John Anderson Research Colloquia in Physics October 2003 - June 2004
October 15, 2003
Prof. Wilson Poon, Edinburgh University
Title:
To be stuck or not to be stuck - new insight into glasses from colloid
physics
Suggested by Gian-Luca Oppo
October 29, 2003
Alistair Smith, Dept. of Physics, University of Leeds
Title: "Protein folding at the speed
limit: Microsecond folding dynamics of the B domain of protein
A studied by laser induced temperature jump"
Suggested by David Birch. CANCELLED
November 12,2003
Prof. David Klug, Imperial College, London
Title: "Protein
Relaxation and Catalysis: A Quantum-Mechanical-Molecular-Mechanical
approach to the dynamics of soft condensed matter verified by non-linear
optical methods"
November 26, 2003
Klaus Suhling, Imperial College / King's College
Title: "Fluorescence
Lifetime Imaging"
Suggested by Gian-Luca Oppo & David Birch
December 10, 2003
Glasgow Science Centre (Jo Beswick, Robin Hoyle, and
Gillian Lang)
Title: "Issues
in communicating science – a perspective from Glasgow Science
Centre"
Suggested by Carol Trager-Cowan
January 21, 2004
Ifan Hughes, University of Durham
Title: "Atom
focusing"
Suggested by Aidan Arnold
February 4, 2004
Ferruccio Renzoni, University College, London
Title: "Modeling
the ratchet effect with cold atoms in optical lattices"
Suggested by Gian-Luca Oppo
February 18, 2004
Prof. (José) Tito Mendonça, Instituto
Superior Técnico, Portugal
Title: "Photon
acceleration: Theory, experiments, and applications"
Suggested by Dino Jaroszysnki
March 3, 2004
Prof. Peter Knight, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College
London, UK
Title: "Quantum
Walks"
Suggested by Steve Barnett
March 17, 2004
Prof. Tom Mullin, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University
of Manchester
Title: "Patterns
in the sand:the Physics of granular flow"
Suggested by Francesco Papoff
March 31, 2004
David Jones, University of Strathclyde
Title: "Femtosecond
laser material processing"
April 21, 2004
with the Scottish IEEE/LEOS Chapter
Prof. Alwyn Seeds, Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering, University College London
Title: "All-optical
Regeneration and Signal Processing using Ion-Implanted Quantum
Well Saturable Absorbers"
