Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics


2005-03-14 14:15: Status and Progress in Commercialising Polymer OLED Technology (Jonathan Halls, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.)

2005-10-28 14:15: Electronic excitations in conjugated materials: "Un peu de tout" (Dr David Beljonne, Universit de Mons , Belgium)

2006-01-24 14:15: Scanning near-field spectroscopy of organic micro- and nano-structures (David Lidzey, Sheffield University)

2006-02-07 14:15: Organic Semiconductors: Modeling the Charge Transport (Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick)

2006-05-09 14:30: Charge transport and recombination in bulk-heterojunction solar cells from extraction current transients (Ronald Osterbacka, Abo Akademi University)

2006-06-08 14:15: HIGH MOBILITY III-V MOSFET TECHNOLOGY (Dr. M. Passlack (Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Tempe, Arizona, USA.))

2006-06-15 11:00: The Interaction of Light with Cells (Dr Jochen Guck (Universität Leipzig))

2006-06-16 14:15: Nanomechanics of self-assembled protein filaments (Dr Laurent Kreplak)

2006-06-19 12:00: Nanopores for Biological and Soft-Matter Physics (Dr. Ulrich F. Keyser, Delft University of Technology)

2006-10-03 14:30: Modelling and improving (hybrid) bulk heterojunction solar cells (Jan Anton Koster, University of Groningen)

2006-10-10 14:30: Spectral Diffusion and Stokes’ Shift in Conjugated Polymers: From Hopping to Twist (Wichard J.D. Beenken, Department of Theoretical Physics I, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)

2006-10-13 14:30: Scattering Optical Elements: Inverse design of dielectric photonic devices (Andreas Håkansson, National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan)

2006-11-14 14:30: Towards Low-Cost and Robust Organic Integrated Circuits (Thomas Anthopoulos, Imperial College London)

2007-01-15 14:30: Polymer-based Optoelectronic Devices with Interlayers (Dieter Neher, University of Potsdam)

2007-02-08 14:15: Metal to metal transitions (Joint TCM/QM seminar) (Prof. Andy Schofield)

2007-03-09 14:30: Challenges and Progress in Organic RFID (Paul Heremans, IMEC Belgium)

2007-03-16 14:30: Charge transport in conducting polymers (Paul Blom, University of Groningen,The Netherlands)

2007-03-20 14:30: Spectral Diffusion and Stokes’ Shift in Conjugated Polymers: From Hopping to Twist (Wichard J.D. Beenken, Department of Theoretical Physics I, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)

2007-05-15 14:30: Growth and electronic band structure of crystalline organic films (Prof. Mike Ramsey, University of Graz)

2007-05-15 16:00: Hierachical self-assembly of carbon based 2D nanostructured architectures: processing, manipulation and functions (Dr. Paolo Samorì Université Louis Pasteur)

2007-05-22 14:30: Optimal control as a new spectroscopic tool. (Prof. Arkady Yartsev, Lunds University, Sweden)

2007-11-13 14:30: Photophysics of molecular materials for photovoltaics (Dr. S.C.J. Meskers, Molecular Materials and Nanosystems, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2007-12-04 14:30: Unconventional Electronics. Materials and Interfaces (Dr Antonio Facchetti, Department of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA)

2008-01-15 14:30: Combined quantum-chemical and Monte-Carlo models of charge transport in molecular semiconductors (Prof. Jenny Nelson, Department of Physics, Imperial College London)

2008-01-22 14:30: Analysing the current-voltage response of bulk heterojunction solar cells (Dr. John de Mello, Imperial College London)

2008-03-11 14:30: Organic semiconductors for electronics, sensors and photovoltaics (Prof. Michael Turner, University of Manchester)

2008-03-18 14:30: Triplet interactions in solution processed organic devices (Dr. Dirk Hertel, University of Cologne)

2008-04-22 14:30: ORGANIC AND HYBRID SOLAR CELLS -from structural to functional control using novel material and device concepts - (Prof. Thelakkat, Applied Functional Polymers and Lab for Solar Energy Research, University of Bayreuth)

2008-04-29 13:30: Designing Light Absorbing Materials for Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunction Devices (Prof. Iain McCulloch, Imperial College London)

2008-06-10 14:30: Towards a second generation OLED model (Prof. Reinder Coehoorn, Philips Research Laboratories)

2008-10-08 11:15: Brian Pippard and non-local response in normal metals and superconductors (David Khmelnitskii, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory)

2008-10-14 16:00: Organic Opto-Electronics: A materials scientist point of view (Dr. Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, Queen Mary, University of London)

2008-10-29 11:15: Interactions and the dHvA Effect (P.C.E. Stamp , University of British Columbia; Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics)

2009-05-21 14:30: And we thought organic MIS devices were simple structures! (Professor Martin Taylor, School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University)

2009-05-28 14:30: Porphyrin-based molecular wires: versatile new pi-systems (Professor Harry L. Anderson, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2009-07-15 11:15: Exotic or conventional - the physics of High-Tc Superconductors (Professor Jeffery Tallon, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology)

2009-12-16 14:30: Electron Waves Unveil the Microcosmos (A. Tonomura, Hitachi ARL/RIKEN/OIST)

2010-01-28 15:00: Highly Efficient Organic Devices (Professor Karl Leo, Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany)

2010-04-30 11:00: Photophysics of Strongly Confined Multiexcitons from the Perspective of Lasing and Solar Energy Conversion (Dr. Victor I. Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2010-07-07 14:00: Informal Meeting on Oxide Heterostructures (Neil Mathur, Mark Blamire, Jim Scott, Crispin Barnes, Ian Farrer, Peter Littlewood and others to be confirmed)

