cjbf's list 2004-08-16 02:44: Simulated observation of Sunyaev-Zeldovich clusters with PLACNK (Bjoern Schaefer, University of Portsmouth) 2005-01-19 11:15: Swelling and deformation of gels: an old problem revisited (Professor Masao Doi) 2005-01-27 02:15: The electronic structure of proteins as obtained by first principles total energy calculations (Prof ME Galvan, Mexico City) 2005-01-28 14:00: Sudden Cardiac Death. Medicine is not enough, we need physical sciences as well (Dr Richard Saumarez) 2005-03-03 02:15: "Quantum turbulence" (Prof. WF Vinen, Birmingham) 2005-03-14 14:15: Status and Progress in Commercialising Polymer OLED Technology (Jonathan Halls, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.) 2005-03-16 15:00: Approximating The Hierarchical Dirichelet Distribution (Phil Cowans) 2005-03-23 15:00: Bayesian Learning for Visual Inference (Ollie Williams) 2005-03-30 15:00: Communicating with buttons: current progress in one- and two-button Dasher (Ingrid Jendrzejewski) 2005-04-05 16:30: The predictive power of contractive neural-network spaces (Ashley Mills) 2005-04-11 16:00: Bloom Filters and Tries (a comparison) (David MacKay) 2005-04-20 11:15: Intrinsic Inhomogeneities in the Strongly Correlated Electron System CeNi1-xCux (Noelia Marcano Aguado / Gomez Sal, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander) 2005-04-20 15:00: Astronomical Image Recognition (David MacKay) 2005-04-21 01:15: The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition in thin polymer films (Dr James Sharp, University of Nottingham) 2005-04-27 11:15: Negative Thermal Expansion, Phonons, and Neutron Scattering (Andrew Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Univ. Cambridge) 2005-04-27 15:00: Variational Gibbs Sampling (Ulrich Paquet) 2005-04-28 02:15: Field theoretic methods in polymer stat mech (Prof Andrea Pelissetto (Rome)) 2005-05-03 14:00: Computer Othello (Sanjoy Mahajan) 2005-05-04 11:15: Squids (Prof John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley)) 2005-05-04 11:15: Microtesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A New Clinical Modality? (John Clarke, UC Berkeley) 2005-05-06 14:00: Feeling and Influencing Active Intracellular Polymer Networks with Light (Professor Josef Kas, University of Leipzig) 2005-05-10 16:30: A Bayesian revolution in spectral analysis (Phil Gregory, British Columbia) 2005-05-11 11:15: Analogies between superfluid helium Three and the Universe (Prof George Pickett (University of Lancaster)) 2005-05-11 11:15: Superfluid 3He: The Universal Substance from Cosmology to Hydrodynamics via NMR (and OR) (George Pickett, Lancaster University) 2005-05-11 14:00: Joint Gaussian Process-Density Mixtures (Ole Winther, DTU / Inference Group) 2005-05-11 16:30: Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum Information (Professor Ed Hinds, Imperial College) 2005-05-13 13:30: The Outstanding Magnetic Behaviour of Nematic Suspensions of Goethite Nanorods (Patrick Davidson, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France) 2005-05-17 14:00: Nested Sampling for Motif Discovery (Thomas Down, Sanger Institute) 2005-05-17 16:30: Is there an axis of evil in the sky? (Joao Magueijo, Imperial College) 2005-05-18 11:15: Alpha-Uranium and Its Superconductivity (George Schmiedeshoff, Occidental College, Los Angeles) 2005-05-18 16:30: Local Interstellar Medium / History of Investigation of Mars and Venus in USSR (1960-1996) (Professor Vladimir Kurt, P N Lebedev Physical Institute ) 2005-05-19 14:15: Superconducting pairing in small metallic nanoparticles (Dr Vladimir Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)) 2005-05-20 14:15: Bio-Inspired Crystal Growth (Dr Fiona Meldrum, Biomineralisation, University of Bristol) 2005-05-24 16:30: First light on Thumper (Derek Ward-Thompson, Cardiff) 2005-05-25 11:15: Crystal Growth, X-Ray and Neutron Scattering - Fun with Complex Oxides (Martin Greven, Stanford University) 2005-05-25 16:30: Probing the Early Universe with Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (Professor George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy) 2005-05-26 14:15: Non-Equilibrium Fermi Gas as a Riemann Hilbert Problem (Dr Boris Muzykanskii, University of Warwick) 2005-05-31 16:30: Weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background: friend or foe? (Sarah Smith, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2005-05-31 17:00: Early AMI cluster targets using the red-sequence method (Tom Culverhouse, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2005-06-02 14:15: TBA (TBA) 2005-06-07 16:00: Neighbourhood Components Analysis (Sam Roweis, University of Toronto) 2005-06-07 16:30: Searching for the onset of star formation (Matt Redman, Galway) 2005-06-08 11:15: Tangles in Infinity: The Kagome Spin Glass (Andrew Wills, University College London) 2005-06-08 15:00: Information and Intelligence (Alex Selby) 2005-06-08 16:30: A Tale of T9 (Cliff Kushler) 2005-06-09 09:30: Japanese Language Model (Takashi Kaburagi) 2005-06-09 14:15: TBA (TBA) 2005-06-09 15:00: Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Models for Time Series Data (Matthew Beal, SUNY at Buffalo) 2005-06-10 11:00: Language Modelling In Dasher: A Tutorial (Phil Cowans) 2005-06-10 14:15: Thin film and interface effects in electroactive and responsive polymers (Prof Richard Jones, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield) 2005-06-10 15:30: Monte Carlo experiments in computer Go (Lukasz Lew, Vrije University, Amsterdam) 2005-06-14 14:00: Epitomes And Epitexts (Phil Cowans, Inference Group) 2005-06-14 16:30: Varying constants? Evidence for and against from quasar absorption lines (Michael Murphy, IoA) 2005-06-15 11:15: Sr2RuO4: Inflating the Fermi Surface (Peter Mann, QM, Cavendish Laboratory) 2005-06-15 15:00: A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets (Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto) 2005-06-16 14:15: Evolutionary genetics (Prof Simon Tavar (DAMTP, Cambridge)) 2005-06-21 16:30: Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech (Keith Vertanen, Inference Group) 2005-06-21 16:30: Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech; Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic ink (Keith Vertanen and Phil Cowans, Cavendish Laboratory) 2005-06-21 17:00: Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic ink (Phil Cowans, Inference Group) 2005-06-22 15:00: LOCUS: Learning Object Classes with Unsupervised Segmentation (John Winn, Microsoft Research) 2005-06-24 14:15: Differences between non-specific and bio-specific, and between equilibrium and non-equilibrium, interactions in biological systems (Professor Jacob Israelachvili, University of Calirfornia Santa Barbara) 2005-06-29 15:00: What we face in facing up to complexity in the genetics of complex disease (Ken Weiss, Pennsylvania State University) 2005-06-30 14:00: Heat Transport in Quantum Materials (Louis Taillefer, Universit de Sherbrooke) 2005-06-30 15:00: Dynamics in Cuprates and Manganites: From Femtoseconds to Minutes (John Hill, Brookhaven National Laboratory) 2005-07-03 15:00: To be confirmed (David MacKay) 2005-07-06 15:00: An introduction to Brain-Computer Interfaces (Seb Wills, Inference Group) 2005-07-22 15:00: Why do fruitflies like bananas? (Gregory Jefferis, Department of Zoology) 2005-08-03 15:00: Progress with #Dasher, a Continuous Gesture IDE (Luke Church) 2005-08-16 12:00: Efficient communication with buttons: an update on Button Dasher (Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Inference Group) 2005-08-17 12:30: Language relationships, phonology, and Greek (Tudor Dimofte, Inference Group) 2005-08-17 15:00: Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation and Optimization (Chunlin JI, Engineering Department) 2005-10-04 14:15: Solid-State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (Dr Henry Snaith, EPF Lausanne) 2005-10-05 15:00: Bayesian Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of Go (David Stern, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2005-10-06 16:15: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2005-10-07 14:15: Dynamics of single molecular motors labeled to quantum dots in a living cell (Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Dpartement de Physique, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris) 2005-10-12 15:00: A Cross-Entropy Based Method to Analyse Iterative Decoding (Qinglin Luo) 2005-10-12 16:15: The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental Cratons (Professor James Jackson, Earth Sciences, Cambridge) 2005-10-13 14:15: Mapping Phase Diagrams by Atomistic Simulation (Prof. Matt Probert, Physics, University of York) 2005-10-14 14:15: Granular Segregation as a Critical Phenomenon (Prof. Tom Mullin, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics) 2005-10-18 16:30: Star formation in Perseus (Jennifer Hatchell, University of Exeter) 2005-10-19 11:15: Observation and Non-Observation of Vortex Matter Phase Transitions in Niobium (Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham) 2005-10-19 16:15: "Mott Centenary Lecture" - Present Status of the Theory of High Temperature Superconductors (Professor Phil Anderson, Department of Physics, Princeton University) 2005-10-21 14:15: Protein Assisted Assembly of Carbon Nanotube into Functional Materials - joint with Nanoscience (Dr. Alan B. Dalton, Department of Physics and the Unis Materials Institute, University of Surrey) 2005-10-25 16:30: SKADS: The first concrete steps to the SKA (Paul Alexander, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2005-10-26 11:00: Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of Go (David Stern, Inference Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-10-26 11:15: Glory Scattering from Small Black Holes (Sam Dolan, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-10-27 14:15: Nanomechanical Oscillators: from Thermodynamics to Pattern Formation (Prof. Mike Cross, Physics, Caltech, Pasadena) 2005-10-28 14:15: Electronic excitations in conjugated materials: "Un peu de tout" (Dr David Beljonne, Universit de Mons , Belgium) 2005-11-01 16:30: Viewing the dusty Universe (Richard Tuffs, MPK, Heidelberg) 2005-11-02 11:00: Structured Clouds of Particles for space based astronomy (Julien Coyne, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-11-02 11:15: Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems (Anna Kusmartseva & Emma Pearson, QM, Cavendish Laboratory) 2005-11-02 11:15: The Dirac Equation (Alison Brennan, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-11-02 15:00: Dasher for the blind, and some visual illusions (David MacKay, Inference Group) 2005-11-02 16:15: Nano-Ferroelectric Materials and Devices (Professor James Scott, Earth Sciences, Cambridge) 2005-11-04 14:15: Functional nanoporous materials from reactive block copolymers (Marc Hillmyer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota) 2005-11-07 16:00: Polymer brushes: conformation and adhesion (Dr