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Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Measuring photon-assisted shot noise in capacitively-coupled quantum point contacts

UserDr Yodchay Jompol, Mahidol University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 15 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - TBC

UserMr Ziwei Dou, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 10 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Control of electronic and optical properties of single and double quantum dots via growth and electroelastic fields

UserDr Eugenio Zallo, Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 10 December 2014, 13:45-14:45

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

CANCELLED - Growth of III-V Nitrides via MBE: from Nanorods to Flat Layers

UserDr. Lucy Goff , SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Cryogenic on-chip multiplexer for the statistical study of quantum transport in low dimensional devices

UserMr. Haider Al-Taie, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

ResearchBud.com - a new way to order products in SP

UserMr Jignesh Radia, University of Cambridge, Thin Film Magnetism.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Novel designs and waveguides in terahertz quantum cascade lasers

UserMr. Yash Shah, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Fibre Coupled Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

UserMr Robert Wallis, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Unconventional Superconductivity in Quantum-Dot Systems

UserProf Jรผrgen Kรถnig.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

A Glance at the Exotic Quantum Liquids and Solids of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

UserAssociate Professor Gรกbor A. Csรกthy, Purdue University, USA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Manufacture of Low Cost Semiconductor Tunnelling Devices

UserProfessor Michael Kelly, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Hierarchy of modes in an interacting system

UserOleksandr Tsyplyatyev, University of Birmingham.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Silicon quantum electronics

UserProf. Floris Zwanenburg, University of Twente, Netherlands.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Microscopic Origin of the 0.7-Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts

UserProfessor Jan von Delft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitรคt, Mรผnchen.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Probing the limits of gate-based charge sensing

UserDr. M. Fernando Gonzalez Zalba, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 20 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Towards lower losses in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers

UserMr Adam Klimont, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Versatile โ€˜Quantum Multiplexingโ€™ for Nanoelectronic Applications

UserDr Luke Smith, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Probe for Cryostat with RF Input and Optical Scanning Function

UserMr Tzu-Kan Hsiao, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Optically driven domain wall motion in dilute magnetic semiconductor

UserDr Andrew Ramsey, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 16 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - TBC

UserMr Hangtian Hou, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 11 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Growth mechanisms and electronic properties of epitaxial graphene

UserDr Graham Creeth, University College London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 09 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Contacting low numbers of nano-crystals using graphene

UserMr Joel Fruhman, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electrostatic manipulation of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) and interface fluctuation GaAs/AlAs QDs (IF-QDs) by focused laser assisted diffusion of Manganese interstitial ions in GaAs/AlAs/GaMnAs resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) structures

UserDr Ateeq Nasir, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in Graphene

UserMr Kai Yuan Huang, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Charge Locking Quantum Multiplexer and Triple Addressing Gate System

UserMr Chi Han Chong, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantum transport in mesoscopic graphene/superconductor hybrid devices

UserMiss Carly Richardson, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) Applications of the quantum multiplexer

UserMr Arthur Lesage, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Single electron pumping: Current accounting and electron partitioning

UserDr Frank Hohls, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

"SP WEDNESDAY'S WORKSHOP" - III-V waveguides with integrated quantum dots for single photon emission

UserMr Robert Taylor, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 02 April 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

"WORKSHOP" - Driving a single electron current using RF electrodes applied to graphene quantum dots

UserMiss Cassandra Chua, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 26 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Heat Transport Measurements in Electronic Quantum Channels

UserDr Ulf Gennser, CNRS - Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Optical properties of exotic epitaxial nanostructures with respect to nanophotonic applications

UserDr. Grzegorz Sฤ™k, Wrocล‚aw University of Technology, Poland.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 15:15-16:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Controlling Single-Electrons with SINIS Turnstile

UserVille Maisi, Aalto University and MIKES (Finland).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Hyperspectral imaging of exciton dynamics in individual carbon nanotubes controlled by high magnetic fields

UserDr Jack J. Alexander-Webber, University of Oxford.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Thermometry and Refrigeration using Quantum Dots

UserMiss Aquila Mavalankar, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 09 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantized charge pumping with tunable-barrier quantum dots as electron "disequilibration" problem

UserVyacheslavs Kashcheyevs, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Splitting Single Cooper Pairs

UserDr Nicholas Lambert, Microelectronics Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electron Quantum Optics in Quantum Hall Edge Channels

UserDr Erwann Bocquillion, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Characterization of Qubit Dephasing by Landau-Zener Interferometryโ€™

UserProf. Stefan Ludwig, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitรคt, Munich.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Spin Lifetime Measurements in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots

UserDr Jon Prance, Lancaster University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Terahertz Heterodyne Spectrometer using a Quantum Cascade Laser

UserDr Yuan Ren, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Single Atom Spin Qubits in Silicon

UserProfessor Andrew Dzurak, University of New South Wales, Australia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electron transport across interfaces

UserKurt Stokbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 12 August 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

High temperature superfluidity in double bilayer graphene and in electron-hole bilayers: comparison with diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo results

UserDr Andrea Perali - University of Camerino, Italy.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 08 July 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

'High Frequency Measurements of Carbon Nanotube Double-Quantum Dots

UserMs Zoe Penfold-Fitch, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Terahertz optics with graphene and nanostructured materials

