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The CUA seminar is the central weekly event for the CUA and an excellent opportunity to interact with the CUA community. It takes place on Tuesdays starting at 4:00 p.m. alternating between Harvard (Jefferson Lab 356) and MIT (Building 26, room 26-214), unless otherwise noted. The seminar begins with a short 10 minute talk by one of the local graduate students or postdocs. After some refreshments the main talk will begin at 4:30 p.m.
15 | 16 | 17 Seminar
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Kang-Kuen Ni (JILA, Boulder)
Ultracold Collisions of Polar Molecules 10 min. talk: David Pekker
| 18 Event
11.18.2009 4:30pm - 11.18.2009 6:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson - 356
Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (University of Innsbruck)
TBA
| 19 Event
11.19.2009 4:15pm - 11.19.2009 6:00pm, MIT, 10 - 250
MIT Physics Colloquium - Eric Hudson Eric Hudson (MIT)
TBA
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22 | 23 | 24 Seminar
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Gretchen K. Campbell (MIT)
Precision quantum metrology with an 87 Strontium optical lattice clock 10 min. talk: Brendan Shields
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| 2009 | :: click to expand :: | :: click to close :: |
Fall 2009 Schedule
Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Boris Svistunov (UMASS Amherst)
`Localization of Interacting Bosons in a Lattice: Interplay Between Disorder and Commensurability
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Cheng Chin (University of Chicago)
Exploring quantum criticality and universality based on ultracold atoms in optical lattices 10 min. talk: Peter Maurer
Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Peter Rabl (Harvard)
TBA Alexy Gorshkov (Harvard)
Quantum information processing and quantum simulation with ultracold alkaline-earth atoms in optical lattices Gyuboong Jo (MIT)
TBA
Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 3:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-250 Norval Fortson (University of Washington)
A Permanent Electric Dipole Moment: the Quest Continues David Wineland (NIST, Boulder)
Microwave Masers to Optical Clocks – Perspectives on Five Decades
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 James Anglin (University of Kaiserslautern)
Thermodynamics and Quantum Tunneling
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Kathy Levin (University of Chicago)
What Do the Ultracold Fermi Gases Teach Us About High Tc Superconductors and Vice Versa? 10 min. talk: Yiwen Chu
Tuesday, November 03, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Masahito Ueda (University of Tokyo)
Topological excitations in spinor-dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates 10 min. talk: Takuya Kitagawa
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Chris Monroe (University of Maryland/JQI)
Quantum Simulations of Frustrated Spin Hamiltonians using Trapped Ions 10 min. talk: Marko Cetina
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Kang-Kuen Ni (JILA, Boulder)
Ultracold Collisions of Polar Molecules 10 min. talk: David Pekker
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Gretchen K. Campbell (MIT)
Precision quantum metrology with an 87 Strontium optical lattice clock 10 min. talk: Brendan Shields
Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Herwig Ott (University of Mainz)
Electron Microscopy of Ultracold Quantum Gases 10 min. talk: Ariel Sommer
Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Michael Koehl (University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory)
A trapped single ion inside a Bose-Einstein condensate 10 min. talk: Colin Connolly
Spring 2009 Schedule
Tuesday, March 03, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Massimo Inguscio (Florence)
Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Lev Pitaevskiy (University of Trento)
Hydrodynamic theory of critical velocity 10 min. talk: David Leibrandt
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Mukund Vengalattore
Supersolidity in a quantum degenerate dipolar spinor gas 10 min. talk: Edem Tsikata
Tuesday, April 07, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Mark Saffman (Wisconsin University)
Observation of Rydberg blockade between two atoms 10 min. talk: Dirk Englund
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Tom Killian (Rice University)
An Optical Feshbach Resonance in Ultracold Atomic Strontium 10 min. talk: Andrew Grier
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Alain Aspect (Institut d'Optique, Paris)
Anderson localization of ultra cold atoms in a speckle potential
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Pierre Meystre (Arizona University)
Cavity Optomechanics 10 min. talk: Charlie Doret
| 2008 | :: click to expand :: | :: click to close :: |
Fall 2008 Schedule
Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Jakob Reichel (ENS Paris)
Cavity QED with BECs in fiber Fabry-Perot cavities and atom number squeezing in a double well 10 min. talk: Nathaniel Brahms
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Massimo Inguscio (Florence)
TBA Canceled
Tuesday, October 07, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Erich Mueller (Cornell University)
Fate of the Pseudogap in a polarized Fermi superfluid 10 min. talk: Brendan Shields
Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Murray Holland (JILA, Boulder)
Hall effects in Bose-Einstein condensates in a rotating optical lattice 10 min. talk: Andre Schirotzek
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 David DeMille (Yale)
Tests of fundamental physics with diatomic molecules 10 min. talk: David Leibrandt
Tuesday, November 04, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Susanne Yelin (University of Connecticut)
Quantum information processing and nonlinear optics with ultracold polar molecules 10 min. talk: Peter Rabl
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Yelena Vukovic (Stanford)
