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Past Seminars 06/07

A listing of past seminars run by or relevant to LCN for the academic year 2006/07.
(sorted by date - most recent first, please scroll as necessary).
  • 31/07/2007 - 13:00, Professor Hicham Idriss (University of Auckland, New Zealand), The adsorption and reaction of amino acids on rutile TiO2 single crystal surfaces, Location: Room E7 (ground floor), Physics Building, UCL
  • 26/07/2007 - 14:00, Karen Hallberg (Centro Atómico Bariloche Bustillo, Argentina), Lecture 3 of 3 on the Density Matrix Renormalisation Group, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 25/07/2007 - 13:00, Huiyun Liu (University of Sheffield), Long-wavelength semiconductor III-V quantum dot materials and devises, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 23/07/2007 - 13:00, Francesc Illas (University of Barcelona), Magnetic Coupling in Molecules and Solids from Ab Initio Calculations, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 18/07/2007 - 13:00, Karen Hallberg (Centro Atómico Bariloche Bustillo, Argentina), The Mott-Hubbard Transition Reloaded, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 16/07/2007 - 13:00, Dr Steven Schofield (University of Newcastle, Australia), Measure, understand, predict and build: a path to atomic-scale devices, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 11/07/2007 - 16:00, Professor L Mahadevan (Harvard University), Extremes in motility: actin acrobatics, spasmin spasms and jellyfish jabs, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 09/11/2007 - 11:00, Dr Aleksandra Djurisic (University of Hong Kong), Nanostructured materials for photovoltaic applications, Location: Lecture Theatre C, Chemistry, Imperial College
  • 02/07/2007 - 16:30, Professor Robert Cava (Princeton University), An Infinitely Adaptive Structural Series in Bismuth Tellurides, and Superconductivity in Cu-doped TiSe2, Location: Room D103, First Floor, Union Building, UCL, 25 Gordon Street
  • 29/06/2007 - 14:15, Dr Naonobu Shimamoto (NTRC & SOB, Waseda, Japan), Features and application of Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC) and Super Open Lab.(SOL) in Waseda University, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 29/06/2007 - 15:00, Professor Piers Colman (Rutgers University), Quantum Criticality and the Casimir Effect in Time, Location: Room E1, Ground Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 29/06/2007 - 15:45, Professor Steve Kivelson (Stanford University), Theory of electronic microemulsions: phases intermediate between the Fermi liquid and the Winger Crystal, Location: Room E1, Ground Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 27/06/2007 - 13:00, Professor John Saunders (RHUL), Quantum Phase Transitions in Helium Films, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 25/06/2007 - 13:00, Professor António Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil), Optical and Transport Properties of the Double-Donor System Si:P,Bi, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 22/06/2007 - 11:00, Dr Molly Stevens (Imperial College), Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials: Applications in Sensing and Tissue Regeneration, Location: Room E7, Ground Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 20/06/2007 - 13:00, William Barford (Oxford), Modelling the electroluminesence of light-emitting polymer devices, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 18/06/2007 - 14:00, Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture, Dr Kazutomo Suenaga (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology),Electron microscopy and spectroscopy on single molecules, Location: Harry Massey Lecture Theatre, 2PM, Physics, UCL. A reception will be held from 3PM in Room E7, Physics Department.
  • 15/06/2007 - 16:00, Dr Jawwad A. Darr (new Reader in Materials Chemistry, Clean Materials Technology Group, UCL), Nanoceramics Synthesis and Discovery; Clean, Fast and Controllable Methods
    Location: Chemistry Lecture Theatre, UCL. Please note there will be tea served from 15:30 in Nyhom Room (Chemistry, UCL) where wine will also be served from 17:00.
  • 13/06/2007 - 14:30-17:30, Part of Nanomagnetism Workshop, Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sara Majetich (IEEE Magnetics Society 'Distinguished Lecturer' 2007, Dept of Physics Carnegie Mellon).  Visit the event's page for more details.
  • 13/06/2007 - 14:00, Dr Linda Horton (Director, Centre for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Overview of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. Location: Room G20, Department of Materials, RSM Building, Imperial College
  • 11/06/2007 - 13:00, Prof. Vassili Karanassios (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), Toward nano-barcodes and micro-instrument barcode readers for health diagnostics: From fundamentals to applications. Location: Room A1, Fourth Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 06/06/2007 - 13:00, Andrea Cavalleri (Oxford/RAL), Ultrafast Science in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 05/06/2007 - 15:00, Prof. Dmitrii F. Perepichka (McGill University, Montreal), Two-dimensional molecular networks: an approach to molecular electronics. Location: Room E1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 31/05/2007 - 11:30, Prof. Richard Zare (Stanford University), 'All that glitters'... looking at buried interfaces using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. Location: Chemistry Lecture Theatre, UCL. More information on this series of lectures [donwload file]
  • 30/05/2007 - 13:00, Mike Gillan (LCN, UCL), Absolute rate of desorption of molecules from surfaces by empirical and first-principles simulations. Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 23/05/2007 - 12:00, Ian Ford (LCN, UCL), High speed to heat death? Maximising entropy production in evaporation, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 17/05/2007, Prof. John Polanyi (1986 Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner, FRS, University of Toronto), Chemical Reaction-Dynamics, Viewed A-Molecule-At-A-Time; Molecular-Patterning, Nano-corrals and Switches, 4PM, Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Department, UCL. The colloquium is followed by drinks in the Nyholm Room.
  • 16/05/2007, Mike Robb (Imperial), Excited State CASSCF/Force Field Dynamics Computations on Systems of Biological Interest, 1PM, Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 14/05/2007, Amir Natan (Weizmann Institute), From Single Organic Molecule to Monolayers:  Electrostatic Phenomena and Electronic Structure, 3PM, Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing - Main Building, UCL
  • 10/05/2007, Ramon Alcubilla (Technical University of Catalonia - U.P.C.), Macroporous Silicon –Technology and Applications, 12PM, Visualisation Suite on Level 5, LCN, UCL
  • 09/05/2007, Vladimir Korepin (SUNY), Title TBC, 1PM, Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 08/05/2007, Professor John Weil (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Biradical states of oxygen-vacancy defects in _-quartz: I, 11AM, Room E7, Physics Building, UCL
  • 03/05/2007, Dr. Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin (IBM Almaden Research Center,California), Magnetic Nanostructures Probed on the Atomic Scale, 11AM, Blackett Laboratory, Room 630, Level 6, Physics Department, Imperial College London
  • 02/05/2007, Prof. Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan (Harvard Medical School), Protein Sensitizers on Nanostructured Wide Gap Semiconductors for Harnessing Solar Energy, 1PM, Room 421, Roberts Building, UCL
  • 02/05/2007, Peter Sushko, Electron storage, selectivity, and control in oxide nanostructures, 1PM, Room A1, Physics, UCL
  • 02/05/2007, Lorenzo Campos Venuti (INFN Bologna), Qubit Teleportation and Transfer based on Long-Distance Entanglement in Spin Chains, 4PM, Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 30/04/2007, Dr. Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin (IBM Almaden Research Center,California), Magnetic Nanostructures Probed on the Atomic Scale, 1PM, Room A1,  Physics Building, UCL
  • 25/04/2007, Hans Ott (ETH Zurich), Transport and Magnetism of Low-Dimensional Spin Systems, 1PM, Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 23/04/2007, Marc Lavine (Senior Editor, Science), Communicating Science, Communicating in Science: An insider's view, 1PM, Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 23/04/2007, Isabelle Lisiecki, (Laboratory of Mesoscopic Materials and Nanoscience, CNRS, University of Paris Jussieu), "Size and shape control of Cu nano-crystals and their optical properties" and "Self-organisation of Co nano-crystals and their magnetic properties", 3PM, Nyholm Room, Chemistry Department, UCL. Followed by refreshments at 4PM.
  • 19/04/2007, Quentin Pankhurst (LCN, UCL), Dept of Medicine Seminar Programme: Making Magnets Work for Healthcare, 4:30PM, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Rayne Building, 5 University Street, UCL. For more information download the seminar poster.
    Seminar hosted by the Bone and Mineral Centre. Refreshments will be served from 4:15PM
  • 18/04/2007, Ruben Perez (Madrid), Ab initio simulations for Nanocontacts and AFM: Transport, Reactivity, Dissipation and Chemical Identification at the atomic scale, 1PM, Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 30/03/2007, UCL Science Centre series of outreach lectures: Richard Jackman (LCN), Nanotechnology: What is all the fuss about?,  6:30PM, Massey Lecture Theatre (Physics Building, UCL). Please note this lecture is open to the public and is aimed at 6th form level.
  • 29/03/2007, Prof Ramachandra Rao (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras), Studies on ZnO and other oxide based systems in various forms: bulk, thin film and nano, 2PM, Room B-1, LCN, UCL. [Abstract available for download]
  • 28/03/2007, Arokia Nathan  (LCN and UCL Electrical Engineering), Can nanocrystalline silicon meet the high-performance challenge for flexible electronics?, 1PM, Room A1, Physics, UCL
  • 21/03/2007, Antonio Bianconi (University of Rome La Sapienza), Feshbach shape resonances in superlattices of quantum stripes and quantum wells: a possible mechanism for High-Tc superconductivity?, 1PM, Room A1, Physics, UCL
  • 15/03/2007, UCL Lunch Hour Lectures: Prof Gabriel Aeppli (LCN), Nanotechnology, 1:15PM, Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL.
