All Cavendish Laboratory Seminars

House HEP meeting room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Probabilistic inference in Physics illustrated with a toy model

User Prof. Giulio D'Agostini (University of Rome "Sapienza").

Tuesday 20 September 2016, 16:00-17:30

House HEP meeting room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Claim of discoveries based on sigma's

User Prof. Giulio D'Agostini (University of Rome "Sapienza").

Monday 19 September 2016, 16:00-17:30

The importance of electroweak corrections at high energies

User Christian Bauer (LBNL).

Tuesday 30 August 2016, 11:30-12:30

Low and High Energy Lepton Flavor Violation and Higgs Decays

User Manimala Mitra, Harish-Chandra Res. Inst..

Tuesday 16 August 2016, 16:00-17:00

interactions in strongly spin-orbit coupled systems

User Dimi Culcer (UNSW).

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

Twistor theory and topology of Ward solitons

User Prim Plansangkate (Prince of Songkla University).

Thursday 21 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Charge transport in strongly disordered and high-mobility two-dimensional materials (SP Wednesday Seminar)

User Dr Chi-Te Liang, Taipei.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 14:15-15:15

Two theoretical approaches to nanostructured interfaces

User Georgios Tritsaris.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 11:00-12:00

Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications

User Laura Marcu, PhD. Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering. University of California at Davis.

Friday 01 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Transverse momentum resummation: general formalism and the case of diphoton production at LHC

User Francesco Coradeschi (Florence University).

Friday 01 July 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

TBC (SP Monday Seminar)

User Dr Joseph Goodwin, Imperial College London.

Monday 27 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Liquid-crystalline states of ultracold atomic systems

User Sarang Gopalakrishnan.

Thursday 23 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

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

From Visible to Infrared Emitters 2D Nanoplatelets

User Professor Sandrine Lhuillier-Ithurria, ESPCI.

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Development of a SAW-driven source of polarised single photons

User Mr Antonio Rubino, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Radio observations of exoplanets and their host stars

User Alex Wolszczan (Penn State University, Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds).

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

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User Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 15:00-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Mesoscopic thermocouples

User Dr Rafael Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).

Monday 13 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Frustration and Correlations in Stacked Triangular Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets

User John Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford University).

Friday 10 June 2016, 11:15-12:15

Non-local density functional theory

User Prof. Stewart Clark, Durham University.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr Teng Yi, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Studying the QGP with heavy flavours and quarkonia

User Francesco Bossu (LAL, France).

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 15:00-16:00

Improving our knowledge on planetary systems using dynamics

User Alexandre Correia (Department of Physics, University of Aveiro).

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

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

User Professor Mark Wilson, University of Toronto.

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

Microtribology of biological and bio-inspired surfaces

User Lars Heepe, Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Germany.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

How to describe inhomogeneous quantum systems in one dimension with (conformal) field theory: lessons from non-interacting Fermi gases

User Jerome Dubail, CNRS, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:15-15:45

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Many-Body Excitations in One-Dimensional Electron Systems (SP Workshop)

User Mr Wooi Kiat Tan, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Searching for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

User Ben Jones (University of Texas, Arlington).

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 15:00-16:00

Direct detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets

User Sascha Quanz (ETH, Zurich).

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Collider tests of diphoton resonances and compositeness

User Emiliano Molinaro (University of Southern Denmark).

Friday 27 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Many-body interaction effects in Dirac-Weyl semimetals

User Edwin Barnes, Virginia Tech.

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

The Future of Microprocessors

User Ms Sophie Wilson FREng FRS.

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

Thursday 26 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr Bruno Villa, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Paulo V C Medeiros (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 11:00-11:45

Exceptionally simple PDE and G_2

User Dennis The (Vienna).

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

R&D at Fermilab: Accelerators Towards Precision Neutrino Experiments and Quantum Sensors of the “Dark” Sector

User Swapan Chattopadhyay (NIU / Fermilab/ CERN).

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 15:00-16:00

Gas flows as fuel for star formation in distant galaxies: a spotlight on strong absorption line systems

User Michele Fumagalli (Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, University of Durham).

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Bosons in synthetic gauge fields: Dynamics and probing edge states

User Ryan Barnett (Imperial).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Toward the realization of the quantum ampere with silicon nanoelectronics

User Dr Alessandro Rossi, University of Cambridge, Microelectronics Group.

Monday 23 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

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

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

User Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exploring soft matter with DNA

User Prof. Tommaso Bellini. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale. Laboratory of Complex Fluids and Molecular Biophysics. Università degli Studi di Milano .

Friday 20 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Searching for slightly heavy SUSY scalars

User Sebastian Ellis (University of Michigan).

Friday 20 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Energy Catalyst

User Michael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fermionic spinon and holon statistics in the pyrochlore quantum spin liquid

User Bruce Normand, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

House MRC seminar room - Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

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Recent progress at Quantum Computing and Devices Laboratories

User Prof Mikko Möttönen.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.

User Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr James Dann, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

A new look at the hydrogen atom

User Sir Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh).

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Calorimetry with humans: measuring delivered dose in radiotherapy treatment of cancer

User Karl Harrison and Ping Lin Yeap (Cambridge).

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

Probing molecular excitons with ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy

User Professor Jacob Krich, University of Ottowa.

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

Quasars into the epoch of reionization

User Richard McMahon (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here?

User Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

The PADME experiment at DAFNE Linac

User Mauro Raggi (INFN, Frascati).

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Bespoke Crystals: Using Bio-Inspired Approaches to Generate Crystals with Target Properties

User Prof. Fiona Meldrum, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

Friday 13 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Post-blast explosive residue: Morphological, chemical and computational studies

User Nadia Abdul-Karim, Security Science Doctoral Research Training Centre, University College London.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics and supercritical state

User Kostya Trachenko, Queen Mary, University of London.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Undoped 2D Electron systems as a tool for optimising MBE growth (SP Workshop)

User Mr Ben Ramsay, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Applied CAMD in Development of Adsorbents for Extraction of Uranium from Seawater

User Sinisa Vukovic ( University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Painlevé monodromy: geometry and quantization

User Vladimir Roubtsov (Angers).

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Searches for Sphaleron: LHC vs. IceCube

User Kazuki Sakurai (IPPP Durham).

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

Novel Conjugated Materials for Fission, Fusion and Reverse Intersystem Crossing

User Dr Hugo Bronstein, UCL.

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

Early galaxy formation processes: clues from Near-Field Cosmology

User Stefania Salvadori (Observatoire de Paris-CNRS).

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Dark matter and gauged flavor symmetries

User Fady Bishara (University of Oxford).

Friday 06 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

The characterisation of a shock tube system for blast injury studies

User Luz Nguyen, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Stripe Phases in Quantum Dipolar Gases

User Prof. Jordi Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Skyrmions, Oxygen-16 and the 6-punctured sphere

User Christopher Halcrow (DAMTP).

