Dates

Calendar entries for year 2016

January

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Near-surface NV centers in diamond: concerns on the engineering techniques
  Felipe Fávaro de Oliveira, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Effects of atomic scale perturbations on Dirac surface states in topological crystalline insulators
  Vidya Madhavan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Model reduction and data-based modelling for efficient and certified numerical simulation
  Bernard Haasdonk, Universität Stuttgart (Antrittsvorlesung)

Thursday, January 14, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Manifestation of ion-specificity: from methane solubility to volume transition of smart polymers
  Jan Heyda, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

Monday, January 18, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Photon Pair Source Compatible with Telecom-Heralding and Solid State Quantum Memories
  Dr. Andreas Lenhard, ICFO Castelldefels (BCN),Spanien
• 3:00 PM
  The Josephson effect in the dynamical Coulomb blockade regime: Exploring the quantum nature of the tunneling effect
  Christian Ast, MPI für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart (Vorstellungsvortrag)

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Possible light-induced superconductivity in metallic K3C60
  Matteo Mitrano, MPSD Hamburg
• 1:00 PM
  Hybrid quantum architectures based on thin diamond membranes and embedded NV centers
  Seyed Ali Momenzadeh, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Integrated Photonic Devices with Single Quantum Dots
  Mark Fox, University of Sheffield

Thursday, January 21, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Dissipative Particle Dynamics?
  Pep Español, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spanien

Friday, January 22, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Scalable Quantum Computer Architecture with Rare-Earth Ions
  Dr. Roman Kolesov, 3. Physikalisches Institut

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Sensing of few site-specific spin-labels in synthetic polymers
  Thomas Oeckinghaus, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Charge order in HTS superconductors - key player or mere spectator?
  Christoph Renner, Universität Genf

Friday, January 29, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Scanning SQUID microscopy - an application in mesoscopic physics and a new type of sensor
  Hendrik Bluhm, RWTH Aachen
• 3:30 PM
  Light-matter interactions in the ultrastrong coupling regime
  Pol Forn-Diaz, University of Waterloo

February

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Three-dimensional Dirac fermions in solids as seen via optical conductivity
  Artem Pronin, 1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart (Vorstellungsvortrag)
• 1:00 PM
  Identification of the Positively Charged Nitrogen Vacancy Center in Diamond
  Sina Burk, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  -- Vortrag entfällt --
  Eric Collet, University of Rennes

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Single photons: From the single quantum dot to monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides
  Dr. Yuming He, Universität Würzburg

Friday, February 5, 2016

• 11:00 AM
  Josephson photonics: quantum optics meets quantum electronics
  Joachim Ankerhold, Universität Ulm

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

• 5:15 PM
  Titel wird noch bekannt gegeben
  Gabriel Aeppli, PSI Villigen

Friday, February 12, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Adiabatic quantum factorization in diamond
  Kebiao Xu, 3. Physikalisches Institut

Thursday, February 25, 2016

• 2:15 PM
  Experiment evidence of the failure of the Jarzynski equality in active baths
  Aykut Argun, Bilkent University, Ankara

March

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Nuclear Spin Lifetime-limiting Mechanisms measured with para-hydrogen induced polarization (PHIP)
  Prof. Alexej Jerschow, New York University

Friday, March 11, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Controlling many-body tunneling dynamics in a strongly correlated quantum gas
  Florian Meinert, Universität Innsbruck

Monday, March 14, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Pulsed EPR dipolar spectroscopy with high-spin Mn2+ ions
  Dr. Dmitry Akhmetzyanov, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main

Friday, March 18, 2016

• 9:00 AM
  Imaging Electromagnetic Fields in Alkali Vapor Cells with sub-100 um Resolution
  Andrew Horsley, Universität Basel

April

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Introduction to optimal control using the DYNAMO package
  Dr. Ville Bergholm, TU München

Thursday, April 7, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  The graphene-liquid-interface : From fundamental aspects towards chemical and biological sensing
  Kannan Balasubramanian, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Indirect Control Methods and Quantum Correlations with NVs and Nuclear Spins
  Johannes Greiner, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Metasurfaces and plasmonic holography: A new route to ultrathin displays
  Thomas Zentgraf, Universität Paderborn

Thursday, April 14, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Viral Electrostatics
  Rudolf Podgornik, Universität Ljubljana, Slowenien

Friday, April 15, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Integrated optically pumped magnetometers
  Volkmar Schultze, Leibnitz Institut für Photonische Technologien, Jena
• 4:00 PM
  Controlling entanglement by photonic reservoir engineering
  Dr. Sven Hein, TU Berlin