  • 14/03/2007, Justin Molloy (NIMR, Mill Hill), Mechanical manipulation of single biological molecules, 1PM, Room A1, Physics, UCL
  • 12/03/2007, Prof George Christou (Drago Professor of Chemistry, University of Florida), Single-Molecule Magnets and their Supramolecular Aggregates: A Molecular Approach to Nanomagnetism, 1PM, Room A1, Physics, UCL. [download abstract]
  • 07/03/2007, Mark Green (King's College), Nanomaterials for Biological Applications, 2PM, Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Department, UCL
  • 07/03/2007, Spreadbury Lecture: Jeff Forshaw (Manchester), Does there have to be a Higgs boson?, 4:30PM, Massey Lecture Theatre, UCL [more information and abstract]
  • 23/02/2007, Prof Saiful Islam (University of Bath), Crystal Gazing: Atomic-Scale Studies of Clean Energy Materials, 4PM, Ramsey Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry, UCL
  • 22/02/2007, João Pedro Conde (IST & INESC-MN, Lisbon), Thin-Film Biomems, 1PM, Room E7, Physics, UCL [more details available]
  • 14/02/2007, Swiss Nobel Laureate Lectures: Prof Alex Müller (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987), Development of Superconductivity Research in Oxides, 5PM, Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Christopher Ingold Building, UCL
  • 08/02/07, Adam Foster (Helsinki University of Technology), AFM Imaging defects and nanoclusters on oxide surfaces, 3PM, Room E1 (ground floor, Physics Building), UCL
  • 02/02/2007, J.A. Schaefer (Institute of Physics and Institute of  Micro and Nanotechnologies, TU Ilmenau, Germany & Dept of Physics, Montana State University, USA), Surface Science Aspects of Carbon Related Materials: Present Status and Future Trends, 1PM in room E7 (ground floor, Physics Building), UCL
  • 02/02/2007, Thomas Young Centre series of lectures: Prof Joachim Sauer (Berlin), Unravelling Structure and Reactivity of Oxide Catalysts at the Nanoscale. 5PM in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre (20 Gordon Street, UCL). Followed by refreshments in the Nylholm Room. Please RSVP to c.r.a.catlow@ucl.ac.uk
  • 01/02/2007, Benoît Fauqué (CEA Saclay, Paris), Magnetic order in the pseudogap phase of the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x. 2 PM, LCN level 5 meeting room. This is an informal seminar.
  • 24/01/2007, Matteo d'Astuto (Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), Phonon anomalies in superconductors studied using inelastic X-ray scattering, 1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL)
  • 15/01/2007, Prof Art Ramirez (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs), Electronics from Single Crystal Organics. 4PM in Room E1 (ground floor, Physics Building, UCL).
  • 15/01/2007, Prof Andrea Damacelli (British Columbia), The Quantum Materials Spectroscopy Centre at the CLS: New Frontiers in Novel Electronic Materials and Structures. 1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL). Additional information on www.physics.ubc.ca/~quantmat/
  • 10/01/2007, Paolo Radaelli (ISIS), Centre-of-symmetry breaking and other catastrophes: how polarity arises in multiferroic oxides, 1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL)
  • 06/12/2006, Steve Blundell (Oxford), Order or isolation? Some new results on low-dimensional molecular magnets.
    1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL).
  • 29/11/2006, Brendon Lovett (Oxford), Measurement-based quantum information processing with quantum dots.
    1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL).
  • 22/11/2006, Fred Manby (Bristol), Methods from gas-phase quantum chemistry in condensed phase problems.
    1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL).
  • 15/11/2006, MPhil/PhD transfer talks: Dan Wheatley, Realistic physical models of quantum bits in silicon. Ho-Chih Lin, Local approach to quantum entanglement. 1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL).
  • 08/11/2006, Bragg Lecture: David Moncton (MIT) at 5PM. Massey Theatre, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL.
  • 04/10/2006, Andrew Ho (Imperial), One-dimensional behaviour in cold atoms. 1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL).
  • 01/11/2006, Jesus Rogel-Salazar (Imperial), Modelling organic Light Emitting Diodes: a "Method-of-Lines" approach.
    1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL). 
  • 11/10/2006  Ben Murray (Leeds), Ice clouds in the Earth's atmosphere: nucleation and crystal structure.
    1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL). 
  • 25/10/2006, John Venables (Arizona/Sussex), Time-dependent models of deposition and annealing on substrates.
    1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL). 
  • 17/10/2006, Kenneth Grey (Argonne), Surprises in the Phase Diagram of Bilayer Manganites.
    1PM in Room A1 (top floor, Physics Building, UCL).