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Unconventional quantum oscillations in the Kondo insulator SmB6

User Suchitra E. Sebastian (University of Cambridge).

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

B_c decays from highly improved staggered quarks and NRQCD

User Andrew Lytle (Glasgow University).

Friday 29 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Onsager Principle -A useful principle in soft matter dynamics -

User Prof. Masao Doi. Center of Soft Matter Physics and its Applications, Internationa Research Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China.

Friday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering structure and response of soft materials with DNA-mediated interactions

User Lorenzo Di Michele, BSS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Kinetic challenges in solar energy conversion

User Professor James Durrant .

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr Bibin Wei, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

First-Principles Study of Frequency-Dependent Resonant Raman Scattering

User Yannick Gillet, Université catholique de Louvain.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Charge Quantization from a Number Operator

User Cohl Furey (Cavendish and DAMTP).

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Experimental reconstruction of the Berry curvature in a Floquet Bloch band

User Christof Weitenberg (Universitat Hamburg).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Strong coupling between hybrid nuclear-electron magnons and microwave photons

User Dr Leonid Abdurakhimov, Microelectronics Group, University of Cambridge.

Monday 25 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

One-Loop Soft Theorems via Dual Superconformal Symmetry

User Edward Hughes (Queen Mary, London).

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Nanoscale organisation and dynamics of molecules and ions at the interface with solids in solution

User Dr Kislon Voitchovsky, Lecturer in Soft Matter and Biological Physics. Durham University.

House MRC seminar room - Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

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Time-resolved detection of single-electron wave packets

User Dr Masaya Kataoka - National Physical Laboratory.

Friday 22 April 2016, 10:00-11:00

Characterization of gravelly soils for geotechnical engineering applications

User Jason DeJong, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy

User Gareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Improved single-electron pumping with surface acoustic waves in ZnO/GaAs systems

User Mr Hangtian Hou ( University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Overcoming the Terahertz Gap Using High-Tc Superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+Mesa Devices as Emitters

User Professor Kazuo Kadowaki; University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Friday 08 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

Thermal expansion of graphene beyond the quasiharmonic approximation

User Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM, Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 April 2016, 11:40-12:00

Control variate method for vibrational corrections in DFT

User Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM).

Wednesday 06 April 2016, 11:00-11:40

Aspects of warped extra-dimensional models

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User Abhishek Iyer (TIFR, Mumbai).

Tuesday 22 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

User Alp Sipahigil (Harvard).

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

Nurturing a political economy for a sustainable future: technology, innovation, and science

User David Bent - Forum for the Future.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar system

User Professor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

'Changing the character of characterisation; a physical approach to understanding the thermomechanical properties of polymers and polymer bonded composites'

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Condensed Matter Physics. All welcome

User Dr David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 March 2016, 15:30-16:10

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

New Approaches for Studying the Physics of Challenging Materials

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Condensed Matter Physics. All welcome

User Dr Andrew Jardine, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 March 2016, 10:45-11:25

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

New Approaches for Studying the Physics of Challenging Materials

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Condensed Matter Physics. All welcome

User Dr Andrew Jardine, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 March 2016, 10:45-11:25

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

"Expanding the Capability Envelope of Instrumented Indentation using Finite Element Method Modelling"

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Condensed Matter Physics. All welcome

User Dr James Dean, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Monday 14 March 2016, 10:00-09:55

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Shock Compression of Inhomogeneous Materials

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Condensed Matter Physics. All welcome

User Dr Chris Braithwaite, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 March 2016, 09:15-09:55

Frustration meets topology: from C>1 fractional Chern insulators to tilted Weyl semimetals

User Emil Bergholtz, Freie Universität Berlin.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

"The particulars of particulates".

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Condensed Matter Physics. All welcome

User Dr Nathalie Vriend, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-13:45

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

The design of an active Terahertz polarisation modulator device by integrating Chiral metamaterials with Graphene (SP Workshop)

User Mr Stephen Kindness, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Incorporating prior information into global search for improved structure prediction

User Saki Shinoda (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 12:00-12:15

The v Jastrow factor

User Thomas Whitehead (TCM).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Aided Drug Discovery

User Daniel Cole (TCM).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 11:00-11:40

On Witten - Kontsevich tau-function and its generalisations

User Boris Dubrovin (SISSA, Trieste).

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

DUNE: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

User Mark Thomson (Cambridge).

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

PICSAT: A space mission dedicated to the transit of Beta Pictoris b

User Sylvestre Lacour (L’Observatoire de Paris, France).

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Scalable microfabricated ion traps for quantum information processing, quantum simulations and sensing

User Dr Bjeorn Lekitsch, University of Southampton.

Monday 07 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Power laws in dislocation plasticity

User Mick Brown, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Low bias gate tunable THz plasmonics signatures in CVD graphene of varying grain size (SP Workshop)

User Mr Varun Kamboj, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

A positive Bondi--type mass in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes

User Paul Tod (Oxford, visiting DAMTP).

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Global Parallel Computation, Networks and Geometry

User Peter Braam (Braam Research LLC, USA).

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Low-energy resonant neutrino processes

User Rolf Oldeman (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

Photonic, Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications of Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

User Professor Jana Zaumseil, Heidelberg University.

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

Galaxy Bimodality and Post-Starburst Galaxies

User Vivienne Wild (University of St Andrews).

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

An introduction to Rinocloud a new data sharing hub

User Mr Eoin Murray ( University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group).

Monday 29 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Impact of Observing Lepton Number Violation on Models of Baryogenesis

User Julia Harz (UPMC,Paris).

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Advanced epitaxy of the group IV (Si-Ge-C-Sn) semiconductors

User Dr Maksym Myronov (Department of Physics, University of Warwick).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 26 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

Controlling Photon Upconversion in Lanthanide-doped Nanocrystals

User Professor Xiaogang Liu, National University of Singapore.

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

House Pippard Lecture Theater.

Conformational Spread: The Propagation of Allosteric States in Large Multiprotein Complexes

User Prof. Dennis Bray, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 26 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

A molecular perspective of water structure at metal surfaces

User Nadav Avidor, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Designs for Homogeneous Catalysts for Chemo-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity

User Prof. Robert Paton, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Powerful and efficient energy harvester with resonant-tunneling quantum dots (SP Workshop)

User Miss Gulzat Jaliel, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theatre, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Large non-saturating magnetoresistance in a novel superconductor Ca3.2Co4Sn12.8

User Dr. Monika Gamza, University of Central Lancashire.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 11:15-12:15

Supersymmetric Anti-de-Sitter Solutions

User Jan Gutowski (Surrey).

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Status and prospects of the NA62 experiment

User Antonino Sergi (University of Birmingham).

