Dates

Calendar entries for year 2012

January

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Single Pr³+ center in YAG crystal
  Kangwei Xia, 3. Phys. Institut
• 3:30 PM
  Ultrafast Structural Phase Transitions and Coherent Phonons in Solids and Nanostructures
  Harald O. Jeschke, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• 5:15 PM
  FÄLLT AUS!
  Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich
• 5:15 PM
  Nearfield-Optical Investigations of Nano-Plasmonic Structures, Devices and Materials
  Ralf Vogelgesang, Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

• 7:30 PM
  Der Mechanismus von Antikythera - Geschichte eines Himmelscomputers
  Kira Hahn, AK Astronomie, Uni Stuttgart

Thursday, January 12, 2012

• 3:00 PM
  From nanophotonics to terahertz plasmonics - Fundamentals and applications
  Audrey Berrier, FOM Institute AMOLF, Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven

Friday, January 13, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Quantum Optical Interferometry with Photon Number Parity Measurements
  Christopher C. Gerry, Lehman College, The City University of New York
• 3:30 PM
  Visualization of quantum eld theoretical processes with space-time resolution
  Rainer Grobe, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg and Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit, Illinois State University, Normal USA

Monday, January 16, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Competing spin-disordered phases of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice
  Yasir Iqbal, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique (IRSAMC), University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
• 2:00 PM
  Analysis and Application of Adaptive Finite Elements for Parabolic Problems
  Kunibert Siebert, Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Numerische Simulation, Universität Stuttgart

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Investigation of Defect-Centers in Carbon-Nanoclusters using MD-Simulations
  Denis Antonov, 3. Phys. Institut
• 3:30 PM
  Towards Understanding and Manipulating the Strength of Interfaces in Metals: An ab-initio Study
  Rebecca Janisch, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• 5:15 PM
  Competing order in unconventional superconductors
  Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

• 7:30 PM
  Kosmische Staubteilchen - Botschafter ferner Welten
  Ralf Srama, Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme, Universität Stuttgart

Thursday, January 19, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Characterizing plasmonic thin films and metamaterials using spectroscopic ellipsometry
  Thomas Oates, Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS-Berlin
• 1:15 PM
  Single laterally coupled Quantum Dot Molecules - Excited state spectroscopy and beyond
  Matthias Heldmaier, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Monday, January 23, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  The Hydrodynamics of Microswimmers
  Gerhard Gompper, Theoretical Soft-Matter and Biophysics, FZ Jülich

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Preparation of inorganic luminescent nanopigments by top-down approach
  Dr. Cornelia Damm, Universität Erlangen
• 1:00 PM
  Superconductivity in inhomogeneous low dimensional systems: The case of organic superconductors and carbon nanotubes
  Sonia Haddad, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus universitaire, Tunis
• 3:30 PM
  Two-Dimensional Colloidal Alloys
  Adam D. Law, MPI für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart
• 5:15 PM
  Thermodynamic and vector field studies of nematic phase formation near a quantum critical point in Sr3Ru2O7
  Andy Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews

Thursday, January 26, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  All-optical formation of a Rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate for experiments on interacting Rydberg atoms
  Aline Faber
• 2:00 PM
  Long range ordering in SU(N) Heisenberg models
  Karlo Penc, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest, Hungary

Friday, January 27, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  A Journey to Chemical Synthesis of Graphene and Its Applications
  Xinliang Feng, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
• 2:00 PM
  Exploring Dipolar Physics with Strongly Magnetic Quantum Gases
  Francesca Ferlaino, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
• 3:30 PM
  From Quantum Computers to Optical Clocks
  Piet O. Schmidt, QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology and PTB Braunschweig and Leibniz University, Hannover

Monday, January 30, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Is there liquid-vapour opalescence at the Mott Transition?
  Mariano de Souza, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro (SP), Brasil
• 2:00 PM
  The quantum XY chain, a toy model for almost everything
  Dionys Baeriswyl, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• 2:00 PM
  Electro-kinetic Measurements on Weakly to Non-interacting Suspensions of Charged Spheres
  Thomas Palberg, Experimental Soft Matter Group, Universität Mainz

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Droplet epitaxial GaAs quantum dots as single photon sources on silicon
  Marco Abbarchi, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
• 1:00 PM
  Wide field relaxometric magnetic imaging
  Florestan Ziem, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 3:30 PM
  Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Studying Matter with Atomic Spatial and Temporal Resolution
  Jom Luiten, TU Eindhoven, Niederlande
• 3:30 PM
  Optics with Electrons
  Albert Polman, AMOLF Lab Amsterdam (15:30 Uhr!)

