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IQS Seminar Series

Spring Semester 2006

The Institute for Quantum Sciences (IQS) at MSU is sponsoring a series of interdisciplinary lectures, seminars, and discussions on Quantum Computation and Information.

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
(2006)

Speaker or Discussion Leader

Topic

18 January

 Michael Requa, UCSB

Realizations of Parametric Excitation in Microscale Devices

8 February

Allan MacDonald Univ. of Texas (Joint with CMP Seminar)

Current Driven Dynamics of Quantum Hall Super fluids

15 February

Christian Hicke, MSU

Heat-bath Algorithmic Cooling

22 February

Luming Duan, University of Michigan

Probabilistic Quantum Computation, and Quantum Simulation with Strongly Interacting Atoms in an Optical Lattice

1 March

Norman Birge, Michigan State University

Non Equilibrium Phenomena in S/N/S Josephson Junctions 

8 March

Spring Break

15 March

No Seminar

APS MARCH MEETING

22 March

Roberto Onofrio, Dartmouth

(Joint with CMP Seminar)

  Quantum Vacuum and Casimir Effects

12 April

3:30

1400 BPS

Michael G. Moore, Clippinger Laboratory Ohio University

Nonlinear and Quantum Atom Optics

SPECIAL NOTE: Time change to 3:30 and room 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg.

14 April

Special Seminar

Felix M. Izrailev, Univ. of Puebla Mexico

Dynamical Aspects of Many-Body Chaos in Quantum Systems

8 May

4:10

1400 BPS

Special Seminar

Markus Buttiker University of Geneva

Quantum Shot Noise: From Schottky to Bell

SPECIAL NOTE: Time change to 4:10 and room 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg.

11 May

3:40

1400 BPS

Special Seminar

Subir Sachdev, Harvard University

Detecting Boson-Vortex Duality in Experiments: How Superfluids Become Solids in two Dimensions

SPECIAL NOTE: Time change to 3:40 and room 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg.

  Map to the Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg.

Previous Semesters' Seminars

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.

 


Last modified: 2005.12.28 (Wednesday) 18:19:49 EST