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

Interstellar scintillation – near and far

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

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Diamond Quantum Photonics and Optomechanics

User Marko Loncar (Harvard).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Superconducting Photonics and Quantum Electronics

User Dr Kaveh Delfanazari, University of Cambridge.

Monday 22 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Direct vs indirect probes of New Physics at Future Colliders

User Andrea Thamm (University of Mainz).

Friday 19 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Diffusion dynamics of adsorbates from tunnelling and other quantum effects

User Roberto Marquardt, Laboratory of Quantum Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France.

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Directed Assembly of Active Colloidal Devices

User Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Imaging Ballistic Trajectory in High Mobility Graphene Sample Using Scanning Gate Microscopy

User Mr Ziwei Dou ( University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Metrisability of Painleve equations, and Hamiltonian systems of hydrodynamic type

User Felipe Contatto (DAMTP).

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Electroweak physics in the forward region

User Marek Sirendi (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

Transparent Conductive Materials at the LMGP: Nanowire networks and oxides

User Dr David Munoz-Rojas, Grenoble Institute of Technology.

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

A giant cloud of hydrogen escaping a Neptune-mass exoplanet

User David Ehrenreich (Université de Genèva).

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Quantum science and technology with cavity optomechanical systems

User Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Cambridge).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Spin-orbit coupling, superconductivity, and topological states in Sb2Te3-GeTe-based heterostructures

User Dr. Vijay Narayan (University of Cambridge).

Monday 15 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Multiquark Hadron Spectroscopy

User Antonio Polosa (University of Rome).

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

New Directions for Organic Spintronics

User Professor Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin.

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

The dynamic compression and subsequent freezing of water

User Sam Stafford, Instutute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Ultracold dipolar gases with quantum Monte Carlo

User Stefano Giorgini, Università degli Studi di Trento.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Research on InP-based SWIR optoelectronic materials and devices

User Dr Yi Gu, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Science.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

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

Crystalline Covalent Organic Frameworks Designed for Optoelectronic Applications

User Dr Florian Auras, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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

Many-body effects on electron-phonon coupling

User Bartomeu Monserrat (TCM, University of Cambridge and Rutgers University).

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Berry's connection, Kahler geometry and the Nahm construction of monopoles

User Kenny Wong (DAMTP).

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Bottom-quark mass effects in bbH production

User Andrew Papanastasiou (Cavendish).

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

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

User Dr Yen-Hung Lin, Imperial College London.

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

The dawn of star formation: a local perspective

User Piercarlo Bonifacio (Observatoire de Paris, France).

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Programming nanoparticle assembly’

User Dr Amelie Heuer-Jungemann, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton.

Monday 08 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

The Coannihilation Codex

User Felix Yu (University of Mainz).

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Birefringence measurements in calcite and sapphire under shock compression

User Gareth Tear, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Geometric responses of Quantum Hall systems. Bulk and boundary.

User Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamics

User Prof David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure).

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Fast Terahertz Optoelectronic Amplitude Modulator Based on Plasmonic Metamaterial Antenna Arrays and Graphene (SP Workshop)

User Mr David Jessop, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

High-throughput calculation of phase diagrams with nested sampling

User Livia Bartók-Pártay (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 11:30-12:00

Nested sampling with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

User Robert Baldock (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 11:00-11:30

Frobenius manifolds, TQFT’s and a class of elliptic solutions

User Ian Strachan (Glasgow).

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Recent results and prospects of charm physics at LHCb

User Marco Gersabeck (Manchester).

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

The cosmological velocity field: from Slipher to modified gravity

User John Peacock (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids

CPDG meeting

User Masaki Oshikawa, ISSP Tokyo.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Light-matter interactions in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre

User Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge).

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

House Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

The Different Angles of Cell and Tissue Polarity

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Biological Physics. All welcome

User Dr Veronica Grieneisen, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park.

Monday 01 February 2016, 10:30-11:10

House Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tradeoffs between fast growth and adaptability shape microbial phenotypes

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Biological Physics. All welcome

User Dr Markus Basan, ETH Zurich.

Monday 01 February 2016, 09:45-10:25

House Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Quantitative Evolutionary Dynamics

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Biological Physics. All welcome

User Dr Jamie Blundell, SUNY, Stony Brook.

Monday 01 February 2016, 09:00-09:40

Renormalization-group effects in dark-matter direct detection

User Joachim Brod (University of Dortmund).

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Application of CFT to spin chains and the Fractional quantum Hall wave functions on the lattice.

User German Sierra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.

Friday 29 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theater.

Droplet-Based Microfluidics: High-Throughput Experimentation One Drop at a Time

User Prof. Andrew J. deMello, Professor of Biochemical Engineering Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.

Friday 29 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

The biosynthetic basis of budding yeast cell size control

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Biological Physics. All welcome

User Dr Kurt Schmoller, Stanford University.

Friday 29 January 2016, 10:30-11:10

House Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Spying on the inner workings of cells with super-resolution microscopy

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Biological Physics. All welcome

User Dr Suliana Manley, EPFL, Switzerland.

Friday 29 January 2016, 09:45-10:25

House Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cell shape and dynamics in biological development

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the University Lectureship in Biological Physics. All welcome

User Dr Kevin Chalut, BSS Sector, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 January 2016, 09:00-09:40

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

Computational Studies of Photophysical Phenomena in Molecules and Aggregates

User Dr David Casanova, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science.

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

Improving anharmonic vibrational calculations from first principles

User Joseph Prentice (TCM).

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 11:40-12:00

Ice surfaces – Surface energies and proton-ordering

User Edgar Engel (TCM).

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 11:00-11:40

Evanescent ergosurfaces and ambipolar hyperkähler metrics

User Ben Niehoff (DAMTP).

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Matching the Nagy-Soper parton shower at next-to-leading order

User Manfred Kraus (Aachen).

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

The James Webb Space Telescope: Capabilities, status and scientific timeline

User Pierre Ferruit (ESA).

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

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

User Professor Paolo Samori, University of Strasbourg.

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

Many-Body Localization Characterized from a One-Particle Perspective

User Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (LMU).

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

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

The Transient Localization Scenario for Charge Transport in Crystalline Organic Materials

User Professor Simone Fratini, CNRS.

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

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Landau level spectroscopy reveals the chirality and Klein tunnelling of electrons in twisted graphene tunnel transistors

User Dr Mark Greenaway, Nottingham University.

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

Signatures of axion-like particle dark matter and dark radiation

User Francesca Day (University of Oxford).

Friday 22 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theater.

Composite Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

User Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director, CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain.

Friday 22 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Molecular engineering for sustainable energy applications

User Jacqui Cole, Molecular Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Living Laboratory for Sustainability

User Emily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems

Please note unusual time

User Sebastian Müller, University of Bristol.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

"Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory"

User Professor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

The magnetic structure and dynamics of the MPS3 family (M=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)

User Dr Andrew Wildes - Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble..