February

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

• 7:30 PM
  BepiColombo - Eine heiße Mission
  Marion Tahedl, EADS Astrium Immenstaad

Thursday, February 2, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Collisional cooling of ions by cold atoms in a combined trap
  Ravi Krishnamurthy, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
• 2:30 PM
  Peptide Based Materials: Assembly, Structure and Thermodynamic Properties
  Mehmet Sayar, College of Engineering, Koc University Istanbul, Turkey
• 4:00 PM
  Dressed states emission from single semiconductor quantum dot
  Ata Ulhaq, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Monday, February 6, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Dynamics of charged fluids in nanospaces: effect of excluded volume on electrokinetics
  Simone Melchionna, IPCF - National Research Council, Rome, Italy

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Electronic spin entanglement of two NV centers
  Ingmar Jakobi, 3. Phys. Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Topological and symmetry aspects of unconventional superconductors
  Manfred Sigrist, ETH Zürich

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

• 4:00 PM
  GaN pyramidal nanostructures for semipolar InGaN wells: towards future light emitters
  Clemens Wächter, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Thursday, February 9, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Short-range and short-lived charge-density-wave order and pseudogap features in underdoped cuprates superconductors
  Andres Greco, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingenieria y Agrimensura and Instituto de Fisica Rosario (UNR-CONICET), Rosario, Argentina
• 4:00 PM
  Superconducting detectors for visible, infrared and THz radiation
  Prof. Dr. Michael Siegel, Institut für Mikro- und Nanoelektronische Systeme (IMS), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Friday, February 10, 2012

• 9:45 AM
  Modeling Options for Multi-phase Flow in Porous Media
  Prof. Michael Celia, Princeton University, USA
• 2:00 PM
  Spin transistor action via tunable adiabaticity
  Dieter Weiss, Universität Regensburg
• 3:30 PM
  Non-equilibrium dynamics of coupled qubit-cavity arrays
  Sebastian Schmidt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

• 3:00 PM
  Implementing quantum gates by optimal control with doubly exponential convergence
  Pierre de Fouquieres, University of Cambridge, UK
• 3:30 PM
  Nanomechanics of Gold Microcrystals: a Combined Experimental and Atomistic Simulation Study
  Eugen Rabkin, Technion Haifa, Israel

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Several fundamental problems on heat transport
  Keiji Saito (University of Tokyo)

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  From wrinkly elastomers to Janus Particles
  P. I. C. Teixeira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa

Thursday, February 23, 2012

• 2:15 PM
  Solitons and friction
  Andrea Vanossi, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste Nicola Manini, Milan University - INFM Group, Milan

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

• 3:30 PM
  Nanoscale magnetometry with a single spin scanning-probe magnetometer
  Dr. Vincent JACQUES, LPQM ENS Cachan

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Control of open quantum systems: dynamics, thermodynamics and entanglement
  Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

March

Thursday, March 1, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Zeno and anti-Zeno decoherence control Part 1
  Prof. Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• 12:00 PM
  Zeno and anti-Zeno decoherence control Part 2
  Prof. Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• 2:00 PM
  Heterogeneous dynamics in thermosensitive colloidal glasses
  Rémy Colin, Université Paris Diderot, Laboratoire MSC

Friday, March 2, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Development of quantum algorithms for small spin clusters
  Christian Burk, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 10:45 AM
  Analysis of the Spin Physics of Quantum Imaging Methods
  Julia Michl, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 1:00 PM
  Optical Studies of NV center - Dark state revealed as NV0 state
  Nabeel Aslam, 3. Physikalisches Institut

