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2005 Seminar Programme


Date Speaker Title Abstract
Friday 28 January Joachim Ullrich
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
The Attosecond Heisenberg-Microscope
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Monday 7 February Professor Gora Shlyapnikov
Universite Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France
Diatomic Molecules in Ultracold Fermi Gases: Novel Composite Bosons
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Wednesday 9 February Professor Johannes Hecker Denschlag
Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
BEC of 6Li2 Molecules: Exploring the BEC-BCS Crossover
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Friday 18 February Ze'ev Bomzon
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
A Study of Chondrocyte Mechanics Using Digital Image Correlation
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Friday 4 March Dr Jesper Serbin
Centre for Micro-Photonics and Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Swinburne University of Technology
Fabrication of 3D Photonic Crystals by means of Two-photon Polymerization
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Friday 18 March Dr Dragomir Neshev
Nonlinear Physics Center and Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University
Optically-induced Lattices as Tunable Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
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Thursday 31 March Manfred Heinz
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Preparation and Experimental Characterisation of Coherent Superposition States of Two Degenerate Levels
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Friday 8 April Karén Kheruntsyan
ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Atom Optics, University of Queensland
Quantum Atom Optics with Correlated Bosons and Fermions
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Thursday 21 April Prof Kishan Dholakia
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews
A trip on the light fantastic? Photonics for the life sciences.
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Friday 29 April Craig Lincoln
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology
Multidimensional Nonlinear Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules.
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Friday 6 May Professor Arturo Lezama
Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Coherence Effects in Two-Level Atomic Systems with Zeeman Degeneracy.
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Friday 13 May Dr Andy Martin
School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Exploding Condensates
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Friday 27 May Dr Markus Bartenstein
Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
From Molecules to Cooper Pairs: Experiments in the BEC-BCS Crossover
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Friday 10 June Professor Alan M. Bond
School of Chemistry, Monash University
New Electrochemical Insights Gained From Use Of Fourier Transform Based Instrumentation
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Thursday 16 June Bart Smeets
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Atom Lithography of Fe
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Friday 8 July Dr David Paganin
School of Physics, Monash University
Seeing Atom Clouds, Seeing Equations
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Friday 22 July Dr Cameron Wellard
Centre for Quantum Computer Technlology, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Phosphorus Donors in Silicon for Quantum Computation
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Friday 5 August Dr S.A. Pulkin
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology and St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Computer simulation in femtosecond 3-pulse 2-colour spectroscopy of molecules and semiconductors
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Friday 19 August Dr. Chanh Q. Tran
School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Complete Wavefield Recovery using Phase-Space Tomography and Its Application in Imaging
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Friday 2 September Dr. M.T. Madakbas
Photek AU, Melbourne
Photoemissive Technology for Emerging Field of Biophotonics and Imaging
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Monday 26 September Mr. Erik W. Streed
MIT, USA
Cooling Hydrogen with Ultrafast Lasers
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Friday 30 September Dr. Jose Varghese
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies
'Bird Flu' and the emergence of Influenza Pandemics
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Friday 14 October Dr. Andrew Peele
Department of Physics, La Trobe University
A New Twist in Diffractive Imaging
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Monday 17 October Dr. Alexandre Akoulchine
CAOUS, Swinburne University of Technology
'Light Storage' and other peculiarities of fast-light atomic medium
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Friday 21 October Dr. Davide Boschetto
Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA/Ecole Polytechnique, France
Femtosecond X-ray Sources and Their Applications
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Friday 28 October Prof Keith Nugent
ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-Ray Science, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
The Marriage of Physics and Biology: Will DNA be an only child?
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Friday 11 November Prof Min Gu
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology
Three-dimensional photonic crystals: superprism, negative refraction, and radiation dynamics
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Monday 21 November Dr Mark Saffman
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Fast coherent control of neutral atom qubits in optical traps
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Wednesday 21 December Prof. Peter Hannaford
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
The Glittering Prizes – 2005
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