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 11:15-12:15

Baby Skyrme models without a potential term

User Jenny Ashcroft (Kent).

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Looking out for new physics through the top window

User Oleg Brandt (Heidelberg).

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

House TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Multiferroic hexagonal RMnO3: a model system for 2D triangular lattice antiferromagnets

User Prof. Je-Geun Park. 1-Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul. 2-Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul .

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

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

User Professor Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

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

Galaxy assembly in 2<z<6.5 from the VUDS survey

User Olivier Le Fèvre (Laboratoire D’Astrophysique de Marseille, France).

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Bell correlations in a Bose-Einstein condensate

User Philipp Treutlin (Unibas Switzerland).

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

Resonances in coupled-channel scattering from QCD

User David Wilson (DAMTP).

Friday 15 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Investigating Defective Anatase Surfaces Using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory

User Edward Tait (TCM).

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 11:40-12:00

Computing solvent effects on electronic excitations with linear-scaling TDDFT

User Tim Zuehlsdorff (TCM).

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 11:00-11:40

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

High-sensitivity superconducting detectors for mm/submm/THz astronomy

User Professor Sheng-Cai Shi, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Monday 14 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

The development of silicon compatible processes for HEMT realisation

User Dr Menglin Cao (CAPE), University of Cambridge.

Monday 07 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

Coupling Spin and Charge Transport in Complex Materials

User Dr Martin Gradhand, University of Bristol.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr Wooi Kiat Tan, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Complexity at High Pressure From Pure Elements to Thermoelectrics

User Dr. Ingo Loa, CSEC Edinburgh..

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 11:15-12:15

The exact functional of density functional theory

User Dr Aron Cohen, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

TBA

User Mark Gross (DPMMS).

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Detection of the missing Universe with xenon.

User Auke-Pieter Colijn (UvA Amsterdam & NIKHEF).

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Strategies for scalable large-area electronics with improved operation frequency

User Dr Mario Caironi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

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

Are Bulges and Disks Real? * Seminar cancelled *

User Michael Merrifield (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham).

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Realizing quantum networks and secure computations using photons

User Stefanie Barz (Oxford University).

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

Natural Heavy Supersymmetry

User Matthew McCullough (CERN).

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Hybrid functional devices based on graphene

User Vincent Bouchiat, Institut Néel, CNRS-Grenoble, France.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Dragons' Den

User Various members of TCM.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Unraveling the Photophysical Properties of Organic Semiconductors

User Professor Natalie Banerji, University of Fribourg.

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Determining the energy relaxation length scale in two-dimensional electron gases (SP Workshop)

User Mr Jordan Billiald, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

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

High pressure structure searching: calcium oxides under mantle conditions

User Joseph Nelson (TCM Group, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11:40-12:00

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

Ionitronic Effects in Strongly Correlated Oxide Thin Films

User Professor Judith Driscoll, Dept. Materials Science, University of Cambridge..

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11:15-12:15

The generation of free charges in efficient organic solar cells

User Samuel Smith (TCM Group, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11:00-11:40

Symplectic geometry and feedback loops on graphs.

User David Tourigny (DAMTP).

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Discovery through precision: perturbative QCD at the dawn of Run II

User Juan Rojo (Oxford).

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Molecular Gas, Star Formation and Galaxy Dynamics from z=2.5-0

User Linda Tacconi (MPI fuer Extraterrestriche Physik, Garching, Germany).

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Light-matter interactions in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre

User Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Quantum Dot Growth Technology by MBE for Advanced Photovoltaics

User Professor Yoshitaka Okada.

Monday 23 November 2015, 14:00-17:00

The Universal One-Loop Effective Action

User Jeremie Quevillon (King's College London).

Friday 20 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Membrane Technologies Toward Resolving the Energy-Water Nexus

User Professor Easan Sivaniah, Kyoto University.

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

Nanophotonic approaches to investigate the spatiotemporal organization of biological membranes

User Prof. Maria F. Garcia-Parajo, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain and ICREA- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain.

Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Adhesive properties of polymer bonded explosive constituents: An experimental, analytical and computational approach

User Neil Hamilton, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Recent progress in linear scaling DFT: Molecular dynamics, basis sets and applications

User Prof. David Bowler, University College London.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Towards measuring decoherence times of Undoped GaAs/AlGaAs spin qubit (SP Workshop)

User Miss Egle Tylaite, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Effects of interactions on Lifshitz transition: taking sodium cobaltate as a possible example.

User Dr. Jospeh Betouras, Dept. of Physics, Loughborough University..

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 11:15-12:15

The mathematical structure of covariant loop quantum gravity and an application to primordial black holes decay

User Carlo Rovelli (Marsellie).

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

The status of EWK SUSY searches at ATLAS and future prospects

User Tina Potter (Cambridge).

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Tagging with APOGEE: Discovery of a population of stars with globular cluster chemical compositions in the field of the galactic bulge

User Ricardo Schiavon (Liverpool John Moores University).

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Excitonic properties and valley dynamics in monolayer transitioin metal dichalcogenides

User Bernhard Urbaszek (Toulouse, France).

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

Hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice QCD

User Bipasha Chakraborty (University of Glasgow).

Friday 13 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Hyperspectral imaging - a flexible tool for tissue characterization

User Prof. Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) .

Friday 13 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Structural energetics based on intermetallic reactions

User Chris Braithwaite, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Powerful and deceptive Feynman diagrammatic series

User Evgeny Kozik, King's College London.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems"

User Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Investigating Charge and Vorticity in the Cooper Pair Transistor using RF Reflectometry (SP Workshop)

User Mr Vivek Chidambaram, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Emergence of the nematic state in FeSe

User Dr. Amalia Coldea, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford..

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 11:15-12:15

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

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

User Emrys Evans, University of Oxford.

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

Vortices, non-relativistic field theory and the Quantum Hall Effect

User Carl Turner (DAMTP).

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Drell-Yan Production at NNLL'+NNLO Matched to Parton Showers

User Simone Alioli (CERN TH).

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Self-Assembled DNA Nanosystems for Energy and Electron Transfer Applications

User Professor Bo Albinsson, Chalmers University of Technology.

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

Prestellar cores in the ALMA era

User Malcolm Walmsley (INAF, Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory, Italy).

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Visualizing Quantum Turbulence in Superfluid 3 He-B using quasiparticles

User Viktor Tseplin (Lancaster University).

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

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

A review of the Run 1 diboson excesses at the LHC

User Dave Sutherland (University of Cambridge).

Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Sine-Gordon kinks and dislocation motion

User Steven Fitzgerald, Department of Materials Science, University of Oxford.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Tensor Network Representation of Strongly Correlated States of Matter

Note unusual time / day

User Didier Poilblanc, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Multi-purpose Black-Phosphorus/hBN heterostructures

User Gabriel Constantinescu, TCM Group, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 11:00-11:30

Topics in modern surface theory with visualizations

User David Brander (Technical University of Denmark).

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Inelastic proton-proton cross section at 13 TeV

User Miguel Arratia-Munoz (Cambridge).

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Studying the Cosmic Large-Scale Structure and Testing Cosmological Models with X-ray Galaxy Clusters

User Hans Böhringer (MPI fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany).

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Does an isolated quantum system relax?

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

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

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

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

User Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

How to Understand Molecular Transport through Channels: The Role of Interactions

User Prof. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston.

Friday 30 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

New opportunities and challenges for electron microscopy

User Archie Howie, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Dynamical constraints, metastability and many-body localisation

User Juan P Garrahan, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

User Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Molecular Beam Epitaxy in the Semiconductor Physics Group (SP Workshop)

User Dr Harvey Beere, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Quartics, sextics and G_2 structures

User Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Quartics, sextics and G_2 structures

User Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Status of global sterile neutrino fits

User Gabriel Collin (MIT).

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Challenges of the Doppler technique in the presence of stellar noise

User Guillem Anglada (Queen Mary University of London).

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Self-organized pseudo-graphene on grain boundaries in topological band insulators

User Dr Ville Lahtinen, Berlin.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

User Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

CheckMATEing BSM models in general and a natural NMSSM in particular

User Daniel Schmeier (Bonn University).

Friday 23 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Continuous Droplet Interface Crossing Encapsulation (cDICE): artificial cells and capsules

User Dr. Gladys Massiera. Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C – UMR 5221), CNRS - Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier, France.

Friday 23 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Investigating pnictogen surfaces via HAS: The effect of electron-hole excitations on measured vibronic modes

User Patrick Kraus, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Experiments with the iterated stockholder atoms procedure in intermolecular interaction models

User Alston Misquitta, Queen Mary University, London.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities

User Professor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Getting the most out of CryoMeas (SP Workshop)

User Prof Chris Ford, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Commuting the mean-field and classical limits in quantum mechanic

User Clément Mouhot (DPMMS).

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

A general subtraction scheme for NNLO computations in perturbative QCD

User David Heymes (Cavendish).

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Studying galaxy evolution using integral-field spectroscopy

User Michele Cappellari (University of Oxford).

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

User Frank Vewinger (University of Bonn).

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

New physics at the TeV scale: extra Higgses and WIMP Dark Matter

User Filippo Sala (IPhT, Paris Saclay).

Friday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Substituted Nucleotides: versatile building blocks in DNA bio-nanotechnology

User Prof. Eugen Stulz, School of Chemistry and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton.

Friday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

A dynamic discrete dislocation plasticity study of plastic relaxation phenomena in shock loading

User Beñat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, Imperial College, London.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms

User Dr Hannah Price, Universita di Trento.

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale

Refreshments will be served between 3pm and 4pm in the lecture theatre foyer following the lecture

User Dr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.

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

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical Lattices

User Dr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Welcome New 1st Year Students (SP Workshop)

User Prof David Ritchie; Prof Charles Smith; Prof Chris Ford; Dr Harvey Beere; Dr Malcolm Connolly; Dr Vijay Narayan.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Complexity and self-organization in superconducting metamaterials.

User Prof Giorgos Tsironis, University of Crete and Nazarbaev University.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 11:15-12:15

Hitchin Equations on R^2 and Z^2

User Richard Ward (Durham).

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

A search for diboson resonances at ATLAS using boson-tagged jets

User Alex Martyniuk (UCL).

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Photophysics and Opto-electronics of Organic-Inorganic Hybrids

User Professor Maria Loi, University of Groningen.

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

Galaxy luminosity function and Tully-Fisher relation: reconciled at last

User Andrea Cattaneo (Observatorio de Paris, France).

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

The realization of large arrays of quantum dots via a multiplexed charge-locking system (SP Workshop)

User Mr Moda Cao, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Modern event generation for the LHC: Features and caveats of Sherpa

User Frank Siegert (TU Dresden).

Tuesday 06 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Photon Upconversion by Triplet Energy Migration in Molecular Assemblies

User Professor Nobuhiro Yanai, Kyushu University.

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Towards Single-electron Pumping with Graphene Quantum Hall Antidots (SP Workshop)

User Mr Jinggao Sui, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Emergent phenomena from topological magnets

User Professor Yoshinori Tokura, RIKEN and University of Tokyo.

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 10:00-11:00

Looking for lepton flavour violation in supersymmetry at the LHC

***note unusual day for this talk***

User Abhishek Iyer, TIFR, Mumbai.

Tuesday 22 September 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Room 713, Link Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Deformation Pathways in Shock Compressed Silicon: Experiments and Atomic Simulations

User Eric Hahn, UCSD San Diego, California.

Friday 18 September 2015, 13:30-14:30

Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure?

User Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham.

Thursday 17 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

House TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure?

User Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham.

Thursday 17 September 2015, 14:00-16:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Annual Safety Talk (SP Workshop)

User Mrs Melanie Tribble, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Next Generation Radio Arrays for Geospace Science

User Frank Lind (MIT Haystack Observatory, USA).

Tuesday 15 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Observations of the 0.7 anomaly in p-type quantum point contacts (SP Workshop)

User Miss Karina Hudson, University of New South Wales.

Wednesday 02 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Meeting Room, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

GLEAM: The Galactic and Extragalactic All-Sky MWA Survey

User Randall Wayth (ICRAR, Australia).

Tuesday 01 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr Vivek Chidambaram, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 26 August 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Miss Egle Tylaite, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 19 August 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Probing the coupling between holes and nuclear spins in GaAs using a Landau level diode

User Mr Oleh Klochan, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Monday 17 August 2015, 14:15-15:15

Thermalization vs localization in a solvable circuit model

User Anushya Chandran, Perimeter Institute.

Friday 14 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Probing Quantum Transport in CVD Graphene (SP Workshop)

User Mr Shu-Wei Wang, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 12 August 2015, 14:15-15:15

Superconducting states in time reversal invariant Landau levels

User Prof. Bruno Uchoa, Oklahoma.

Thursday 06 August 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Metamaterial based devices for imaging, sensing and biological applications in the terahertz frequency range

User Dr Riccardo Degl'Innocenti.

Monday 03 August 2015, 11:00-12:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Measurement and control of electron wavepackets from a single-electron source (SP Workshop)

User Miss Joanna Waldie, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 29 July 2015, 14:15-15:15

Bragg spectroscopy of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

User Konrad Viebahn (Cavendish Lab).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Terahertz Quantum Cascade lasers based on Micro-resonators (SP Workshop)

User Miss Yuqing Wu, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 22 July 2015, 14:15-15:15

Physics Without Borders

User Greg Benesh (Baylor University).