Thursday, March 15, 2012

• 8:00 PM
  Superflüssige Gase nahe dem absoluten Temperatur-Nullpunkt
  Öffentlicher Abendvortrag von Nobelpreisträger Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Friday, March 16, 2012

• 2:30 PM
  Mid-infrared spectroscopy and sensing applications
  Seong-Soo Kim, Georgia Tech University

Thursday, March 22, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Classical and quantum correlation with broadband four wave mixing
  Dr. Avi Pe'er, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Incoherent control of open quantum systems
  Alexander Pechen, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

• 1:30 PM
  Nanoplasmonics Beyond the Mie Approximation
  Uwe Kreibig, RWTH Aachen

April

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Renormalisation of an Optical Lattice by High Frequency Modulation
  Philip Holz, Universität Augsburg
• 2:00 PM
  An optical lattice based quantum simulator for relativistic fermions and topological insulators
  Matteo Rizzi, MPI für Quantenoptik, Garching
• 2:00 PM
  The probability distribution for the work performed by a rotating wave on a two-level system
  Jaime Santos, Centre of Physics of the University of Minho, Portugal

Thursday, April 5, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Exotic phases in organics: spin liquid, superconductivity and massless Dirac fermions
  Kazushi Kanoda, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Proton Conduction in Condensed Matter
  Gabriel Bester, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart

Thursday, April 12, 2012

• 1:15 PM
  Dephasing in Semiconductor Quantum Dots and its Influence on the Emission Properties
  Stefanie Weiler, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Friday, April 13, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  One dimensional Bose gas revisited - from quasicondensation to solitons
  Kazimierz Rzazewski, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Theory of electron spin decoherence in SiC nuclear spin bath
  Dr. Nan Zhao, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Visualizing Correlated Electronic States with the STM
  Ali Yazdani, Princeton University

Thursday, April 19, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Spin Dynamics in Laser Assisted Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of GaAs Nanostructures
  Dr. Wieland Worthoff, Technische Universität Dortmund
• 1:15 PM
  Umstrukturierungsprozesse bei der Bestrahlung dünner Metall- und Metalloxidschichten mit schweren Ionen
  Knut Dautel, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 4:00 PM
  - Titel wird noch bekanntgegeben –
  R. Netz, FU Berlin

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Search for novel superconducting arsenic-free pnictides by molecular beam epitaxy
  Lambert Alff, TU Darmstadt; Veranstalter: 1. Phys. Inst.
• 1:00 PM
  Towards Quantum Plasmonics
  Bernhard Grotz, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Sensing beyond quantum limits
  Eugene Polzik, The Niels Bohl Lab, University of Copenhagen

Thursday, April 26, 2012

• 4:00 PM
  Chromosomes: Loops and Entropy, that's what it's all about
  D. Heermann, Universität Heidelberg

Friday, April 27, 2012

• 10:30 AM
  Distinguishing between non-orthogonal quantum states of a single spin
  Adetunmise Dada, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
• 11:00 AM
  Zeitaufgelöste Elektrolumineszenz-Untersuchungen an InP/AlGaInP Einzelquantenpunkten
  Fabian Hargart, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 2:00 PM
  Protein dynamics I (Tutorial): a general introduction
  Francesco Rao, FRIAS, University of Freiburg
• 3:30 PM
  Protein dynamics II: going beyond reaction coordinates
  Francesco Rao, FRIAS, University of Freiburg

May

Thursday, May 3, 2012

• 2:15 PM
  Nanoparticles and Nanostructures in Liquid Crystals
  Ingo Dierking, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK
• 3:00 PM
  Emergent phases of correlated electrons in transition metal oxides
  Hidenori Takagi, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo and RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
• 4:00 PM
  Semiconductor quantum optics – resonance fluorescence, single- and cascaded-photon emission
  P. Michler, Universität Stuttgart

Monday, May 7, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Polarization resolved magneto-Raman scattering of graphene on natural graphite
  Matthias Kühne, KIT
• 2:00 PM
  Universal reaction rates for ultracold molecular collisions
  Zbigniew Idziaszek, University of Warsaw, Poland

