (16), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 24 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Solar energy with a twist: dynamic disorder in halide perovskites

Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Realizing the classical XY Hamiltonian with polariton graphs

Prof Natalia Berloff (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 20 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Spin pumping and inverse spin hall effect in organic materials

Georg Schmidt, Martin Luther Universitat Halle-Wittenberg.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Chirality-led design of organic conjugated materials

Matthew Fuchter, Imperial College London.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Dipolar quantum matter near absolute zero temperature

Francesca Ferlaino (IQOQI Innsbruck).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 06 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Two-dimensional spectroscopy from the visible to the ultraviolet

Guilio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Transient grating ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy and its applications

Justin Hodgkiss, Victoria University of Wellington.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Scalable quantum information processing in diamond

William J Munro (NTT Basic Research Labs, NTT Corp, Japan).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

AMOP list

Quantum models of quasicrystals

Anuradha Jagannathan (Paris).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 28 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Modelling Electronic Processes at Heterojunctions: from Molecules to Perovskites

Professor David Beljonne.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Topological sound and light

Florian Marquardt (University of Erlangen).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 14 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Progress on Ferromagnetic Molecular Thin Films

Professor Sandrine Heutz.

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

Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Topological pumps and topological quasicrystals

Oded Zilberberg (ETH, Zurich).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 07 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Controlled crystallisation of semiconducting polymer films of polymer electronics

Professor Sabine Ludwigs, University of Stuttgart.

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

Monday 07 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Symmetry breaking and bifurcations of exciton-polariton condensates

Prof. Yuri Rubo.

Kapitza Building Seminar Room (16), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Single-atom and momentum-resolved measurement of the depletion of a Bose condensate

David Clement (Institut Optique, France).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 24 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Mesoscopic transport experiments with cold atoms

Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL).

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Monday 17 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Studying and Controlling Live Cells with OLEDS and Intracellular Organic Micro-lasers

Professor Malte Gather.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

interactions in strongly spin-orbit coupled systems

Dimi Culcer (UNSW).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Friday 22 July 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

From Visible to Infrared Emitters 2D Nanoplatelets

Professor Sandrine Lhuillier-Ithurria, ESPCI.

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

Tuesday 21 June 2016, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Solid-state organic/nanocrystal films for infrared↔visible photon conversion via excitonics

Professor Mark Wilson, University of Toronto.

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

Friday 03 June 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Bosons in synthetic gauge fields: Dynamics and probing edge states

Ryan Barnett (Imperial).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 23 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Probing molecular excitons with ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy

Professor Jacob Krich, University of Ottowa.

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

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Novel Conjugated Materials for Fission, Fusion and Reverse Intersystem Crossing

Dr Hugo Bronstein, UCL.

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

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Unconventional quantum oscillations in the Kondo insulator SmB6

Suchitra E. Sebastian (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 02 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Experimental reconstruction of the Berry curvature in a Floquet Bloch band

Christof Weitenberg (Universitat Hamburg).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 25 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum optical switch controlled by a colour centre in a diamond nanocavity

Alp Sipahigil (Harvard).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 21 March 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Photonic, Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications of Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Professor Jana Zaumseil, Heidelberg University.

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

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Controlling Photon Upconversion in Lanthanide-doped Nanocrystals

Professor Xiaogang Liu, National University of Singapore.

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

Friday 26 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Diamond Quantum Photonics and Optomechanics

Marko Loncar (Harvard).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 22 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Transparent Conductive Materials at the LMGP: Nanowire networks and oxides

Dr David Munoz-Rojas, Grenoble Institute of Technology.

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

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Quantum science and technology with cavity optomechanical systems

Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 15 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

New Directions for Organic Spintronics

Professor Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin.

MRC Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 12 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Crystalline Covalent Organic Frameworks Designed for Optoelectronic Applications

Dr Florian Auras, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Optoelectronics Group

Low-Temperature Solution-Processed Metal-Oxide Semiconducting Heterostructures for Large-Area Electronics: A Facile Approach Towards Charge-Transport Enhancement

Dr Yen-Hung Lin, Imperial College London.

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

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Light-matter interactions in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre

Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 01 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Computational Studies of Photophysical Phenomena in Molecules and Aggregates

Dr David Casanova, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science.

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

Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Taming Complexity in Dynamic Multicomponent Materials: Tailoring Low Dimensional Multifunctional Nanostructures

Professor Paolo Samori, University of Strasbourg.

Rutherford Seminar Room B, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 10:00-11:00

AMOP list

Many-Body Localization Characterized from a One-Particle Perspective

Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (LMU).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 25 January 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

The Transient Localization Scenario for Charge Transport in Crystalline Organic Materials

Professor Simone Fratini, CNRS.

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

Monday 25 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Towards a Multi-Scale Theory for Charge and Spin Transport in Organic Single Crystal-based Devices

Professor Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

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

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Bell correlations in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Philipp Treutlin (Unibas Switzerland).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 18 January 2016, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Strategies for scalable large-area electronics with improved operation frequency

Dr Mario Caironi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

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

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Realizing quantum networks and secure computations using photons

Stefanie Barz (Oxford University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 30 November 2015, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Unraveling the Photophysical Properties of Organic Semiconductors

Professor Natalie Banerji, University of Fribourg.