Wednesday 22 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Integration of quantum dot light sources (SP Workshop)

User Mr Eoin Murray, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 15 July 2015, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Complexity in Ultracold Quantum Systems

User Lincoln D. Carr (Colorado School of Mines).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

(SP Workshop) One-dimensional electron systems beyond the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid model

User Miss Ankita Anirban, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 08 July 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

(SP Wednesday Workshop) Quantum multiplexer based on 1D quantum wires in low-dimensional heterostructures

User Mr Ma Pengcheng, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 14:15-15:15

The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA)

User Dave DeBoer (University of California, Berkeley).

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

Excited-state calculations in FCIQMC

User Nicholas Blunt (Chemistry).

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:40-12:00

Excited state calculations and theoretical spectroscopy of complex nanomaterials using Linear-Scaling Density Functional Theory

User Dr Nick Hine (University of Warwick).

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-11:40

Listening to Individual Nanoparticles (Prof. Reuven Gordon, University of Victoria, Canada)

User Prof. Reuven Gordon, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Victoria (Canada).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 26 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

(SP Wednesday Workshop) Electrically contacting a low number of PbS nanocrystals using graphene

User Mr Hippolyte Astier, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

User Charles Adams (Durham University).

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

Z4 parafermions in time-reversal invariant topological insulators

User Prof. Thomas Schmidt, University of Luxembourg.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Real space calculation of response functions using non-diagonal supercells

User Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM).

Wednesday 17 June 2015, 11:40-12:00

Understanding interacting many-particle systems: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excitations in solids

User Johannes Lischner (Imperial).

Wednesday 17 June 2015, 11:00-11:40

Looking for a hidden sector in exotic Higgs decays with the ATLAS experiment

User Andrea Coccaro (University of Geneva).

Tuesday 16 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Materials beyond the periodic table: a high-throughput structure prediction study

User Martin Uhrin (EPFL).

Tuesday 16 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Dark Matter at the LHC: Understanding experimental reach

User Thomas Jacques (Geneva).

Friday 12 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Osmosis beyond van't Hoff: molecular views, osmotic diodes and energy harvesting

User Professor Lyderic Bocquet .

Friday 12 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Imaging techniques - Some spectroscopy techniques

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr Chi Man (Jason) Cheng, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Thin Film Magnetism Group Seminars

Effective field measurements and spin torque dynamics in magnetic nanostuctures

Followed by refreshments

User The Sir martin Wood Lecture Prize - Dr Masamitsu Hayashi, National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

House Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Displaced decays of a SM-like Higgs boson

User Jackson Clarke (Melbourne).

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Towards imaging the event horizon in the galactic centre

User Heino Falcke (IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands).

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Copper Indium Sulphide Colloidal Quantum dots

User Dr. Kevin Critchley, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. United Kingdom..

Monday 08 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Model-independent precision constraints on physics beyond the standard model

User Adam Falkowski (Orsay, LPT).

Friday 05 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Dirac cones in two-dimensional borane?

User Miguel Martinez-Canales (Edinburgh).

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Dirac cones in two-dimensional borane?

User Miguel Martinez-Canales (Edinburgh).

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

The SoLid experiment

User Nick Ryder, Oxford.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Spin Polarisation Effects in C60 Spectroscopy

User Dr. Oscar Cespedes, University of Leeds.

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

The relationship between the inter-galactic medium and galaxies

User Simon Morris (University of Durham).

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Is Our Universe Metastable, Stable, Critical ... ?

User Enzo Branchina (Catania U. & INFN).

Friday 29 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Polymer enhanced oil recovery; soft matter physics to explain an industrial question

User Dr Andrew Clarke, Schlumberger Gould Research.

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Quantification of near field blast loading

User Sam Clarke, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Trions and Biexcitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

User Dr Neil Drummond, Lancaster University.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr David Jessop, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Magnetic Structure Solution of Frustrated Spin Systems

User Joe Paddison, University of Oxford and STFC-ISIS Facility, UK..

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 11:15-12:15

Vacuum Decay by Topological Solitons

User Manu Paranjape, Université de Montréal.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Search for the associated production of Higgs bosons and top quarks at sqrt(s)=7-8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at LHC

User Giuseppe Salamanna (Roma Tre).

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

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

User dr. Arjan Houtepen, TU Delft.

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

Linking the formation history of planets with their spectrum

User Christoph Mordasini (University of Bern, Switzerland).

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Constraints on the alignment limit of the MSSM Higgs sector

User Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz & LBNL).

Friday 22 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

A microfluidic diffusion chamber for the analysis of soft biological matter

User Professor Jure Derganc, Institute of Biophysics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Friday 22 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Shocking temperatures. 2: What did we get?

User Alyssa Picard, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-17:00

Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices

User Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Measurement of mechanical properties of diamond via solid particle erosion

User Ben Ramsay, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-16:30

Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets

Note Early Starting Time

User Julien Vidal, CNRS, LPTMC Paris.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:45-14:45

Interfacial materials and interface structure prediction: an ab initio random structure searching approach

User Georg Schusteritsch (UCL).

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Folded self-dual geometry

User Nigel Hitchin (Oxford).

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House **Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy**.

A consistent view on normal star-forming galaxies from z~2 to 8 from multi-wavelength observations and SED modelling

User Daniel Schaerer (Université de Genevé, Switzerland).

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

X-ray Spectroscopy: Photoemission and magnetic dichroism

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Monday 18 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

DNA nanotechnology, nanomachines and molecular computing

User Dr Katherine Dunn, University of York.

Monday 18 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Higgs pseudo-observables

User David Marzocca (Zurich).

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Developing and using atomic force microscopy to understand soft and biological systems, from bacteria to plastic bags

User Professor Jamie Hobbs, Physics Department, University of Sheffield.

Friday 15 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Wavefunctions of symmetry protected topological phases and conformal field theories

User Zohar Ringel, Oxford University.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Silicon quantum dots for quantum information processing

User Dr. Chih-Hwan Henry Yang, University of New South Wales, Au.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Integrable tops, separation of variables and Stasheff polytopes

User Alexander Veselov (Loughborough) .

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Revisiting AGN accretion disks: Black hole spin and growth rate

User Hagai Netzer (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel).

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Design and Applications of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers in Imaging and Sensing

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the recently advertised Early Career Lectureship position. All welcome

User Dr Alexander Valavanis, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds..

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 12:30-13:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Searching for EWK SUSY at ATLAS

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the recently advertised Early Career Lectureship position. All welcome.