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Optical properties of a topological insulator, Bi2Te2Se
  Ana Akrap, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• 1:00 PM
  Real-Space Imaging of Optical Nanoantennas by Apertureless Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy
  Dr. Jens Dorfmüller, 4. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Mechanics and growth of tissues
  Jean-François Joanny, Institut Curie, Paris

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

• 1:30 PM
  Diskrete Funktionentheorie und kritische Perkolation
  Jens Wirth, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Stuttgart (Habilitationsvortrag)
• 2:00 PM
  Nanodomain formation and electronic transport near the 1st-order Mott-Hubbard transition
  Johannes Kroha, Universität Bonn

Thursday, May 10, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Excess Micromotion in Atom-Ion Experiments
  Andreas Brunner, Universität Ulm
• 1:00 PM
  Approaches for III/V-on-Si photonics: Growth and Characterization of InP quantum dots on Si-based substrates
  Michael Wiesner, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 4:00 PM
  Nanoparticle agglomeration via Langevin dynamics
  Yannis Drossinos, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italien

Friday, May 11, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Optical spectroscopy on self-assembled and site-controlled single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots
  Markus Müller, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 2:00 PM
  Strong cooperativity of ultracold atoms and surface plasmons
  Sebastian Slama, Universität Tübingen
• 3:30 PM
  Remote Entanglement between a Single Atom and a Bose-Einstein Condensate
  Stephan Dürr, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching

Monday, May 14, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Controlling emission of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond with nanoscale photonic and plasmonic interfaces
  Nathalie de Leon, Harvard University

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Electron Spin Resonance study of the spin dynamics in three spin-1/2 dimer systems, CsV2O5, VO(HPO4)·0.5H2O and KZn(H2O)(VO)2(PO4)2(H2PO4)
  Ibrahima Sock Camara, Aix-Marseille University, France
• 1:00 PM
  Projective single-shot readout of quantum registers in diamond
  Lucio Robledo, TU Delft, Netherlands
• 5:15 PM
  Quantum metrology with a scanning probe atom interferometer
  Philipp Treutlein, Universität Basel

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Graphene: a novel platform for capturing and manipulating light at the nanoscale
  Dr. Frank Koppens,Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona
• 3:30 PM
  Impact of Micrometer Droplets on free-standing Fluid Films
  Sarah Dölle, Universität Magdeburg
• 5:15 PM
  Majorana Fermions in Semiconducting Nanowires
  Leo Kouwenhoven, TU Delft

Thursday, May 24, 2012

• 1:15 PM
  Thermisch induzierte Entnetzung und Rekristallisation dünner Oxidschichten
  Terpsithea Karadali, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 1:45 PM
  Stability of oxydic thin films and nanostructures under electron irradiation
  Barbara Widmann, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Friday, May 25, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Multi-component Bosons on Optical Lattices
  George Batrouni, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice, France
• 3:30 PM
  Mesoscopic Spintronics
  Klaus Richter, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

• 2:15 PM
  Hot Brownian Motion
  Klaus Kroy, Universität Leipzig

June

Friday, June 1, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Feedback control of Quantum Systems
  Kurt Jacobs, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
• 3:30 PM
  Networks of Interacting Photons
  Michael Hartmann, TU München

Monday, June 4, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Interacting bosons in 1D lattices: statics and dynamics of topological insulating phases
  Davide Rossini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  An elementary quantum network of single atoms in optical cavities
  Dr. Stephan Ritter, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching
• 3:30 PM
  Capillary Emptying: How to see short-ranged Wetting Transitions in the Laboratory
  Andrew Parry, Imperial College London
• 5:15 PM
  Magnetism and Superconductivity: A new era of convergence in condensed matter physics
  Piers Colman, Rutgers University, Piscataway

Friday, June 8, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Thermodynamics and Losses of a 3D Bose Gas at Unitarity
  Andrew Grier, ENS Paris

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Optomechanical Quantum Networks
  Dr. Peter Rabl,Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Universität Innsbruck
• 3:30 PM
  Instabilities of the Flux Line Lattice in Superconducting MgB2 Films
  Sebastian Treiber, MPI für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart
• 5:15 PM
  X-ray Free-Electron Lasers - New Microscopes for Structure and Function Matter
  Wilfried Wurth, Universität Hamburg & DESY