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Light-matter interactions in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre

Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 23 November 2015, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Membrane Technologies Toward Resolving the Energy-Water Nexus

Professor Easan Sivaniah, Kyoto University.

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

Friday 20 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Excitonic properties and valley dynamics in monolayer transitioin metal dichalcogenides

Bernhard Urbaszek (Toulouse, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 16 November 2015, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Navigating Our Way to Understanding Avian Magnetoreception – from Electron Hole Recombination Reactions to Chemical Amplification Pathways

Emrys Evans, University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Optoelectronics Group

Self-Assembled DNA Nanosystems for Energy and Electron Transfer Applications

Professor Bo Albinsson, Chalmers University of Technology.

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Visualizing Quantum Turbulence in Superfluid 3 He-B using quasiparticles

Viktor Tseplin (Lancaster University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 09 November 2015, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Does an isolated quantum system relax?

Joerg Schmiedmayer (VCQ, Atominstitut, TU-Wein).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 02 November 2015, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Bose-Einstein Condensates of light: Thermodynamics, Fluctuations and Evolution

Frank Vewinger (University of Bonn).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 19 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Photophysics and Opto-electronics of Organic-Inorganic Hybrids

Professor Maria Loi, University of Groningen.

MRC Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Photon Upconversion by Triplet Energy Migration in Molecular Assemblies

Professor Nobuhiro Yanai, Kyushu University.

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

Monday 05 October 2015, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Bragg spectroscopy of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

Konrad Viebahn (Cavendish Lab).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Monday 27 July 2015, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum Complexity in Ultracold Quantum Systems

Lincoln D. Carr (Colorado School of Mines).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Thursday 09 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Dipolar QED: an alternative paradigm for quantum optics, sensors, and non-equilibrium dynamics

Charles Adams (Durham University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 22 June 2015, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Spin Polarisation Effects in C60 Spectroscopy

Dr. Oscar Cespedes, University of Leeds.

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

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Carrier mobility, multiple exciton generation and charge trapping in quantum-dot solids

dr. Arjan Houtepen, TU Delft.

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

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Dynamics of cold bosons in microtraps

Peter Kruger (The University of Nottingham).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 27 April 2015, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Broken summetries in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

Sandro Stringari (Trento, Italy).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 20 April 2015, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum optics in One-dimensional photonic reservoirs

Peter Lodahl (Niels Bohr Institute).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 13 April 2015, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Tailoring the properties of NV colour centers in diamond

Jean-Francois Roch (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton - ENS Cachan, Université Paris-Sud and CNRS Orsay, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 02 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Quantum interfaces between single atoms and single telecom photons

Christoph Becher (Universitat des Saarlandes).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

AMOP list

Cavity Quantum Optomechanics with Optical Microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL, Switzerland).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 09 March 2015, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

TBA

Antonios G. Kanaras , University of Southampton.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Experimental investigations of the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms

Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Levitated Optomechanics

Peter Barker (UCL).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 16 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sandrine Heutz (Imperial College London).

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos (Imperial College London).

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

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Novel materials and fabrication paradigms for plastic micro & nano-scale electronics

Thomas Anthopoulos, Imperial College London.

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

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Solar Photoconversion: Proton Reduction Photocatalysis and Sensitized Triplet Fusion

Prof. Felix Castellano, North Carolina State University (USA).

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

Friday 12 December 2014, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Singlet Fission Dynamics from femtoseconds to nanoseconds

Prof. Christopher Bardeen, University of California at Riverside (USA).

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

Monday 08 December 2014, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Novel light-harvesting materials: pie-in-the-sky versus state-of-the-art

Prof. Laura Herz (University of Oxford) .

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

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Doping and Interfacial Chemistry for Organic Electronics

Prof. Seth Marder, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (U.S.).

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

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Optoelectronics Group

Developing semiconductor nanowires for future optoelectronics

Dr. Hannah Joyce (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Singlet Fission: Looking for New Chromophores

Prof. Josef Michl (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemhistry, Univ. of Colorado, USA & Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, Czech Republic).

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

Friday 07 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Strong Coupling in Organic and Hybrid Semiconductor Microcavities

Prof. David Lidzey (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, UK).

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

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Pair condensation in a strongly interacting 2D Fermi gas

Andre Wenz (Heidelberg University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 24 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Taking control of coherent superconducting quantum electronics

Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 08 August 2014, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

All optical production of a 39K BEC

Guillaume Salomon (Institut Optique, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 28 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with massive particles

Raphael Lopes (Institut Optique, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 25 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Experiments on a mixture of bosonic and fermionic superfluids

Igor Ferrier-Barbut (Ecole normale Superieure, Paris).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 11 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Towards single-site-resolved detction of fermions in an optical lattice

Proessor Stefan Kuhr (University of Strathclyde).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 30 June 2014, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Koen Vandewal.

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

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Generation of indistinguishable single photons from separate silicon vacancy centers in diamond

Alp Sipahigil (Harvard University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 10:30-11:30

Optoelectronics Group

Ultrafast spectroscopy, microscopy, and nanoscopy in optoelectronic materials

Prof. Tobias Brixner.

University Lecture Rooms (Mill Lane) - Room 2.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 09:00-10:00

AMOP list

experimental and theoretical results on silicon Isolated Double Quantum Dots (IDQDs) with nearby Single Electron Transistors (SETs)

David Williams (University of Cambridge).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 12 May 2014, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Probing Nanostructures and Optoelectronic Properties of BHJ Solar Cells by conductive AFM

Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen.

