John Anderson Research Colloquia 2004 - 2005
October 20, 2004
Prof. Mikael Eriksson, MAX-lab, University of Lund, Sweden
Title: "Present accelerator/FEL activity at MAX-lab" Cancelled!
November 3, 2004
Prof. Albert Polman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, and FOM-Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: "Ultra-high Q erbium-doped toroidal microlaser on silicon"
November 17, 2004
Professor John Donegan, Department of Physics, Trinity College, Ireland
Title: "Quantum dots, photonic molecules and living cells"
December 1, 2004
Faculty of Science lecture by Theodor Haensch: "A passion for precision - from the ultraslow to the ultrafast" at 6pm, Court/Senate Lecture Theatre, Collins Building.
December 15, 2004
Prof. Miles Padgett, Dept. of Physics, University of Glasgow.
Title: "The structure, form and beauty of optical vortices"
January 19, 2005
Dr. Nigel Seddon, BAE Systems, Bristol
Title: "Anomalous Doppler Effects"
February 2, 2005
Prof. Ed Hinds, Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College, London
Title: "Atom chips: a vision for quantum information processing"
February 16, 2005
Prof. Tim Sumner, Imperial College, London
Title: "Underground search for cold dark matter"
February 23, 2005 << Meeting
NEW TRENDS IN NONLINEAR OPTICS, A celebration of Willie Firth's 60th Birthday
March 2, 2005
Prof. Helen Fielding, University College London
Title: "Controlling electrons with light "
Thursday 10 March, 2pm, TG133 << Andersonian Chemical Society
Prof Tony Ryan, Sheffield University
Title: "So what is nanotechnology?"
March 16, 2005
Dr. Simon Bates, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh
Title: "E-teaching and E-learning in introductory Physics at Edinburgh: a short history and future directions"
March 23, 2005
Dr. Helen Fraser, Dept. of Physics, Strathclyde
Title: "CO'ded messages? Just what can we learn about Star Forming Regions from Surface Science"
March 30, 2005
Prof. Ian Walmsley, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Title: "The photonic vacuum cleaner"
April 13, 2005
Prof. Mike Charlton, Department of Physics, University of Wales Swansea
Title: "Cold Antihydrogen
April 27, 2005
Dr. Stephen R. Meech, School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia
Title: "Photodynamics of the Green Fluorescent Protein"
May 4, 2005
Dr. Joe Magill, European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe.
Title: "Laser Transmutation Studies of Nuclear Materials"
June 1, 2005
Dr. Eduard Kontar, University of Glasgow, Dept. of Physics
Title: "High energy solar flare physics with RHESSI"
6 June, 2005
Dr David Santiago
Title: "GRAVITY PROBE B: Testing General Relativity via a Marriage of Physics and Technology"
13 June 2005: David Elder Lecture
The David Elder lecture!
Prof. Keith Horne, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews
Title: "The Quest for Extrasolar Planets"
Time/Place: 6 pm in K325. Tickets required.
For more information see the 2005 David Elder Lecture page
29 June 2005, 4pm, JA3.14
Aimo Winkelmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Mikrostructure Physics, Halle, Germany
Title: "Electron diffraction methods for the analysis of ultrathin silicon carbide films"
The growth of heterostructures from different crystal modifications (polytypes) of silicon carbide (SiC) requires nondestructive analysis methods which are sensitive on a nanometer depth scale. The use of X-ray Photoelectron Diffraction (XPD) and Electron Channelling Patterns (ECP) is discussed with respect to the problem of the crystallography of ultrathin SiC films. The power of these methods is explored using different types of simulations which are compared to experimental data. Inherent similarities of the different electron diffraction methods are demonstrated. This also leads to an efficient approach for the simulation of Electron Backscatter Diffraction patterns, which are closely related to ECP.
14 September 2005, 4pm: A special departmental colloquium
Prof. Bill Jackson, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California at Davis, USA
Title: "Detection of parent molecules in comets using UV and Visible spectroscopy"
Time/place: For now 4pm in McC1 (McCance building over the road). Helen will try to get it moved back to JA.