Thursday, June 14, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Quantum Brachistochrone
  Hamzi Jirari, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
• 1:15 PM
  Three steps towards an on-chip random number generator
  Klaus Jöns, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 4:00 PM
  Laser Ablation of Metals: New Developments
  Prof. Dr. Johannes Roth, ITAP, Universität Stuttgart
• 5:00 PM
  Entropische Stabilisierung eines virtuellen Quasikristalls: nummerische Berechnung der freien Energie
  Prof. Dr. Hans-Rainer Trebin, ITAP, Universität Stuttgart

Monday, June 18, 2012

• 4:00 PM
  Zur mathematischen Erklärung des Auftretens typischer Wasserwellenprofile
  Wolf-Patrick Düll, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Stuttgart

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Fiber Fabry-Perot cavities: A powerful tool for experiments with solid-state based quantum- and nanosystems
  Dr. David Hunger, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik + LMU München
• 2:15 PM
  CFT-AdS correspondence
  Steffen Müller, LMU München
• 3:30 PM
  Binary Hard-Sphere and Colloid-Polymer Mixtures Re-Visited: Depletion Potentials and Phase Behaviour
  Robert Evans, University of Bristol, UK
• 5:15 PM
  Computational Soft Matter: bridging time and length scales (Antrittsvorlesung)
  Axel Arnold, ICP, Universität Stuttgart

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Was haben Topologische Isolatoren, Magnetoelektrika und Gyratoren gemeinsam?
  Ralph Vogelgesang, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart

Thursday, June 21, 2012

• 1:15 PM
  Single-photon sources based on InP quantum dots - characterization and application
  Christian Keßler, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Friday, June 22, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Acousto-electric and acousto-mechanical control of optically active solid-state nanostructures
  Hubert J. Krenner, Universität Augsburg
• 3:30 PM
  Entangled matter waves for sub-shot-noise interferometry
  Carsten Klempt, Universität Hannover

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

• 12:30 PM
  Phosphorous Implantation in Diamond
  Dr. Alexander Zaitsev, Ruhr Universität Bochum
• 1:00 PM
  Spin-dependent phenomena in carbon nanotubes
  Milena Grifoni, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg
• 1:15 PM
  Complexified quantum theory and the semiclassical limit
  Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London
• 3:30 PM
  Elastic Quadrupoles, Capillary Arrows and Ellipsoidal Dance
  Jean-Christophe Loudet, Université de Bordeaux
• 5:15 PM
  Ultrafast optical control of magnetism
  Martin Aeschlimann, TU Kaiserslautern

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Coherent processes in metastable helium at room temperature
  Thomas Lauprêtre, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Université Paris Sud XI, Orsay Cedex, France

Thursday, June 28, 2012

• 2:15 PM
  Electrolyte dependent 2D assembly of colloidal particles on an ideally polarizable electrode
  Christopher L. Wirth, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh / USA
• 4:00 PM
  Controlled nanostructure formation in semiconducting polymers
  Sabine Ludwigs, Universität Stuttgart

July

Monday, July 2, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Towards hybrid quantum information processing with photons and electron spins in quantum dots
  Dr. Cristian Bonato, University of Leiden, NL

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Tuning magnetism and superconductivity in EuFe2As2
  Jeevan S. Hirale, Universität Göttingen
• 1:00 PM
  SNOM with single NV centers
  Thomas Oeckinghaus, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 2:15 PM
  CFT-AdS correspondence
  Steffen Müller, LMU München
• 3:30 PM
  Tuning the Properties of Superconducting and Dielectric Thin Films via Incorporating Au Nanocrystals
  Christian Katzer, Universität Jena
• 5:15 PM
  Hot Electrons and Hot Plasmons for Photovoltaics
  David J. Norris, ETH Zürich

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

• 4:00 PM
  Linking ab-initio solid state approaches to quantum optics
  Gabriel Bester, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart

Thursday, July 5, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Adiabatic preparation of a Heisenberg antiferromagnet using an optical superlattice
  Michael Lubasch, MPI für Quantenoptik Garching
• 4:00 PM
  Toward k-dependent optics
  Martin Dressel, Universität Stuttgart