User Dr Christina Potter, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:50-12:20

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thermoelectric signatures of topological media

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the recently advertised Early Career Lectureship position. All welcome

User Dr Vijay Narayan, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:10-11:40

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Beautiful CP Violation: Looking for cracks in the Standard Model

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the recently advertised Early Career Lectureship position. All welcome

User Dr Sneha Malde, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 10:20-10:50

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Light-matter interaction in complex dielectric media

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the recently advertised Early Career Lectureship position. All welcome

User Dr P. David Garcia-Fernandez, Quantum Photonics Group, Niels Bohr Institute.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 09:40-10:10

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Geological materials under extreme conditions

This talk is being given as part of the selection process for the recently advertised Early Career Lectureship position. All welcome

User Dr Chris Braithwaite, Surfaces, Microstructure & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 09:00-09:30

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

X-ray spectroscopic methods to measure energy response function (absorption techniques)

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Monday 11 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Effect of optical feedback on Quantum Cascade Lasers

User Dr Francesco Mezzapesa, Università degli Studi e Politecnico di Bari, Italy.

Monday 11 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

The Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory

User Tevong You (King's College London).

Friday 08 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

smh80's list

Nanostructure characterization of planar biomimetic membranes with neutron reflectometry

User Dr. Marco Maccarini, TIMC/IMAG, Grenoble.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory..

Friday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

The Doctoral Training Centre in computational materials science

User James Elliott, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty

User Prof. Christiane Morais Smith, University of Utrecht.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 14:15-15:45

Singlet fission in pentacene dimers

User David Turban (TCM).

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:40-12:00

Correcting the heavy-tailed local energy distribution in QMC

User Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM).

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:40

Spectral Sequences Applied to Two Specific Problems in the BRST Cohomology of Supersymmetric Theories in D=4 and D=10 Spacetime dimensions.

User John Dixon (visiting Oxford).

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Van der Waals heterostructure devices

User Dr Freddie Withers, University of Manchester.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 14:15-15:00

The cold winds of change – hot cores and molecular outflows in dusty galaxies

User Susanne Aalto (Chalmers, Sweden).

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain model

User Prof Ian Affleck.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

On the characterisation of shock-induced sliding along multi-material interfaces

User Mark Collinson, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Instanton Solutions from Abelian Sinh-Gordon and Tzitzeica Vortices.

User Felipe Contatto (DAMTP).

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Light stops, kinematic variables, and gaps from LHC Run I

User Ben Nachman (SLAC).

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Galaxy evolution in the era of large-scale galaxy surveys

User Daniel Thomas (University of Portsmouth).

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Resonant x-ray diffraction techniques to probe magnetic and electronic properties

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Monday 27 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Dynamics of cold bosons in microtraps

User Peter Kruger (The University of Nottingham).

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

Recent excess in Dark Matter Indirect Detection and possible interpretations

User Giorgio Arcadi (Orsay, LPT).

Friday 24 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Interferometric scattering microscopy: From high-speed nanometry to ultra-sensitive label-free imaging

User Professor Philipp Kukura, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford .

Friday 24 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Exploiting locality: large-scale first-principles simulations of nanostructures

User Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

The quest for electron-hole superfluidity

User Prof David Nielson, University of Camerino, Italy.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Time-dependent density functional theory: past and future

User Yutian Wu (TCM).

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 12:00-12:20

First-principles investigation into surfaces of lithium-ion battery silicon anodes

User Darren Valentine (Chem).

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 11:40-12:00

Prediction of NMR J-coupling in condensed matter

User Tim Green (Oxford).

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 11:00-11:40

Energy peaks and future progress on the top quark mass measurement

User Rroberto Franceschini (CERN TH).

Tuesday 21 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Broken summetries in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

User Sandro Stringari (Trento, Italy).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Transport and superconductivity at topological surfaces and interfaces

User Professor Alexander Brinkman, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Monday 20 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

Patents in theory and in practice

User Dr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley.

Thursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Ultrasonic gas mixture analysis for Cherenkov Refractometry and coolant leak hunting in silicon trackers.

User Greg Hallewell, CNRS Marseille.

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Quantum optics in One-dimensional photonic reservoirs

User Peter Lodahl (Niels Bohr Institute).

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

Xenon oxides under pressure

User Nicholas Worth, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 April 2015, 11:40-12:00

Quantum methods in bioluminescence imaging and analysis

User Shane Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 April 2015, 11:00-11:40

Divisor braids and gauge theory

User Nuno Romao (Goettingen).

Tuesday 07 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Tailoring the properties of NV colour centers in diamond

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

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Conductivity-scaling in highly-resistive two-dimensional electron gases

User Dr Dirk Backes, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

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

Spin and Orbital Order in the vanadium spinels

User Elisa Wheeler, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 11:15-12:15

Radiation beyond the soft approximation

User Chris White (Glasgow).

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

House Pippard Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

“Light and colour: experiments and theory”

2015 Science Festival Talk

User Malcolm Longair ( Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory).

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 18:00-19:00

Pseudopotentials for a dipolar ultracold atomic gas

User Thomas Whitehead (TCM).

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic structure and computational design of hybrid lead-iodide perovskites

User Marina Filip (Oxford).

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:00-11:40

House Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cell-size control and homeostasis at the single-cell level

User Professor Suckjoon Jun, UCSD Physics and Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Analysing data with fake lepton backgrounds

User Tom Gillam (Cambridge).

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Higgs mass in heavy-SUSY scenarios

User Pietro Slavich (LPTHE, Paris).

Friday 13 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Shocking sand: Granular materials under extreme conditions

User James Perry, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

A remarkable set of contemplations

User Craig Bennett - Friends of the Earth.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Non-equilibrium steady states in many-body quantum systems

User Benjamin Doyon, King's College London.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 14:15-15:45

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr David Jessop, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Linear scaling DFT for the investigation of defective oxide nanomaterials

User Edward Tait (TCM).

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 11:40-12:00

Computing optical properties of large systems: linear-scaling time-dependent density functional theory (LS-TDDFT) in ONETEP

User Tim Zuehlsdorff (TCM).

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 11:00-11:40

Recent developments in galaxy spectral modelling

*** Note unusual time

User Stephane Charlot (Institut Astrophysique de Paris).

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Supergravity, T-duality and Double Field Theory

User Eric Bergshoeff (Groningen).

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Theory Uncertainties in LHC Higgs Production and N3LO QCD

User Franz Herzog (Nikhef).

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Antonios Kanaras (University of Southampton) .

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

Quantum interfaces between single atoms and single telecom photons

User Christoph Becher (Universitat des Saarlandes).

