Past Seminars 09/10

A listing of past seminars run by or relevant to LCN for the academic year 2009/2010.

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

  • 21/07/2010 Professor Jerry Bernholc (North Carolina State University, USA), Theory of electro-active polymers and high-density energy storage [abstract]
  • 07/07/2010 Professor Dionys Baeriswyl (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Superconductivity in the two-dimensional Hubbard model [abstract]
  • 02/07/2010 Dr Leo Gross (IBM Research, Switzerland), Individual molecules investigated by noncontact AFM [abstract] Location: Drayton Ricardo Lecture Theatre, Drayton House, Gordon Street
  • 02/07/2010 Professor Toshio Ando (Kanazawa University, Japan), Dynamic visualization of protein molecules in action by highspeed AFM [abstract]
  • 30/06/2010 Dr Wiebke Guichard (Institut Neel, CNRS and Universite Joseph Fourier, France) Observation of quantum phase-slips in Josephson junction chains [abstract]
  • 16/06/2010 Professor Keith McEwen (LCN, UCL) Why we need both neutrons and x-rays to solve multipolar structures[abstract]
  • 02/06/2010 Professor Werner Hofer (University of Liverpool), Dynamic processes at the atomic scale [abstract] Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Christopher Ingold Building, UCL
  • 26/05/2010 Professor Carl Bender (Washington University in St Louis, USA), Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians [abstract]
  • 19/05/2010 Dr Sven Rogge (TU Delft, The Netherlands), Transport through a single dopant atom in silicon [abstract]
  • 12/05/2010 Professor Serge Lemay (University of Twente & Delft University of Technology), Ion mesocopics in nanofluidic devices [abstract]
  • 11/05/2010 Dr Scott Chambers (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA), Structure, composition and electronic properties at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3(001) interface [abstract]
  • 05/05/2010 Professor Jan Zaanen (Leiden University, The Netherlands), A black hole full of answers [abstract]
  • 28/04/2010 Professor Shinya Maenosono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),  Highly efficient surface enhanced raman scattering using plasmon-coupled Ag@Au nanoparticles [abstract]
  • 21/04/2010 Dr John Morton (Oxford University), Quantum memories and sensors using electron and nuclear spins [abstract]
  • 14/04/2010 Dr Eleanor Stride (Mechanical Engineering, UCL), Engineering microbubbles for ultrasound imaging and therapy [abstract]
  • 31/03/2010 Dr Sergei Dudarev (University of Oxford), The effectiveness of mathematical models for fusion materials
  • 24/03/2010 Professor Tom Duke (LCN, UCL) Force generation in the lamellipod of crawling cells [abstract] [poster]
  • 24/03/2010 Professor Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford University, USA), Topologically protected surface states, hexagonal warping effects and bound states on the surface of the topological insulator Bi2Te3 [abstract]
  • 10/03/2010  Professor Eugenio Coronado Miralles (University of Valencia, Spain), Molecular Nanoscience: A source of new chemistry, new physics and new materials [abstract]
  • 10/03/2010 Professor Manish Chhowalla (Imperial College), Large area electronics with solution processable chemically derived graphene [abstract]
  • 03/03/2010 Professor Ian Ford (Physics and Astronomy/LCN, UCL), Stochastic processes in nanosystems beyond mean field theory [abstract]
  • 24/02/2010 Dr Christian Rüegg (LCN, UCL), Exploring exotic quantum phases in model magnets [abstract]
  • 23/02/2010 Professor Barbara Garrison (Penn State University, USA), Cluster bombardment of solids: atomistic, mesoscopic and analytic views [abstract]
  • 17/02/2010 Dr Nic Shannon (University of Bristol), How to have fun with frustrated ferromagnets [abstract]
  • 09/02/2010 Professor Eric Hudson (MIT, USA), Stability in a turbulent (Fermi) sea: The ever more remarkable high temperature superconductors [abstract]
  • 08/02/2010 Dr Lucas Wagner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Geometry optimization using Quantum Monte Carlo [abstract]
  • 08/02/2010 Professor Nitin Samarth (Penn State University, USA), Semiconductor spintronics: "Are we there yet? [abstract]
  • 05/02/2010 Professor Andrew Fisher (Physics & Astronomy/LCN, UCL) Harnessing the tools of nanotechnology: Individual atoms, individual spins and new ways to represent information (Science Lectures for 6th Formers and Teachers Series)
  • 03/02/2010 Professor Hans-Joachim Freund (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany), Cluster, Oxides, and Thin Films: Studies at the Atomic Level [abstract]
  • 27/01/2010 Professor Sir Michael Pepper (Electronic and Electrical Engineerig/LCN, UCL), Electron transport in one dimension [abstract]
  • 20/01/2010 Dr Gregory Exarhos (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA), Discovery-based design of TCO films for energy applications [abstract]
  • 16/12/2009 Dr Christian Joachim ( CNRS, France), Single molecule machineries at the nanoscale [abstract]
  • 11/12/2009 Dr Rainer Mahrt (IBM, Switzerland), Hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites and nano-aggregates for photinics [abstract]
  • 09/12/2009 Dr Nguyen Thanh (Physics and Astronomy, UCL/DFRL, Royal Institution), Recent developments in the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications [abstract]
  • 08/12/2009 Dr Fabio Altomare (NIST, USA), Two qubits and a cavity [abstract]
  • 03/12/2009 Professor Vassili Karanassios (University of Waterloo, Canada), Wireless, shirt-pocket size instruments for chemical analysis [abstract]
  • 02/12/2009 Professor Jose Ignacio Pascual (Freie Universität Berlin), Vibrational Kondo effect in charge-transfer organic layers [abstract]
  • 01/12/2009 Dr Yuhki Kohsaka (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan), Emergence of local broken symmetries with hole-doping in Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2 [abstract]
  • 25/11/2009 Dr Matthieu Piel (Institut Curie Paris, France), Simple micro-tools to study complex cell behaviors: from yeast morphogenesis to dendritic cell migration and orientation of the mitotic spindle in mammalian cells [abstract]
  • 18/11/2009 Dr Cinzia Cashiraghi (Freie Universität Berlin), Rayleigh imaging and Raman spectroscopy of graphene [abstract]
  • 11/11/2009 Dr Joris van Slageren (University of Nottingham), Magnetic resonance in molecular magnetism [abstract]
  • 11/11/2009 Dr Jochen Blumberger (Physics and Astronomy, UCL), Simulating electron transfer reactions: from simple ions to biological systems
  • 05/11/2009 Professor Hideaki Kasai (Osaka University, Japan), Behavior of magnetic atoms on metal surfaces [abstract]
  • 04/11/2009 Professor Mucio Continentino (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteróri, Rio de Janeiro), Suppression of superconductivity in the heavy fermion system CeCoIn5 [abstract] 
  • 28/10/2009 Professor Hemann Gaub ( Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Mechanoenzymatics [poster]
  • 27/10/2009 Professor Lu Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vortices [abstract]
  • 21/10/2009 Dr Sarah Harris (The University of Leeds), Computer simulations of biological change [abstract]
  • 14/10/2009 Professor Paul Burn (The University of Queensland, Australia), Dendrimers for photon harvesting in dye-sensitised solar cells [abstract]
  • 07/10/2009 Professor Alex Shluger (Physics & Astronomy/LCN, UCL), Manipulating and controlling surface structure and properties using external forces [abstract]
  • 30/09/2009 Dr Ewa Paluch (MPI, Dresden), Actin cortex mechanics: of blebs and cell shape control during cytokinesis [abstract]
  • 23/09/2009 Professor Eric Isaacs (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Slow Dynamics in a Disordered Magnet using Coherent X-rays, [abstract]
  • 16/09/2009 Professor Steven Prawer (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Fabrication strategies for diamond based quantum devices [abstract]
  • 08/09/2009 Professor Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (MANA, NIMS, Japan), Band-gap modulation in bilayer graphene [abstract]
  • 07/09/2009 Professor Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (MANA, NIMS, Japan), Contact resistance and selective organization single crystal organic thin-film transistors [abstract]