University Lecture Rooms (Mill Lane) - Room 1.

Monday 12 May 2014, 09:00-10:00

AMOP list

Quantum effects in light-initiated reactions in biology

Alexandra Olaya-Castro (UCL).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 10 March 2014, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools

Dr. Natalie Stingelin, Imperial College London, UK.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Let nothing slow you down: trapping, rotating and cooling mesoscopic particles in vacuum

Kishan Dholakia (St Andrews University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 24 February 2014, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of cold Rydberg gases in a dissipative environment

Igor Lesanovsky (Nottingham University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 17 February 2014, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect - From Electron Transfer in Biology to Spintronics.

Prof. Ron Naaman, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute.

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

Thursday 13 February 2014, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Trapping, cooling and high-fidelity manipulation of cold atoms using laser pulses

Tim Freegarde (Southampton University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 10 February 2014, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Morphology and composition control of solution deposited, mixed halide perovskite solar cells

Dr. Pablo DoCampo, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.

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

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Fermions in two dimensions

Meera Parish (UCL).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 03 February 2014, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Solitonic waves in a Fermionic Superfluid

Martin Zwierlein (MIT).

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Friday 31 January 2014, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

A new setup for Ultracold mixtures of lithium and cesium

Lucia Hackermuller (Nottingham University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 27 January 2014, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Bulk and interface doping of organic semiconductors

Prof. Norbert Koch, Humbold University, Berlin, Germany.

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

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Moritz Riede, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics

Dr Peter Leek (Clarendon Lab, Oxford Universtiy).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 25 November 2013, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Spin qubits and nanomechanics in carbon nanotubes

Dr Edward Laird (Materials Science, Oxford University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Splitting a single Cooper pair with microwave light

Dr Andrew Ferguson (University of Cambridge).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Singlet fission photovoltaics: splitting one photon to two electrons

Dr. Jiye Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.

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

Monday 11 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Hiroshi Imahori, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.

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

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

AMOP list

Spin chains as data, entanglement and logic buses

Prof Sougato Bose (University College, London).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 04 November 2013, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Single photon state characterization for quantum technologies

Laura Wright (University of Oxford).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 25 October 2013, 11:00-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

Organic Bioelectronics

Prof. George Malliaras - Center of Microelectronics in Provence.

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

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

AMOP list

Tools for quantum computing with trapped ions: single-qubit addressing protocol and process tomography of a Molmer-Sorensen entangling gate

Dr Nir Navon (Trinity College, Cambridge).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Quantum magnetism of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice

Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 07 October 2013, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Organic magnetoresistance – Search for the perfect defect

Prof. Bert Koopmans, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

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

Tuesday 01 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

High-fidelity entanglement between a quantum dot spin and a single photon via time-resolved downconversion to telecom wavelength

Kristiaan De Greve (Stanford University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 27 September 2013, 11:00-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

Origin of coherence dynamics in biological complexes

Dr. Donatas Zigmantas, Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Sweden.

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

Tuesday 20 August 2013, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Controllable Synthesis of Nanostructural Materials for High Performance DSSCs

Prof. Dan Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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

Friday 19 July 2013, 11:30-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

Interplay Between Intrachain and Interchain Interactions in Semiconducting Polymers: “Jekyll-Hyde” Behavior in Common Emissive Polymers

Prof. Frank Spano, Temple University, USA.

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

Friday 12 July 2013, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Localization of electronic excitations in organic semiconductors: theoretical views from different angles

Dr. Sergei Tretiak, Theoretical Division, Center for Nonlinear Studies and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.

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

Tuesday 09 July 2013, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Probing charge carriers in carbon materials with optical pulses

Dr. Enrico Da Como, Department of Physics, University of Bath, UK.

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

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 10:00-11:00

AMOP list

Exploring critically at the driven-dissipative Dicke phase transition

Ferdinand Brennecke (ETH Zurich).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 17 June 2013, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Oscillating superleak transducers and temperature mapping diagnostice for high gradient cavities at CERN

Kitty Liao (CERN).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

Progress in making organic solar cells highly efficient and stable

Prof. Michael McGehee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA.

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

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Tuning magnetism and superconductivity in atomically engineered SrTiO3–based heterostructures

Christopher Bell (Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, California).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:30

AMOP list

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

Robert Maiwald (Max Planck Institute).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

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

Tobias Macha (University of Mainz).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Large N-heteroacenes, synthesis and properties

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

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Dr Sam Stranks, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

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

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Dr. Chris McNeill, Monash University, Australia.

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

Charge separation in bulk heterojunctions

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

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

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

AMOP list

Graphene: one, no one and one hundred thousand

Saverio Russo (University of Exeter).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Coherent control of Rydberg atoms in thermal vapor cells

Daniel Barredo (Universitat Stuttgart).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

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

Simon Benjamin (University of Oxford).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

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

Jeroen Elzerman (UCL).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Taming light -matter interaction on the nanometer scale

Dr Romain Quidant (ICFO-Barcelona).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Loss mechanisms in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells

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

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

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

AMOP list

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

Pierrick Cheiney (Toulouse).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Superfluid behaviour of a two dimensional Bose gas

Christof Weitenberg (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel-CNRS).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Electronic Impurity Doping of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals

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

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

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

AMOP list

High order harmonic generation and the control of quantum paths

Amelle Zair (Imperial College, London).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Coherent control of dense Rydberg gases

Tilman Pfau (University of Stuttgart).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Dynamical Monte Carlo Modelling of OLEDs

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

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

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).