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

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

X-ray diffraction techniques to obtain structural information (powder and single crystal)

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Monday 09 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cavity Quantum Optomechanics with Optical Microresonator

User Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL, Switzerland).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Nano-Spintronic Devices

User Prof Atsufumi Hirohata, Dept of Electronics, University of York and PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Monday 09 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Models of Modified Gauge Mediation

User Robert Ziegler (UPMC, Paris).

Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Growth and form of the gut

User Dr Thiery Savin, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University .

Friday 06 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Magnetic resonance in physics and engineering: Dynamics of solids and fluids

User Andy Sederman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

New directions in liquid crystals

User Professor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies

User Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON).

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Knotted structures of light, gravitational radiation, and plasma

User Dirk Bouwmeester (UC Santa Barbara & Leiden).

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Composite leptoquarks and anomalies in B decays

User Sophie Renner (DAMPT).

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

TBA

User Antonios G. Kanaras , University of Southampton.

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

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

Synchrotron radiation and beamlines at 3rd generation synchrotrons

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

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

User Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique, France).

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

TCSA, or: yet another look at the Ising phase transition

User Matthijs Hogervorst (CERN).

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

User Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Probing surface structure and interactions of ionic liquids

User Karen Syres, Department of Physics, University of Central Lancashire.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Miss Cassandra Chua, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Anharmonic vibrations and the neutral vacancy in diamond and silicon

User Joseph Prentice (TCM).

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 11:40-12:00

Superconductivity in high-pressure phases of hydrogen sulfides

User Joseph Nelson (TCM).

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 11:00-11:40

LITTLE THINGS and other things: probing star formation near and far

User Elias Brinks (University of Hertfordshire).

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Mass renormalization in (super)string theory

User Arnab Rudra (DAMTP).

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Aspects of Vector Like Confinement

User Michele Redi (INFN,Florence).

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

User Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

User Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

House TCM Seminar room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Charge, spin and vacancy ordering in perovskites obtained from high pressure and reductive chemistry.

User Dr Angel Arevalo Lopez, CSEC, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 20 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Scanning helium microscopy (SHeM): Real space imaging of delicate surfaces

User David Ward, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities

User Professor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Science with ALMA: the cool side of the universe

User Leonardo Testi (ESO).

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

From the twistor action to amplitudes, Wilson loops, dlogs and dilogs

User Lionel Mason (Oxford).

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Levitated Optomechanics

User Peter Barker (UCL).

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

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Modulation of THz Metamaterials Using Graphene Surface Plasmons

User Dr Isaac Luxmoore, University of Exeter.

Monday 16 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions

User Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Shocking temperatures. 1: What did you expect?

User David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Beyond the pit latrine - developing new tools for organic waste management in the global south

User John Mullet - SOWTech Ltd.

Combined TCM Seminars and TCM blackboard seminar listing

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Topological order from parafermions

User Paul Fendley, Oxford University, All Souls College.

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Lepton Flavor Violation in B decays?

User Diego Guadagnoli (Annecy,LAPTH) .

House MR15, CMS.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Emergent phenomena in the BiS2 family of superconductors from first principles

User Corentin Morice (TCM) .

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:40-12:00

Classical statistical mechanics with nested sampling

User Robert Baldock (TCM) .

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-11:40

Detecting and Characterising Planets with Direct Imaging

User Beth Biller (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

From the positive Grassmannian to shallow water waves, via soliton solutions to the KP equation

User Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley).

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Interaction of x-rays with matter

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Monday 09 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

BSM Primary effects

User Rick Gupta (Weizmann).

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Quasi-elastic neutron scattering: a powerful tool to investigate molecular dynamics in two dimensions

User Irene Calvo Almazán, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

TCM's "Dragon's Den"

User multiple internal speakers - see abstract.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materials

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

TBC (SP Workshop)

User Mr Frederik Floether, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Venue to be confirmed.

Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies * Seminar cancelled *

User Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON).

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Tree-Level S-Matrices: from Einstein to Yang-Mills, Born-Infeld, and More

User Ellis Yuan (Perimeter Institute) .

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

The Top/Higgs gateway to new physics

User Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Louvain).

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Sandrine Heutz (Imperial College London).

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

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

From x-ray tubes to storage rings and beyond

User Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Monday 02 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

House Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Dark matter decay into gamma-ray lines

User Tiziana Scarna (Brussels ULB & Cavendish).

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

User Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool .

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Nanostructures for tuning of optical properties: Light and matter wave applications

User Martin Greve, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Two-dimensional Valence Bond Solid (AKLT) states from t2g electrons

User Maciej Koch-Janusz, Weizmann Institute.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Ab initio study of phosphorus anode for lithium and sodium-ion batteries

User Martin Mayo (TCM).

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 11:40-12:00

Towards time-dependent current density functional theory in real time

User José María Escartín Esteban (TCM).

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 11:00-11:40

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Galactic Astroarchaeology: Constraints on Formation and Evolution of Galaxies

User Francesca Matteucci (Trieste University, Italy).

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

An Abelian-Higgs vortex on a compact hyperbolic surface

User Rafael Maldonado (DAMTP).

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Gauge theory webs in coordinate space

User Ozan Erdogan (University of Cambridge).

Friday 23 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Surgical Imaging, Biophotonics and Endoscopy

User Dr Daniel Elson, Reader in Surgical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London.

Friday 23 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms

User Dr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope

User Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Coming in from the dark – gas-fuelling and galaxy evolution

User Meiert Grootes (Max-Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Germany).

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Small Lecture Theatre, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

SP Special Seminar - TBC

User Professor Charlie Marcus, University of Copenhagen.

Monday 19 January 2015, 14:00-15:30

A model-independent method and a model-dependent result in direct dark matter detection

User Eugenio Del Nobile (UCLA, Los Angeles).

Friday 16 January 2015, 15:30-16:30

An evolutionary perspective to systems and synthetic biology: From cellular networks to microbial communities

User Dr Orkun Soyer, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

Friday 16 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in nearly ferromagnetic metals: a new fixed point

User Dr Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews .

Thursday 15 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electron-phonon coupling and the vibrational averaging over proton-orderings in ice

User Edgar Engel (TCM) .

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:40-12:00

The role of van der Waals interactions and nuclear quantum effects in soft layered materials

User Gabriella Graziano (Cambridge Graphene Centre).

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:00-11:40

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos (Imperial College London).

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

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

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

User Thomas Anthopoulos, Imperial College London.

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

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

Hierarchically structured semiconductors for solar-driven water splitting applications

User Dr Robert Coridan, Caltech.

Tuesday 16 December 2014, 15:04-16:20

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

Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors: An Endless Playground for Fundamental Physics

User Dr Konstantinos Lagoudakis, E L Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford.

Tuesday 16 December 2014, 15:00-15:40

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

Advanced light-matter interactions in optofluidic waveguides

User Dr Tijmen Euser, MPI-Erlangen.

Tuesday 16 December 2014, 14:10-14:50