UserMiss Shruti Badhwar (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 14:00-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Entanglement and Quantum Gate Processes in the One-Dimensional Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

UserMr Edmund Owen, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 June 2013, 14:00-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Chemically Assembled Single-Electron Transistors with a Bottom-up Strategy

UserDr Shinya Kano, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Photonic Crystal and Hyper-uniform THz QCL lasers

UserDr Riccardo Degl'Innocenti, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 14:00-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Scanning gate microscopy: local mapping of functionality of graphene devices

UserDr Vischal Panchal, NPL, University of London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 14:00-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetic Properties of the Spin Chain Antiferromagnet Ca3Co2O6

UserMartin Lees, University of Warwick.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Fictitious spin waves in a frustrated classical antiferromagnet

UserStefan Schnabel, University of Leipzig.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Strain engineering of electronic correlations in graphene

UserDr Lucian Covaci, University of Antwerp.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 December 2012, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Intersubband polaritons in photonic crystal cavities

UserSimone Zanotto, Scuola Normale Superiore.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

X-rays and light from diffuse mechanical energy

UserJonathan Hird, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Initial New Domain Structures: Statics and Dynamics

UserProf. J. M. Gregg, Queens University, Belfast.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

From babbling brooks to boiling kettles

UserAlan Walton, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Controlled emission of single-electron wavepackets in solid-state circuits

UserDr Jonathan Fletcher (National Physical Laboratory).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The use of H atom band structures in the first principles determination of H atom surface diffusion

UserJohn Ellis, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Unusual phase diagrams in ferroelectric crystals

UserJim Scott, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Application of the Focused Ion Beam to Transport Measurements under High Pressure

UserJakob Kanter, ETH Zurich.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Quantum effects in surface diffusion and scattering

UserEliza McIntosh, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

UserJason Lashley, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

โ€œFast controlled single-electron transport in a quantum dot electron pumpโ€

UserDr Stephen Giblin National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Biological materials and mechanics: An overview

UserMarc Meyers, University of California at San Diego.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Engineering quantum coherence in the integer quantum Hall effect

UserDr Phuong-Anh Huynh - Solid State Physics Laboratory (SPEC), Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Saclay, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 10 September 2012, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetic versus dielectric pairing in cuprate superconductors

UserJeff Tallon,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 15 August 2012, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Expanding the topological insulator horizon

UserNicholas P. Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 18 July 2012, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergent chirality in charge ordered materials

UserJasper van Wezel, Argonne.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Heavy atom diffraction in scattering from surfaces

UserEli Pollak, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Chinese university and industrial espionage

UserClark Barrett, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A new concept for high strain rate testing of materials based on the use of inertial forces

UserFabrice Pierron, ParisTech, Chalons-en-Champagne, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetothermopower in heavy fermion metamagnets CeRu2Si2 and YbRh2Si2

UserRamzy Daou.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Strain localization in granular materials

UserStephen Walley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superconductors, multiferroic and magnetic materials

UserGeetha Balakrishnan.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Structural modification of energetic materials using high pressures and co-crystallisation

UserColin Pulham, School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Role of computer simulations in understanding surface processes

UserLev Kantorovich, Department of Physics, King's College, London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Imaging structural performance

UserJanice Barton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superconducting phase and pseudogap in the high-temperature cuprate superconductors.

UserPatrick Rourke, University of Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Ceramic armour: Past, present and future

UserPaul Hazell, Dynamic Response Group, Shrivenham Campus, Cranfield University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Topics in quantum matter research

UserMalte Grosche, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Nanomechanics of coatings for electronic and optical applications

UserSteve Bull, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Exploring structural phase transitions in nanofriction

UserAndrea Benassi, Statistical Materials Modeling Laboratory, Institute for Energetics and Interphases, Milan, Italy.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Probabilistic automated alloy development

UserBryce Conduit, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Probing micro-mechanical deformation behaviour with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction.

UserBenjamin Britton, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Hole Doping and Dimensionality in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets

UserSiรขn Dutton, QM Group, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Screen-printable energetic inks for mining detonators

UserTuuli Sutinen, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Surface diffusion on the atomic scale

UserGraznya Antczak, Department of Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Insulators on InGaAs

UserMr Marc Fletcher, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Mechanisms of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylenes subjected to ballistic impact

UserBenjamin Russell, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Current research at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory

UserArthur Blackburn, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantum information processing with superconducting qubits at IBM

UserDr Antonio Corcoles, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (USA).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Modelling the behaviour of multiscale cellular materials

UserPhilippe Viot, Institut de Mรฉcanique et Ingรฉnerie, Bordeaux, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

TBA

UserDr Neil Wilson, Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Organic electronics: Applied nanotechnology

UserPaul Dastoor, Centre for Organic Electronics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Magneto-transport through graphene nanoribbons : numerical simulations

UserDr Alessandro Cresti, IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble (France).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Interaction of phonons and Dirac fermions on the surface of Bi2Se3: A strong Kohn anomaly

UserMichael El-Batanouny, Department of Physics, Boston University, USA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Single Electron Displacement in Nanostructures

UserDr Tristan Meunier, Institut Nรฉel, CNRS, and Universitรฉ Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Charge transport physics of high mobility organic semiconductors

UserHenning Sirringhaus, Microelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Prospects for studying how high-intensity compression waves cause damage in human blast injuries