Mark Geoghegan, University of Sheffield) 2005-11-08 16:30: The first hour in the life of a GRB (Paul O'Brien) 2005-11-09 11:00: Cosmological evolution of a population 50 years ago (John Baldwin, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-11-09 11:00: Stochastic Faraday rotation in the interstellar medium (Rebecca Johnston, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-11-09 15:00: Monte Carlo is Bayesian (John Skilling, ex-DAMTP) 2005-11-09 16:15: Scanning the cosmological horizon (Professor Sir Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) 2005-11-10 14:15: Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity? (Mike Norman) 2005-11-10 14:15: Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity? (Prof. Mike Norman (joint seminar with Quantum Matter Group)) 2005-11-10 15:00: Design of Electroluminescent Conjugated Polymers: Considerations on Single Chain, Conformation Manipulation, and Supramolecular Sturcture (Prof Show-An Chen, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan) 2005-11-11 14:15: In situ experiments in the ESEM - a challenge for both the scientist and the engineer (Dr Armin Zankel, Research Institute for Electron Microscopy, Graz University of Technology) 2005-11-15 14:15: Planar Organic Electronic Nanodevices (Dr Aimin Song, Manchester) 2005-11-15 16:30: Detection of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and corresponding dark energy constraints made with directional spherical wavelets (Jason McEwen, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2005-11-16 11:00: A New Millisecond Pulsar in 47 Tucanae (Natasha Hurley-Walker, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-11-16 16:15: Charge Transport in Organic Single-crystal Transistors (Professor Alberto Morpurgo, Department of Nanoscience, University of Delft) 2005-11-18 14:00: Locked-in syndrome (Mick Donegan, ACE Centre Oxford) 2005-11-21 14:15: Towards a mid-infrared single photon source (Dr. G.R. Nash, Qinetiq, Malvern, UK) 2005-11-22 14:15: Unified Description of Charge-Carrier Mobilities in Disordered Semiconducting Polymers (Dr Peter Bobbert, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2005-11-22 16:30: Bipolar outflows and circumstellar discs around evolved stars (Tim Gledhill, University of Hertfordshire) 2005-11-23 11:00: Dusty Galaxies - Towards a Self-consistent Interpretation of Infrared Spectra (Dominic Ford, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-11-23 11:15: Dispelling Shadows in the Photoemission of Bi-2212 (Mark Golden, University of Amsterdam) 2005-11-23 15:00: Efficient Quantum Computation with linear optics (Oliver Stegle, Inference Group) 2005-11-23 16:15: Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 2005-11-24 14:15: Local correlation methods for molecular electronic structure calculations (Prof. Martin Head-Gordon, Berkeley) 2005-11-25 15:30: Atomic force microscopy and force spectroscopy of membrane proteins - Joint seminar with Nanoscience (Sonja Contera, Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford) 2005-11-25 15:30: Photon Anti-bunching (Prof. E. C. G. Sudarshan, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin) 2005-11-28 14:15: Single electronics on Helium (Prof. M.J. Lea, Royal Holloway College, London) 2005-11-28 14:30: Cheap and cheerful inference machines for tracking (Ollie Williams, CUED) 2005-11-29 16:30: Dark energy with 3-D cosmic shear: theory and first results (Alan Heavens, IfA, Edinburgh) 2005-11-30 11:00: The role of flow shear in the ballooning stability of tokamak transport barriers (Anna Scaife, Astrophysics Group, Dept. of Physics) 2005-11-30 11:00: The ab initio multiscale approach to a lightning rod (Gábor Csányi (TCM)) 2005-11-30 11:15: Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment (Patricia Fara, Clare College and History and Philosophy of Science, Univ. Cambridge) 2005-11-30 16:15: Controlling the Flow of Colour: Photonic Systems in Biology (Dr Peter Vukusic, Thin Film Photonics, School of Physics, University of Exeter) 2005-12-05 14:15: Control of photons, electrons and spins in GaAs quantum wells using acoustic fields (Dr. Paulo Santos, Paul Drude Institute, Berlin) 2005-12-06 16:30: Measurements of CMB polarization with BOOMERanG (Silvia Masi, Rome 'La Sapienza') 2005-12-08 14:15: Polymorphism in organic and inorganic solids (Prof. M Parrinello, ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 2005-12-09 14:00: Exciton migration and quenching in polymer-based optoelectronic devices (Denis Markov, University of Groningen, Holland) 2006-01-11 15:00: Eye Tracking with Consumer Hardware (Dan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen) 2006-01-19 15:00: Lexicographic text analysis using non-negative factorisation techniques (Sinead Williamson) 2006-01-20 15:00: Recognition and prediction of biological motion (Robert Wilson, University of Pennsylvania) 2006-01-24 14:15: Scanning near-field spectroscopy of organic micro- and nano-structures (David Lidzey, Sheffield University) 2006-01-25 11:15: Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems (Anna Kusmartseva, University of Cambridge) 2006-01-25 15:00: Dynamical Networks for Agent Systems (Pedro Ortega, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile) 2006-01-25 16:15: "The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope" (Professor R Kennicutt, Plumian Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) 2006-01-26 14:15: Dynamics of network motifs (Dr. Thomas Fink, CNRS/Institut Curie, Paris) 2006-01-27 14:15: Polymers in motion (Dick J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2006-01-31 11:00: The discovery of a pulsar in the supernova remnant G21.5-0.9 with the GMRT (Dave Green, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-01-31 11:15: Fine Time Aiding and Pseudo-Synchronisation of GSM networks (Ramsey Faragher, Cavendish Astrophysics/Cambridge Positioning Systems) 2006-02-01 15:00: Latency-optimal fault-tolerant replication (Piotr Zielinski, Inference Group) 2006-02-01 16:15: Fluorescence imaging on the micro- and the nanoscale (Dr Clemens Kaminski, The Laser Analytics Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-02 16:00: Energetic Materials: The International Context (Dr A S Cumming, dstl, Fort Halstead) 2006-02-06 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2006-02-07 14:15: Organic Semiconductors: Modeling the Charge Transport (Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick) 2006-02-07 16:30: Simulated observation of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters with PLANCK (Bjoern Schaefer) 2006-02-08 11:00: Optical Implementation scheme for Quantum Computation (Oliver Stegle, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-02-08 11:15: Brane Worlds and Cosmology (Sylvain Brechet, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-02-08 15:00: Virtual-move Parallel Tempering (Ivan Coluzza, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-08 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Dark Matters: WIMPs and Axions (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2006-02-09 11:00: Introduction into Transmission and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM & STEM) (Dr. A. Bleloch, (PCS/SuperSTEM Daresbury)) 2006-02-09 14:15: Carnot and the fields formulation of elementary thermodynamics (Professor John Hannay, Physics Department, University of Bristol) 2006-02-09 16:00: Inkjet Printing: Status and Future Challenges (Prof. I M Hutchings, Cambridge University Department of Engineering) 2006-02-10 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks: Reforming Hadron Spectroscopy (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2006-02-13 14:15: New interaction effects in semiconductor quantum wires (Dr Abi Graham, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-02-14 16:30: Tracking the early stages of star formation (Serena Viti, UCL) 2006-02-15 11:00: Deep GMRT surveys and wide-field imaging (Timothy Garn, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-02-15 11:15: New Effects in Vortex Resistivity and Pinning in Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O6+x (Ben Morgan, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-15 11:15: Computation and Prediction in Chaotic Dynamical Systems (Daniel Berwick, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-02-15 15:00: Experimental Annotation of the Human Genome (Paul Bertone, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute) 2006-02-15 16:15: No Mott Colloquium this week (Speaker to be confirmed) 2006-02-16 11:00: Aberration Correction in TEM and STEM (Dr Max Haider, (CEOS, Germany)) 2006-02-16 15:15: Uncertainty Logic (Christian Steinruecken) 2006-02-16 16:00: Light Emission by Shocked Ammonium Nitrate (N E Taylor, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Lab) 2006-02-17 14:15: Ligand-receptor interactions in proteins and membranes (P-L Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris) 2006-02-20 14:15: Excitation of acousto-electric vibrations in a GaAs lattice (Mr Shubeur Rahman, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-02-21 16:30: Black-hole jets and accretion (Sebastian Jester, University of Southampton) 2006-02-22 11:00: An Introduction to TES Detectors (Louisa Dunlop, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-02-22 11:15: Superfluid stiffness and defect-assisted pair-breaking: getting a handle on organic superconductors (Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford) 2006-02-22 11:15: The starformation history of elliptical galaxies (Karwan Rostem, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-02-22 15:00: Topic Modeling: Beyond Bag-of-Words (Hanna Wallach, Inference Group) 2006-02-22 16:15: Quantum computing with electron spins in quantum dots (Dr. Lieven Vandersypen, Delft) 2006-02-23 11:00: Introduction into Chemical Analysis for Electron Microscopy (EELS, EDS) (Prof. M. Brown, (PCS, Physics, Cambridge)) 2006-02-23 14:15: Spin and charge quantum phase transitions in narrow-band metals (Dr. Malte Grosche, Royal Holloway, University of London) 2006-02-23 14:15: From single to multi-chromophore architectures (Alan Rowan, University of Nijmegen) 2006-02-23 16:00: Testing with Bars: From Dynamic to Quasistatic (Dr G Gary, Laboratoire de Mcanique des Solides (LMS) de lEcole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) 2006-02-24 10:00: NMR studies of protein-protein interactions involved in chromatin structure (Prof. Ernest Laue, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-24 14:15: Fission yeast interphase microtubules: self-sufficient and self-centred! (Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, CCL Cancer Research UK, London) 2006-02-27 14:15: Entangled photons on-demand from a single quantum dot (Mr Robert Young, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-02-28 16:30: Out of Africa: Results from the H.E.S.S. Telescopes (Paula Chadwick, University of Durham) 2006-03-01 15:00: Speech Recognition During