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Quantum Optics with Color Centers in Diamond
  Prof. Dr. Alexander Kubanek, Universität Ulm
• 5:15 PM
  Topological States of Matter
  Bogdan Andrei Bernevig, University of Princeton

Thursday, April 21, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Parallel tree algorithms for adaptive mesh refinement
  Carsten Burstedde, Universität Bonn

Monday, April 25, 2016

• 12:30 PM
  Observation of quantum depletion
  Quentin Bouton, Universität Paris-Süd

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Quantum random access codes and their applications
  Muhammad Alley Hameedi, Stockholm universitet
• 5:15 PM
  Photonic quantum information: nano-photonics routes to scalability
  John Rarity, University of Bristol

Thursday, April 28, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Polymer and polyelectrolyte brushes: the effect of macromolecular architecture on structural, elastic and tribological properties
  Oleg Borisov, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Frankreich

Friday, April 29, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Quantum-enhanced detection of atomic spins
  Ricardo Jimenez, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain

May

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Electrical charge state switching of single silicon vacancy centers in silicon carbide
  Matthias Widmann, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Nanofriction: Physics, Simulation, and Theory
  Erio Tosatti, International School for Advanced Studies Trieste

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Calculations of optical properties of diamond with embedded defects
  Denis Antonov, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Ultrafast control and dynamics of quantum materials
  Paul van Loosdrecht, Universität Köln

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Soziodynamik, Ökonophysik und Meinungsdynamik: Exoten der Physik
  Markus Bier, Universität Stuttgart (Habilitationsvortrag)

Thursday, May 12, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Molecular dynamics for materials research: from ion trails to protein adsorption
  Herbert Urbassek, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Friday, May 13, 2016

• 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  Waveguide QED in superconducting circuits – an atom in front of a mirror, quantum sound and a giant atom
  Göran Johansson, Chalmers University of Göteborg

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Quantum Optics using Optical Nanofibers
  Dr. Sarah M. Skoff, TU Wien

Friday, May 20, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  SONDERKOLLOQUIUM: Sculpting Waves at the Extreme
  Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Diamond Quantum Science and Technology at ANU
  Dr. Marcus Doherty, Australian National University
• 5:15 PM
  Visualizing Natural Science
  Marco Burghard, MPI-FKF Stuttgart

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Computer simulations and simple analytical models for colloidal films under shear
  Sabine Klapp,TU Berlin

Friday, May 27, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Berry phase via physical rotation of nitrogen vacancy centres
  Yaakov Fein, University of Melbourne

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  The Resonant Fluorescence of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers
  Thai Hien Tran, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Wetting of complex materials
  Stephan Herminghaus, MPI Göttingen

June

Thursday, June 2, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Colloidal particles at liquid interfaces: self-assembly due to capillary, magnetic and electrokinetic interactions
  Jens Harting, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Monday, June 6, 2016

• 3:30 PM
  Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Listening to the dark side of the universe!
  Karsten Danzmann, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Robust control of spin ensembles
  Florestan Ziem, 3. Physikalisches Institut

Thursday, June 9, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Lack of structure as a challenge for protein simulations: the cases of nuclear transport and spider silk
  Frauke Gräter, Heidelberg Institut für Theoretische Studien

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Heralded control of quantum systems by single spins in diamond
  PhD Durga Dasari, 3. Physikalisches Institut

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Novel light-matter interactions in carbon based materials
  Sandipan Haldar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Thursday, June 16, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Behavior of Polymers and nanocolloids under Non-equilibrium Conditions
  Sivasurender Chandran, Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg
• 4:00 PM
  Biomolecular Simulations on Different Time- and Length-Scales
  Lars Schäfer, Universität Bochum

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

• 5:15 PM
  Scanning SQUID-on-tipnanoscale magnetometry and thermometry
  Eli Zeldov, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Magnetic field imaging with a single spin microscope
  Dr. Vincent Jacques, University of Montpellier and CNRS, France
• 2:00 PM
  Inverse scattering transform for the integrable nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation
  Ziad H. Musslimani, Florida State University

Thursday, June 23, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  The double-layer has a life of its own
  Mathieu Salanne, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris

Friday, June 24, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Mechanical Control of Excitonic States in Quantum Dots
  Armando Rastelli, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Österreich
• 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  Quantum light-matter interfaces based on rare-earth- doped crystals and nano-photonics
  Andrei Faraon, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