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

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

AMOP list

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

Christian Roos (Institut fur Quantenoptik, Innsbruck).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Superfluid Helium-3 in Confined Geometry

Lev Levitin (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Few-fermion quantum systems: How may are many?

Selim Jochim (Heidelberg University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Prof. David Ginger, University of Washington, USA.

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

Nanostructured solar cells

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

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

Rational Build-up of Structural Complexity in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanostructures

Prof. Yinthai Chan, National University of Singapore.

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

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

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

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

AMOP list

Bragg spectroscopy of a strongly interacting fermi gas

Peter Hannaford (Swinburne University, Australia).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Prof. Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, London.

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

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

AMOP list

Optical control of two quantum dots

Daniel Gammon (Naval Research Lab).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Studying magnetism at the nanoscale

Dr Jan Dreiser (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerand).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Cavity optomechanics in the single-photon strong-coupling regime

Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Basel).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

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

Rostislav Doganov (University of Heidelberg).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

A miniature trapped-ion frequency standard with 171Yb+

Heather Partner (University of New Mexico).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

Spin quantum beating in OLEDs

Prof. John Lupton University of Regensburg, Germany.

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

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

AMOP list

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

Prof Bhanu Das (Indian Institute of Astrophysics).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Magnetism in triangular and hexagonal optical lattices

Klaus Sengstock (Hamburg University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Localization of ultracold atoms in a disordered potential at three dimensions

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

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

To be confirmed

Stefan Meskers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

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

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

AMOP list

Quantum-enhanced measurement of magnetic fields

Morgan Mitchell (ICFO).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

The effect of conjugation length on exciton dissociation

Anna Kohler, Bayreuth University.

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

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

AMOP list

Prospects for Superconducting Qubits

David DiVincenzo (RWTH Aachen).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Title to be confirmed

Juergen Eschner (Saarbruecken).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Martijn Kuik, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.

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

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

AMOP list

Quantum correlated photons in arrays of weakly nonlinear cavities

Vincenzo Savona(EPFL).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

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

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

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

AMOP list

Recent progress in force-detected MRI

Martino Poggio (University of Basel).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Landau-Zener transitions in pairs of frozen Rydberg atoms

Anne Cournol (Universite Paris-Sud).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

AMOP list

Quantum gases in micro-engineered environments near surfaces

Peter Kruger (Nottingham University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

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

Chris Groves, Durham University.

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

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

David Vanden Bout, University of Texas.

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

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

AMOP list

Just a few atoms: Imaging for matter-waves optics

Wolf von Klitzing (FORTH, Crete).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Pushing the frontiers of nanoscale spin detection

Christian Degen (ETH Zurich).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

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

Maxim Pchenitchnikov, University of Groningen.

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

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

AMOP list

Single-Photon shaping and phase control

Axel Kuhn (Oxford University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Many-body physics with cold Rydberg gases

Matthew Jones (Durham University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 31 October 2011, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Charge recombination dynamics in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors

http://www.phys.umontreal.ca/~silva/

Carlos Silva, University of Montréal.

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

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Simulating a gravity-wave observatory with a few thousand atoms

Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 24 October 2011, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Jan Vogelsang and Takuji Adachi University of Regensburg and University of Texas at Austin.

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

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Probing the equation of state of Bose and Fermi gases

Nir Navon (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Wednesday 21 September 2011, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Towards quantum simulation of 2D disordered gases

Prof Kai Bongs (University of Birmingham).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Wednesday 17 August 2011, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Labs, USA..

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

Tuesday 09 August 2011, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Multidimensional spectroscopy in Semiconductor nanostructures and biological light-harvesting complexes

Dr Jeff Davis (Swinburne University, Australia).

Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Imaging Bulk Heterostructure Blends, Carrier Dynamics and Fluctuations in Bulk Heterostructure Blends and Ferroelectric Polymer Transistors.

K. S. Narayan - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore India.

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

Friday 15 July 2011, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Optical properties and structure of C8S3 aggregates

Sebastiaan Maarten Vlaming, MIT USA.

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

Tuesday 05 July 2011, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Probing the nano-structure of polymer-fullerene blends

David Lidzey, University of Sheffield, UK.

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

Tuesday 28 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Imaging Bulk Heterostructure Blends, Carrier Dynamics and Fluctuations in Bulk Heterostructure Blends and Ferroelectric Polymer Transistors.

K. S. Narayan - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore India.

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

Tuesday 28 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Bose-Einstein condensation with tunable interactions: from solitons to molecules

Simon Cornish (Durham).

Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 20 June 2011, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Charge-transfer absorption and emission in organic donor/ acceptor solar cells

Koen Vandewal, Linköping University.

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

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body systems of ultracold atoms

Prof Eugene Demler (Harvard University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 06 June 2011, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

CANCELLED! Organic Semiconductor Laser Sensors

Graham Turnbull, St Andrews University, UK.

