CoQuS Colloquium Winter Term 2013/2014

Colloquia organized by Peter Rabl & Philip Walther

Student presentations organized by Georg Winkler

 

Colloquium Speaker

Title

Student‘s Presentation

Oct. 1st, 15:00 – 16:00 Hrs

Philip Walther

Introduction to the quantum teaching program winter term 2013/14 (Location: Ernst Mach Hall, Boltzmanngasse 5, 2nd floor)

 

Oct. 7th

L. Molenkamp,

Universität Würzburg

 

HgTe AS A TOPOLOGICAL

INSULATOR

 

 

Oct. 14th

 

Morgan Mitchell

ICFO-Barcelona

 

Entanglement-enhanced atomic

sensors

Benoit Descamps

Propagation of

information in local

dissipative sysems

 

Oct. 21st

 

Reserved for the CoQuS team!

 

Oct. 28th

 

Domenico Giulini

Universität Bremen

 

Quantum Mechanics and the

Equivalence Principle

Mehmet Burak

Sahinoglu - Topological order,

Quantum

Marginals &

Entropies

 

 

Nov. 4th

 

Achim Rosch

University of Cologne

 

Skyrmions, Monopoles and

Berry phases in chiral magnets

 

Jonas Rodewald - Experiments with

the OTIMA

interferometer

 

Nov. 5th

Meinrat Andreae

MPI Mainz

“Boltzmann Lecture”

TBA

 

Nov. 11th

Yanbei Chen

Macroscopic Quantum Objects

Jonas Rodewald - Experiments with

the OTIMA

interferometer

 

Nov. 12th

Jocelyn Burnell,

Pulsare

«Lise Meitner-Lecture»

 

 

Nov. 25th

17:30 hrs –

Hörsaal 5, 2.

Stock, grüner

Bereich TU Wien,

Freihaus

Amir Yacoby,

Harvard University,

USA

Quantum information

processing and metrology using

few electron spins in solids

 

Nov. 25th

15:00 hrs

students

talk! 15:30

hrs CoQuS

Talk!

TU Wien,

Freihaus

Seminarraum

138A

 

Mauro D’Ariano,

Qubit, Italy

 

Foundations of Quantum Field

Theory in the light of Quantum

Information: The Dirac equation

from information-theoretical

principles

 

Amir Tavala - Interfacing

photoreceptors

with a quantum

optical source

 

 

Dec. 2nd 14:00 hrs

Lise Meitner

Lecture Hall

Lev Vaidman

 

Asking photons where they

have been

 

Dec. 2nd

Thomas Pohl

Free-space supersolidity in

ultracold gases

Max Tillmann - Boson sampling

- immanants and

Verification

 

Dec. 16th

15:45 hrs!

Lise-Meitner

Lecture Hall

 

Hans Briegel

 

Quantum agents, simulation

and biology

 

 

Jan. 13th

15:45 hrs!

Lise-Meitner

Lecture Hall

 

 

Antoine Broawyaes Institut d'Optique

Graduate School

 

 

Experimental investigation of

the dipole-dipole interaction

between few cold atoms

none

 

Jan. 13th

Roland Netz,

Universität Berlin

Interfacial water at biological

and inorganic surfaces: super

capacitors, aqueous lubrication

and possible health issues of

radio-frequency radiation

 

Jan. 20th

Xiang Zhang

University of

California, Berkeley

Optical Metamaterials:

Negative Refraction, Super-lens

and Plasmon Lasers

Matthias Schreitl

 

Jan. 27th

Frank Koppens

ICFO Spain

 

Graphene quantum Nano optoelectronics

Michael Keller

 

 

* The location for the Vienna Physics Colloquium will be announced case by case