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Speaker |
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Title |
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Abstract |
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| Thursday 21 January |
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Keiji Sasaki
Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University |
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Quantum Photonic Technology Beating the Classical Limit |
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| Friday 22 January |
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Michael Vanner
University of Vienna |
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Cavity Quantum Optomechanics |
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| Monday 1 February |
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Prof. Tony Wilson
Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK |
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Focussing, Aberration Correction and Enhanced Optical Sectioning in Microscopy
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| Friday 26 February |
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Prof. Saulius Juodkazis
Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology |
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Laser Nano-/Micro-Structuring of Materials |
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| Friday 26 March |
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Paul Dyke
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology |
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Quasi-2D Fermi Gases |
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| Friday 9 April |
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Dr Sven Teichmann
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology |
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High Harmonic Generation for Coherent Diffractive Imaging |
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| Friday 23 April |
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Dr Michael J. Biercuk
The Quantum Control Laboratory, The University of Sydney |
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Coherent Control and Large-Scale Entanglement in Trapped Ion Crystals |
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| Friday 7 May |
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Professor Geoffrey Taylor
School of Physics, University of Melbourne |
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The Large Hadron Collider
-Entering the Era of Tera-scale Physics |
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| Monday 17 May |
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Professor David Cahen
Weizmann Institute, Israel |
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Assessing Possibilities and Limits for Solar Cells |
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| Friday 2 July |
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Dr Emma Ryan-Weber
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology |
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Probing First Light With Quasar Spectroscopy |
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| Friday 9 July |
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Dr Margaret Reid
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology |
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Entanglement and Non locality in Macroscopic and Massive Systems |
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| Tuesday 20 July |
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Prof. Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
University of Innsbruck, Austria |
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Quantum Engineering at Nanokelvin Temperatures: Quantum Phase Transitions, Strong Correlations and Novel Many-body Systems
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| Monday 2 August |
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Dr Jozsef Fortagh
University of Tuebingen, Germany |
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Ultracold Atoms Near Superconductors and Carbon Nanotubes |
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| Tuesday 3 August |
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Prof. Gora Shlyapnikov
CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France |
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Novel Condensed Matter Physics with Ultracold Fermionic Atoms and Molecules |
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| Tuesday 3 August |
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Prof. Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
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Evolution from BCS to BKT Superfluidity in One-dimensional Optical Lattices |
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| Friday 6 August |
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Prof. Christophe Salomon
Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris |
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Thermodynamics of a Tunable Fermi Gas |
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| Friday 20 August |
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Dr Shannon Whitlock
Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
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Sub-Poissonian Fluctuations by Three-body Loss in Mesoscopic Atomic Ensembles |
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| Monday 30 August |
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Prof. Benjamin J. Eggleton
ARC Federation Fellow and Director of CUDOS, Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, University of Sydney |
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Delivering Photonics to Transform the New Information Age - Smaller, Faster and Energy Efficient |
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| Wednesday 15 September |
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Prof. Alex Hamilton
University of New South Wales |
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The Unusual Properties of Spin-3/2 Holes in Gallium-Arsenide Semiconductor Nanostructures |
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| Tuesday 12 October |
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Dr Peter Zijlstra
Marie Curie Fellow, Molecular Nano-Optics and Spin group,
Huygens Laboratory, The University of Leiden, Netherlands |
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Single Gold Nanorods: Optical Trapping and Biosensing |
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| Wednesday 20 October |
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Patrick Salter
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK |
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Static and dynamic fluorescence imaging of
liquid crystal structures |
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| Tuesday 16 November |
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Dr Zbigniew Ficek
The National Centre for Mathematics and Physics, KACST, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
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Continuous Variable Approach to Entanglement |
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| Friday 19 November |
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Prof. J D Comins
Materials Physics Research Institute, School of Physics & DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Light Scattering Techniques Applied to Materials Science |
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| Monday 22 November |
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Professor Xiaojian Hao
North University of China, China |
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Photoelectric Instrument & New Sensor Technologies |
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