Dictation Corrections (Keith Vertanen, Inference Group) 2006-03-01 16:15: "Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen" (Professor Gerald Gabrielse, Physics Department, Harvard University) 2006-03-02 11:00: Electron Tomography for the Physical Sciences (Dr. P. Midgley, Dept of Materials Sceince and Metallurgy) 2006-03-02 16:00: Assessing the Impact Energy Absorbing Properties of Composite and Sandwich Materials (Dr J P Dear, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London) 2006-03-03 10:00: NMR based investigation of protein molten globule states (Dr Christina Redfield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford) 2006-03-03 14:15: Signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis (Victor Sourjik) 2006-03-06 14:15: Laser spectroscopy of a single quantum dot (Dr Richard Warburton, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) 2006-03-07 14:00: Student Project Presentations: "Redundancy in Turing machines"; "A two button implementation of Dasher" and "Relationships between energy and information in fly retina" (R.J. Henderson, Tim Ward, and Mike Baker) 2006-03-07 16:30: A deep glimpse of the near-infrared sky (Alastair Edge, University of Durham) 2006-03-08 11:00: Adaptive optics for sub-mm wavelength astronomy (Ross Williamson, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-03-08 16:15: Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter (Professor J C Seamus Davis, Cornell University) 2006-03-09 02:15: Is the "Hidden Electronic Order" in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered? (J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell University) 2006-03-09 11:00: (Environmental) Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM & ESEM) (Dr. D Stokes, Biological and Soft Systems, Dept of Physics) 2006-03-09 14:15: Is the Hidden Electronic Order in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered? (Prof. J. C. Samus Davis, Cornell University) 2006-03-09 16:00: Ithaca and a Thesis: An Odyssey of Explosive Excitement (H Czerski, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Lab) 2006-03-10 10:00: Bacterial chemotaxis: using computer models to unravel mechanism (Prof. Dennis Bray, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2006-03-10 11:00: Student Project Presentations: "Colour Memorisation", "One button communication" and "Optimising digital fountain codes" ( J.E. Main, Naath (Helen) Cousins, and Olly Madge) 2006-03-10 14:15: Granular materials with even circuits: Ball-bearings and dry quicksand (Professor Nick Rivier, Laboratoire de Physique Thorique, Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France) 2006-03-13 10:00: PLEASE NOTE SEMINAR CANCELLED (Jochen Guck, Universitt Leipzig) 2006-03-13 15:00: Aggregation of Particles in Stochastic Flows (Per Sillr?n, Chalmers University, Sweden) 2006-03-14 16:30: The most distant galaxies (Malcolm Bremer, University of Bristol) 2006-03-15 16:15: Through a Glass Darkly - and Other Optical metastabilities" (Professor Stephen Elliott, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge) 2006-03-16 11:00: CANCELLED - Transmission Electron Microscopy of Biological Samples (Dr. J. Skepper, Multi-Imaging Centre, Department of Anatomy, Cambridge) 2006-03-16 14:15: To be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2006-03-17 10:00: Mass spectrometry for determination of protein quaternary structrure? (Dr Brandon Ruotolo, Robinson Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2006-03-21 16:30: Initial results from the new IR camera for COAST (Richard Neill, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-03-22 11:00: TeraHertz zero-order Bessel Beams (Willem Jellema, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research) 2006-03-22 15:00: Epitomic representation of natural signals (Anitha Kannan, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2006-03-24 14:15: Measuring Intermolecular Forces in Biology (Dr Erik Schffer, Dresden) 2006-03-28 14:00: Graph Transformation Method for Calculating Waiting Times in Markov Chains (Semen Trygubenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2006-03-29 11:15: Transport and thermodynamic properties of cuprate superconductors: E(k) dispersion, pseudogap and isotope effects (James G. Storey, Victoria University of Wellington) 2006-03-29 15:00: Bayesian Online Changepoint Detection (Ryan Adams, Inference Group) 2006-04-11 14:15: Plasmonics with metal nanoparticles (Prof Jochen Feldmann, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich) 2006-04-13 15:00: The Swendsen-Wang algorithm (tutorial), and the "Baby and Toy" algorithm (David MacKay) 2006-04-19 11:15: Unconventional noise and aging experiments in manganites and superconductors (Michael Weissman, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2006-04-19 15:00: Hierarchical Passage Retrieval (Phil Cowans, Inference Group) 2006-04-19 16:30: Bayesian approximation for physical inverse problems (Debasish Roy) 2006-04-20 14:15: Functionalized semiconductor nanocrystals for photonic applications (Prof Jochen Feldmann, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich) 2006-04-21 14:15: Polyelectrolyte multilayer microcapsules as a novel biomimetic system (Prof. Dr. Olga Vinogradova, http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~vinograd) 2006-04-21 15:00: The 'Rich Club' phenomenon in large networks (Anthony Leung, Hong Kong) 2006-04-26 11:15: High magnetic fields: A tool for studying strongly correlated systems (Cyril Proust, Laboratoire National des Champs Magntiques Pulss) 2006-04-26 14:30: Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair Cosmologist (David MacKay) 2006-05-03 14:00: The Capacity of the Deletion Channel (David MacKay) 2006-05-03 16:15: Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detection (Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Southampton) 2006-05-04 14:15: Electronic-structure challenges in biomimetic catalysis (Prof Nicola Marzari, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT) 2006-05-04 16:00: Constitutive Models for Deformation and Fracture of Metals (T D Andrews, QinetiQ Farnborough) 2006-05-08 15:15: Exciton Condensation (Prof. P. B. Littlewood, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2006-05-09 14:30: Charge transport and recombination in bulk-heterojunction solar cells from extraction current transients (Ronald Osterbacka, Abo Akademi University) 2006-05-09 16:30: Modelling of deuterium chemistry in star-forming regions (Helen Roberts, University of Manchester) 2006-05-10 11:15: The Generation and Decay of Grid Turbulence in a Dissipationless Fluid--4He at 20 mK (Gary Ihas, University of Florida) 2006-05-10 14:00: To be confirmed (David Stern, Inference Group) 2006-05-10 15:00: How to Parameterize a Positive-definite Matrix (David MacKay) 2006-05-10 16:15: Fusion of Relativistic Vortices in Josephson Arrays (Prof. Alexey Ustinov) 2006-05-11 16:00: Piezoelectric Probes: Can They Be Trusted? (C E Lloyd, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group) 2006-05-12 10:00: Condensates in Flatland - Bose gases in two dimensions (Dr Zoran Hadzibabic, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris) 2006-05-12 14:15: Interfaces, Films and Membranes: Soft Matter Physics in 2 Dimensions (Dr Pietro Cicuta) 2006-05-15 11:00: DNA-based supramolecular structures and devices (Dr Friedrich Simmel) 2006-05-15 14:15: Molecular Beam Epitaxial overgrowth on pre-patterned substrates (Dr. Paola Atkinson (SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2006-05-16 16:30: Spitzer and Gemini studies of dust formation around young extragalactic supernovae (Mike Barlow, UCL) 2006-05-18 14:15: New Challenges in the physics of high temperature superconductors (Prof. Jeff Tallon, University of Wellington, New Zealand) 2006-05-18 16:00: Making the Most of Failures (Dr R I Hammond, TWI, Granta Park, Cambridge) 2006-05-19 11:00: Applying Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine to Understand Cardiac Arrhythmias and Epilepsy (Dr Jennifer Simonotto) 2006-05-22 14:15: A brief introduction to AlAs quantum wells (Dr. Christine Nicoll (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2006-05-23 11:00: CANCELLED (Dr Mark Leake) 2006-05-23 16:30: Gravitational lensing and the assembly history of galaxy clusters - POSTPONED (Graham Smith, University of Birmingham) 2006-05-24 11:15: From quantum critical magnets to superconductivity in graphite intercalates (Dr Montu Saxena (Physics Department, University of Cambridge)) 2006-05-24 14:00: Title to be confirmed (David Stern, Inference Group) 2006-05-24 16:15: Spin Ice - a Laboratory for Statistical Physics (Stephen Bramwell, UCL) 2006-05-25 16:00: Equivalency of the Effects of Time and Temperature on the Mechanical Response of a PBX (D M Williamson, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group) 2006-05-26 11:00: Single Molecule Approaches to Biology (Dr Liming Ying) 2006-05-26 14:00: Joint LDPC Decoding and Timing Recovery Using Code Constraint Feedback (Christopher Jones) 2006-05-26 14:15: 3-D cryo-EM in biology: specimen preparation and imaging for tomography (Michael Marko) 2006-05-29 11:15: Tunability and self-organisation of quantum matter (Dr Malte Grosche (Royal Holloway, University of London)) 2006-05-30 16:00: To be confirmed (Dr Tsuyoshi Kimura) 2006-05-30 16:30: Scattering from black holes (Sam Dolan, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-05-30 17:00: Inflation via Einstein-Cartan theory (Reece Heineke, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-05-31 11:15: The quest for imperfection (Dr Anke Husmann (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge)) 2006-05-31 14:00: Capacity of phase-based attractor networks with pairwise couplings (David MacKay) 2006-05-31 14:00: Investigating quantum matter with cold atomic gases (Michael Koehl (ETH Zurich)) 2006-06-01 10:00: The latest on varying constants (John Webb, University of New South Wales) 2006-06-01 16:00: Predicting Deformation and Failure of Copper (Dr P J. Gould, QinetiQ Bristol) 2006-06-02 11:00: Single Molecule Force-Spectroscopy Maps the Details of the Protein Free Energy Landscape (Dr Jasna Brujic (Fernandez Lab, University of Columbia)) 2006-06-02 14:15: Ultrafast and low barrier motions in the photoreactions of the Green Fluorescent Protein (Dr Jasper van Thor) 2006-06-05 11:15: Electrons on the Magnetic Quantum Roundabout - Measuring Fermi Surfaces and Band Renormalisation in Correlated Materials (Dr Christoph Bergemann (Physics Department, University of Cambridge)) 2006-06-06 16:30: AstroGrid: Creating a place for astronomical science (Nicholas Walton, IoA Cambridge) 2006-06-07 11:15: Emergent phases in tuneable quantum materials (Dr Christos Panagopoulos (Physics Department, University of Cambridge)) 2006-06-07 14:00: Finite element modelling of growing microtubules (Michael Verhoek, KCL) 2006-06-07 16:00: Millimetre-wave cosmology today and technology for the future (Phil Mauskopf, University of Cardiff) 2006-06-08 14:15: HIGH MOBILITY III-V MOSFET TECHNOLOGY (Dr. M. 