Atomic Physics Seminars at Yale

The seminar is held in Room 52 , Sloane Physics Laboratory, on Tuesdays at 2 pm (unless differently specified).


Spring 2008

Previous Talks: [Fall 2006] [Spring 2007] | [Fall 2005] [Spring 2006]

Date

Speaker

Title

Monday, Jan. 28 at 3:00 pm in SPL 52

Julien Bernu (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Host: Jack Harris
QND measurement of light: observing the quantum Zeno effect and watching the decoherence
Feb. 5 Edward Somerville Shuman (University of Virginia)
Host: David DeMille
Spontaneous Ionization in a Frozen Rydberg Gas
Monday, Feb. 11 at 2:00 pm in SPL 52 Jeremy Munday (Harvard)
Host: Jack Harris
Attractive and repulsive Casimir forces in fluid
Monday, Feb. 11 at 4:00 pm in SPL 52 Dr. Sergey Pereverzev (University of Maryland)
Host: Daniel McKinsey
Spectroscopy of helium molecules and electron bubbles in solid and superfluid helium
Feb. 12 - Joint with Condensed Matter Dr. Shina Tan (U Washington, Seattle)
Host: Yoram Alhassid
Exact relations for a strongly correlated atomic Fermi gas
March 4 Peter Rabl (Harvard/ITAMP)
Host: David DeMille
Coherent and incoherent manipulations of polar molecules on chips
March 7-21
Spring Break
March 11 at 11:00 am Francois Nguyen (SPEC-CEA Saclay)
Host: Jack Harris
Towards charge-phase multi quantum bit circuits
March 18 Scott Seltzer (Princeton University)
Host: David DeMille
Developments in Atomic Magnetometry
Thursday, March 20 at 2:00 PM in SPL 52 Chih-Sung Chuu (Univeristy of Heidelberg)
Host: Jack Harris
Towards a quantum memory for single photons with long storage-time
Friday, March 21 at 3:00 pm in SPL 52 Ethan Bernard (Cornell University)
Host: Dan McKinsey
Hydrogen and deuterium chemistry within deuterium-helium gels below 2 Kelvin
Thursday, March 27 at 3:00 pm in SPL 52 Wei Guo (Brown University)
Host: Dan McKinsey
Observations of single electrons in liquid helium
April 22 Ben Zwickl (Yale University)
Host: Jack Harris
Progress towards quantum macro-opto-mechanical systems (MOMS)
April 29 Mattias Gustavsson (University of Innsbruck)
Host: David DeMille
Matter wave interference due to interactions and an ultracold gas of deeply bound Cs2 molecules
May 6 Peter Orth (Yale University)
Host: David DeMille
Design for a buffer gas experiment
May 20 at 1:00 pm in SPL 52 Stephan Falke (Yale University)
Host: David DeMille
Laser Spectroscopy of Dimers for Understanding of Cold Collisions
May 20 Jiepeng Zhang (Florida International University)
Host: Jack Harris
All optical switching at few photons level
June 3 at 10:30 am in SPL 52 Christopher Ticknor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Host: David DeMille
Universal Dipolar Scattering
Thursday, July 17 at 3:00 pm in SPL 52 Pierre Francois Cohadon (Latoratoire Kastler Brossel & Ecole Normale Superieure)
Host: Jack Harris
Cavity optomechanics with twin optical beams
July 22 Patrick Maletinsky (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
Host: Jack Sankey
Dynamics of Quantum Dot Nuclear Spin Polarization
Friday, July 25 at 10:00 am in SPL 52 Jan Arlt (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)
Host: David DeMille
Production of heteronuclear Feshbach molecules

[Fall 2008]