Colloquium Schedule – Spring 2016

Date Spring 2016 – Colloquium Information
Feb. 3, 2016 Semion Saikin
Bioantenna in a cavity: engineering energy transfer in natural photosynthetic systems
Feb. 10, 2016 Sebastian Deffner
Quantum thermodynamics: Thermodynamics and information processing at the nanoscale
Feb. 17, 2016 Liping Yu
Designing Advanced Materials for Next-Generation Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications
Feb. 24, 2016 Oleksandr Kyriienko
Light-matter interaction for quantum technologies
Mar. 2, 2016 Nicolas Large
Plasmonic Properties of Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures from Fundamental Physics to Applications
Mar. 9, 2016 Archana Kamal
Quantum information processing with superconducting quantum circuits
Mar. 16, 2016 Spring Break – No colloquium scheduled
Mar. 23, 2016 Garnett Bryant
Approaching the quantum limit for nanoplasmonics
Mar. 30, 2016 Linda Reichl
Transport Processes and Sound Mode Decay in Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates
Apr. 6, 2016 Jonathan Baugh
Superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires
Apr. 13, 2016 Michel Orrit
Optical microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules and single plasmonic gold nanoparticles
Apr. 20, 2016 Gregory Harry
LIGO, GW1509014, and the Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Apr. 27, 2016 Cole Miller
The Wave of the Future
May 4, 2016 2016 Joseph F. Mulligan Memorial Lecture
Presented by Catherine Rossbach
The Life and Work of Emmy Noether