cua seminars

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.

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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

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Hongkun Park (Harvard)

TBA

10 min. talk: Cheng-Hsun Wu

Spring 2009 Schedule

Tuesday, February 03, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich)

Cavity-QED with a single quantum dot in a nano-cavity

10 min. talk: Monika Schleier-Smith

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 17, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Svetlana Kotochigova (Temple University)

What we need to know about ultracold polar molecules

10 min. talk: Scott Sanders

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

Tuesday, May 05, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Steven Girvin (Yale)

TBA

10 min. talk: Jonathon Gillen

Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Ehud Altman (Weizmann, Rehovot)

TBA

10 min. talk: Andre Schirotzek

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Volker Schweikhard  

2D Josephson junction arrays in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless regime

Canceled

10 min. talk: Alexey Tonyushkin

2008:: click to expand :::: click to close ::

Fall 2008 Schedule

Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356

Ian D. Leroux (MIT)

TBA

Timur Tscherbul (Harvard)

TBA

Yusuke Nishida (MIT)

TBA

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, October 28, 2008, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356

Trey Porto (NIST, Gaithersburg)

Title is too long for character limit

10 min. talk: Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone

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, February 26, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Wesley Campbell (Harvard)

CUA Hot Topics

Simon Foelling (Harvard)

CUA Hot Topics

Alexey V. Akimov (MIT)

CUA Hot Topics

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Wesley Campbell (Harvard)

TBA

Simon Foelling (Harvard)

TBA

Alexey V. Akimov (MIT)

TBA

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 16, 2007, 4:00pm, MIT, 26-214

Boris Altshuler (Columbia University)

Many-Body Localization

10 min. talk: Robert Cherng

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

2006:: click to expand :::: click to close ::

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 07, 2006, 4:00pm, Harvard, Jefferson-356

Nergis Mavalvala (MIT)

Quantum states of light and giants

10 min. talk: Robert Cherng

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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