2010-09-05 13:30: Diffusion in confining geometries (Sergey M. Bezrukov, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA)

2010-10-01 10:30: The Polymer Chemistry of Carbon Materials and Graphenes (Professor K Müllen,  Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Science, Mainz)

2010-10-01 11:10: How morphology affects photophysics and performance in polymer solar cells (Professor R Janssen,  Technical University of Eindhoven)

2010-10-01 11:50: Does quantum-coherence help long-range energy transfer in conjugated polymers? (Professor G Scholes, University of Toronto)

2011-02-01 15:00: Morphogenesis of conjugated polymers by epitaxy: from highly oriented films to nano-structured hybrid materials and shish-kebab fibers (Martin Brinkmann, Institut Charles Sadron CNRS, France)

2011-08-12 14:00: Arranging nanoscale components in space with DNA origami (Prof. Tim Liedl, LMU Munich)

2012-03-22 14:15: Coherence and coupling of GaAs two-electron spin qubits (Prof. Hendrik Bluhm, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

2012-03-22 14:15: Coherence and coupling of GaAs two-electron spin qubits (Prof. Hendrik Bluhm, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

2012-05-25 12:00: Biotechnology and biophysical phenotypes: the physics of pluripotency and differentiation (Dr Kevin Chalut, BSS Sector, Cavendish Laboratory)

2012-05-30 11:00: Molecular imaging of cancer: understanding chemotherapy response and resistance. (Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Stanford University)

2012-05-31 09:30: Synchronisation of eukaryotic flagella (Dr Marco Polin, DAMTP, Cambriidge)

2012-06-13 09:00: The Physics of Bacterial Biofilms (Dr Knut Drescher, Princeton University)

2012-06-13 11:00: Probing Structure and Mechanics: from Nanoscopic Virus Squeezers up to Cell/System-Sized Beds of Nails (Dr Wouter Roos, Natuur- en Sterrenkunde and LaserLab, Vrije Universiteit, De)

2012-06-13 17:00: Noise and signal integration in cell cycle control (Dr Stefano Di Talia, Princeton University)

2013-02-06 11:00: Superconducting Spintronics: a tantalizing possibility for dissipation-free logic (Dr Jason Robinson, Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge)

2013-02-06 12:00: Fluctuation-induced pair density wave in itinerant ferromagnets (Gareth Conduit, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-13 11:15: Electronic Structure of LuRh2Si2: ”Small“ Fermi Surface Reference of YbRh2Si2 (Sven Friedemann, University of Cambridge)

2013-03-05 11:15: Terahertz radiation from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 interlayer Josephson junctions:  Progress and future strategies. (Tim Benseman, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A.)

2013-04-11 16:00: GPGPUs: The explosive area of innovation for 3D visualization and computation (Andrew Richards, CodePlay Software Ltd.)

2013-05-15 14:00: Electric field induced ferromagnetic phase transition in semiconductors and metals (Dr Daichi Chiba,  Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo )

2013-06-04 11:00: Event simulation for collider experiments at unprecedented precision (Dr Rikkert Frederix, CERN)

2013-06-04 11:45: Precision physics: the road to discoveries at the LHC (Dr Alexander Mitov, CERN)

2013-06-04 14:00: Perturbative tools in the LHC era (Dr Maria Ubiali (RWTH Aachen & HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory))

2013-06-04 14:45: QCD : an analytical approach. (Dr Mrinal Dasgupta, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester)

2013-06-04 15:30: Parton Distributions in the Higgs Boson Era (Dr Juan Rojo, CERN)

2014-04-02 16:00: Quantum experiments exploiting the radiation pressure interaction between light and matter (Dr Simon Groeblacher, Caltech)

2014-04-03 15:00: Chasing the Eighteenth Digit: Exploring the Limits of Timekeeping (Dr Ian D. Leroux QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology)

2014-04-28 11:30: Photonic topological insulators and pseudomagnetism (Dr Mikael Rechtsman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Solid State Institute, Haifa 32000, Israel)

2014-10-01 09:00: Exploring the building blocks of matter with leptons (Dr Giulia Manca, CERN)

2014-10-01 09:45: Moving flavour physics forward (Dr Rudolf Oldeman, CERN)

2014-10-01 10:45: Seeking discoveries with hadronic jets at the LHC (Dr Caterina Doglioni, University of Geneva)

2014-10-01 11:30: Findings in a heartbeat (Dr Vladimir Gligorov, CERN)

2014-10-02 09:00: Searching in the Dark with Hadron Colliders (Dr Antonio Boveia, University of Chicago)

2014-10-02 09:45: Probing New Physics & the Standard Model with Neutrinos (Andrzej Szelc, Yale University)

2014-10-02 10:45: Search for Dark Matter with ATLAS (Dr Bjoern Penning, Imperial College London)

2014-10-02 11:30: ATLAS, silicon detectors, and long-lived particles (Dr Nick Barlow, HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2014-12-16 09:00: Functional Energy Materials (Dr Sian Dutton, Winton Advanced Fellow, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2014-12-16 09:40: Quantum electronics with carbon nanotubes (Dr Edward Laird, Department of Materials, University of Oxford)

2014-12-16 13:30: Meta-chiroptical effects: a new twist on a fundamental concept (Dr Ventsislav Valev, Department of Physics, Bath University)

2014-12-16 14:10: Advanced light-matter interactions in optofluidic waveguides (Dr Tijmen Euser, MPI-Erlangen)

2014-12-16 15:00: Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors: An Endless Playground for Fundamental Physics  (Dr Konstantinos Lagoudakis, E L Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford)

2014-12-16 15:04: Hierarchically structured semiconductors for solar-driven water splitting applications (Dr Robert Coridan, Caltech)