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Keyser, Delft University of Technology) 2006-06-20 14:00: A Bayesian Unfolding Method Applied to the PAMELA Experiment (Germano Percossi) 2006-06-20 14:30: Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of organic light-emitting diodes and field-effect transistors (Prof. Yukio Furukawa, Waseda University) 2006-06-20 16:30: CMB polarization and the search for gravity waves (Carlo Contaldi, Imperial College) 2006-06-21 14:00: In search of the brain's wiring (Philipp Hennig, Heidelberg) 2006-06-21 15:15: Star formation: Recent results and future prospects (John Richer, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2006-06-22 11:30: Silicon Qubit Research at the Australian Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT) ( Prof A. S. Dzurack (Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney Australia.)) 2006-06-26 11:00: From dust to dust: the shrouds of stellar birth and death (Peter Tuthill, University of Sydney) 2006-06-26 16:00: Diffuse ionized gas and the disk-halo connection in spiral galaxies (Richard Rand, University of New Mexico) 2006-06-27 14:00: Blissymbolics - The Emergence of a Written Language (Annalu Waller, Dundee) 2006-06-27 16:30: Exploring the Universe in a grain of sand (Monica Grady, Open University) 2006-06-28 11:00: Music Access for the Disabled (Jon Hall, Engineering Department) 2006-06-28 14:00: Information-Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to Practice (Miguel Rodrigues, Digital Technology Group, Cambridge) 2006-06-28 17:00: Ligand detection and discrimination by spatial relocalisation: the complexities of T cell activation (Nigel Burroughs (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)) 2006-07-04 14:15: Explaining the Broadband Absorbance of Melanins (Jennifer Riesz, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) 2006-07-05 14:00: Gaussian Process models for solving ODEs (Oliver Stegle, Inference Group) 2006-07-12 14:00: On the Analysis of Ellipsoid Approximation of Nested Sampling (Ratthachat Chatpatanasiri) 2006-07-18 14:00: Implicit learning in Music (Martin Rohrmeier, Centre for Music and Science) 2006-07-19 14:00: Divergence measures and latent variable models (Ulrich Paquet) 2006-07-26 14:00: The Manufacture of Bioethanol - A brief Introduction (Samir Bhatt) 2006-07-26 16:00: Graphical Combinator Programming (Christian Steinruecken) 2006-08-02 14:00: sparse GP classification (Andrew Naish) 2006-08-02 14:00: neural phase codes (Bob Wilson) 2006-08-09 11:00: Cognitive Cars (K. Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company) 2006-08-09 14:00: Getting it Right the Second Time: Recognition of Spoken Corrections (Keith Vertanen, Inference Group) 2006-08-16 14:00: Naive OCR? (Seb Wills, Inference Group) 2006-08-23 14:00: How to veto anonymously under surveillance? (Piotr Zielinski, Inference Group) 2006-09-06 14:00: MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions (Iain Murray, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) 2006-09-13 14:00: An interesting preprint (David MacKay) 2006-09-19 16:15: Doing low temperature physics six decades ago (B.S. Chandrasekhar) 2006-09-20 11:15: Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy of the Pure and Cd-doped Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5: Detecting Order Parameter Symmetry and Competing Phases (Laura H. Greene, Department of Physics and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2006-09-20 14:00: Optimised Digital Fountain Codes for Medium Blocklengths (Oliver Madge) 2006-09-25 14:15: Modelling of adiabatic transport: pumped charge quantization and beyond (Dr. Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)) 2006-10-03 14:30: Modelling and improving (hybrid) bulk heterojunction solar cells (Jan Anton Koster, University of Groningen) 2006-10-04 11:15: Giant sharp magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic epitaxial La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 on BaTiO3 (Neil Mathur, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-05 16:00: How to Make an Atom-Mirror: Preparation of Si(111)-(1x1)H surfaces on ultrathin crystals (A. Weeks, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-10-09 14:15: Architectures for ion quantum technology (Dr. Winfried K. Hensinger, Ion Quantum Technology Group,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom) 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) 2006-10-10 16:30: Two recent discoveries: The Double Pulsar and Transient Neutron Stars (Andrew Lyne, (Jodrell Bank, University of Manchester)) 2006-10-11 16:15: Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmology (Dr Simon Mitton, St Edmunds College, Cambridge) 2006-10-13 14:30: Scattering Optical Elements: Inverse design of dielectric photonic devices (Andreas Håkansson, National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan) 2006-10-16 14:00: Leaf Selection for Maximising Diversity in a Tree (Fabio Pardi) 2006-10-16 14:15: The 0.5 plateau (Dr. Rolf Crook (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2006-10-17 16:30: Possibility of Bianchi VII_h signatures in the CMB (Michael Bridges (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2006-10-17 17:00: Bayesian Game Tree Search with an Application to the Game of Go (David Stern (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2006-10-18 11:30: Liquid Crystal Photonic Devices (Myoung Hoon Song) 2006-10-18 14:00: Teaching Statistics - A Bag of Tricks (David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-10-18 16:15: QED in a Pencil Trace (Prof. Andre Geim, University of Manchester) 2006-10-19 14:15: Origin of large electromechanical coupling in relaxor ferroelectrics (Prof. Ron E. Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington) 2006-10-20 14:15: Compact self-wired cultured neural networks (Dr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University) 2006-10-23 14:15: Confined superfluid He3: thoughts, hints and facts (Dr. Antonio Corcoles (Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2006-10-24 16:30: Gravitational Waves and the Death-Spiral of Compact Binaries (Clifford Will (Washington University, St. Louis and Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris)) 2006-10-25 16:15: WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT? (Prof Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University) 2006-10-26 14:15: Electron Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors (Dr Darryl L. Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory) 2006-10-26 14:45: Dynamic imaging of blood flow in the conjunctival and episcleral microcirculations of the human eye: a new chapter in diagnostic imaging? (Dr. Paul Meyer, Ophthalmology Department, Addenbrookes Hospital) 2006-10-26 16:00: Technology and Golf: Friends or Foes? (E. Zaayman, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-10-27 14:15: Some properties of microgel particles (Dr Alex Routh, Department of Chemical Engineering and BP Institute, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-31 16:30: Flow and decay of an arctic glacier revealed by airborne laser profiling (Gareth Rees (Scott Polar Research Institute)) 2006-11-01 11:15: Magnetic frustration and ferroelectricity (Maxim Mostovoy (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)) 2006-11-01 16:15: The rich physics of nanowires (Professor Adrian Sutton, Department of Physics, Imperial College London) 2006-11-02 16:00: Non-Adiabatic Processes at the Gas-Solid Interface (S. Holloway, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool) 2006-11-03 14:15: Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines (Prof Helen Gleeson, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Manchester University) 2006-11-06 14:15: Quantum Point Contacts: a Tunable Single-Spin System ? (Prof. J. P. Bird (University of Buffalo, USA)) 2006-11-07 16:30: Interesting THINGS: First Results from The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (Elias Brinks, University of Hertfordshire) 2006-11-08 11:15: Search for Stripes in Lightly Hole Doped YBa2Cu3O6 by ESR and IR Transmission (András Jánossy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)) 2006-11-08 14:00: Do Scanning Electron Microscopes have a point-spread function? (Philipp Hennig) 2006-11-08 16:15: Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid Surfaces (Prof Sir David King, Director of Research, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government & Head of the Office of Science and Innovation) 2006-11-09 14:15: Determination of protein structures using NMR chemical shifts (Dr Michele Vendruscolo, Dept. of Chemistry) 2006-11-09 16:00: Advanced Structural Characterisation Techniques for Amorphous Materials (J.M. Cole, Surfaces, Microscopy & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-11-10 14:15: C Dots: Highly Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for Materials and Life Sciences Applications (Prof Uli Wiesner, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University) 2006-11-13 14:15: Semiconductor microcavities: from cold polariton condensates to polariton lasing at room temperature (Dr. Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton)) 2006-11-14 14:30: Towards Low-Cost and Robust Organic Integrated Circuits (Thomas Anthopoulos, Imperial College London) 2006-11-14 16:30: The Environment of Local Radio Galaxies (Summer Ash (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2006-11-14 17:00: Spinning dust observations towards Galactic targets with the VSA (Anna Scaife (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2006-11-15 14:00: Vector Gaussian Processes (Ryan Adams, Inference Group) 2006-11-15 16:15: Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity (Professor Raymond E. Goldstein, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge) 2006-11-16 16:00: Imaging Surfaces with Atoms: How, Why and When? (D.A. MacLaren, The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The University of Glasgow) 2006-11-17 14:15: Some Like it Hot: High Temperature Experiments in the ESEM (Dr Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester) 2006-11-20 14:15: Detection and manipulation of spins in semiconductors and metals (Dr. Mark Hickey (Stoner Laboratory, University of Leeds, U.K)) 2006-11-21 16:30: COROT: towards transiting terrestrial planets (Suzanne Aigrain (IoA)) 2006-11-22 11:15: Understanding superconductivity in spin ladders: new tools and a hard climb! (Daniel Braithwaite, CEA Grenoble) 2006-11-22 14:00: Bayesian estimation of neuronal connectivity from MEA recordings (Fabio Rigat) 2006-11-23 14:15: The Energy Crisis on the back of an envelope (Prof. David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-11-23 16:00: Detecting Single Atoms in the STEM (A. Bleloch, The Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire) 2006-11-24 14:15: Rheology of