• 5:15 PM
  Reservoir engineering and quantum feedback in circuit electro- and opto-mechanics
  Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride
  Nathan Chejanovsky, 3. Physikalisches Institut

July

Monday, July 4, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Optik in der Medizintechnik
  Michael Totzeck, Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Single photons of single molecules: Hong–Ou–Mandel and beyond
  Mohammad Rezai, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Computational X-ray microscopy: making the perfect X-ray microscope
  David Shapiro, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Thursday, July 7, 2016

• 12:30 PM
  Beating the shot noise limit and Rayleigh criterion in phase measurements with squeezed light
  Dr. Clemens Schäfermeier, Technical University of Denmark

Friday, July 8, 2016

• 2:00 PM
  Diamond nanophotonic optomechanical devices: towards coupling photons, phonons and spins
  Paul Barclay, University of Calgary, Canada

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Quantum memory enhanced NMR of nm-scale samples with a single spin in diamond
  Nabeel Aslam, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:15 PM
  Ultrafast Optical Control of Complex Quantum Materials
  Stefan Kaiser, MPI & Universität Stuttgart

Thursday, July 14, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Modeling of polymer membrane formation
  Manuel Hirschler, ICVT, Universität Stuttgart

Friday, July 22, 2016

• 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  Cooperative two-photon absorption in a BEC of sodium atoms
  Patricia Castilho, Universität Sao Paulo, Brasilien

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

• 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  Steady states and dynamics in many-body driven- dissipative systems
  Mohammad Maghrebi JQI Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

Friday, July 29, 2016

• 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
  Engineering of Quantum Systems by Controlling Interactions
  Engineering of Quantum Systems by Controlling Interactions Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

August

Monday, August 1, 2016

• 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  Light-Matter coupling in atomically thin materials
  Light-Matter coupling in atomically thin materials Christian Schneider, Universität

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

• 11:00 AM
  Dynamics of grain boundary loops in 2D colloidal crystals
  Francois A. Lavergne, University of Oxford

September

Monday, September 5, 2016

• 2:30 PM
  Critical adsorption in nanochannels
  Sela Samin, Universiteit Utrecht

Friday, September 23, 2016

• 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
  Optical non-linearities using Rydberg polaritons in a cavity
  Rajiv Boddeda, Universität Paris-Süd

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices) as qubits – and the new IBM Quantum Experience
  Cedric Sommer

October

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

• 1:15 PM
  Obtaining exact classical transition state theory rates beyond perturbation theory
  Rigoberto Hernandez, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
• 5:15 PM
  A Room-Temperature Multiferroic made by Thin-Film Alchemy
  Darrell Schlom (Cornell University)

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

• 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  Cold collisions of complex atoms and molecules
  Paul S. Julienne, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and NIST

Friday, October 14, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  On the Brownian dynamics of a particle in a bistable optical trap
  Dr. Gabriel Schnoering, Université de Strasbourg

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Spectrally-resolved white-light quantum interferometry for high-accuracy optical measurements.
  Dr. Florian Kaiser, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
• 2:00 PM
  Gedenkkolloquium
  zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Alfred Seeger

Thursday, October 20, 2016

• 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  Tailoring long-range interactions via Rydberg dressing
  Johannes Zeiher, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching
• 4:00 PM
  Simulating DNA from the electron to the chromosome
  Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona

Friday, October 21, 2016

• 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  Quantum networking tools with single ions and photons
  Jürgen Eschner, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
• 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  Quantum Simulations in Optical Lattices
  Christian Groß, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching
• 3:45 PM
  Nichtgleichgewichts-Grenzflächen in kolloidalen Fluiden
  Markus Bier, Universität Stuttgart (Antrittsvorlesung)

Monday, October 24, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Plasmonic Photopatterning of Molecular Orientation in Liquid Crystals and Its Emerging Applications
  Qi-Huo Wei, Kent State University

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Towards storage of quantum dot single photons in a rubidium quantum memory
  Dr. Janik Wolters, Universität Basel
• 5:30 PM
  Magnetic fields in the early universe
  Reinhard Schlickeiser, Universität Bochum

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Experiments with NV centers in diamond: polarizing spins in a single center and characterizing ensembles of centers
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, TU Dortmund

Thursday, October 27, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: Technology Overview
  Dr. Fadi El Hallak, Seagate, Londonderry
• 4:00 PM
  Polarizable versus non-polarizable interaction models in simulations of fluids
  Prof. Ivo Nezbeda, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkinje University, Usti nad Labem, and Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