UserKate Brown, Imperial College Blast Biomechanics and Biophysics Group.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantized current and voltage sources based on non-adiabatic charge pumping

UserDr Bernd Kaestner, PTB Braunschweig.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 14:15-16:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Large out-of-plane g-factor for quasi 2D holes in GaAs heterostructures

UserMr Ashwin Srinivasan, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 19 August 2011, 14:15-16:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Phase-ยญlocking and active mode-ยญlocking of terahertz quantum cascade lasers

UserDr Stefano Barbieri, Laboratoire MPQ, University Paris VII โ€“ CNRS, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 13 June 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Steam and Gas Turbines โ€“ Wear and Erosion Challenges at High Temperatures

UserSarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 09 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Insulators on InGaAs

UserMr Marc Fletcher, Semiconductor Physics Group, UK.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 06 June 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Microscopic characterization of organic thin films for appliactions in organic electronics

UserGregor Witte, Department of Physics, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Development of high performance THz photoconductive antenna

UserMr Richard Faulks, Semiconductor Physics Group, (UK).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 30 May 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Polymer solar cells

UserNeil Greenham, Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Miriam Vitiello, Scuola Normale Super (SNS), Pisa, Italy.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 23 May 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Novel multi-functional lightweight armour

UserDavid Townsend, BAe Systems, Filton, Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Robust quantum computers

UserDr Sean Barrett, Quantum Information Theory Group, Imperial College London (UK).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Ultrafast charge transfer in pyridine on Cu(110)

UserHeike Arnolds, Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electron interaction effects in one-dimensional quantum wires

UserMr Luke Smith, Semiconductor Physics Group, UK.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Review of the mechanical properties of diamond

UserJohn Field, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Explosive interactions of granular media with structures

UserVikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Strain effect on electronic and structural properties of metal nanoislands grown on reconstructed Au(111)

UserGuido Fratesi, Materials Science Department, Milano-Bicocca University, Milan, Italy.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 April 2011, 11:30-12:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Hardness-induced elastic, plastic, cracking observations

UserRon Armstrong, Center for Energetic Concepts Development, University of Maryland.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 31 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Pulsed power driven shock physics experiments at Imperial College

UserSimon Bland, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Scratching the surface: Measuring the wear and frictional response of surfaces

UserMark Gee, National Physical Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Carbon nanotubes as Cooper pair beam splitters

UserDr Takis Kontos, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole Normale Supรฉrieure, Paris, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Erosion of thermal barrier coatings

UserRichard Wellman, Cranfield University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Spin and valley control in semiconductor and carbon quantum dots

UserProf Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz, Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Shock compression of Mie-Grรผneisen liquids

UserMike Morley, SMF Group, The Cavenidsh Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantum memories using electron and nuclear spins in the solid state

UserDr John Morton, Materials Department, University of Oxford.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Improving laser-driven flyer performance

UserHannah Brierley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Research in the Semiconductor Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory

UserDavid Ritchie, Semiconductor Physics (SP) Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Giant Fluctuations of Coulomb Drag

UserDr Adam Price, Quantum Systems and Nanomaterials Group, School of Physics, University of Exeter.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Physics in innovation consultancy

UserTim Goldrein, Innovia Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

On the twist: Chirality at surfaces

UserStephen Driver, Surface Science Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Nanotechnology: Challenging chips and crime

UserRussell Cowburn, TFM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Gate-dependent spin-orbit coupling in multi-electron carbon nanotubes

UserDr Casper Grove, Niels Bohr Institute & Nanoscience Center, University of Copenhagen.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Artificial nacre with vertically bridged tablets by ambient solution processing

UserAlex Finnemore, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Calculation of few-electron states in carbon nanotube quantum dots

UserDr Mervyn Roy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Single atoms and ultracold atomic gases

UserMichael Koehl, Atomic, Mesoscopic, and Optical Physics (AMOP) Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Phase transitions in nanostructures

UserDr David Cobden, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Impact cratering: Shock physics on a planetary scale

UserGareth Collins, Department of Earth Science, Imperial College, London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition

UserAndras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition

UserAndras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Spin injection into semiconductors from ferromagnetic materials

UserDr Rhodri Mansell, Thin Film Magnetism Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Simple systems at extreme conditions

UserEugene Gregoryanz, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

TBA

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Characterisation of anisotropic materials at high rates of strain

UserClive Siviour, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Two-dimensional electron systems in ultra-pure GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures

UserDr Stefan Schmult, Max-Planck-Institut fรผr Festkรถrperforschung, Stuttgart.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 25 October 2010, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Titanium dioxide: Interplay between non-stoichiometry, point and planar bulk defects and surface structure and reactivity

UserRoger Bennett, Department of Physics, University of Reading.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Surface acoustic wave quantum electronic devices -- playing ping-pong with single electrons

UserMr Robert Mc Neil, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 14:15-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The dynamics of thermally activated motion of cyclopentadienyl and pyrrole on Cu(111)

UserBarbara Lechner, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 16:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A two dimensional approach for measuring surface phonons using helium spin echo

UserPepijn Kole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Common behaviors of unconventional superconductors indicating non-BCS condensation and spin-mediated resonant pairing

UserYasutomo J. Uemura, Columbia University, New York, USA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 September 2010, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Fluctuation Electron Microscopy of Amorphous Materials: The Twinkle in the Microscopist's Eye.

