Date

Speaker and affiliation

Title

Jan.21

Graham Fleming
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Femtosecond Nonlinear Multidimensional Spectroscopy

Jan.28

Eugene Demler
Harvard University

Ultracold Atoms in optical lattices and magnetic microtraps

Feb.4

Tanya Zelevinsky
Harvard University

Fine Structure Constant Measurement Using Helium Spectroscopy

Feb.11

J.M. Geremia
Caltech

Real-Time Quantum Feedback With Cold Atoms

Feb.18

James Higbie
University of California, Berkeley

Unidirectional Superfluidity and Many-Atom Schroedinger Cat States: the Physics of Periodically Dressed Bose Condensates

Feb.25

Song-I Han
University of California, Berkeley

Towards NMR and MRI on a smaller and faster scale

Mar.3

Trey Porto
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD

Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices: Pushing Bose-Einstein condensates beyond mean field

Mar.10

Marcis Auzinsh
University of Latvia

Coherent excitation of atoms and molecules in a magnetic and electric field

Mar.17

Nora Berrah
Western Michigan University

Studies of Complex Systems From Within

Mar.24

Spring Break - No Seminar This Week

Mar.31

Savely G. Karshenboim
D.I. Mendeleev Institute

Laboratory Search For a Possible Variation Of Fundamental Constants

Apr.7

Jamil R. Aboshaeer \\ MIT

Novel Ground States of Bose-Condensed Systems: Experiments with Cold Molecules And Quantized Vortices

Apr.14

Mikhail Belkin
University of California, Berkeley

Sum-frequency spectroscopy as a novel probe of molecular chirality

Apr.21

Andrew Charman
University of California, Berkeley

EIT in Magnetized Plasmas: Quantum Treatments and Atomic Analogies

Apr.28

Cancelled

Cancelled

May 5

Ignacio Cirac
Max Planck Institute For Quantum Optics

Entanglement in spin chains and quantum optical sytems