Friday, July 6, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions
  Dr. Shinji Yuasa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
• 2:00 PM
  Spectroscopy of Rydberg atoms and quantum information
  Igor Ryabtsev, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
• 2:30 PM
  Competition of Shape and Interaction Patchiness, for Self-Assembling Nanoplates
  Michael Engel, University of Michigan / USA
• 3:30 PM
  Nano-mechanics, nano-magnetometry, and nano-MRI
  Martino Poggio, University of Basel, Switzerland

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Low Temperature Regime; Spin-photon Interface in Diamond
  S. Ali Momenzadeh, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 1:15 PM
  Seeing topological order
  Jiannis Pachos, University of Leeds
• 3:30 PM
  Structure and Metastability in Crystallization in two and three Dimensions
  Paddy Royall, University of Bristol
• 5:15 PM
  Manipulating Excitons by Field Effect: Photonic Conversion in Nanoscale Devices
  Jörg Kotthaus, LMU München

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

• 3:00 PM
  Von Unschärfeprinzipien zur Operatorquantisierung
  Jens Wirth, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Stuttgart

Thursday, July 12, 2012

• 1:15 PM
  The lasing transition and strong mode coupling in InP QD based GaInP microdisk cavity structures
  Marcus Witzany, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 4:00 PM
  Optimal control of molecular dynamics using Markov state models
  Christoph Schuette, Freie Universität Berlin

Monday, July 16, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Photonic Metamaterials: Challenges and Opportunities
  Costas M. Soukoulis

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Polarisation and location resolved CARS spectroscopy
  Johanna Konrad, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Can we control the heat current? A major societal problem for the 21st century
  (Jubiläumsvortrag zum 85. Geburtstag von Prof. Haken)
  Giulio Casati, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Como, Italien

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

• 3:30 PM
  Bose-Einstein Condensates in Ring Traps: Topological Unwinding, Strongly Correlated Solitons, and Metastable Quantum Phase Transitions
  Lincoln D. Carr, Center for Quantum Dynamics, University of Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Thursday, July 19, 2012

• 1:15 PM
  Single photon emission from InP-QDs based on Si substrates
  Moritz Bommer, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen
• 4:00 PM
  Complex plasmonics in 2 and 3 dimensions
  Harald Giessen, Universität Stuttgart

Friday, July 20, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Efficient characterization of quasi-unitary quantum operations
  Christiane Koch, Universität Kassel
• 3:30 PM
  Rydberg crystallization detection by statistical means
  Andreas Komnik, Universität Heidelberg

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

• 12:15 PM
  The Cavity-Embedded Cooper-Pair Transistor: a Strongly Coupled Light-Matter System
  Alexander Rimberg, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

Friday, July 27, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Superconducting Qubits: State-of-the-art and perspectives
  Evgenij Il’ichev, Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT), Jena

Monday, July 30, 2012

• 10:30 AM
  Single spin photon and charge in diamond at room temperature
  Prof. Dr. Norikazu Mizuochi, University of Osaka

August

Friday, August 17, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Liquid crystal microfluidics: surface, elastic and viscous interactions on a microfluidic platform
  Anupam Sengupta, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Göttingen

Monday, August 20, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Coherent continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet light by four-wave mixing in mercury
  Daniel Kolbe, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Thursday, August 23, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Rare Earth Ions for Quantum Information
  John Bartholomew, Australian National University

Friday, August 24, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Improvement of SLM fidelity in hologram generation for laser shaping and cold atom applications
  Vincent Carrat, CNRS, Université Paris Sud XI, Orsay, France

Monday, August 27, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Modeling pathways to ultracold molecular ensembles
  Eberhard Tiemann, Universität Hannover

Friday, August 31, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Heavy Fermions in Flatland
  Takasada Shibauchi, Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan

September

Thursday, September 13, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Impedanzanpassung von Mikrowellenleiterstrukturen für Spektroskopie im Nahfeld
  Stephan Ludwig, 3. Physikalisches Institut

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Synthetic gauge fields with linear optics and beyond
  Jake M. Taylor, Joint Quantum Institute/National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA

