IQS Seminar Series
Fall Semester 2004
The Institute for Quantum Sciences (IQS) at MSU is sponsoring a
series of interdisciplinary lectures, seminars, and discussions on
Seminars and discussions will be held Wednesdays at 5:30 pm in Room 4270 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building unless otherwise specified.
Refreshments will be served.
| Date (2004) |
Speaker or |
Topic |
| 1 September | ||
| 8 September | ||
| 15 September | Paul Hewitt, Mathematics, University of Toledo | The Gottesman-Knill Theorem and Computational Complexity |
| 22 September | Vadim Smelyanskiy, NASA Ames Research Center | Power of Quantum Adiabatic Computation for Solving Random NP-hard Problems |
| 29 September | Kimitoshi Kono, RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako-shi, Japan | Electrons on Normal and Superfluid Helium-3 as a Unique Surface Probe |
| 6 October | Nikolai Zhitenev, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies | Molecular Electronics: Recent Progress and Outstanding Challenges |
| 13 October | Yuriy Pershin, Michigan State University | Evolution of Electron Spin Polarization in
Semiconductor Heterostructures |
| 20 October | Mark Eriksson, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Spins in Silicon: Can the Material of Today be
the Material of Tomorrow? |
| 27 October | ||
| 3 November | Philip Bucksbaum, Physics, University of Michigan | Ultrafast Quantum Control |
| 8 November Monday Room 1400 BPS 4:10 p.m. |
Robert Schoelkopf, Physics, Yale University | Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics with Superconductors |
| 10 November |
Dmitry Novikov, Princeton |
Electron Properties of
Carbon Nanotubes in a Periodic Potential |
| 17 November | ||
| 24 November | ||
| 1 December | Mark Dykman, Physics (MSU) | Multiphoton Antiresonance |
| 8 December | |
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| 15 December | Tom Kaplan, Physics (MSU) | The Concept of Entanglement Revisited |
Please contact Darla Conley (355-9200 ext. 2380 or conleyd@msu.edu) if you have any questions regarding this seminar series or if you would like to be included on the IQS e-mail list.