UserMike Treacy, Department of Materials, Oxford University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 July 2010, 16:00-17:00

Thin-Film Magnetism Group

Options for in-focus phase contrast provided by additional relay optics

UserDr. R.M. Glaeser, Glaeser Lab, Life Sciences Divison, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 July 2010, 14:30-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Life, Hypervelocity Impacts and the Solar System

UserMark Burchell, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 14:30-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Structures of materials at high pressures

UserRichard Needs, Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

How to make polymers as strong as steel โ€“ and also more environmentally friendly

UserDavid Barton, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Nanohardness of high purity Cu (111) single crystals: The effect of indenter load and prior plastic strain

UserMunawar Chaudhri, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum criticality and dynamical scaling in YbRh2Si2

UserSven Friedemann, QM group.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

How water wets metal surfaces

UserGeorge Darling, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The use of innovative optimisation methods in computational mechanics: Application to structures, material processing technologies and constitutive models

UserA. Andrade-Campos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Low work function diamond surfaces

UserKane Oโ€™Donnell, Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, University of Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Behaviour of structures under extreme dynamic loadings: Characterisation and modelling

UserYong Lu, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum phase transitions and novel phases.

UserPhilipp Gegenwart, University of Goettingen.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Nanodomains in Ferroelectrics and Magnetoelectrics

UserJ. F. Scott, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 21 April 2010, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics

Joint TCM/QM seminar - note non-standard time.

UserProf. Erica Carlson, Purdue University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 06 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

From vacuum tunnelling to quantum transport: Recent developments and new opportunities in Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy

UserStefan Tautz, Forschungszentrum Juelich.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2010, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Ferromagnetic fibre networks and their possible application for magneto-mechanical stimulation of bone growth

UserAthina Markaki, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

High strain rate properties of shape memory alloys

UserGerry Swallowe, Department of Physics, University of Loughborough.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The use of Taylor impact for validating material constitutive models

UserStephen Walley, SMF Group.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Whipple shields for spacecraft

UserDavid Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Possible field-induced superconductivity in the quasi-1D purple bronze Li0.9Mo6O17

UserAlimamy Bangura, University of Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 11:00-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rational material selection in product design

UserStephen Grantham, Granta Design Ltd., Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Title to be confirmed

UserStephen Driver, Surface Science Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

ETECH Projects

Beyond Research Excellence

UserProf Henning Sirringhaus, Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics; Prof Stephen Elliott, Amorphous Materials Group at the Department of Chemistry; Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

The long-standing puzzle of missing inelastic neutron scattering intensity in the cuprates

** Note non-standard date and location **

UserAndrew C. Walters, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Organic Monolayers, Networks, Electrochemistry: A Toolbox for the Nanoscale?

UserManfred Buck, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Next generation initiators

UserTracy Vine, QinetiQ.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Neutron scattering studies of ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2 under pressure

UserDmitri Sokolov, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergence of local broken symmetries with hole-doping in Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2

UserDr. Yuki Kohsaka, Magnetic Materials Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Ice accretion on aircraft

UserGraeme Leese, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Evidence for Unusual Magnetic Order in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition

UserHeribert Wilhelm, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Diamond Light Source.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Predicting surface structures from first principles

UserPhil Hasnip, Department of Physics, University of York.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Liquid crystal elastomers

UserJonathan Biggins, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Low temperature transport in an electron-hole bilayer: search for excitonic phases and collective modes.

UserKanti Das Gupta, SP group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Mechanical behaviour of particulate polymer composites

UserDan Drodge, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 16:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Optical techniques for characterising shock ejecta

UserDavid Bell, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-16:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Adventures in catalytic nanospace: Resolving surface phenomena at the atomic scale

UserMichael Bowker, Wolfson Nanoscience Laboratory and Cardiff Catalysis Institute.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Simulation of void collapse in heterogeneous explosives

UserLouisa Michael, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

PBX 9502 detonation propagation

UserStefan Schoch, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Ultrafast measurements of the nonequilibrium charge-transfer state of Sr2CuCl2O2

UserJesse Petersen, University of Oxford.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

First principles simulations of water-solid interfaces and the initial stages of ice nucleation

UserAngelos Michaelides, London Centre for Nanotechnology.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

One bubble, two bubbles, three bubbles, four... the physics of bubbles and how to eavesdrop on a breaking wave

UserHelen Czerski, Department of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 29 May 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

What happens when a bomb explodes: A review of current understanding in conventional munitions

UserMike Hutchinson, AWE, Aldermaston.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Theory of the Phase Diagarm of the Cuprates

UserChandra Varma, University of California Riverside.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Splitting in the Fermi surface of ZrTe3: A surface charge density wave system

UserMoritz Hoesch, Diamond Light Source, Harwell, Oxon.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

High-power lasers and the extreme conditions that they can produce

UserSteven Rose, Plasma Physics Group, Imperial College, London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Natural Optical Activity of Metals

UserVladimir Mineev, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Dislocation dynamics simulations of plasticity in dispersion hardened metals

UserSylvain Queyreau, Laboratoire dโ€™Etude des Microstructures, ONERA, Chatillon, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The Myth of Mithril: Real materials for body armour

UserCelia Watson, Cranfield Defence and Security, Shrivenham.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

de Haas-van Alphen studies of the YbRh2Si2 Fermi surface: Lifshitz transition at H0 ~ 10 T