Friday, September 21, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Polymer Translocation Driven by Asymmetry: Effects due to Differing Viscosities or Obstacle Arrangements on Either side of the Nanopore
  Hendrick de Haan, University of Ottawa, Canada

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Computational approaches to nanocomposites, biopolymers and bio-modified materials
  Maria Fyta, ICP, Universität Stuttgart

Friday, September 28, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Non-Equilibrium phase Transitions in Suspensions of self-propelled particles
  Thomas Speck, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

October

Monday, October 8, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Quantum Breathing of an Impurity in a one-dimensional bath of interacting Bosons
  Sebastiano Peotta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Spatial distributions in a cold strontium Rydberg gas
  Graham Lochead, Durham University, Durham, UK

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

• 3:00 PM
  Turbulenter Transport in toroidal eingeschlossenen Plasmen
  Mirko Ramisch, IPF, Universität Stuttgart

Monday, October 15, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Festliche Verleihung des Paul-Walden-Preises an Prof. Dr. Ruth Lynden-Bell, Univ. Cambridge

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Screening of charged walls by ionic liquids
  R. Lynden-Bell, University of Cambridge, UK
• 1:00 PM
  Robust Storage of Quantum Information on Single Nuclear Spins
  Sebastian Zaiser, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Towards quantum computation with Majorana fermions
  Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University

Thursday, October 18, 2012

• 4:00 PM
  DNA origami nanopores for controlling molecular transport
  U. F. Keyser, University of Cambridge, UK

Friday, October 19, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Ultracold atomic gases at negative absolute temperatures
  Ákos Rapp, Universität Hannover
• 3:30 PM
  Quantum optics with ultracold quantum gases
  Helmut Ritsch, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Numerical Simulations on Stability and Dynamics of Defects in Diamond
  Timo Häussermann, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Otto Stern - Ein großer Pionier der Atom-, Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik
  Horst Schmidt-Böcking, Universität Frankfurt

Thursday, October 25, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Nanoscale magnetic sensing and imaging with a scanning NV center microscope
  Jean-Philippe Tetienne, ENS Cachan, Frankreich
• 5:00 PM
  Biomolecular association on funneled free energy landscapes
  V. Helms, Universität des Saarlandes

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  A novel meta-stable triplet spin defect in diamond
  Matthias Widmann, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 1:15 PM
  Fluctuations and response of small non-equilibrium systems
  David Lacoste (ESPCI Paris)
• 5:15 PM
  The Beat Generation - and its Perception
  Theo Geisel, MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation Göttingen

November

Friday, November 2, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Mott physics and quantum phase transitions in molecular solids
  Michael Lang, Goethe-University, Frankfurt (M), SFB/TRR 49, Germany
• 3:30 PM
  Binding by Dissipation
  Hendrik Weimer, Leibniz University Hannover

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Quantum Simulators: From Quantum Optics to Condensed Matter Physics
  Dr. Graciana Puentes, Institute of Photonic Science, Barcelona
• 5:15 PM
  Molecular Nano(Newton)Mechanics
  Dominik Marx, Universität Bochum

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Nanoscale imaging using nanoparticles
  Prof. Jean-François Roch, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud & ENS Cachan

Thursday, November 8, 2012

• 4:00 PM
  Multistranded protein fibrils and unfolded proteins in contact with polysaccharides
  L. Harnau, Universität Stuttgart und MPIFIS Stuttgart
• 4:00 PM
  Characterization of AlGaInP quantum dots for single photon applications
  Anagha Mahajan, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Quantitative CARS microscopy
  Gregor Hehl, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 2:15 PM
  Good or bad vibrations from photosynthetic complexes? Mechanisms for long-lived electronic coherence in dissipative environments
  Tobias Kramer, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, Germany
• 5:15 PM
  Monopoles and Magnetricity in Spin Ice
  Steven Bramwell, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Quantum simulation of (non-)abelian lattice gauge theories
  Enrique Rico Ortega , Universität Innsbruck

