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2014 Seminar Programme


Date Speaker Title Abstract
Tuesday 14 January

Prof. Qihuang Gong
Department of Physics & State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, China

Manipulating Light Using Micro/Nanostructured Materials
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Monday 3 February Prof. David Villeneuve
Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory, National Research Council and University of Ottawa, Canada
Do Quantum Mechanical Wave Functions Exist and Can They Be Measured?
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Friday 7 February Prof. Peter Drummond
Centre for Quantum and Optical Science, Swinburne University of Technology
Quantum Simulations of the Early Universe
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Friday 21 February Dr Elena Sinchenko
Centre for Quantum and Optical Science, Swinburne University of Technology
Optical Fibre Distributed Chemical Sensor
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Friday 4 April Dr Paul Dyke
Centre for Quantum and Optical Science, Swinburne University of Technology
Interactions of Bright Matter-Wave Solitons and a Repulsive Barrier Potential
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Friday 11 April A/Prof. Peng Xi
Depatment of Biomedical Engineering, Peking University, China
RESOLFT Optical Nanoscopy with Organic and Inorganic Dyes
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Thursday 17 April A/Prof. Shi-Wei Chu
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Superresolution Microscopy Based on Scattering
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Friday 2 May Prof. Michael Fuhrer
School of Physics, Monash University, Melbourne
Graphene: a Novel Material for Electronics and Optoelectronics
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Wednesday 14 May Prof. Klaus Bartschat
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Drake University, Des Moines, USA
Benchmark Calculations of Atomic Collision Processes
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Friday 16 May Dr Tim Davis
CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Clayton, VIC
How to Control Light at the Nano-Scale with Localised Surface Plasmon Resonances
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Friday 13 June Prof. Michael James
Australian Synchrotron, Clayton
The Australian Synchrotron. A Landmark National Research Facility Shining Light Across a Diverse Scientific Landscape.
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Wednesday 30 July Dr Jia Wang
Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, USA
Ultra-long-range Rydberg Molecules in Ultra-cold Gases
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Wednesday 27 August Prof. Geoff Pryde
Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Australia

Photonic Entanglement Sharing

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Wednesday 10 September Prof. Benjamin J. Eggleton
ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney

Frontiers in Chip-based Nonlinear Photonics

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Tuesday 16 September Dr Andreas Herrmann
Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Biology, Berlin, Germany

Influenza Virus Binds to Its Host Cell Through Multiple Dynamic Interactions

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Friday 19 September Dr Kavan Modi
School of Physics, Monash University, Clayton
Measuring Heat in a Quantum Process
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Friday 31 October Dr Brendan Mulkerin
Centre for Quantum and Optical Science, Swinburne University of Technology
Strongly Interacting Ultracold Fermi Gases
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Tuesday 25 November Dr Ahsan Nazir
Photon Science Institute and School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester
Exploring dissipative excitonic dynamics:
consistent treatments from weak to strong environmental coupling
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Friday 5 December Dr Steven Knoop
Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Science, Amsterdam
Ultracold Mixture of Metastable Helium and Rubidium for Universal Few-body Physics
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