UserPatrick Rourke, University of Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Photonic Doppler velocimetry: The easy way to measure particle velocity

UserPhilip Rae, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Green Explosives: Saving the environment, one war at a timeโ€ฆ

UserAdam Collins, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Electric Field Tuning of Manganites and Cuprates

UserAnoop Singh Dhoot, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Surface dynamics

UserPepijn Kole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 16:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Bound state resonances

UserFay Tuddenham, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Dynamic behaviour of granular materials during penetration and compaction

UserJohn Addiss, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

Dasher in Mandarin Chinese with Phonetic Pin Yin

note unusual time and venue

UserWill Zou.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Spin-Excitation Spectroscopy: Probing Magnetic Nanostructures at the Atomic Scale

UserCyrus Hirjibehedin, University College London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The use of chirped fibre Bragg grating sensors to monitor disbond growth in bonded composite structures

UserSteve Ogin, Department of Materials, Surfaces and Structural Systems, University of Surrey.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Going for strength: The development of carbon nanotube fibres and fibre composites

UserAlan Windle, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Site specific residual stress analysis using focused ion beam machining

UserRichard Langford, Biological and Soft Systems (BSS) Sector, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

More NIPS highlights

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Skyrmion lattice in chiral magnets

UserChristian Pfliederer, Physik Department, Technische Universitรคt Mรผnchen, Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements

UserJames Dean, Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Biomolecular adsorption at a silicon/water interface driven by water-structure effects

UserDaniel J. Cole, Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

New generation X-ray diffraction: technology and applications

UserJacqui Cole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Larmor diffraction from antiferromagnetic and hidden order in URu2Si2

UserPhilipp Niklowitz, Royal Holloway.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Quasicrystals: there be monsters...

UserProfessor Ronan McGrath, Surface Science Centre, Department of Physics, The University of Liverpool.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Heavy fermion states and quantum criticality

UserProf. Yoshichika Onuki, Osaka University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Mesoscopic to macroscopic behaviour of particulate composites: Experimental and numerical aspects

UserAlain Fanget, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

On the probabilisticโ€“deterministic transition involved in a fragmentation process of brittle materials

UserPascal Forquin, Laboratory of the Physics and Mechanics of Materials, University of Metz, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Unconventional superconductivity originating from disconnected Fermi surfaces in the iron-based compounds

UserHideo Aoki (Dept of Physics, University of Tokyo):.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 31 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements

UserJames Dean, Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Nano-wires and islands - the structure of rare earth silicides on silicon surfaces

UserSteve Tear, Department of Physics, University of York.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum oscillations in an iron-based superconductor

UserAmalia Coldea, University of Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Soft, Self-Organized Systems: Templates for Functional Nanomaterials

UserErika Eiser, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Ferromagnetic insulating state of manganites: Is it an electron glass?

UserProf. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Novel quantum phases on Kondo lattices due to quantum criticality and geometrical frustraton

UserSatoru Nakatsuji, ISSP Tokyo.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 15 September 2008, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Orbital Physics in Spinel Oxides

UserTakuro Katsufuji, Dept. Phys., Waseda Univ.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 05 August 2008, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

THE FLUCTUATING BOND MODEL โ€“ A WAY TO UNDERSTAND CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS?

UserDennis Newns, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 June 2008, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

"Room-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates of Magnons in Yttrium Iron Garnet

UserPhilip Stamp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 20 June 2008, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Initiation systems and novel explosives for laser flyer initiation

UserAdam Parker, QinetiQ Fort Halstead.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:30-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergent Behaviour in Heavy Electron Materials

UserDavid Pines, ICAM, UC Davis.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Recent Progress on the Phase Diagram of High Temperature Superconductors

UserDoug Bonn, University of British Columbia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Energetic phenomena in an underwater environment

UserRobert H. Telling, [dstl] Fort Halstead.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Andreev reflection spectroscopy in CeCoIn5

UserLaura Greene, UIUC.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Crystallography of NLO materials: battle of the charge-density models

UserDaniel D. Hickstein, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Accentuate the negative: anomalous thermal expansion in cyanide frameworks

UserAnthony E. Phillips, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:00-16:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The dynamics of molecules on oxide surfaces modelled with ab initio methods

UserMike Gillan, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Probing the electronic structure of layered 4d transition metal oxides by ARPES

UserFelix Baumberger, Univeristy of St. Andrews.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Immobilisation of nuclear and toxic wastes by vitrification

UserRussell J. Hand, Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Spin Correlations in the Paramagnetic Phase of Quantum Magnets

UserJon Goff, Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Sudden energy release around interfaces during quasistatic loading

UserHenry Tan, University of Manchester.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum criticality in slightly Ir- and Co-doped YbRh2Si2

UserManuel Brando, University of Dresden.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The conch shell as a model for tougher composites

UserD M Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Falling glass: The post-fracture performance of glass in buildings

UserM. Overend, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite

UserIgor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Journal Club

Superconductivity in Heavy Alkaline Earth Intercalated Graphite

UserMark Dean (University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Studies of 21-6-9 stainless steel at various strain rates

UserG. Whiteman, Hydro Design Group, AWE Aldermaston.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetism under Pressure with Synchrotron Radiation