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

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Synthesis of Low Symmetry Responsive Materials from Nanoscale to Micro- and Macroscale

Stoyan Smoukov, North Carolina State University, USA.

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

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Optical control and dynamics of a single Mn spin in a CdTe/ZnTe quantum dot

Claire Le Gall (Grenoble).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 16 May 2011, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Molecular and Fabrication Strategies for Small-Molecule Solution- Processed Organic Solar Cells with Record Efficiencies.

Greg Welch, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA..

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

Friday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Neither crystalline nor amorphous: Disorder, microstructure and transport in organic semiconductors.

Alberto Salleo, Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University, USA..

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

Friday 13 May 2011, 10:00-11:00

AMOP list

Quantum photonics with color centers in diamond

Christoph Becher (University of Saarland).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Excitation delocalisation dynamics in conjugated molecular materials.

Laura Herz, Oxford University, UK.

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

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

AMOP list

Cavity quantum electrodynamics using optical fibre cavities

Jakob Reichel (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de I'E.N.S.).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 21 March 2011, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Raman Spectroscopy - Any Use for Organic Electronics?

Ji-Seon Kim, Imperial College, London.

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

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Control and manipulation of spontaneous emission in photonic crystal and plasmonic nanostructures

Michael Kaniber (TU Munich).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

AMOP list

Ultrabright solid state sources of quantum light

Pascale Senellart (CNRS/LPN).

Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 07 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

Gravure contact printing and charge injection and transport studies of polymer LEDs and FETs

Alasdair Campbell, Imperial College, London, UK..

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

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Conical Intersection Dynamics in Rhodopsin and its 9-cis Isorhodopsin analog studied with femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy.

Dario Polli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

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

Thursday 10 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Studying polaron generation and recombination in pristine films of conjugated polymer P3HT

Steffan Cook, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

Morphogenesis of conjugated polymers by epitaxy: from highly oriented films to nano-structured hybrid materials and shish-kebab fibers

Martin Brinkmann, Institut Charles Sadron CNRS, France.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Optical trapping of an ion

Christian Schneider (Max-Planck-Institut).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 06 December 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Dynamics of coupled QED-cavaties

Rosario Fazio (Scoula Normale Superiore, Pisa).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 29 November 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Two-Component Bosons in state-dependent optical lattices

Daniel Pertot (Dept of Physics, Stony Brook Univeristy).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Full counting statistics of the interference contrast from independent Bose-Einstein condensates

Willhelm Zwerger (Technische Universitat Munchen).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 15 November 2010, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Surface chemistry and energy transfer between semiconductor nanocrystals and cyanine J-aggregates

Brian Walker, MIT.

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

Friday 12 November 2010, 11:00-11:45

Optoelectronics Group

Solar H2 production and CO2 reduction with bio-inspired hybrid systems

Dr. Erwin Reisner, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Measuring the electron EDM with cold molecules

Ed Hinds (Centre for cold matter, Imperial College, London).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 25 October 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Universal spin transport in strongly interacting fermi gases

Prof Martin Zwierlein (MIT).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 22 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Rydberg physics with cold strontium

Dr James Millen (Durham University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Hubbard-Mott physics of electrons in an artificial semiconductor lattice

Vittorio Pellegrini (NEST Instituto Nanoscienze-CNR).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 18 October 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Transport and optical spectroscopy on semiconductor quantum dots

Dr Martin Geller (University of Duisburg-Essen).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 15 October 2010, 10:30-12:00

AMOP list

Quantum Optics experiments with single Barium Ions

Sebastian Gerber (University of Innsbruck).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Optoelectronics Group

Molecular electronics from thin films to single molecules

Dr J Emyr Macdonald, Cardiff University.

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

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Does quantum-coherence help long-range energy transfer in conjugated polymers?

Lectures on the physics and chemistry of organic semiconductors

Professor G Scholes, University of Toronto.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 October 2010, 11:50-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

How morphology affects photophysics and performance in polymer solar cells

Lectures on the physics and chemistry of organic semiconductors

Professor R Janssen, Technical University of Eindhoven.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 October 2010, 11:10-11:50

Optoelectronics Group

The Polymer Chemistry of Carbon Materials and Graphenes

Lectures on the physics and chemistry of organic semiconductors

Professor K Müllen, Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Science, Mainz.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 October 2010, 10:30-11:10

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor John E. Anthony, University of Kentucky.

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

Monday 20 September 2010, 14:15-15:15

AMOP list

Solid state physics with fermionic atomic quantum gases: engineering metals and Mott insulators in an optical lattice

Dr Robert Jordens (ETH Zurich).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 16 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Electromagnetically induced transparency with single atoms in a cavity

Dr Stephan Ritter (Max-Planck-institute).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 13 September 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Electromagnetically induced transparency with single atoms in a cavity

Dr Stephan Ritter (Max-Planck-Institute).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 06 September 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Disordered and spin-dependent optical lattices

Prof B DeMarco (University of Illinois).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 26 August 2010, 10:00-11:00

AMOP list

Quantum Simulations with Cold Atoms: Challenges and proposed Solutions

Prof Tin-Lun Ho (Ohio state University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 23 July 2010, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

When molecular physics meets ultracold gases

Olivier Dulieu (CNRS Paris).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 19 July 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Time-resolving attosecond phenomena in multi-electron ionization of atoms driven by single photon and strong fields

Agapi Emmanouilidou (UCL).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 07 June 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Laser cooling of atoms using multi-photon transitions

Saijun Wu (Trey Porto Lab, NIST).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 18 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Semiconductor Microcavities Galore

Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 17 May 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Collective qubits and hybrid schemes for quantum computing

Klaus Moelmer (University of Aarhus, Denmark).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum information exchange between photons and electrons in solids

Hideo Kosaka (Tohoku Univeristy, Japan).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Polymer Solar Cells: From structure-property-relations to module fabrication

Dr. Harald Hoppe, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany.