Viscoelastic Suspensions of Rigid Spheres (Prof Pier Luca Meffettone) 2006-11-27 14:15: Exploitation of nanoscale particles for DNA analysis and detection (Dr. Tracy Melvin (University of Southampton, UK)) 2006-11-28 16:30: First results from the QUaD CMB polarisation experiment (Michael Brown (ROE/Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2006-11-29 11:15: From solitons to magnons via transverse field in an Ising magnet (Radu Coldea, University of Bristol) 2006-12-04 16:00: Na_x Co O_2: What's going on at high doping (Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews) 2006-12-05 18:00: Rough Science (Dr Jonathon Hare) 2006-12-06 11:15: High pressure study of a quasi one dimensional two band conductor (Neven Barisic, Stanford University) 2006-12-06 14:00: Transcription regulation: from parts list to genomic network. (Nicholas Luscombe) 2006-12-13 14:00: Robust Gaussian Process Regression and Applications (Oliver Stegle) 2006-12-13 14:45: Title to be confirmed (Luis Diaz-Santana, Dept of Optometry and Visual Science, City University) 2007-01-10 14:00: HMMs for controlling dynamical systems (Marcus Frean) 2007-01-15 14:15: Gigahertz quantized charge pumping (Mr. Mark Blumenthal, Semiconductor Physics Group (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-01-15 14:30: Polymer-based Optoelectronic Devices with Interlayers (Dieter Neher, University of Potsdam) 2007-01-17 11:15: Some Controversial Issues in High Tc Superconductivity - a Specific Heat Perpective (Dr. John Loram (University of Cambridge)) 2007-01-17 14:00: Learning from positive and unlabeled data (Jurgen Van Gael) 2007-01-19 14:15: Bio-Inspired Growth of Crystals: Hydrogels and Self-Assembled Monolayers (Assistant Professor Lara Estroff) 2007-01-23 11:15: Phonon anomalies in superconductors studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering (Matteo d'Astuto (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)) 2007-01-23 16:30: The Role of SCUBA Galaxies in Galaxy Evolution ( Steve Eales (Cardiff)) 2007-01-24 14:00: Modeling text with Dirichlet compound multinomial distributions (Charles Elkan, UCSD) 2007-01-24 16:15: SOME MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF FILMS AND BUBBLES DEMONSTRATED (Dr Cyril Isenberg, University of Kent) 2007-01-25 14:15: Hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces in suspensions: Coarse-graining over time and length-scales (Dr. Ard Louis, University of Oxford) 2007-01-25 16:00: UK MoD Ignition Studies Towards Large Calibre Gun System Applications (Dr M J Taylor, QinetiQ, Fort Halstead, Kent) 2007-01-25 18:00: Why racing cars go fast (Julian Cooper) 2007-01-26 14:15: Building from bottom up: Fabrication of novel materials using designer self-assembling peptides (Dr Shuguang Zhang Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, 500 Technology Square, Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.) 2007-01-29 14:15: Momentum effects on focusing in one-dimensional systems (Miss Kavitha Kishen (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-01-30 16:30: What have we learnt about inflation from WMAP? (Subir Sarkar (Oxford)) 2007-01-31 14:00: Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade Processes (Rich Turner, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) 2007-02-01 16:00: Slip Circle Constructions for Dislocation Plasticity, with Special Reference to Nanoindentations (Prof. L M Brown, Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-02-02 14:15: Using thermal probes for analysis and characterisation of materials on a micro and nano scale (Professor Mike Reading, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich) 2007-02-05 14:15: Spin precession control and the Aharonov-Casher effect (Dr Tobias Bergsten - SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-02-06 16:30: The importance of AGN heating for elliptical galaxies and clusters (Philip Best (ROE)) 2007-02-07 11:00: Constraining the tensor-to-scalar ratio on the cut sky (Daniel O'Dea, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-02-07 11:15: Effects of partial coherence on the performance of imaging arrays (George Saklatvala, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-02-07 16:15: Planar Photonics meta-materials: spectral selectivity, "invisible metals", magnetic mirrors, chirality, asymmetric transmission and nano-focusing (Prof. Nikolay Zheludev, Southampton University) 2007-02-08 14:15: Metal to metal transitions (Prof. Andy Schofield) 2007-02-08 14:15: Metal to metal transitions (Joint TCM/QM seminar) (Prof. Andy Schofield) 2007-02-08 16:00: Materials Science Research at the ISL (Dr E Lach, Institut Saint-Louis, France) 2007-02-09 14:15: DSM Innovation: Functional Coatings and Biomedical Materials (Dr Jens Thies) 2007-02-12 14:00: New Functions for Glial Cells: From Soft Guideposts for Neuronal Migration to Living Light Guides in the Retina (Kristian Franze from the University of Leipzig) 2007-02-13 00:00: This talk has been cancelled (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-02-13 16:30: The Appearance of Evolving Dusty Galaxies (Dominic Ford (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2007-02-14 11:00: The day my boss lost 75 million dollars (Tom Auld, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-02-14 14:00: NIPS presentations (Ryan Adams) 2007-02-14 14:15: Cold and dense dipolar exciton quantum fluids in two dimensions. (Dr. Ronen Rapaport, Bell Labs) 2007-02-14 16:15: What's Cooking in Mining (Professor Sam Kingman, University of Nottingham) 2007-02-14 16:15: What’s Cooking in Mining? (Dr S Kingman, School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Nottingham) 2007-02-16 14:15: How filament assembly dynamics can power the crawling motion of amoeboid cells (Dr Murray Stewart, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2007-02-20 16:30: Shocks and bubbles in the hot gas in M87 (Eugene Churazov (MPA-Garching)) 2007-02-21 11:00: Surveys and Science with the GMRT (Tim Garn, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-02-21 11:15: Sound Waves in the Intracluster Medium (Stanislav Shabala, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-02-21 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Giselle Walker) 2007-02-22 14:15: Polariton Bose-Einstein condensation: Theoretical analysis in terms of a two-component weakly-interacting Bose gas (Prof. Vincenzo Savona, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 2007-02-22 16:00: Navigating in a Chiral Landscape (Dr S J Jenkins, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-22 18:00: Music to your ears (Dr Wendy Sadler) 2007-02-23 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor David Klug) 2007-02-26 14:15: Quantum Hall ferromagnet at high filling factors: A magnetic field induced Stoner transition (Dr. Benjamin Piot, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France) 2007-02-27 16:30: Astrochemistry beyond the Milky Way (Chris Lintott (Oxford)) 2007-02-28 11:00: Automated Musical Structure Detection (Dominic Ford, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-02-28 14:00: Some interesting data: Cryptic DNA sequence periodicities are ubiquitous, organism specific and distinguish introns from exons. (Giselle Walker) 2007-02-28 16:15: Collapse of a Granular Column (Professor E.J. Hinch, DAMTP, Cambridge) 2007-03-01 16:00: Adsorption and Reactions on Interstellar Dust Grains (Dr W A Brown, Department of Chemistry, University College London) 2007-03-02 14:15: Studying single molecule dynamic with local probe techniques (Professor Heinrich Hoerber, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK) 2007-03-05 16:15: Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping (Professor William Phillips) 2007-03-06 16:30: Infrared long-baseline interferometry (Gerd Weigelt (MPIFR-Bonn)) 2007-03-07 11:00: Observing Orion with HARP-B (Sarah Graves, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-03-07 14:00: Metropolis-Coupled MCMC for Nested Sampling (Ratthachat (Jung)) 2007-03-07 16:15: Optics with laser-like atom waves (Professor William Phillips) 2007-03-08 14:15: Monte Carlo methods in cosmology (Dr Mike Hobson) 2007-03-08 16:00: Development of Textures in Nematic and Smectic (Ferro-Electric) Rubbers (Prof. M Warner, Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-03-09 14:15: Emulsion stabilized by proteins – surfactant-covered drops or capsules? (Dr Peter Fischer, Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland) 2007-03-09 14:30: Challenges and Progress in Organic RFID (Paul Heremans, IMEC Belgium) 2007-03-09 16:15: A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics (Professor William Phillips) 2007-03-13 16:30: High-redshift clusters in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (Caroline van Breukelen (Oxford)) 2007-03-14 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Matthew Davies, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-03-14 11:15: The Flash code and modeling FRII radio galaxies (Martin Huarte-Espinosa, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-03-14 14:00: Gaussian Process Product Models (Ryan Adams) 2007-03-16 14:15: Nano-Structuring Surfaces by Templated Assembly (Professor Alain Jonas Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 2007-03-16 14:30: Charge transport in conducting polymers (Paul Blom, University of Groningen,The Netherlands) 2007-03-19 14:15: Quantum Thermal Conductance of a One-Dimensional Wire (Dr. James Nicholls (Dept. of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London)) 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) 2007-03-20 18:00: Plastic Electronics (Prof. Henning Sirringhaus) 2007-03-21 14:00: Monte Carlo Approaches to Game Playing (David Stern, Strategic Inference Task Force, Cambridge) 2007-03-23 14:00: Logistic regression with a Laplacian prior on the singular values: convex duality and application to EEG classification. (Ryota Tomioka (冨岡亮太), University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST IDA) 2007-03-26 14:00: Inference in Bayesian Networks using Dynamic Discretisation (Martin Neil, Agena Ltd & David Marquez, Queen Mary, University of London) 2007-03-28 14:00: Inductive Logic Programming and Kernel methods (David Kirchheimer, Bristol University) 2007-03-30 14:00: Learning Patterns in the Game of Go (Emil Nijhuis, University of Amsterdam) 2007-04-02 10:00: Electrochemical Experiments Involving Conducting Polymers (Burak Ulgut, Cornell University) 2007-04-03 13:00: Analysis of Channel Coding for Redundant Sources (Joseph Boutros, ENST Paris) 2007-04-18 11:00: Multimodal Nested Sampling (Farhan Feroz, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-04-24 16:30: Understanding How Star Formation Proceeds in the Perseus and Ophiuchus Molecular Clouds (Doug Johnstone (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada)) 2007-04-25 11:00: Imaging Perseus with HARP (Emily Curtis, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-04-25 11:15: Observing