Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Joaquín Fernández-Rossier Universidad de Alicante ABSTRACT: Recent [1-3] work shows that inelastic electron scanning tunneling microscope (STM) probes the elementary spin excitations of a single and a few...
Tuesday, 24 March 2009. 12:00h Dr. Diego Porras Universidad Complutense de Madrid ABSTRACT: Experimental setups such as trapped ions and ultracold neutral atoms in optical lattices provide us with a toolbox to implement a...
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 15.00-16.00 Dr. Jaime Merino Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ABSTRACT: The behavior of strongly interacting electrons in two-dimensions is yet poorly understood. An important challenge is to understand the interplay between...
Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Y.J. Dappe Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg ABSTRACT: A theoretical study of weak interactions in graphitic materials like Carbon Nanotubes, Fullerenes and graphene is...
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 15:00-16.00 Dr. Charles Creffield Universidad Complutense de Madrid ABSTRACT: Applying an optical lattice potential to a Bose-Einstein condensate gives the opportunity to study coherent quantum phenomena in extremely clean and...
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Mehmet Z. Baykara Departments of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering and Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena. Yale University. ABSTRACT: Site-specific chemical interactions at surfaces govern various...
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. R. S. Deacon Tarucha laboratory, University of Tokyo, Department of Applied Physics and QPEC, Bunkyo Ku, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 1138656, Japan. ABSTRACT: Self-assembled InAs quantum dots are a...
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Makoto Ashino Institute of Applied Physics and Microstructure Research Center University of Hamburg. ABSTRACT: Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has become versatile and powerful method for imaging both insulating...
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 15:0-16.00 Dr. Masayuki Toyoda Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) 1-1, Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan. ABSTRACT: We have developed a computer routine to evaluate the four-center molecular...
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 12:00-13.00 Dr. Marzena Szymanska University of Warwick By confining photons in a semiconductor microcavity, and strongly coupling them to electronic excitations, one may create polaritons: bosonic quasi-particles with an effective...