November

Thursday, November 3, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Actuation of Nanocomposites with Polarizable Inclusions by an Electric Field
  Elshad Allahyarov, Universität Essen

Monday, November 7, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Diamond advanced photonic devices
  PhD Hangyu Liu, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Hybrid integration and investigation of quantum emitters in 2- and 3D-materials
  Dr. Andreas W. Schell, ICFO The Institute of Photoic Sciences, Castelldefels
• 1:15 PM
  Confined networks of stiff filaments
  Kristian Müller-Nedebock, Stellenbosch University, Department of Physics
• 5:15 PM
  Whirls in magnets: From skyrmions to magnetic monopoles
  Achim Rosch (Universität Köln)

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Astrophysics in the Lab - Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy of Molecules and Molecular Ions
  Bastian Kern, MPI-FKF
• 1:15 PM
  Mimicking Nonequilibrium Steady States with Time-Periodic Driving
  Oren Raz, University of Maryland
• 5:30 PM
  Tracking Galaxy Evolution Over 12 Billion Years
  Vy Tran, University of Texas

Thursday, November 17, 2016

• 4:00 PM
  Single Molecule Biophysics: From Catch Bonds, Microfluidics and Nanopores
  Dario Anselmetti, Universität Bielefeld

Friday, November 18, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Low-Index Photonics
  Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
• 1:00 PM
  Fabrication of Next-Generation Scanning Diamond Nanopillars
  Anurag Kanase, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  Universal Faraday rotation in topological insulators
  Andrei Pimenov, Vienna University of Technology

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Advances in on demand photon sources: from multiplexing to molecules
  Dr. Alexander S. Clark, Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College London
• 5:15 PM
  Charge transfer meets circuit quantum electrodynamics - From strong charge-light interactions to quantum phase transitions
  Joachim Ankerhold, Universität Ulm

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  Characterizing and imaging superparamagnetic nanoparticles by optical magnetometry
  Dr. Zoran Grujic, Université de Fribourg, CH
• 1:00 PM
  Ultrasensitive mechanical detection of magnetic moment using a commercial disk drive write head
  Dr. Alexander Eichler, ETH Zürich
• 4:00 PM
  Measuring an electrocatalyst’s vital signs: the need for in operando studies
  Timo Jacob, Universität Ulm
• 5:30 PM
  Giant Interaction Effects of Rydberg Excitons in Cuprous Oxide
  Manfred Bayer, Universität Dortmund

December

Thursday, December 1, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Spectral properties of strongly disordered superconductors
  Benjamin Sacépé, Institut Néel CNRS, Grenoble

Friday, December 2, 2016

• 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  Hybrid quantum information processing with atoms, photons and superconducting circuits
  Jonathan Pritchard, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
• 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  Rydberg-ground state interaction in the ultracold regime
  Thomas Niederprüm, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  NMR spectroscopy with single shallow NV centers
  Farida Shagieva, 3. Phys. Institut
• 2:00 PM
  Surface relaxation of vapour-depositing colloidal glass
  Xin Cao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• 5:15 PM
  Oxitronics: Taming transition metal oxides interfaces
  Marc Gabay, Université Paris-Sud

Thursday, December 8, 2016

• 10:00 AM
  What is truly quantum about quantum thermodynamics?
  Prof. Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• 4:00 PM
  From atoms to insights: How powerful data analysis tools help us understand and visualize atomic-level materials simulations
  Alexander Stukowski, TU Darmstadt

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Quantification of bound entanglement in two-qutrit states
  PhD Gael Sentis, University of the Basque Country (UVP), Bilbao
• 5:30 PM
  Advanced LIGO, GW150914, GW151226, and beyond
  David Tanner, University of Florida

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Nuclear Quantum-Assisted Magnetometer on the Nanoscale
  Thomas Häberle, 3. Physik. Institut

Friday, December 16, 2016

• 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  Nanophotonic circuits for unconventional computing
  Wolfram Pernice, Universität Münster

Monday, December 19, 2016

• 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM
  Universal Faraday rotation in topological insulators
  Professor Georg Raithel, University of Michigan

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

• 1:00 PM
  Spin and Optical Properties of the V1 Silicon Vacancy Defect in Silicon Carbide at Low Temperature
  Roland Nagy, 3. Physikalisches Institut
• 5:30 PM
  Blue energy, ionic liquids, and heat-to-power conversion with nanomaterials
  René van Roij, Universiteit Utrecht