WMAP Extragalactic Point Sources with the Very Small Array (Thomas Franzen, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-04-25 11:15: Interlayer tunneling in Bi-2212: Evidence for strong-coupling features and impurity effects (Tim Benseman, QM Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-04-25 14:00: Context Tree Weighting (Martijn van Veen and Philip Cowans) 2007-04-26 14:15: Multiscale Simulations of Mechanical Properties: From General Issues to Fracture and Friction (Dr. Noam Bernstein, Naval Research Laboratory, Washingtom and TCM Group, Cambridge) 2007-04-27 14:15: Polymer Physics and DNA Topology (Professor Giovanni Dietler, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Vivante, Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) 2007-05-01 16:30: Laboratory searches for new forces (Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)) 2007-05-02 11:00: Einstein's aerofoil (Ramsey Faragher, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-05-02 11:15: The music of the primes (Sylvain Brechet, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-05-02 14:00: Bayesian nonparametric latent feature models (Zoubin Ghahramani) 2007-05-03 16:00: Forensic material technology (Dr J E Balzer, Kriminaltechnisches Institut, Wiesbaden, Germany) 2007-05-04 14:15: Two Dimensional Coherent Infra-Red Spectroscopy for the measurement of vibration-vibration coupling, and its application to the study of protein composition, dynamics, structure and function (Prof David Klug, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London) 2007-05-08 14:00: Shock generated pressure-temperature excursions in planetary materials (Dr J G Spray, Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick, Canada) 2007-05-08 16:00: Phonons in Graphene and Nanotubes (Dr. Andrea Ferrari) 2007-05-08 16:30: The evolution of elliptical galaxies (Marcel Clemens (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy)) 2007-05-09 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Jeremy Taylor, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-05-09 11:15: Chameleon Cosmology (Pierre Dechant, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-05-09 13:00: Distinct tensile and adhesive forces determine germ layer organization during gastrulation (Dr Carl Philipp Heisenberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Germany) 2007-05-09 14:00: Shape writing: fluid text entry on mobile devices (Per Ola Kristensson) 2007-05-09 16:15: Time and Frequency as New Frontiers in Microscopy (Prof. A Howie, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University) 2007-05-10 16:00: Quantum information processing with silicon-on-insulator based single electron transistors (Dr D G Hasko, Microelectronics Research Centre, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-05-11 14:15: Physical description of mitotic spindle orientation during cell division (Dr Andrea Cecilia Jimenez Dalmaroni, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems , Dresden, 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) 2007-05-15 16:30: A new view of the Sun from the Hinode mission. (Louise Harra (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory)) 2007-05-16 11:00: Schrodinger cosmology: a wave mechanical description of structure formation (Rebecca Johnston, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-05-16 14:00: Learning and Stability in Random Sigma-Pi Networks (Philip Sterne) 2007-05-17 14:15: Record dynamics in spin glasses, superconductors and biological evolution. (Prof. Henrik Jensen, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London) 2007-05-17 16:00: A mathematician’s odyssey into the world of granular flows: From microscopic considerations to a continuum theory (C.J. Cawthorn, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge) 2007-05-18 14:15: A Molecular Mechanism for Toughening and Strengthening Waterborne Nanocomposites (Dr Joe Keddie, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey) 2007-05-22 14:30: Optimal control as a new spectroscopic tool. (Prof. Arkady Yartsev, Lunds University, Sweden) 2007-05-22 16:30: SZ effect with OCRA and AMiBA (Mark Birkinshaw (University of Bristol)) 2007-05-23 11:00: Isocurvature modes in the CMB power spectrum (Ian Sollom, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-05-23 11:15: NaxCoO2 and Related Oxides from the Perspective of their Electronic Structures (David Singh, Oak Ridge National Lab) 2007-05-23 11:15: Title to be confirmed (Natasha Hurley-Walker, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2007-05-23 16:15: How do animals detect sensory stimuli? Experiments in photoreceptors, pain-sensitive receptors and magneto-receptors (Prof. PA McNaughton, Pharmacology, Cambridge University) 2007-05-24 14:15: Coherent coupling of excitons in quantum dots probed by two-dimensional four-wave mixing (Dr. Wolfgang Langbein, Bio Photonics and Quantum Optoelectronics, Cardiff) 2007-05-24 14:15: Fractional calculus approach for viscoelasticity at the sol-gel transition: application to sol-gel materials and biogels (Alain Ponton, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS & Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, Paris, France) 2007-05-24 16:00: Extrapolating from 50 years of dislocation imaging: Reaching into the core (Prof. A. Howie, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-05-28 14:00: Probabilities, Complexities and Game Semantics (Christian Steinruecken) 2007-05-29 16:30: Statistical challenges in cosmology ( Roberto Trotta (University of Oxford)) 2007-05-30 11:00: Uncovering Buried Biological Interfaces (Dr Simon Titmuss, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford) 2007-05-30 11:15: Magnetic order in the pseudogap phase of the high-T_c superconductor YBCO (Benoît Fauqué; , Laboratoire Léon Brillouin CEA/Saclay, France) 2007-05-30 14:00: An Error-Correcting Keyboard (Carl Scheffler, Inference Group, University of Cambridge) 2007-05-31 11:00: Cell Divisions During Epithelial Morphogenesis (Dr Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Departement de Physique) 2007-06-05 11:00: Soft Active Matter : From Polymer Physics To The Cell Cytoskeleton (Dr Tanniemola Liverpool, Leeds University) 2007-06-05 16:00: Monte Carlo or bust: megadimensional sampling and the CMB (Jeremy Taylor (Cavendish astrophysics)) 2007-06-05 16:30: On the Way to an SZ Survey (Jonathan Zwart (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2007-06-06 11:00: Single Molecule Biology: Coming of Age (Dr Liming Ying, Biological Nanoscience, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London) 2007-06-06 11:15: Exploring metallization and superconductivity in elements and simple molecular systems at megabar pressures (Mikhail I. Eremets, Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie) 2007-06-06 14:00: Open Vocabulary Confusion Networks for Speech Recognition (Keith Vertanen) 2007-06-06 16:15: Transistors and wires: Quantum transport and nonlinear dynamics at the bottom (Prof. Charles Stafford, Department of Physics, University of Arizona) 2007-06-07 16:00: The dynamics of benzene on surfaces (Dr H. Hedgeland, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-06-08 14:15: Magneto-optic tweezers and their application in soft mater research ( Assistant Professor Igor Poberaj, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2007-06-12 14:00: Soft-Matter and Biological Physics at the Nanometre Scale (Dr Ulrich Keyser, Universitat Leipzig) 2007-06-12 15:00: From Flat Fluidics for Physiological Applications to Phase Transitions in Biological Membranes (Dr Matthias Schneider, University of Ausburg) 2007-06-12 16:30: Recent star formation in early-type galaxies: insights from rest-frame UV photometry (Sugata Kaviraj (University of Oxford)) 2007-06-13 09:00: Stretching, Sorting and Twisting in Microfludics (Dr Jonas Tegenfeldt, Lund University, Sweden) 2007-06-13 11:15: Novel Experiments in Superfluid Helium-3 at Ultralow Temperatures (Richard Haley, Lancaster University) 2007-06-13 14:00: Language Modelling Discussion (Phil Cowans) 2007-06-14 11:30: Density-functional perturbation theory goes time dependent: from static properties, to lattice vibrations, up to optical excitations (Prof. Stefano Baroni, DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center Trieste) 2007-06-14 14:30: Understanding Cell Mechanics: From Axonal Instabilities To Oscillating Fibroblasts (Dr Pramod A Pullarkat, Universitat Bayreuth) 2007-06-14 16:00: Systematic prediction of new second-order organic nonlinear optical materials (N Z F Weng, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-06-19 10:00: Measuring and predicting complexity (Dr. Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-06-19 10:50: The physics of protein folding (Dr. Patricia Faisca, Universadade Nova de Lisboa) 2007-06-19 11:40: Simulations of phase transitions: from colloids to proteins (Dr. Stefan Auer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-06-19 13:30: Quadruple stranded DNA: cancer, gene regulation and evolution (Dr. Julian Huppert, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-06-19 14:20: Insight into ion channel biophysics via computer simulations (Dr. Carmen Domene, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford) 2007-06-19 15:10: DNA-binding computation at large and small scales (Dr. Marco Consentino-Lagomarsino, Institut Curie, Paris) 2007-06-21 15:00: Update on the QUAD results, and the status of QUIET (Sarah Church, Stanford University) 2007-07-25 14:00: Minimal Perfect Hashing: hash tables with no collisions (Piotr Zielinski and others) 2007-07-28 15:00: MRAO at 50: Observing the Origin and Evolution of the Universe from Cambridge (Professor Malcolm Longair) 2007-08-24 15:30: P_6 violating mSUGRA at the LHC (Markus Bernhardt, University of Bonn) 2007-08-29 14:00: What is a Fab Lab? (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2007-09-05 11:15: High pressure synthesis, structural and physical properties of the new A-site ordered double perovskite oxides CaCu3Fe4O12 and (Ca,Y)Cu3Co4O12 (Ikuya Yamada, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) 2007-09-12 14:00: Five energy plans for Britain (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-09-20 14:15: The non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in microcavity polariton systems (Dr. Iacopo Carusotto, INFM-CNR, Universita di Trento) 2007-09-20 14:30: Organic electronic devices characterized with NEXAFS Microscopy and Resonant Soft X-Ray Reflectivity (Prof. Harald Ade, North Carolina State University) 2007-09-26 14:00: Shape writing: a fast and fluid writing system designed for mobile devices (Per Ola Kristensson) 2007-09-28 14:00: Nanotextured Transparent Semiconductor Oxides for Energy Conversion (Prof. Edward T. Samulski, University of North Carolina) 2007-10-03 11:15: Unconventional Kondo lattice systems: Eu-compounds and ferromagnetic Ce-systems (Christoph Geibel, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany) 