Wednesday, 27th February 2013. 12:00-13:00 Andrew O. Parry Imperial College, London ABSTRACT: Imagine a glass half full of delicious beer. What happens when we turn the glass slowly to the horizontal? – of course...
Tuesday, 26th February 2013. 12:00-13:00 Joachim Hamm Imperial College, London ABSTRACT: Advances in plasmonics and metamaterial research increasingly focus on device-functionalization with quantum-electronic materials, such as dyes, semiconductors or graphene. The field concentration around metallic...
Wednesday, 13th February 2013. 12:00-13:00 Francesca Maria Marchetti Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, UAM ABSTRACT: Ultracold atomic gases have thus far provided a veritable playground in which to explore quantum many-body...
Wednesday, 6th February 2013. 12:00-13:00 Ricardo García Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC) ABSTRACT: Force microscopy is an enabling tool for nanoscience and nanotechnology. Three properties of the AFM help to explain...
Wednesday, 30th January 2013. 12:00-13:00 Marisela Vélez (Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC) and IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid) ABSTRACT: FtsZ is a bacterial cytoskeletal protein that polymerizes on the inner surface of the bacterial membrane...
Wednesday, 23tn January 2013. 12:00-13:00 Julio Gómez Herrero (Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, UAM) ABSTRACT: In this talk I will briefly discuss two different topics related with the influence of defects in...
Wednesday, 16th January 2013. 12:00-13:00 Francisco Rivadulla (Centro de Investigación en Química-Biológica y Materiales Moleculares, CIQUS, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) ABSTRACT: The possibility of converting waste heat into usable electrical energy made thermoelectricity...
Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Duration: January 2013 – December 2016. Principal Investigator: Jaime Merino. Description: The main goal of this project is to study the novel phases of matter that...
Wednesday, 9th January 2013. 12:00-13:00 Iván González (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela) ABSTRACT: Strongly correlated electron systems can have insulating phases caused by correlation effects associated to the interactions between electrons...
Wednesday, 12th Dicember 2012. 12:00-13:00 Amadeo L. Vázquez de Parga (Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, UAM and IMDEA-Nanociencia) ABSTRACT: Ultra perfect graphene monolayers, islands and ribbons can be epitaxially grown on different...