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2003 Seminar Programme


Date Speaker Title Abstract
Friday 24 January Prof. Jin Guan Chang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
3D vision and its application
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Friday 31 January Prof. Benjamin Eggleton
CUDOS, Sydney University
CUDOS
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Friday 21 February Assoc. Prof. Rob Scholten
University of Melbourne
Nanofabrication and phase imaging with atoms
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Friday 7 March Dr. Bruce Warrington
National Measurement Lab, CSIRO, Sydney
A microwave frequency standard in the 10–15 accuracy range using 171Yb+ ions
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Tuesday 11 March Dr Chris Vale
Unversity of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Atom optics in magnetic microtraps
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Friday 14 March Prof. Wei-Lian Guo
Tianjin University, China
Silicon optical bistability and RTD/HPT monolithic optoelectronic integration
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Tuesday 25 March Lindsay Botten1 and Martijn de Sterke2
1UTS, Sydney; 2Sydney University
Bloch mode modelling of propagation in photonic crystal waveguide and other devices
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Friday 16 May Prof. Hans Bachor
ACQAO, ANU
ACQAO - a bright future for quantum atom optics
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Friday 20 June Prof. Peter Drummond
ACQAO, University of Queensland
Atoms on a wire: exact results
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Friday 27 June James Wang
James Wang
Preparation and characterization of magnetron-sputtered SmCo films
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Friday 4 July Ove Poulsen
NKT Research, Denmark
High index planar light circuits and high power kHz fiber lasers
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Wednesday 9 July Professor Victor Balykin
Institute of Spectroscopy, Troitsk, Russia
Atom nano-optics  

Tuesday 22 July Prof. Rudi Grimm
Innsbruck University, Austria
The magic of ultracold cesium  

Friday 25 July Prof Alain Aspect
Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, France
Bose Einstein condensation and atom lasers: from coherent to quantum atom optics  

Monday 28 July Prof Ed Hinds
Imperial College, London
Cold atoms in microtraps  

Tuesday 12 August Michael Volk
Universitat Hannover, Germany
Atom optics with microstructured optical elements  

Friday 22 August Dr Jozsef Fortagh
Unversität Tübingen, Germany
On-chip laboratory for Bose-Einstein condensation
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Friday 19 September Prof Tien Kieu
CAOUS
Quantum heat engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Tuesday 7 October Dr John Close
ACQAO, ANU
Bose Einstein Condensation, The Atom Laser and Quantum Atom Optics
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Monday 24 November Jeremy O'Brien
University of Queensland
Processing and measuring quantum information encoded in photons
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Wednesday 26 November Andrew Wilson
University of Otago, NZ
Experiments with Ultra-cold Atoms in a Double-well Magnetic Trap
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Thursday 27 November W E Moerner
Stanford University
Optical Probing of Single Molecules: Examples from Physics, Chemistry, and Biophysics
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Wednesday 10 December Brenton Hall
Imperial College, London
Cold atoms near a surface
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Thursday 18 December Thomas Volz
MPI Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
Observation of molecules produced from a Bose-Einstein condensate
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