IQS Seminar Series
Spring Semester 2005
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 5:20 pm in Room 4270 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building unless otherwise specified.
Refreshments will be served.
| Date (2005) |
Speaker or |
Topic |
| 5 January |
Ilari Maasilta, Nanoscience Center,
University of Jyvaskyla, Finland |
Heat Transport Mechanisms in
Mesoscopic Systems: Any Implications for Quantum
Computing? |
| 12 January | ||
| 19 January 5:00 p.m. |
Zinovi Gribnikov, Physics (MSU) | Split Donor Centers and Split Excitons in a Semiconductorheterostructure. |
| 26 January | ||
| 2 February | Michael Lilly, Sandia National Laboratories | Tunneling, Interactions and Coherence in Ballistic Quantum Wires |
| FRIDAY 10:00 a.m. 4 February |
Mikhail Fistul, Department of
Theoretical Physics III, Ruhr-University, Bochum,Germany |
Transport in Low-dimensional Inhomogeneous Superconducting Systems: Interaction Between "Classical" and "Quantum" Worlds |
| 9 February | Sue Coppersmith, Physics, University of Wisconsin |
Comparing Classical and Quantum Complex Systems |
| 16 February | Jon Hall, Mathematics (MSU) | Quantum Cryptography |
| 23 February | Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics (MSU) | Optical Quantum Control of Spins in Semiconductors |
| 2 March | ||
| 9 March |
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| 16 March | Lorenza Viola, Physics and Astronmy, Dartmouth College | TBA |
| 23 March | No Seminar | |
| 30 March | No Seminar | |
| 6 April | No Seminar | |
| 13 April | Cemil Kayis | Probing Single Electrons in Quantum Dots |
| 19 April | George Martins | Understanding Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons in Quantum Dots Using a Simple Circuit Model |
| MONDAY 25 April Room 1400 4:10 p.m. |
John Clarke, Physics, University of CA Berkeley |
TBA |
| 27 April | Andrew Cleland, Physics, University of CA Santa Barbara |
TBA |
| 4 May | ||
Please contact Shawna Prater (355-9200 ext. 2401 or prater@pa.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.