Past Seminars 07/08

A listing of past seminars run by or relevant to LCN in the academic year 2007/08.

(sorted by date - most recent first, please scroll as necessary).

  • 26/6/2008 Dr James Owen, (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Nanoline Templating: Self-Assembly of Atomic-scale Nanostructures on Si(001) [abstract]
  • 17/06/2008 Dr Akira Ohtomo, (Tohoku University, Japan) Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture, High-mobility electron gas at polar oxide heterointerfaces [event programme]
  • 11/06/2008 Professor John Venables, (Arizona State University), Surface processes at the nanoscale: how crystals meet the outside world [abstract]
  • 10/06/2008 Dr Mauro Ferrari, (University of Texas, USA), Nanotechnology in Medicine - A view from the trenches [profile]
  • 05/06/2008 Prof Sudipta Seal, (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA), Modulating the Chemistry in rare-earth nanostructures for Biomedical Applications
  • 04/06/2008 Dr Jochen Guck, (University of Cambridge), Biophotonics - Shedding new light  on biological cells [abstract]
  • 28/05/2008 - 13:00, Professor David Ritchie, (University of Cambridge), Quantum light sources fabricated from III-V semiconductors [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 20/05/2008 Dr Bruce Normand, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland), Monopoles and Deconfined Spinons in Pyrochlore Antiferromagnets [abstract]
  • 21/05/2008 Dr Mike Evans, (University of Leeds), Complex fluids under shear: theories and experiements [abstract]
  • 21/05/2008 Dr Jacques Jupille, (Institute of Nanosciences Paris), Stabilisation of polar oxide orientations [abstract]
  • 16/05/2008 Dr Markus Müller, (Harvard University, USA), Nernst Effect and Magnetohydrodynamics near Quantum Criticality in Superconductors, Graphene and Black Holes
  • 14/05/2008 Dr Alison Lloyd, (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL), Models for studying cell size and cell state in mammalian cells [abstract]
  • 13/05/2008 - 13:00, Ernesto E. Marinero, (Hitachi San Jose Research Centre), Magnetic and Semiconductor Nanostructures for Ultra High Density Magnetic Recording
  • 07/05/2008 Dr Andrej Vilfan,  (J  Stefan Institute, Ljubljana), Myosin V - a biological nanomachine [abstract]
  • 30/04/2008 Professor Dudley Williams, (University of Cambridge), Antibiotics to Enzymes - How do they Work?
  • 23/04/2008 Dr Sander Otte, (Leiden University), The Kondo Effect of a Single Atom with Large Spin [abstract]
  • 16/04/2008 Dr Brian Robertson (Imperial College London), Global approaches to TB biology [abstract]
  • 09/04/2008 Oleg Mitrofanov (LCN, UCL)   Understanding elecdtronic transport in organic semiconductors [abstract]
  • 02/04/2008 Liming Ying, Imperial College London, Applications of Nanopipette in Bionanotechnology
  • 19/03/2008 Joachim Spatz (Heidelberg and MPI Stuttgart), Cell Function Regulated by Contacts with Nano-Digital Interfaces
  • 17/03/2008 Steven Prawer (University of Melbourne), Quantum information processing in diamond
  • 12/03/2008 Jeremy O’Brien (Bristol University), Quantum information science with photons on a chip [abstract]
  • 11/03/2008 Gavin Morley (UCL/LCN), Coherent control of polarized spin qubits [abstract]
  • 27/02/2008 Inaugural Lecture - Professor Ian Robinson
  • 20/02/2008 Maria Sushko (LCN, UCL), Physics of Nanomechanical Sensing - bridging experiment and theory [abstract]
  • 13/02/2008 Andrew Ferguson (University of Cambridge), Quantum dots and radio-frequency electrometers in silicon [abstract]
  • 13/02/2008 Inaugural Lecture - Professor Mike Finnis
  • 06/02/2008 Andrea Jimenez-Dalmaroni, Experimental and theoretical study of mitotic spindle orientation
  • 30/01/2008 Professor Maciej Gutowski (Heriot-Watt University) will present recent results on designing materials for hydrogen storage
  • 30/01/2008 Dr Cyrus Hirjibehedin (LCN, UCL), Probing Magnetic Nanostructures at the Atomic Scale
  • 23/01/2008 Professor Mervyn Miles (University of Bristol), From ultrafast AFM to the Holographic Assembler
  • 22/01/2008 Professor Geoffrey Ozin (University of Toronto, UCL Chemistry and LCN), Intelligent colour [more]
  • 18/01/2008 Dr Chris Kay (UCL), Applications of ESR in materials science
  • 16/01/2008 Dr Sean Barrett (Imperial College, London), Introduction to measurement based quantum computing [abstract]
