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Group Meetings

Group Meetings of the Theoretical Physics group are held weekly on Friday at 11am in our Meeting Area (room 201 of the AD building).

Roster for Upcoming Group Meetings

Speaker (top is next)
Rodney Polkinghorne
Peter Drummond
Bryan Dalton
Laura Rosales-Zarate
Ai-Xi Chen
Margaret Reid
Tim Vaughan
Bogdan Opanchuk
Xia-Ji Liu
Qiongyi He
Hui Hu

Past Group Meetings

Date

Speaker

Topic
Oct 7 Hui Hu Topological phase transitions and topological superfluids
Sep 23 Qiongyi He Squeezing, enganglement and phase in a double-well BEC
Jul 29 Xia-Ji Liu Spin orbit coupling in a BEC
May 20 Bogdan Opanchuk Fast harmonic decomposition
May 20 Tim Vaughan Finite time-step generation of point process trajectories
May 13 Margaret Reid Quantifying Einstein's "action at a distance"
May 6 Ai-Xi Chen Quantum coherence and optical solitons in semi-conducting quantum wells
April 15 Laura Rosales Zarate Grassmann algebra and Gaussian operator represenations of Fermionic states
March 25 Peter Drummond Summary of recent results of Theory Group
March 18 Rodney Polkinghorne Variational approach to Quantum Dynamics
February 18 Hui Hu Scattering in 2D dipolar Fermi gases
November 26 Tim Vaughan Prior-inclusive Retrodiction Methods
November 19 Bogdan Opanchuk BEC simulations using the Wigner Representation
November 5 Ai-Xi Chen Novel uses for Rydberg Atoms
October 20 Margaret Reid Bell Inequalities for Multipartite Systems
October 8 Qiongyi He Entanglement Criteria for Higher Spin Systems
October 1 Peter Drummond Variational Algorithms for Quantum Dynamics
September 24 Hui Hu The Finite Temperature Contact of an Interacting Fermi System
September 17 Xia-Ji Liu Phase Transitions in Ultracold Fermionic Systems
September 10 Tim Vaughan Hidden Markov Models and the Forward-Backward Algorithm
September 3 Shi-Guo Peng Spectroscopy of Trapped Interacting Fermions
July 16 Bogdan Opanchuk The Wigner Representation and Phase Space Methods
July 9 Bryan Dalton Double-Well BEC Interferometry
June 25 Peter Drummond Exact Variational Methods for Quantum Dynamics
June 11 Qiongyi He Entanglement Criteria
June 4 Margaret Reid Spin Squeezing and Entanglement
May 28 Shi-Guo Peng Confinement Induced Resonance and Gaussian Monte Carlo
May 21 Hui Hu Two-component Fermi Gases in Quasi-2D
May 7 Xia-Ji Liu Ground States of Interacting Fermi Systems
April 30 Peng Zou Dynamic Structure Factor of Fermi Gas within Mean Field Theory
April 23 Saeed Bohloul Closed Timelike Curves in General Relativity
April 16 Tim Vaughan Quantum Monte Carlo and Retrodiction
April 9 Bogdan Opanchuk Quantum Dynamics and CUDA
March 26 Hui Dong Ferromagnetism in repulsive ultra-cold fermi gases
March 19 Qiongyi He EPR Entanglement using Double-Well BEC
March 12 Peter Drummond Variational approach to Quantum Dynamics

Journal Club Meetings

Journal Club meetings are held weekly on Wednesday at 11am in our Meeting Area (room 201 of the AD building).

Roster for Upcoming Journal Club Meetings

Speaker (top is next)
Bogdan Opanchuk
Hui Hu
Qiongyi He
Tim Vaughan
Xia-Ji Liu
Peter Drummond
Bryan Dalton
Ai-Xi Chen
Laura Rosales-Zarate
Margaret Reid
Rodney Polkinghorne

Past Journal Club Meetings

Date

Speaker

Paper
October 19 Chris Vale Mark J.H. Ku et al., arXiv:1110.3309
(Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
October 5 Marcus Lingham Yefsah et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 130401 (2011)
(Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
April 13 Margaret Reid A.J. Leggett and A. Garg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 857 (1985)
March 30 Peter Drummond A. Bednorz and W. Belzig, Phys. Rev. B 83 125304 (2011)
February 16 Xia-Ji Liu B. Fröhlich et al., arXiv:1012.0049v2
February 9 Tim Vaughan S.M. Barnett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2455 (2001)
November 23 Alexandre Akoulchine A. G. Radnaev et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 894 (2010)
(Joint meeting with experimentalists in EN127.)
November 11 Qiongyi He A.P. Hines, R.H. McKenzie, and G.J. Milburn, Phys. Rev. A 67, 013609 (2003)
November 3 Hui Hu D.T. Son and E.G. Thompson, Phys. Rev. A 81, 063634 (2010)
October 13 Bogdan Opanchuk Robert R. Tucci, arXiv:1001.5200v2
September 28 Margaret Reid Scott B. Papp, et al. Science 324, 764 (2009)
September 7 Rodney Polkinghorne E. T. Jaynes, SIAM-AMS Proceedings 14, 151 (1984)
September 1 Shi-Guo Peng Suzuki et al., Phys. Rev. A 80, 033601 (2009)
August 18 Tim Vaughan Taylor and Higgs, J. Theor. Biol. 203, 419 (2000)
July 28 Tim Vaughan Rouzine et al., J. Theor. Pop. Biol. 73, 24 (2008)
July 21 Chris Vale Gaebler et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 569 (2010)
(Joint meeting with experimentalists in SOLL library.)
July 7 Xia-Ji Liu Lompe et al., arXiv:1006.2241v1
June 16 Peter Drummond K. Sakmann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett 103, 220601 (2009)
June 9 Qiongyi He M. S. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. A 65, 032323 (2002)
May 26 Hui Hu H. P. Buchler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090402 (2010)
May 19 Shi-Guo Peng L. Hackermuller et al., Science 327, 1621 (2010).
May 12 Peter Drummond M. Hillery and M. S. Zubairy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050503 (2006).
May 5 Peter Drummond Julien Borghetti et al., Nature 464, 873 (2010).
April 28 Tim Vaughan D. Hochberg et al., Phys. Rev. E 73, 066109 (2006)
April 21 Bogdan Opanchuk Xiaofei Huang, arXiv:1004.2210v1
April 14 Bryan Dalton J. A. Dunningham and K. Burnett, Phys. Rev. A 70, 033601 (2004).
April 7 Hui Dong C. Jarzynski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2690 (1997)
March 31 Tim Vaughan R. T. Cox, Am. J. Phys. 14, 1 (1946)
March 24 Peter Drummond O'Connell et al., Nature (doi:10.1038/nature0867)
March 17 Saeed Bohloul Marshall et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 130401 (2003)
March 10 Xia-Ji Liu Schirotzek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230402 (2009)

Potential Papers for Journal Clubs

If you'd like a paper to appear on this list, please send the details to Tim Vaughan.