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

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Tunable quantum gases in optical lattices: ground state molecules and strongly-interacting 1D systems

Hanns-Christoph Naegerl (University of Innsbruck).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 03 May 2010, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Franco Cacialli, University College London.

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

Friday 30 April 2010, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Photophysics of Strongly Confined Multiexcitons from the Perspective of Lasing and Solar Energy Conversion

Dr. Victor I. Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 30 April 2010, 11:00-12:00

Optoelectronics Group

Light structuring of functional polymers

Dr. Carlos Sánchez, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

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

Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

The N+1 body problem and the phase diagram of a spin imbalanced fermi gas

Dr Frederic Chevy.

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 26 April 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

CdSe Colloidal Quantum Dots Strained by ZnxCd1-xS or ZnyCd1-ySe Alloyed Shells

Claudine Allen (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 23 April 2010, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Fractional Quantum Hall effects in Rotating Optical lattices

Eliot Kapit (Cornell University).

Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Laser cooling and trapping of ions, atoms and molecules

Dr Hamid Ohadi (University of Southampton).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Quantum Multiple Scattering

Robin Kaiser (CNRS France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 08 March 2010, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Suppression of Spin Projection Noise in Broadband Atomic Magnetometry

Dr Koschorrreck (ICFO Barcelona).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

The Faraday effect in a slow-light medium

Ifan Hughes (Durham University).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 01 March 2010, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Highly Efficient Organic Devices

Professor Karl Leo, Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Excitons and photons in cavity-embedded quantum dot lattices

Dr Michal Grochol (Instut Fur Theoretische Physik, Germany).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Lab., JJ Thomson Ave.,Cambridge CB3 OHE.

Tuesday 15 December 2009, 11:30-13:00

AMOP list

Quantum dot based nanophotonics: Optical control of charge spin states

Prof Jonathan Finley (Walter Schottky Institut, Germany).

RutherfordEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 07 December 2009, 14:30-16:00

AMOP list

Josephson junctions for ultracold gases

Prof Markus Oberthaler (University of Heidelberg).

RutherfordEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 23 November 2009, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Ultracold Atoms near superconductors and carbon nanotubes

Dr Jozsef Fortagh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Vera Cimrová, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

The atomic Hanbury Brown Twiss effect: Fluctuations and correlations in cold quantum gases

Dr Chris Westbrook (Institure Optique, Orsay).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 09 November 2009, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

High mobility soluble polyacene–dielectric polymer formulations - a facile approach to large area printed electronics

Professor Stephen Yeates, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester,.

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

Friday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

3D Nanoscale Organization of Bulk heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

Dr. Joachim Loos, Eindhoven University of Technology.

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

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Electron Microscopy of Ultracold Quantum Gases

Professor Herwig Ott (Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 19 October 2009, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum Transport in Interfermoetry in BEC

Peter Drummond (Univ of Technology, Australia).

RutherfordEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 21 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Building blocks for a trapped ion quantum computer

Dr Simon Webster (Oxford).

RutherfordEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 August 2009, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Quantum Many-Body phenomena in coupled arrays of cavaties

Dr Michael Hartmann ( Technische Universitaet Muenchen).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Lab., JJ Thomson Ave.,Cambridge CB3 OHE.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 14:15-15:30

AMOP list

Ultra-cold bosonic gases in one-dimension

Dr Thomas Busch (University College Cork).

RutherfordEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 02 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

AMOP list

A measurement of the atomic recoil frequency using a ground state atom interferometer

Scott Beattie (York University).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 01 June 2009, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Porphyrin-based molecular wires: versatile new pi-systems

Professor Harry L. Anderson, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

And we thought organic MIS devices were simple structures!

Professor Martin Taylor, School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Alessandro Troisi, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick.

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

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Physics with Atomic Clocks: Beyond what time is it?

Prof Kurt Gibble (Penn State).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 18 May 2009, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Optical Atomic Clocks

Prof Patrick Gill (NPL).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 11 May 2009, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

X-ray scattering studies on F8T2 polymer thin films and self assembled monolayers

Prof. Roland Resel, T.U.Graz, Austria.

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

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Spin qubits in electrically defined quantum dots

Edward Laird (Harvard University).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 04 May 2009, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Diffractive light scattering from fermionic atomic gases in optical lattices

Dr Janne Ruostekoski (Southampton University).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 27 April 2009, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Controlling nuclear spins in quantum dots

Dr Jake Taylor.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 April 2009, 11:00-13:00

Optoelectronics Group

Material and device engineering: Two converging routes to improve the efficiency of polymer solar cells

Dr. Sjoerd Veenstra, Energy research Centre of the Netherlands.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Cold atoms in rotating optical lattice

Prof Chris Foot (Oxford).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 09 March 2009, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Soft X-ray spectro-microscopy of polymer solar cells

Benjamin Watts, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland.

