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Virtual School Seminars in Hilary Term Semester 2, 2021/22

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Photonic Optimisers: can light enhance computing?

Friday, 11 February 2022 12 noon, by Zoom

Prof. Natalia Berloff
Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Cambridge

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From materials to quantum devices and back again using quantum simulations

Friday, 18 February 2022, 4 pm, by Zoom

Prof. Giulia Galli
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Chicago

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Beyond Moore with superconducting and opto-electronic circuits

Friday, 25 February 2022 4 pm, by Zoom

Dr. Sonia Buckley
Dept. of Physics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Colorado

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School of Physics Seminars Michaelmas Term Semester 1, 2022/23

What we can learn from Surface Optics?

Friday, 23 September 2022 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theatre

Professor Chris Wijers
University of Twente, Netherlands

(Hosted by Prof. Charles Patterson)

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The New SI of Units and the Fundamental Constants of Nature

Fiday, 4 November, 2022 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theatre

Miguel Ángel Martín-Delgado

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

(Hosted by Prof. Mark Mitchison)

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Active Plasmonics - A Journey Beyond the Diffraction Limit of Light

Fiday, 11 November, 2022 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theatre

Prof. Dominic Zerulla

University College Dublin

(Hosted by Prof. Louise Bradley)

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Why quantum?

Fiday, 18 November, 2022 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theatre

Yelena Guryanova

Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences

(Hosted by Prof. Felix Binder)

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School of Physics Seminars Hilary Term Semester 2, 2022/23

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): Revealing the Infrared Universe

Friday, 3 February 2023 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theatre

Dr. Christine Chen
Associate Astronomer,

Space Telescope Science Institute

(Hosted by Prof. Luca Matra )

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Radical thin films: from lab curiosity to quantum materials

Friday, 17 February 2023 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theater

Prof. Maria Benedetta Casu

Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,

University of Tübingen, Germany

(Hosted by Prof. Cormac Mc Guinness )

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Enabling new insights in materials research by four-dimensional electron microscopy

Friday, 24 February 2023 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theater

Dr. Gabriel Sánchez Santolino

Universidad Complutense de Madrid 
(Hosted by Prof. Lewys Jones  )

 

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Understanding the friction of layered materials

Friday, 3 March 2023 12 noon @Physics Large Lecture Theater

Prof. Astrid de Wijn

Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology

(Hosted by Prof. Graham Cross  )

 

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School of Physics Seminars Michaelmas Term Semester 1, 2023/24

Friday, 22 September 2023, 12 noon @Physics Lecture Theatre

Using 3D Printing to make Nature-Inspired Polymer Foams

Prof. Megan T. Valentine
Co-Director

California NanoSystems Institute,

University of California

(Hosted by Prof. Stefan Hutzler )

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Friday, 20 October 2023, 12 noon @Physics Lecture Theatre

Shaping the future through Sustainability Research

Professor Jason Quinn,


Mechanical Engineering Department,
Colorado State University

(Hosted by Prof. Stephen Dooley )

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Friday, 03 November 2023, 12 noon @Physics Lecture Theatre

Simulating Excited State Dynamics

Professor Leticia González,

 

Institute of Theoretical Chemistry,

University of Vienna

(Hosted by Prof. Alessandro Lunghi  )

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Friday, 17 November 2023, 12 noon @Physics Lecture Theatre

Three-dimensional magnetic systems: the future is bright!

Professor Claire Donnelly,

 

University of Cambridge

(Hosted by Prof. Michael Coey)

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Friday, 24 November 2023, 12 noon @Physics Lecture Theatre

" Bose-Einstein condensation of light

Prof. Martin Weitz

 

University of Bonn

(Hosted by Prof. Paul Eastham)

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Friday, 23 February 2024, 12 noon @Physics Lecture Theatre

"Imaging light and beam sensitive materials at atomic resolution through advances in electron microscopy

Prof. Peter Nellist

 

University of Oxford

(Hosted by Prof. Lewys Jones)

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Friday, 1 March 2024, 12 noon @SNIAM Basement Theatre

"Quantum Science with Single Atoms and Molecules on Surfaces”

Dr. Philip Willke

 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

(Hosted by Prof. Stefano Sanvito)

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Friday, 15 March 2024, 12 noon @Large Lecture Theatre

"Mastering the nanoscale: Approaches to nanomaterial localization, assembly and active control”

Dr. Aliaksandra Rakovich

 

Kings College University, London

(Hosted by Prof. John Donegan)

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Friday, 08 April 2024, 12 noon @Large Lecture Theatre

"Stellar Evolution, Interactions and Transients”

Prof. Silvia Toonen

 

Anton Pannekoek Institute of the University of Amsterdam

(Hosted by Prof. Katie Maguire)

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