Note non-standard date and time

UserDr. Matteo d'Astuto IMPMC, CNRS, PARIS.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Time-resolved X-ray diffraction on laser-shocked crystals

UserT. Dโ€™Almeida, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Journal Club

Flux line lattice melting and the formation of a coherent qusiparticle Bloch state in URh2Si2

UserJack Gillett.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Building the next generation climate model

UserN. Nikoforakis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in low-dimensional magnets

UserChris Stock, ISIS.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Journal Club

Magnetic monopoles in spin ice

UserEoin O'Farrell.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 11:00-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

PA Consulting: Exploiting emerging technologies

UserC.E. Lloyd, PA Consulting, Melbourn, Cambs.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Electronic friction and excitations in molecule-surface interactions

UserM. Persson, Surface Science Research Centre, Dept. of Chemistry, The University of L:iverpool.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superconductivity and the dark side of magnetism

UserAndrew Huxley, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 07 December 2007, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Heavy fermion superconductivity of a new transuranium compound NpPd5Al2

UserDai Aoki, Grenoble.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2007, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Structure-dependent ferromagnetism in Au4V: Investigations into magnetic gold

UserDamon D Jackson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Beyond slip circle constructions: the cohesion limit of a polycrystal

UserProf. L.M. Brown, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Measuring correlations at the critical temperature of a dilute Bose gas

UserMichael Kohl, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Optical angular momentum and some applications

UserProf. R.E. Burge, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Activated surface diffusion with interaction adsorbates

UserA.S. Sanz, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticality in two-dimensional helium

UserJohn Saunders*, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Sum-rules and quantum limits: Using first principles to understand nonlinear optical behaviour

UserDr J. Pรฉrez-Moreno, University of Leuven, Belgium.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Surface dynamics in the low friction regime: Xe on Pt(111) using 3He Spin Echo Spectroscopy

UserD.J. Ward, SMF Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

New developments in atom detectors for molecular beam experiments

UserA.R. Alderwick, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

A Ginzburg Landau Approach to Superconductivity in the Cuprates

UserProfessor T.V. RAMAKRISHNAN, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Making the most of your intellectual property

UserM. Grimshaw & Z. Stoeva, Cambridge Enterprise.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Transport and Thermodynamic Properties of High-Tc Superconductors Calculated from the Energy-Momentum Dispersion.

UserJames Storey, Victoria University, New Zealand.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2007, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Simulating the solid state with ultracold atom gases

UserChris Hooley (University of St Andrews).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Unconventional Kondo lattice systems: Eu-compounds and ferromagnetic Ce-systems

UserChristoph Geibel, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2007, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

High pressure synthesis, structural and physical properties of the new A-site ordered double perovskite oxides CaCu3Fe4O12 and (Ca,Y)Cu3Co4O12

UserIkuya Yamada, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 05 September 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Systematic prediction of new second-order organic nonlinear optical materials

UserN Z F Weng, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 14 June 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Novel Experiments in Superfluid Helium-3 at Ultralow Temperatures

UserRichard Haley, Lancaster University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The dynamics of benzene on surfaces

UserDr H. Hedgeland, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 07 June 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Exploring metallization and superconductivity in elements and simple molecular systems at megabar pressures

UserMikhail I. Eremets, Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetic order in the pseudogap phase of the high-T_c superconductor YBCO

UserBenoรฎt Fauquรฉ; , Laboratoire Lรฉon Brillouin CEA/Saclay, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Extrapolating from 50 years of dislocation imaging: Reaching into the core

UserProf. A. Howie, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 24 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

NaxCoO2 and Related Oxides from the Perspective of their Electronic Structures

UserDavid Singh, Oak Ridge National Lab.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2007, 11:15-12:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A mathematicianโ€™s odyssey into the world of granular flows: From microscopic considerations to a continuum theory

UserC.J. Cawthorn, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Quantum information processing with silicon-on-insulator based single electron transistors

UserDr D G Hasko, Microelectronics Research Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 10 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Shock generated pressure-temperature excursions in planetary materials

UserDr J G Spray, Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick, Canada.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Forensic material technology

UserDr J E Balzer, Kriminaltechnisches Institut, Wiesbaden, Germany.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Interlayer tunneling in Bi-2212: Evidence for strong-coupling features and impurity effects

UserTim Benseman, QM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2007, 11:15-12:15

Inference Group

Learning Patterns in the Game of Go

Note unusual time

UserEmil Nijhuis, University of Amsterdam.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 30 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Inference Group

Logistic regression with a Laplacian prior on the singular values: convex duality and application to EEG classification.