Thursday, November 15, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Quantum phases of cold polar molecules in bilayers
  Alexander Pikovski, Universität Hannover
• 1:00 PM
  Interplay of charge order and crystal lattice dynamics in overdoped manganites La1-xCaxMnO3 (0.5<x<1)
  Elena Zhukova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• 3:00 PM
  Theoretical and experimental investigation of quantum Hall physics in photonic systems
  Mohammad Hafezi, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and NIST, USA
• 4:00 PM
  High-power AlGaInP-VECSEL and its capabilities
  Thomas Schwarzbäck, Institut für Halbleiteroptik und Funktionelle Grenzflächen

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Widefield Magnetometry
  Nicolas Götz, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 1:15 PM
  Some Manifestations of Quantum Coherence in Chemistry
  Eli Pollak, Weizmann Institute of Science
• 5:15 PM
  Multiferroics
  Alois Loidl, Universität Augsburg

Thursday, November 22, 2012

• 4:00 PM
  Theoretical understanding of the dynamics in polymer systems: from simple polymers to complex electrolytes
  A. Heuer, Universität Münster
• 4:00 PM
  On-Chip Quantum Photonics on GaAs
  Sven Höfling, Lehrstuhl Technische Physik der Universität Würzburg

Friday, November 23, 2012

• 10:00 AM
  Inside Intel: Developing wireless RF Modems for mobile phones
  Jörg Werner, Intel Mobile Communications GmbH, Neubiberg, Germany

Monday, November 26, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Photon echo rephasing of spontaneous emission
  Dr. Sarah Beavan, Australian National University

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  High-resolution microscopy using charge state dynamics
  Matthias Pfender, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 1:15 PM
  Das Ohr trinkt mit: Die Geheimnisse der Schwingungen von Weingläsern
  Gert Denninger (2. Physikalisches Institut , Universität Stuttgart)
• 5:15 PM
  Colloidal dispersions in external fields: A topic for Statistical Mechanics?
  Matthias Fuchs, Universität Konstanz

Thursday, November 29, 2012

• 5:00 PM
  Solvation Thermodynamics of Proteins in Mixed Solvents
  D. Horinek, Universität Regensburg

Friday, November 30, 2012

• 2:00 PM
  Controlled single ion - single photon interactions
  Jürgen Eschner, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
• 3:30 PM
  Bose-glass phases of ultracold atoms due to cavity backaction
  Giovanna Morigi, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken

December

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Advancements in Single Shot Readout of Nuclear Spins
  Gerald Waldherr, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 1:15 PM
  Lernfähige datenbasierte Modellbildungsverfahren und ihre Anwendung
  Günter Haag, Steinbeis Angewandte Systemanalyse GmbH, Stuttgart
• 5:15 PM
  Warum fällt Physik manchen Jugendlichen und Studierenden so schwer? Herausforderungen und Chancen beim Lehren der Physik
  Peter Labudde, Zentrum Naturwissenschafts- und Technikdidaktik Basel

Thursday, December 6, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Of Light, Electrons, and Metastructures
  Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
• 1:00 PM
  Real-time observations of the quasi-particle relaxation dynamics in various complex systems by means of femtosecond laser spectroscopy
  Ljupka Stojcevska, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Electronic structure calculation of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond
  Denis Antoniv, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Visualizing Topological and Correlated States of Matter on the Atomic Scale
  Ali Yazdani, Princeton University

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Epitaxial diamond growth and surface characterisation
  Dipl.Ing. Jochen Scharp, Universität Ulm

Friday, December 14, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Method for realization of a phi Josephson junction for a silent qubit
  Nataliya G. Pugach, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
• 2:00 PM
  Rydberg-dressed atoms under control
  Guido Pupillo, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Université de Strasbourg, France
• 3:30 PM
  Sisyphus Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules
  Martin Zeppenfeld, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching

Monday, December 17, 2012

• 11:00 AM
  Ultracold atoms in one dimension: from two to many
  Ioannis Brouzos, Universität Hamburg

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

• 1:00 PM
  Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices
  Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kleiner, Phys. Institut, Universität Tübingen
• 5:15 PM
  Quantum Communication using Semiconductor Devices
  Andrew Shields, Toshiba Europe

Thursday, December 20, 2012

• 5:00 PM
  Control of quantum sensors
  Paola Cappellaro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA