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Joint Seminars, UMD - NIST


Spring 2006 Schedule

Department of Physics, University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA

Talks are on Mondays at 12:30 p.m. in room 1201 of the Physics Building
(#082 on the campus map), unless noted otherwise.

Underlined titles of the talks link to abstracts.
Underlined names of the speakers link to their personal Web pages.
February 6
Rudy Grimm (University of Innsbruck)
New phenomena in ultracold gases
UMD host: Chris Lobb,   NIST host: Paul Julienne
February 13
Joseph H. Eberly (University of Rochester)
Schrödinger's cat and recent entanglements in optics
UMD host: Luis Orozco
February 20 - No Seminar, Federal Holiday

February 27
Roger Koch (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY)
Progress toward Josephson-junction quantum computing at IBM
UMD Host: Chris Lobb,   NIST host: Gail Newrock
March 6
Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland, Australia)
Photons as qubits
UMD host: Steve Rolston
March 13 - No Seminar, March Meeting of APS in Baltimore

March 20 - No Seminar, Spring Break at UMD

March 27
Victor Yakovenko (University of Maryland)
Interlayer Aharonov-Bohm interference in a tilted magnetic field in low-dimensional lattices
April 3
Dave Wineland (NIST Boulder)
Trapped ions and hey, where's that quantum computer?
UMD Host: Steve Rolston
April 10
Charles Marcus (Harvard University)
Spin-based qubits: recent experiments and integration scenarios
UMD Host: Victor Yakovenko
Wednesday, April 12, 12:30, room 1201
Ian Spielman (NIST, Gaithersburg)
2D Bosons in an optical lattice: an experimental study
UMD Host: Bob Anderson
Wednesday, April 19, 12:30, room 1201
Jeff Kimble (Caltech)
The quantum optics circus -- flying photons, acrobatic atoms, and entangled ensembles
UMD Host: Luis Orozco
April 24
Victor Galitski (University of Virginia)
Non-equilibrium phenomena in a Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance
UMD host: Victor Yakovenko
May 1
Duncan Haldane (Princeton University)
"Topological qubits" and the projective Hilbert space for non-Abelian quantum Hall quasiparticles
UMD host: Victor Yakovenko,   NIST host: Carl J. Williams
May 8 - No Seminar

For past and future schedules see Seminars page.

Last updated on Thursday, 15 June 2006 by Victor Yakovenko

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