2007-10-04 14:15: Are deterministic nanomachines viable? - A simulation study of energy dissipation in carbon nanotube-based devices. (Dr. Paul Tangney, Imperial College London) 2007-10-09 16:30: Galaxy evolution triggered by interactions (Eva Manthey (ASTRON, The Netherlands)) 2007-10-10 14:00: Improving the Power of eQTL Studies by accounting for non-genetic Factors (Oliver Stegle, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-10 16:15: Bose Einstein Condensation of Polaritons (Professor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-11 14:15: Phase transitions in highly constrained spin systems: Ordering from the Coulomb phase. (Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford) 2007-10-12 15:30: Chameleon Phenomenology and PVLAS (Prof. Anne Davis, DAMTP) 2007-10-15 15:30: Spin Qubits and their interactions with photons (Dr Guido Burkard) 2007-10-16 14:00: Simulating the solid state with ultracold atom gases (Chris Hooley (University of St Andrews)) 2007-10-16 14:30: Dynamics of Charge and energy transport: what's the reaction coordinate? (Prof. Eric Bittner, Univ. of Houston) 2007-10-16 16:30: Exploring the Starburst-AGN Connection on 10pc scales with Adaptive Optics (Richard Davies (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching)) 2007-10-17 11:15: Transport and Thermodynamic Properties of High-Tc Superconductors Calculated from the Energy-Momentum Dispersion. (James Storey, Victoria University, New Zealand) 2007-10-18 14:15: Electrons in bilayer graphene (Dr Edward McCann, Lancaster University) 2007-10-18 16:00: Making the most of your intellectual property (M. Grimshaw & Z. Stoeva, Cambridge Enterprise) 2007-10-23 16:30: The challenges of planet detection and characterization by narrow-angle astrometry with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (Francoise Delplancke (European Southern Observatory - VLTI, Garching)) 2007-10-24 11:15: A Ginzburg Landau Approach to Superconductivity in the Cuprates (Professor T.V. RAMAKRISHNAN, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science) 2007-10-24 14:00: Bliss-Dasher -- Efficient semantic writing with any muscle (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-10-24 16:15: Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation Seriously (Professor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge) 2007-10-25 14:15: Universal non-linear conductivity near to an itinerant-electron quantum critical point (Dr. Andrew Green, University of St Andrews) 2007-10-25 16:00: New developments in atom detectors for molecular beam experiments (A.R. Alderwick, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-10-25 16:30: Surface dynamics in the low friction regime: Xe on Pt(111) using 3He Spin Echo Spectroscopy (D.J. Ward, SMF Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-10-26 15:30: Z->photon plus KK modes in large extra dimensions (Jordan Skittrall (DAMTP)) 2007-10-29 15:30: Coherent laser spectroscopy of quantum dots (Dr Brain Gerardot, Dept of Physics, Heriot-Watt University) 2007-10-30 16:30: The Gastrophysics of Massive Galaxies ( Thomas Greve (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)) 2007-10-31 14:00: The last thing that we should talk about (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-11-01 14:15: Shear Banding in Complex Fluids: Wall effects and unstable dynamics (Prof. Peter Olmsted, University of Leeds) 2007-11-01 16:00: Sum-rules and quantum limits: Using first principles to understand nonlinear optical behaviour (Dr J. Pérez-Moreno, University of Leuven, Belgium) 2007-11-02 14:15: Cancer cell mechanics (Dr Michael Beil, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Germany) 2007-11-02 15:30: The Hidden Valley Scenario: Challenges and Opportunities for the LHC (Prof Matt Strassler (Rutgers)) 2007-11-05 15:30: Ultracold fermions and bosons in optical lattices (Dr Lucia Hackermueller University of Mainz) 2007-11-06 16:30: Magnetospheric Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets (Ian Stevens (University of Birmingham)) 2007-11-07 11:15: Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticality in two-dimensional helium (John Saunders*, Royal Holloway University of London) 2007-11-07 16:15: The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray Crystallography (Dr Gordon Squires, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-08 16:00: Activated surface diffusion with interaction adsorbates (A.S. Sanz, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain) 2007-11-09 14:15: Emergent properties in biological macromolecular assemblies (Professor Tim Wess School of Optometry and The Institute of Vision, Cardiff University) 2007-11-09 15:30: Matching NLO QCD computations to parton shower simulations (Seyi Latunda-Dada (Cavendish)) 2007-11-12 15:30: Entanglement and Quantum Networking with Trapped Atomic Ions (Dr David Moehring Max-Planck Ins for Quantum Optics) 2007-11-13 14:30: Photophysics of molecular materials for photovoltaics (Dr. S.C.J. Meskers, Molecular Materials and Nanosystems, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2007-11-13 16:30: The Lives of the Astronomers - a Surprisingly Optimistic Story (Malcolm Longair (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2007-11-14 14:00: Branch and Bound reconstruction of Balanced Minimum Evolution optimal trees (Fabio Pardi) 2007-11-14 16:15: Phenomena in cold exciton gases (Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego) 2007-11-15 14:15: Resonant Level Hybridized with Luttinger Liquid (Prof. Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham) 2007-11-15 16:00: Optical angular momentum and some applications (Prof. R.E. Burge, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-11-16 15:30: Multi-modal nested sampling and astronomical data analysis (Dr Mike Hobson (MRAO)) 2007-11-16 17:15: Life beyond the Physics department (Ed Ratzer (GCHQ)) 2007-11-20 14:30: Nanophotonics: where is it headed (Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Group, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-20 16:30: Optimisation of a beam-splitter coating for an infra-red beam combiner (Julien Coyne (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2007-11-20 17:00: The Duty Cycle of Local Radio Galaxies (Stanislav Shabala (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2007-11-21 11:15: Measuring correlations at the critical temperature of a dilute Bose gas (Michael Kohl, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-21 16:15: Quarks and their quirks (Professor Christine Davies, Department of Physics, University of Glasgow) 2007-11-22 14:15: SLE - non-local observables in critical systems (Adam Gamsa, University of Oxford) 2007-11-22 16:00: Beyond slip circle constructions: the cohesion limit of a polycrystal (Prof. L.M. Brown, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-11-23 14:15: The rheology of cellular systems (Dr Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-23 15:30: From Twistors to Scattering Amplitudes (Dr Gabriele Travaglini (Queen Mary, U. of London)) 2007-11-26 15:30: Solid State Quantum registers based on single spins associated with defects in diamond (Dr Fedor Jelezko University of Stuttgart) 2007-11-27 16:30: Probing the High Redshift Universe with Inter-Stellar Scintillation at 5 GHz (Barney Rickett (University of California, San Diego)) 2007-11-28 10:30: Protein misfolding: Influence of the cellular environment (Anne Bertolotti - LMB - Cambridge) 2007-11-28 11:15: Structure-dependent ferromagnetism in Au4V: Investigations into magnetic gold (Damon D Jackson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) 2007-11-28 14:00: The development of a motor network in Drosophila, the role of precocious neural activity in the emergence of coordination (Michael Bate (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-30 10:30: Wormlike and Glassy Wormlike Chains (Professor Klaus Kroy ITP, Leipzig University, Postfach , Leipzig, Germany) 2007-11-30 10:30: Elucidating the structural and molecular basis of alpha-synuclein toxicity in Parkinson's disease and related synuleinopathies (Prof Hilal Lashuel) 2007-11-30 15:30: Confronting inflation at the LHC (Dr Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster)) 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) 2007-12-05 10:30: Mass spectrometry and structure, dynamics and function of the small heat shock proteins (Justin Benesch) 2007-12-05 11:15: Heavy fermion superconductivity of a new transuranium compound NpPd5Al2 (Dai Aoki, Grenoble) 2007-12-07 11:00: Composing: Linear and Non-Linear Thinking (Richard Burns (Cambridge Poet)) 2007-12-07 11:15: Superconductivity and the dark side of magnetism (Andrew Huxley, University of Edinburgh) 2007-12-10 14:15: A Numerical Renormalization Group for Continuum One Dimensional Systems (Robert Konik, Brookhaven National Laboratory) 2007-12-11 10:30: Structure and antigenicity of amyloid fibrils (Marcus Fandrich) 2008-01-15 14:00: Living Matter: An Introduction - A biologist's perspective (Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dept Genetics)) 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) 2008-01-16 14:00: NIPS presentations (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2008-01-17 14:15: Magnetic monopoles in spin ice (Dr Claudio Castelnovo (University of Oxford)) 2008-01-17 16:00: Electronic friction and excitations in molecule-surface interactions (M. Persson, Surface Science Research Centre, Dept. of Chemistry, The University of L:iverpool) 2008-01-18 15:30: Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth (Dima Khmelnitskii ( TCM.)) 2008-01-18 15:30: Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth (Dima Khmelnitskii ( TCM.)) 2008-01-21 11:15: Peer Review and Citation Analysis in Physical Review Letters: An Editor's Perspective (Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Assistant Editor Physical Review Letters) 2008-01-21 15:30: Solid state quantum registers based on single spins assoicated with defects in diamond (Dr Fedor Jelezko (3. Physikalisches Institut)) 2008-01-22 14:00: Living Matter: An Introduction - A physicist's perspective (Jochen Guck (Dept Physics)) 2008-01-22 14:30: Analysing the current-voltage response of bulk heterojunction solar cells (Dr. John de Mello, Imperial College London) 2008-01-22 16:30: Probing Primordial Non-Gaussianity with the Topology of CMB and Large-Scale Structure (Chiaki Hikage (University of Cardiff)) 2008-01-23 11:00: Tetrachromats: Four-colour vision in humans and other animals (Natasha Hurley-Walker, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-01-23 11:15: Science applications of SCUBA-2 (Sarah Graves, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-01-23 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna) 2008-01-24 14:15: The magnetization distribution in the quantum Ising chain, the Kondo problem, and a point contact between 5/2 edges (Prof. Paul Fendley, University of Virginia) 