Title too long for character limit 10 min. talk: Haruka Tanji
Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Ignacio Cirac (MPQ Garching)
Superradiance, photon processing, and anyon braiding with cold atoms 10 min. talk: David LeSage (Gabrielse)
Tuesday, December 02, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Deborah Jin (JILA, Boulder)
Photoemission Spectroscopy for Ultracold Atoms 10 min. talk: Ralf Gommers
Tuesday, December 09, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Mark Kasevich (Stanford)
TBA Canceled
Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-256 Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Ulm)
Quantum Information Processing with Ions 10 min. talk: Yusuke Nishida
Spring 2008 Schedule
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Antoine Georges (Centre de Physics Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique)
Adiabatic Cooling and Quasiparticle Imaging of Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices 10 min. talk: Marko Cetina
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Yong-Il Shin (MIT)
Mapping and probing the phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with strong interactions 10 min. talk: D. E. Chang
Tuesday, March 04, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Poul Jessen (University of Arizona)
Quantum Control of Single and Collective Atomic Spins 10 min. talk: Emre Togan
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Didi Leibfried (NIST, Boulder)
Quantum information processing in a system of trapped ions 10 min. talk: Matt T. Hummon
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Claus Zimmerman (University of Tubingen)
Cold Rubidium and Lithium in contact with light, surfaces, and each other 10 min. talk: Robert J. Clark
Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Kohzo Hakuta (University of Electro-Communications)
Manipulating Single Atoms and Single Photons Using Optical Nanofibers 10 min. talk: A. M. Rey
Tuesday, April 01, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Frederic Chevy (ENS Paris)
Swimming in the Fermi Sea 10 min. talk: Amar Vutha
Tuesday, April 08, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 David Wineland (NIST, Boulder)
Quantum state manipulation for better spectroscopy
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Philippe Grangier (Institut d'Optique, Paris)
Two-dimensional transport and transfer of individual atomic qubits in optical tweezers 10 min. talk: Jon Simon
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Eugene Polzik (NIels Bohr Institute)
The power of a quantum measurement 10 min. talk: Charlie Doret
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Victor Gurarie
Towards realizing two dimensional chiral p-wave fermionic superfluid 10 min. talk: Christian Schunck
Tuesday, May 06, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Sandro Stringari (University of Trento)
Effects of polarization, rotation and tunneling in the unitary Fermi gas 10 min. talk: Waseem S. Bakr
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Till Rosenband (NIST, Boulder)
A measurement with 17 significant digits: The ratio of Al+ and Hg+ optical clock frequencies 10 min. talk: Alexy Gorshkov
| 2007 | :: click to expand :: | :: click to close :: |
Fall 2007 Schedule
Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Jack G. E. Harris (Yale)
Strong dispersive coupling between an optical cavity and a micromechanical membrane 10 min. talk: Jae H. Choi
Tuesday, October 02, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Gerhard Rempe (Max Planck Gesellschaft)
Strongly Coupled and Strongly Correlated Atoms, Molecules and Photons 10 min. talk: Jonathon Gillen
Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Roman V. Krems (University of British Columbia)
Electric field control of atomic and molecular collisions at cold and ultracold temperatures 10 min. talk: Michal Bajcsy
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard)
A quantum algorithm for the simulation of chemical reaction dynamics on a quantum computer 10 min. talk: David Leibrandt
Tuesday, November 06, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Robert Levis (Temple University)
Title too long for character limit 10 min. talk: Andrew Grier
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Tilman Esslinger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
Bose-Einstein condensation meets Cavity QED 10 min. talk: Wesley Campbell
Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Gerard Meijer (Max Planck Gesellschaft)
Deceleration and trapping of neutral polar molecules 10 min. talk: Yong-Il Shin
Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Wilhelm Zwerger (TU Munich)
BCS and beyond: New Insights into Fermionic Superfluids from Ultracold Gases 10 min. talk: V. Gritsev
Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Serge Haroche (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)
Title too long for character limit 10 min. talk: Paola Cappellaro (ITAMP)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Walter Hofstetter (Goethe Universitat)
Strong Correlations in Multicomponent Quantum Gases 10 min. talk: Andre Schirotzek
Spring 2007 Schedule
Tuesday, February 06, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
Dissipative atomic Hubbard Models: cooling by superfluid immersion 10 min. talk: Jaroslaw Labaziewicz
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Vladan Vuletic (MIT)
Entanglement between atomic ensembles via optical transfer of a spin-wave quantum 10 min. talk: Daniel E. Miller
Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Nikolai Prokof'ev (UMASS Amherst)
Critical temperature of the resonant Fermi gas 10 min. talk: Alexy Gorshkov
Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Leonid Butov (University of California)
Phenomena in Cold Exciton Gases 10 min. talk: A. M. Turner
Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Rudolf Grimm (University of Innsbruck)
Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms 10 min. talk: Jongchul Mun
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Jun Ye (University of Colorado)
Stable cold polar molecules 10 min. talk: Robert J. Clark
Tuesday, April 03, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Yoshiro Takahashi (University of Kyoto)
High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Ultracold Ytterbium 10 min. talk: Scott Sanders
Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Brian DeMarco (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Simulating quantum magnetism (and other Hubbard physics) using optical lattices 10 min. talk: Monika Schleier-Smith
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Luming Duan (University of Michigan)
Simulation and detection of many-body physics with ultracold atoms 10 min. talk: A. Mukherjee
Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Mark Raizen (University of Texas)
Title too long for character limit 10 min. talk: Marko Cetina
Tuesday, May 01, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Klaus Sengstock (University of Hamburg)
Mixtures of ultracold fermionic and bosonic quantum gases 10 min. talk: Liang Jiang
Tuesday, May 08, 2007, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Immanuel Bloch (University of Mainz)
Towards Quantum Magentism with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices 10 min. talk: Gyuboong Jo
Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Robert Boyd (University of Rochester)
Controlling the Velocity of Light: Fundamentals and Applications
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Fall 2006 Schedule
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Simon Foelling (Harvard)
Manipulating and probing strongly correlated atoms in optical lattices (Univ. of Mainz) 10 min. talk: Saijun Wu (Prentiss Group)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard)
New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant 10 min. talk: Jit Kee Chin
Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge)
Vortex Lattices and Vortex Liquids in Atomic Bose Gases 10 min. talk: Haruka Tanji
Tuesday, October 03, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Giovanni Modugno (LENS)
Atomic Fermi-Bose mixture with tunable interaction 10 min. talk: Micah M. Boyd
Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Wilhelm Zwerger (TU Munich)
From fermions to bosons: strong interactions and universality in dilute gases 10 min. talk: D. E. Chang
Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Robin Côté (University of Connecticut)
Ultracold polar molecules: forming, trapping, cooling, and using them 10 min. talk: Gyuboong Jo
Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Kevin Jones (Williams)
Photoassociation of Ultracold atoms: long range states and scattering, a review 10 min. talk: Peter Zarth
Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Jae H. Choi (MIT)
Rydberg atoms and neutral plasmas: Cold, magnetized, and trapped 10 min. talk: Adilet Imambekov
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Christof Wetterich (Universitaet Heidelberg)
Universality in ultracold fermionic atom gases 10 min. talk: Wesley Campbell
Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Jozef T. Devreese (University of Antwerp)
Path Integrals and the BEC/BCS Crossover 10 min. talk: V. Gritsev
Tuesday, December 05, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Gurudev Dutt (Harvard)
Long-lived electron and nuclear spin qubits in diamond: AMO physics meets solid-state 10 min. talk: Liang Jiang
Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Lorraine Sadler (Berkeley)
Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates: Precision Measurements and Phase Transitions 10 min. talk: B. Newman
Spring 2006 Schedule
Tuesday, February 07, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Michael Koehl (University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory)
Correlated Atomic Quantum Gases
Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Zoran Hadzibabic (ENS Paris)
Condensates in Flatland
Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Paul Lett (NIST)
The photon and its momentum... and a few problems we are still having with it
Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Peter Hommelhoff (Stanford)
Field Emission Tip as a Nanometer Source of Free Electron Femtosecond Pulses
Tuesday, March 07, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Jeff Kimble (Caltech)
The Quantum Optics Circus -- Flying Photons, Acrobatic Atoms, and Entangled Ensembles
Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico)
Quantum control and measurement of ultracold atoms for quantum information processing
Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Klaus Molmer (University of Aarhus)
Classical and Quantum Optical Approaches to Four-wave-mixing of Matter Waves in Periodic Potentials
Tuesday, April 04, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Kurt Gibble (Pennsylvania State University)
Title too long for character limit
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Alain Aspect (Institut d'Optique, Paris)
The atomic Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect: a step in quantum atom optics
Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 J. K. Thompson
TBA 10 min. talk: M. D. Eisaman
Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Markus Oberthaler (Universitaet Heidelberg)
Meanfield dynamics and finite temperature effects in periodic and double well potentials 10 min. talk: Andrew Grier
Tuesday, May 02, 2006, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214 Joseph Thywissen (University of Toronto)
Ultra-cold fermions on a chip 10 min. talk: Peter Zarth
Tuesday, May 09, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356 Chandra Raman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Topological Effects with Matter Waves: A new twist on BEC 10 min. talk: Marko Cetina
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