Note unusual time and location

UserRyota Tomioka (ๅ†จๅฒกไบฎๅคช), University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST IDA.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 23 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics

Quantum Thermal Conductance of a One-Dimensional Wire

UserDr. James Nicholls (Dept. of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 19 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Development of Textures in Nematic and Smectic (Ferro-Electric) Rubbers

UserProf. M Warner, Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Adsorption and Reactions on Interstellar Dust Grains

UserDr W A Brown, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics

Quantum Hall ferromagnet at high filling factors: A magnetic field induced Stoner transition

UserDr. Benjamin Piot, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Navigating in a Chiral Landscape

UserDr S J Jenkins, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Materials Science Research at the ISL

UserDr E Lach, Institut Saint-Louis, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 08 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics

Spin precession control and the Aharonov-Casher effect

UserDr Tobias Bergsten - SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Slip Circle Constructions for Dislocation Plasticity, with Special Reference to Nanoindentations

UserProf. L M Brown, Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics

Momentum effects on focusing in one-dimensional systems

UserMiss Kavitha Kishen (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

UK MoD Ignition Studies Towards Large Calibre Gun System Applications

UserDr M J Taylor, QinetiQ, Fort Halstead, Kent.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Phonon anomalies in superconductors studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering

*** Note non-standard date ***

UserMatteo d'Astuto (Universitรฉ Pierre et Marie Curie).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2007, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Some Controversial Issues in High Tc Superconductivity - a Specific Heat Perpective

UserDr. John Loram (University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2007, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Gigahertz quantized charge pumping

UserMr. Mark Blumenthal, Semiconductor Physics Group (Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 15 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

High pressure study of a quasi one dimensional two band conductor

UserNeven Barisic, Stanford University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

From solitons to magnons via transverse field in an Ising magnet

UserRadu Coldea, University of Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Exploitation of nanoscale particles for DNA analysis and detection

UserDr. Tracy Melvin (University of Southampton, UK).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Detecting Single Atoms in the STEM

UserA. Bleloch, The Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Understanding superconductivity in spin ladders: new tools and a hard climb!

UserDaniel Braithwaite, CEA Grenoble.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Detection and manipulation of spins in semiconductors and metals

UserDr. Mark Hickey (Stoner Laboratory, University of Leeds, U.K).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 20 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Imaging Surfaces with Atoms: How, Why and When?

UserD.A. MacLaren, The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The University of Glasgow.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics

Semiconductor microcavities: from cold polariton condensates to polariton lasing at room temperature

UserDr. Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Advanced Structural Characterisation Techniques for Amorphous Materials

UserJ.M. Cole, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Search for Stripes in Lightly Hole Doped YBa2Cu3O6 by ESR and IR Transmission

UserAndrรกs Jรกnossy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Quantum Point Contacts: a Tunable Single-Spin System ?

UserProf. J. P. Bird (University of Buffalo, USA).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Non-Adiabatic Processes at the Gas-Solid Interface

UserS. Holloway, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Technology and Golf: Friends or Foes?

UserE. Zaayman, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics

Confined superfluid He3: thoughts, hints and facts

UserDr. Antonio Corcoles (Semiconductor Physics Group).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 23 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics

The 0.5 plateau

UserDr. Rolf Crook (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics

Architectures for ion quantum technology

UserDr. Winfried K. Hensinger, Ion Quantum Technology Group,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 09 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

How to Make an Atom-Mirror: Preparation of Si(111)-(1x1)H surfaces on ultrathin crystals

UserA. Weeks, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Giant sharp magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic epitaxial La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 on BaTiO3

UserNeil Mathur, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Modelling of adiabatic transport: pumped charge quantization and beyond

UserDr. Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs (Tel-Aviv University, Israel).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 25 September 2006, 14:15-15:15

Name to be confirmed

Title to be confirmed

UserDuncan Simpson.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 22 September 2006, 11:00-12:00

Name to be confirmed

Title to be confirmed

UserDuncan Simpson.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 22 September 2006, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy of the Pure and Cd-doped Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5: Detecting Order Parameter Symmetry and Competing Phases

UserLaura H. Greene, Department of Physics and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 20 September 2006, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Doing low temperature physics six decades ago

UserB.S. Chandrasekhar.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 19 September 2006, 16:15-17:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Competing orders in low-dimensional doped quantum spin systems

UserDr Girsh Blumberg, Bell Labs.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 19 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Unconventional Superconductivity and Quantum Criticality in CeCoIn5

UserDr Cigdem Capan (Louisiana State University).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 19 June 2006, 10:00-11:00

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

The Behaviour of Multiphase Plumes with Chemical Reaction

UserDr S Cardoso, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 June 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Metamagnetism and Quantum Criticality in Sr3Ru2O7

UserDr Santiago Grigera (Physics Department, University of St. Andrews).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Conductance anomaly and Zeeman splitting in ballistic hole quantum wires

UserDr. Romain Danneau (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 12 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

The Dual Nature of Electrons

UserDr Filip Ronning (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 12 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Symmetric Taylor Testing of Metallic Materials

UserH Couque, GIAT Industries, Division Munitions, Bourges, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 June 2006, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergent phases in tuneable quantum materials

UserDr Christos Panagopoulos (Physics Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Electrons on the Magnetic Quantum Roundabout - Measuring Fermi Surfaces and Band Renormalisation in Correlated Materials

UserDr Christoph Bergemann (Physics Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Predicting Deformation and Failure of Copper

UserDr P J. Gould, QinetiQ Bristol.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 01 June 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

The quest for imperfection

UserDr Anke Husmann (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Tunability and self-organisation of quantum matter

UserDr Malte Grosche (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 29 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Equivalency of the Effects of Time and Temperature on the Mechanical Response of a PBX

UserD M Williamson, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 25 May 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

From quantum critical magnets to superconductivity in graphite intercalates

UserDr Montu Saxena (Physics Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

A brief introduction to AlAs quantum wells

UserDr. Christine Nicoll (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 22 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Making the Most of Failures

UserDr R I Hammond, TWI, Granta Park, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 18 May 2006, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics

Molecular Beam Epitaxial overgrowth on pre-patterned substrates

UserDr. Paola Atkinson (SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Piezoelectric Probes: Can They Be Trusted?