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

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:30-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Charge transport in supramolecular assemblies: An atomistic description

Dr. Jerome Cornil, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Shaken to order: Dressed matter waves in driven periodic potentials

Dr Oliver Morsch (University of Pisa).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 16 February 2009, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Nuclear spin effects in optically pumped quantum dots

Dr Alexander Tartakovskii (Sheffield University).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 09 February 2009, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum coherence and decoherence in biological complexes

Dr Martin Plenio (Imperial College, London).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 02 February 2009, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Alkyl chain length independent hole mobility in poly(3-alkylthiophene)s via morphological control with nanofibres

Wibren Oosterbaan, Hasselt University, Belgium.

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

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 14:30-15:15

AMOP list

Going round the bend with Bose-Einstein condensates

Dr Aidan Arnold (Strathclyde).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 19 January 2009, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Functional interfaces in organic electronic devices

Dr. Norbert Koch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Germany.

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

Tuesday 13 January 2009, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Exciton delocalization dynamics in self-assembled pi-conjugated molecular materials

Dr. Laura Herz, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 01 December 2008, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Anderson localization of ultracold atoms in disordered lattices

Prof Massimo Inguscio (Florence University).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 24 November 2008, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Generation and recombination of charges in multicomponent polymer layers

Professor Dieter Neher, University of Potsdam.

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

Monday 24 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Microcavity in strong coupling regime: polariton lasing and bistability

Dr Jacqueline Bloch (CNRS France).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 17 November 2008, 14:15-15:30

AMOP list

Superconducting qubits and cavity QED

Andreas Wallraff (ETH).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 10 November 2008, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Detection of First Order Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions

Professor Neville Greaves, Aberystwyth University.

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

Friday 24 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

AMOP list

Light interactions in Rydberg ensembles

Prof Charles S Adams (Durham University).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 20 October 2008, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Organic Opto-Electronics: A materials scientist point of view

Dr. Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, Queen Mary, University of London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Polariton condensatesin Microcavities

Prof David Whittaker (Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Sheffield University).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 13 October 2008, 15:30-17:00

AMOP list

A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice

Dr Henning Moritz (ETH Zurich).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 18 August 2008, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Scanning Probe Microscopy of Active Polymer Electronic Devices

David Ginger, University of Washington, Seattle.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 05 August 2008, 14:30-15:15

AMOP list

Magnetic Phenomena in a Spin-1 Bose Gas

Sabrina Leslie (UC Berkeley).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 July 2008, 14:00-15:30

AMOP list

From Ultrafast Spectroscopy to X-ray imaging and back again

Dr Jeff Davis Swinburne Univ of Tech Australia.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 17 June 2008, 11:00-12:30

AMOP list

MIT's chase of the Fermi-Hubbard model with ultracold atoms

Aviv Keshet MIT.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 15:30-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Towards a second generation OLED model

Prof. Reinder Coehoorn, Philips Research Laboratories.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:30-15:15

AMOP list

The single-atom box: bosonic staircase and effects of parity

Prof Christoph Bruder (Universitat Basel).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 02 June 2008, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Ions: the neglected carriers in organic electronics

Prof. George Malliaras, Cornell University, Ithaca.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 02 June 2008, 10:30-11:15

AMOP list

Quantum hydrodynamics of coherent polaritons

Prof Luis Vina (UAM Madrid).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 26 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 19 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Photonic Nanostructures and materials for lasing and switching applications

Dr Thilo Stoeferle (IBM Rueschlikon).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 12 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Phase transitions from unconventional vortices in spinor Bose condensates

Prof Joel Moore (UC Berkeley).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 05 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Designing Light Absorbing Materials for Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunction Devices

Prof. Iain McCulloch, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 13:30-14:15

AMOP list

Hidden topological order in 1D Bose insulators

Ehud Altman (Weizmann Institute).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 28 April 2008, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

ORGANIC AND HYBRID SOLAR CELLS -from structural to functional control using novel material and device concepts -

Prof. Thelakkat, Applied Functional Polymers and Lab for Solar Energy Research, University of Bayreuth.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 22 April 2008, 14:30-15:15

AMOP list

Quantum information processing with diamond

Professor Steven Prawer (University of Melbourne).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 April 2008, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Triplet interactions in solution processed organic devices

Dr. Dirk Hertel, University of Cologne.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 14:30-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Organic semiconductors for electronics, sensors and photovoltaics

Prof. Michael Turner, University of Manchester.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:30-15:15

AMOP list

Optical clock with a single trapped ion

Dr Ekkehard Peik (PTB).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 25 February 2008, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Ion Trap QIP at Oxford

Dr David Lucas Clarendon Lab, Oxford.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 11 February 2008, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Stron Interactions in Non-equilibrium systems

Dr Hakan Tureci (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 28 January 2008, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Analysing the current-voltage response of bulk heterojunction solar cells

Dr. John de Mello, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Solid state quantum registers based on single spins assoicated with defects in diamond

Dr Fedor Jelezko (3. Physikalisches Institut).

