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John Anderson Research Colloquia 2006-2007

22 Sept 2006 at 3pm

Prof Iain Neil, Media Lario, Italy
Title: "Advances in Mirror Optics"

11 Oct 2006

Prof Jim Piper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor of Physics, Macquarie University, Australia
Title: "Solid-State Raman Lasers: A Tutorial"

25 Oct 2006

Robin Kaiser, Cold Atom Group at INLN UMR 6618 du CNRS Valbonne, France
Title: "Scattering and localization of light in dense media: Experimental investigations in cold atoms"

Thursday 16 Nov 2006, 4pm, JA314 - special colloquium

Prof. Antonio Politi, Director Institute for Complex Systems, National Research Council, Florence, Italy. Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde
Title: "Heat conduction in one-dimensional systems"

22 Nov 2006

Prof Martin McCoustra, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt
Title: "Probing the Gas-Grain Interaction - Applications of Surface Science in Astrophysics"

6 Dec 2006

Prof. Ifor Samuel, Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews
Title: "Organic Semiconductors: Lighting up the Future"

17 Jan 2007

A.N. (Sasha) Grigorenko, Condensed Matter Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Manchester
Title: "Negative Optical Path in Nanofabricated Optomagnetic Media"

31 Jan 2007 (JA3.14)

Prof Jonathan Hirst, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham
Title: "Quantum biospectroscopy"

14 Feb 2007 (JA3.14)

Jane Greaves, St Andrews Fellow in Astrophysics, at the University of St Andrews
Title: "How many Earths?"

28 Feb 2007 (JA3.14)

Prof Wendy Flavell, Surface Physics group, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
Title: "Synchrotron radiation as a probe of the electronic structure of functional materials: present studies and future prospects "

14 Mar 2007 (JA3.14)

Prof Jon Marangos, Quantum Optics and Laser Science, Department of Physics, Imperial College
Title: Attosecond stuff

28 Mar 2007 (JA3.14)

Prof Geoff Pert, Plasma Physics Group, Dept. of Physics, University of York
Title: "Optimising the Performance of Collisionally Pumped Ni-likew Soft X-ray Lasers"

25 Apr 2007 (JA3.14)

Katharina Lorenz, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN), Dep. Física, Sacavém, Portugal
abstractTitle: "Structural analysis of group III nitrides by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and channelling"

9 May 2007 (JA3.14)

Prof Chris A. Collins, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University
abstractTitle: "The Concordance Cosmology"

23 May 2007 (JA3.14)

Philippe Bouyer, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
Title: "BEC and atom laser: from atom interferometry to propagation in random media"