Atomic Physics Seminars at Yale

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


Spring 2009

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Date

Speaker

Title

Jan. 22 at 3:00 pm in SPL 38

David Glenn (Yale University) Progress Towards Cooling and Trapping Diatomic Molecules from a Buffer Gas Beam Source
Jan. 27 CM Seminar Dr. Jung-Jung Su (University of Texas at Austin)
Host: Leonid Glazman
Title TBA
Feb. 3 Kang-Kuen Ni (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Host: Jack Harris
Ultracold Polar Molecules
March 6-22
Spring Break
Friday, Mar. 13 at 12:30 pm in SPL 52 Gary A. Williams (UCLA)
Host: Wei Guo
Vortex Loops and the Superfluid Phase Transition
Fri., Apr. 3 at 12:00 pm in SPL 3rd Floor Lounge Burçin Dönmez (University of Michigan)
Host: Daniel McKinsey
3-D Position Sensitive Semiconductor Detectors
Apr. 7 CM Seminar Andrew Fefferman (Cornell University)
Host: Jack Harris
The Acoustic Properties of Amorphous Silica Between 2 and 400 mK
May 12 at 11:00 am in SPL 52 Robin Côté (University of Connecticut)
Host: David DeMille
Feshbach Optimized Photo-Association (FOPA) and its applications
Wednesday, May 20 at 2:00 pm in SPL 3rd Floor Lounge Xavier DeFay (CSNM, Orsay)
Host: Daniel McKinsey
New detectors for the direct dark matter search EDELWEISS experiment
Wednesday, May 27 at 2:00 pm in SPL 52 (joint AMO/Nuclear Physics) Jaideep Singh (University of Virginia)
Host: David DeMille
Exploring the Structure of the Neutron Using Laser Polarized He-3 Targets
Friday, May 29 at 2:00 pm in SPL 52 Pierre Verlot (LKB, Paris, France)
Host: Jack Harris
Optomechanical coupling and quantum radiation pressure effects
June 9 at 3:00 pm in SPL 52 Charles Doret (Harvard University)
Host: Jack Harris
A buffer-gas cooled Bose-Einstein condensate
Friday, June 26 at 2:00 pm in SPL 52 Alpha Gaëtan (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique)
Host: David DeMille
Deterministic entanglement of two atoms using the Rydberg blockade
July 7 Andreas Knecht (Paul Scherrer Institut and University of Zürich)
Host: David DeMille
Towards a New Measurement of the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment
Wednesday, July 22 at 11:00 am in SPL 52 Emil Kirilov (UCLA)
Host: David DeMille
2-photon ionization method and necessary laser systems for efficient seeding, trapping and manipulation of Strontium ions.
August 18 Dr. Haibin Wu (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
Host: Jack Harris
Coherent atomic medium in an optical cavity
Monday, August 31 at 2:00 pm in SPL 52 Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba )
Host: Sid Cahn
Fundamental symmetry tests with cooled atoms: From Lorentz invariance to parity

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