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 21 January 2008, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Combined quantum-chemical and Monte-Carlo models of charge transport in molecular semiconductors

Prof. Jenny Nelson, Department of Physics, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Unconventional Electronics. Materials and Interfaces

Dr Antonio Facchetti, Department of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 04 December 2007, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Solid State Quantum registers based on single spins associated with defects in diamond

Dr Fedor Jelezko University of Stuttgart.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 26 November 2007, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Nanophotonics: where is it headed

Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Group, University of Cambridge.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Photophysics of molecular materials for photovoltaics

Dr. S.C.J. Meskers, Molecular Materials and Nanosystems, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Entanglement and Quantum Networking with Trapped Atomic Ions

Dr David Moehring Max-Planck Ins for Quantum Optics.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 12 November 2007, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Ultracold fermions and bosons in optical lattices

Dr Lucia Hackermueller University of Mainz.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 05 November 2007, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Coherent laser spectroscopy of quantum dots

Dr Brain Gerardot, Dept of Physics, Heriot-Watt University.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 29 October 2007, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Dynamics of Charge and energy transport: what's the reaction coordinate?

Prof. Eric Bittner, Univ. of Houston.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 14:30-15:30

AMOP list

Spin Qubits and their interactions with photons

Dr Guido Burkard.

HEP Seminar Room (980) Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 15 October 2007, 15:30-16:30

Optoelectronics Group

Nanotextured Transparent Semiconductor Oxides for Energy Conversion

Prof. Edward T. Samulski, University of North Carolina.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 28 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Organic electronic devices characterized with NEXAFS Microscopy and Resonant Soft X-Ray Reflectivity

Prof. Harald Ade, North Carolina State University.

MRC Seminar Room M208, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 20 September 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Optimal control as a new spectroscopic tool.

Prof. Arkady Yartsev, Lunds University, Sweden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 22 May 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Hierachical self-assembly of carbon based 2D nanostructured architectures: processing, manipulation and functions

Note unusual time

Dr. Paolo Samorì Université Louis Pasteur.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Growth and electronic band structure of crystalline organic films

Prof. Mike Ramsey, University of Graz.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Phonons in Graphene and Nanotubes

Note unusual time

Dr. Andrea Ferrari.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Electrochemical Experiments Involving Conducting Polymers

Burak Ulgut, Cornell University.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 02 April 2007, 10:00-11:00

Optoelectronics Group

Spectral Diffusion and Stokes’ Shift in Conjugated Polymers: From Hopping to Twist

Wichard J.D. Beenken, Department of Theoretical Physics I, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 20 March 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Charge transport in conducting polymers

Paul Blom, University of Groningen,The Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 16 March 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Challenges and Progress in Organic RFID

Paul Heremans, IMEC Belgium.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 09 March 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Polymer-based Optoelectronic Devices with Interlayers

Dieter Neher, University of Potsdam.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 15 January 2007, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Towards Low-Cost and Robust Organic Integrated Circuits

Thomas Anthopoulos, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Electron Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors

Joint TCM/OE seminar

Dr Darryl L. Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Liquid Crystal Photonic Devices

Myoung Hoon Song.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 11:30-12:15

Optoelectronics Group

Scattering Optical Elements: Inverse design of dielectric photonic devices

Andreas Håkansson, National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 13 October 2006, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Spectral Diffusion and Stokes’ Shift in Conjugated Polymers: From Hopping to Twist

Canceled

Wichard J.D. Beenken, Department of Theoretical Physics I, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 10 October 2006, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Modelling and improving (hybrid) bulk heterojunction solar cells

Jan Anton Koster, University of Groningen.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 03 October 2006, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of organic light-emitting diodes and field-effect transistors

Prof. Yukio Furukawa, Waseda University.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 20 June 2006, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Charge transport and recombination in bulk-heterojunction solar cells from extraction current transients

Note unusual time

Ronald Osterbacka, Abo Akademi University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 09 May 2006, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Functionalized semiconductor nanocrystals for photonic applications

Prof Jochen Feldmann, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 20 April 2006, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Plasmonics with metal nanoparticles

Prof Jochen Feldmann, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 11 April 2006, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

From single to multi-chromophore architectures

Alan Rowan, University of Nijmegen.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 23 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Organic Semiconductors: Modeling the Charge Transport

Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 07 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Scanning near-field spectroscopy of organic micro- and nano-structures

David Lidzey, Sheffield University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 24 January 2006, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Exciton migration and quenching in polymer-based optoelectronic devices

Denis Markov, University of Groningen, Holland.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 09 December 2005, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Unified Description of Charge-Carrier Mobilities in Disordered Semiconducting Polymers

Dr Peter Bobbert, Eindhoven University of Technology.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 22 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Planar Organic Electronic Nanodevices

Dr Aimin Song, Manchester.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 15 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Design of Electroluminescent Conjugated Polymers: Considerations on Single Chain, Conformation Manipulation, and Supramolecular Sturcture

Prof Show-An Chen, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 10 November 2005, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Polymer brushes: conformation and adhesion

Dr Mark Geoghegan, University of Sheffield.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 07 November 2005, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Electronic excitations in conjugated materials: "Un peu de tout"

Dr David Beljonne, Universit de Mons , Belgium.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 28 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Solid-State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Dr Henry Snaith, EPF Lausanne.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 04 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Status and Progress in Commercialising Polymer OLED Technology

Jonathan Halls, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd..

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 14 March 2005, 14:15-15:00