UserC E Lloyd, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 11 May 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

The Generation and Decay of Grid Turbulence in a Dissipationless Fluid--4He at 20 mK

UserGary Ihas, University of Florida.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Exciton Condensation

UserProf. P. B. Littlewood, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 08 May 2006, 15:15-16:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Constitutive Models for Deformation and Fracture of Metals

UserT D Andrews, QinetiQ Farnborough.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 04 May 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

High magnetic fields: A tool for studying strongly correlated systems

UserCyril Proust, Laboratoire National des Champs Magntiques Pulss.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2006, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Unconventional noise and aging experiments in manganites and superconductors

UserMichael Weissman, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 April 2006, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Transport and thermodynamic properties of cuprate superconductors: E(k) dispersion, pseudogap and isotope effects

UserJames G. Storey, Victoria University of Wellington.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 March 2006, 11:15-12:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

CANCELLED - Transmission Electron Microscopy of Biological Samples

UserDr. J. Skepper, Multi-Imaging Centre, Department of Anatomy, Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 16 March 2006, 11:00-12:00

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Ithaca and a Thesis: An Odyssey of Explosive Excitement

UserH Czerski, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Lab.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 09 March 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

(Environmental) Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM & ESEM)

UserDr. D Stokes, Biological and Soft Systems, Dept of Physics.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 09 March 2006, 11:00-12:00

Semiconductor Physics

Laser spectroscopy of a single quantum dot

UserDr Richard Warburton, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 06 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Assessing the Impact Energy Absorbing Properties of Composite and Sandwich Materials

UserDr J P Dear, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 02 March 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Electron Tomography for the Physical Sciences

UserDr. P. Midgley, Dept of Materials Sceince and Metallurgy.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 02 March 2006, 11:00-12:00

Semiconductor Physics

Entangled photons on-demand from a single quantum dot

UserMr Robert Young, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Testing with Bars: From Dynamic to Quasistatic

UserDr G Gary, Laboratoire de Mcanique des Solides (LMS) de lEcole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 23 February 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Introduction into Chemical Analysis for Electron Microscopy (EELS, EDS)

UserProf. M. Brown, (PCS, Physics, Cambridge).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 23 February 2006, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superfluid stiffness and defect-assisted pair-breaking: getting a handle on organic superconductors

UserStephen Blundell, University of Oxford.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Excitation of acousto-electric vibrations in a GaAs lattice

UserMr Shubeur Rahman, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 20 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Light Emission by Shocked Ammonium Nitrate

UserN E Taylor, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Lab.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 16 February 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Aberration Correction in TEM and STEM

UserDr Max Haider, (CEOS, Germany).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 16 February 2006, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

New Effects in Vortex Resistivity and Pinning in Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O6+x

UserBen Morgan, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

New interaction effects in semiconductor quantum wires

UserDr Abi Graham, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 13 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Inkjet Printing: Status and Future Challenges

UserProf. I M Hutchings, Cambridge University Department of Engineering.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 09 February 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Lecture Series (Cavendish Lab)

Introduction into Transmission and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM & STEM)

UserDr. A. Bleloch, (PCS/SuperSTEM Daresbury).

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 09 February 2006, 11:00-12:00

PCS Fracture and Shock Physics

Energetic Materials: The International Context

UserDr A S Cumming, dstl, Fort Halstead.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 02 February 2006, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems

UserAnna Kusmartseva, University of Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2006, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Control of photons, electrons and spins in GaAs quantum wells using acoustic fields

UserDr. Paulo Santos, Paul Drude Institute, Berlin.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 December 2005, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment

UserPatricia Fara, Clare College and History and Philosophy of Science, Univ. Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2005, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Single electronics on Helium

UserProf. M.J. Lea, Royal Holloway College, London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 28 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Dispelling Shadows in the Photoemission of Bi-2212

UserMark Golden, University of Amsterdam.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2005, 11:15-12:15

Semiconductor Physics

Towards a mid-infrared single photon source

UserDr. G.R. Nash, Qinetiq, Malvern, UK.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 21 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems

UserAnna Kusmartseva & Emma Pearson, QM, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Observation and Non-Observation of Vortex Matter Phase Transitions in Niobium

UserTed Forgan, University of Birmingham.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Sr2RuO4: Inflating the Fermi Surface

UserPeter Mann, QM, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Tangles in Infinity: The Kagome Spin Glass

UserAndrew Wills, University College London.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Crystal Growth, X-Ray and Neutron Scattering - Fun with Complex Oxides

UserMartin Greven, Stanford University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Alpha-Uranium and Its Superconductivity

UserGeorge Schmiedeshoff, Occidental College, Los Angeles.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superfluid 3He: The Universal Substance from Cosmology to Hydrodynamics via NMR (and OR)

UserGeorge Pickett, Lancaster University.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Negative Thermal Expansion, Phonons, and Neutron Scattering

UserAndrew Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Univ. Cambridge.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2005, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Intrinsic Inhomogeneities in the Strongly Correlated Electron System CeNi1-xCux

UserNoelia Marcano Aguado / Gomez Sal, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2005, 11:15-12:15

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