  • 07/01/2008 Prof John Hamel (University of Waterloo, Canada), Phononic Band Gap Phenomenon and Technology: Implications for Microwave Acoustics, Radio Frequency MEMS, and Nano-Acoustics
  • 12/12/2007 Prof Lesley Cohen, (LCN and Imperial College), Detecting spin
  • 10/12/2007 Prof Tsuyoshi Kimura (Osaka University), Spiral magnets as magnetically-induced ferroelectrics [abstract]
  • 04/12/2007 Neil Holmes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA), The problem of phase transitions in dynamic experiments on solid
  • 30/11/2007 Prof Eugene Kotomin (MPI, Stuttgart and University of Latvia), First principles calculations of LaMnO3  doped with Sr and application for fuel cells [abstract]
  • 30/11/2007 Dr Ji-Seon Kim (Imperial College), Organic semiconductor interfaces for molecular electronics [abstract]
  • 28 /11/2007 Dr Bill Allison (University of Cambridge), Collective behaviour in the dynamics of strongly interacting adsorbates
  • 21/11/2007 Prof Bernhard Keimer (MPI, Stuttgart), Oxide interfaces: a new era of correlated-electron physics [abstract]
  • 20/11/2007 Dr Ali Alavi (University of Cambridge), Electron correlation via path counting [abstract]
  • 19/11/2007 Prof Martin Greven (Geballe Laboratory, USA), Recent neutron scattering studies of the high-temperature superconductors Nd2-xCexCuO4+δ and HgBa2CuO4+δ [abstract]
  • 14/11/2007 Prof Jan Michael Rost (MPI, Dresden)
  • 09/11/2007 Prof Masaru Tsukada (Waseda University), Recent progress on theory of SPM and nano-link structure [abstract]
  • 31/10/2007 Professor Russell Cowburn (Professor of Nanotechnology, Imperial College), New spin for old memories - the nanotechnology of magnetic materials - booking and payment required. [Further information]
  • 31/10/2007 Prof Maurice Skolnick (University of Sheffield), Nuclear spins in quantum dots
  • 24/10/2007 Dr Martin Howard (John Innes Centre), Fluctuations in reaction-diffusion systems: modelling concentration gradients inside single cell
  • 17/10/2007 Bragg Lecture - Dr Don Eigler (IBM Almaden Research Centre), The Small Frontier [full event programme]
  • 16/10/2007 Dr Jean-Marc Costantini (CEA/Saclay, France), Damage induced in yttria-stabilized zirconia by charged particle irradiations [abstract]
  • 15/10/2007 Dr Don Eigler (IBM Almaden Research Centre), Classical Computation in Quantum Structures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future [abstract]
  • 10/10/2007 Guillaume Charras (LCN, UCL Physiology), Life and times of a cellular bleb
  • 10/10/2007 Bourke Lecture Symposium "Experiment and Theory in Nanoscience" - Prof Ivan Parkin (UCL) and Prof George Schatz (Northwestern University) [full event programme]
  • 03/10/2007 Roderich Moessner (Oxford), Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
  • 28/09/2007 Dr Takashi Matsuura (London Centre for Nanotechnology), Nanotechnology Today: Britain and Japan (presentation in Japanese)
  • 26/09/2007 Roberto D'Agosta (UC San Diego), New approaches to transport in nanoscale systems: the role of temperature
  • 21/09/2007 Dr Rachel Oliver (University of Cambridge), Indium gallium nitride: Light emitting diodes and beyond  [abstract]
  • 14/09/2007 Professor Alex Gurevich (Florida State University), Current-induced interband phase textures and the limit of the upper critical field in two-gap superconductors [abstract]
  • 11/09/2007 Professor Kurt Stokbro (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), First principles modelling of the electrical properties of nanoscale devices [abstract]
  • 07/09/2007 Professor Vitalij Pecharsky (Iowa State University, USA), Advanced magnetocaloric materials: What does the future hold? [abstract]
  • 28/08/2007 Professor Enge Wang (Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science, China), What controls the evolution of surface-based nanostructures?  Insights from computer simulation [abstract]
  • 15/08/2007 Professor Geoffrey Ozin (University of Toronto, Canada), P-Ink and Elast-Ink from Lab to Market [abstract]
  • 09/08/2007 Professor Stuart Solin (Washington University in St Louis, USA), EXX phenomena in semiconductor-metal hybrid structures [abstract]
  • 01/08/2007 Marta Ramos (University of Minho, Portugal), Modelling Polymer - LED Functioning [abstract]
  • 01/08/2007 Rob Robinson (ANSTO, Australia), The new OPAL Research Reactor in Sydney Australia, its instruments and recent progress [abstract]