2008-01-24 16:00: PA Consulting: Exploiting emerging technologies (C.E. Lloyd, PA Consulting, Melbourn, Cambs) 2008-01-25 16:00: Collider Phenomenology of Higgsless models (Dr Alexander Belyaev (Southampton/NEXT)) 2008-01-28 15:30: Stron Interactions in Non-equilibrium systems (Dr Hakan Tureci (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)) 2008-01-29 11:00: Political history of Pakistan (Farhan Feroz, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-01-29 11:15: Einstein-Cartan theory: Geometrical interpretation (Sylvain Brechet, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-01-29 14:00: Watching living matter. -Advanced microscopy. (Clemens Kaminski (Dept Chemical Engineering)) 2008-01-29 16:30: Probing the nature of cosmic acceleration with galaxy redshift distortions (Luigi Guzzo (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milan, Italy)) 2008-01-30 10:30: Elucidating molecular mechanisms on and off the pathway to amyloid deposition (Andrew Miranker) 2008-01-30 14:00: Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored Lights (Gabriel J. Brostow (University of Cambridge)) 2008-01-31 14:15: Maximally-localised Wannier functions as building blocks of electronic structure (Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London) 2008-02-01 14:15: Tiny Hands make Light Work (Prof Miles Padgett, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow) 2008-02-05 14:00: Light and Matter - Molecules (Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dept Genetics)) 2008-02-05 16:30: Modal theory of astronomical phased arrays (George Saklatvala (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2008-02-06 10:30: Plasmid addiction and toxin-antitoxin systems : paradigms for the study (Lode Wyns) 2008-02-06 11:00: New algorithm for the reconstruction of waveforms composed of non-harmonically related frequencies (Karwan Rostem, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-02-06 11:15: Competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in low-dimensional magnets (Chris Stock, ISIS) 2008-02-06 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor Simon Tavare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-07 16:00: Building the next generation climate model (N. Nikoforakis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-08 15:30: Dynamics of a strongly interacting Fermi gas: The radial quadrupole mode (Jonathan Edge, TCM) 2008-02-08 16:00: Towards a Minimal Particle-Cosmology Supersymmetric Standard Model (Dr. Apostolos Pilaftsis (Manchester)) 2008-02-08 16:00: The Papers of Messrs. Baldereschi, Monkhorst and Pack. (Andrew Morris, TCM) 2008-02-11 15:30: Ion Trap QIP at Oxford (Dr David Lucas Clarendon Lab, Oxford) 2008-02-12 14:00: Light and Matter - Cells. (Jochen Guck (Dept Physics)) 2008-02-12 16:30: What can we learn from the cosmological recombination spectrum? (Jens Chluba (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)) 2008-02-13 10:30: A structural approach to polyglutamine diseases (Laura Masino) 2008-02-13 11:00: Are you suffering from bias syndrome? (Thomas Franzen, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-02-13 11:15: Magnetars (Douglas O'Rourke, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-02-13 14:00: Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers (Dr Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-14 14:15: Grain boundaries in strontium titanate (Prof. Mike Finnis, Imperial College London) 2008-02-14 16:00: Time-resolved X-ray diffraction on laser-shocked crystals (T. D’Almeida, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-02-15 14:15: Monitoring the microscopic water distribution in soft solids with multidimensional NMR relaxometry (Dr Brian Hills, Institute of Food Research, Norwich) 2008-02-15 15:30: A Critical Point for Science? (Prof. Brian Josephson, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-02-19 14:00: Light and Matter - Tissues (Alexandre Kabla (Dept Engineering)) 2008-02-19 14:00: Magnetism under Pressure with Synchrotron Radiation (Dr. Matteo d'Astuto IMPMC, CNRS, PARIS) 2008-02-19 16:30: STAGES: galaxy evolution in dense environments (Meghan Gray (University of Nottingham)) 2008-02-20 10:30: A structural approach to polyglutamine diseases (Vittorio Bellotti) 2008-02-20 11:00: Modeling the magnetic fields in galaxy clusters and their interaction with powerful astrophysical jets (Martin Huarte-Espinosa, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-02-21 14:15: Exact Results for Two-Dimensional Coarsening (Prof. Alan Bray, University of Manchester) 2008-02-21 16:00: Studies of 21-6-9 stainless steel at various strain rates (G. Whiteman, Hydro Design Group, AWE Aldermaston) 2008-02-22 09:00: Registration at CIMR reception (.) 2008-02-22 09:10: Introduction (Professor Paul Luzio, Director of CIMR) 2008-02-22 09:15: Cells and gels - questions a physicist asks (Professor Athene Donald, Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-02-22 09:25: Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (Professor David A Lomas, CIMR) 2008-02-22 09:35: Soft Matters - biomechanics in cancer diagnosis and nerve regeneration (Dr. Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-22 09:45: Autophagy upregulation - a possible therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative conditions like Huntington's disease (Professor David Rubinsztein, CIMR) 2008-02-22 09:55: Discussion (All) 2008-02-22 10:05: Cell fate in the mammalian epidermis (Ben Simons (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-22 10:15: Incretin secretion - small currents matter. (Dr Frank Reimann, CIMR) 2008-02-22 10:25: Nucleic acid structures - predicting formation and function (Julian Huppert, Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-22 10:35: Discussion (All) 2008-02-22 10:45: Coffee Break (All) 2008-02-22 11:00: Intracellular function and motor properties of myosin VI (Dr Folma Buss, CIMR) 2008-02-22 11:10: Optical micromanipulation and quantifying Images (Dr Pietro Cicuta, Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-22 11:20: Investigating incretin hormone secretion by single cell dynamic fluorescence imaging. (Dr Fiona Gribble, CIMR) 2008-02-22 11:30: Modelling semiflexible chains, filaments, and their networks (Professor Eugene Terentjev, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-22 11:40: Discussion (All) 2008-02-22 11:50: Serpin metastability and protease inhibition (Dr James Huntington) 2008-02-22 12:00: Statistical methods in X-ray crystallography (Professor Randy Read, CIMR) 2008-02-22 12:10: Molecular dynamics simulations of protein-surface interactions (Daniel Cole, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-02-22 12:20: Discussion (ALL) 2008-02-22 12:30: Discussion over lunch (All Invited (please let me know for numbers)) 2008-02-22 15:00: QCD at Tevatron (Prof. Andrey Korytov (Florida)) 2008-02-22 15:30: Efficient Quantum Monte Carlo Energies for Molecular Dynamics Simulations (John Jumper, TCM) 2008-02-22 16:00: Computational Consequences of Neglected First Order Van der Waals Forces (Robert Lee, TCM) 2008-02-25 11:30: The South Pole Telescope (Steve Padin (Chicago) *Additional Talk, note change in day and time*) 2008-02-25 15:30: Optical clock with a single trapped ion (Dr Ekkehard Peik (PTB)) 2008-02-26 14:00: Signalling and information processing in biology. (Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dpt Genetics)) 2008-02-26 16:30: Astrochemistry and star formation: a fertile link (Paola Caselli (University of Leeds)) 2008-02-27 10:30: 85 mutants, 70 phi-values, 4 years, and one overdue PhD: (Adrian Nickson) 2008-02-27 11:00: Cosmic Strings (Carmen Rodgriguez-Gonzalvez, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-02-27 11:15: Use of the sun as a navigation cue by humans and insects (Chris Thomas, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-02-27 14:00: How nervous systems are designed to be energy efficient (Simon Laughlin (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-28 14:15: Single electron transistors coupled to resonators: from cooling to lasing (Dr Andrew Armour, University of Nottingham) 2008-02-29 14:15: Soft Matter for Hard Copy (Dr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research, 332 Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WN) 2008-02-29 16:00: Probing physics beyond the Standard Model with neutrinos (Dr Heinrich Paes (Dortmund)) 2008-03-03 16:00: Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite (Igor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia) 2008-03-04 14:00: The Activity of Living Matter - Networks and emergent properties (Jordi Garcia Ojalvo (Physics, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain)) 2008-03-06 14:15: Quantum-classical mappings for geometrically frustrated systems (Dr Stephen Powell, University of Oxford) 2008-03-06 16:00: Falling glass: The post-fracture performance of glass in buildings (M. Overend, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2008-03-07 14:15: Changes in skeletal muscle cell volume during exercise (Prof Chris Huang, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2008-03-07 15:30: Many-Body Perturbation Theory: The GW Approximation (David O'Regan, TCM) 2008-03-07 16:00: Bayesian statistical methods at the LHC (and elsewhere) (Dr Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway)) 2008-03-07 16:00: Quantum phase transitions of light (Alex Silver, TCM) 2008-03-11 14:00: The evolution of Living Matter (Adrian Friday (The Museum of Zoology)) 2008-03-11 14:30: Organic semiconductors for electronics, sensors and photovoltaics (Prof. Michael Turner, University of Manchester) 2008-03-11 16:30: EAGLE, An instrument for the European Extremely Large Telescope (Simon Morris (University of Durham)) 2008-03-12 10:30: Electronic Energy Transfer/Migration & Biomacromolecular Structure (Lennart Johansson) 2008-03-12 14:15: (clashing event: Sustainable Energy and Arithmetic) (David MacKay) 2008-03-13 11:30: Submillimetre Astronomy with Single Dish Telescopes: SCUBA-2 and beyond (Wayne Holland (UK ATC)) 2008-03-13 16:00: The conch shell as a model for tougher composites (D M Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-03-14 16:00: LHC and Murphy's Law ... a window for theorists into the experimenters' world (Dr Christopher Lester (Cavendish)) 2008-03-18 14:30: Triplet interactions in solution processed organic devices (Dr. Dirk Hertel, University of Cologne) 2008-03-19 10:30: Nascent chain folding on the ribosome by NMR spectroscopy (Shang-Te Danny HSU) 2008-03-19 14:00: On sparsity and overcompleteness in image models (Richard E. Turner (Gatsby Unit, UCL), Pietro Berkes) 2008-04-11 14:15: Bound states of 2D electrons induced by the spin-orbit interaction (Prof A.V.Chaplik, Semiconductors Physics Institute, Novosibirsk) 2008-04-14 15:30: Quantum information processing with diamond (Professor Steven Prawer (University of Melbourne)) 2008-04-16 10:30: The Tumour Suppressor p53: Structure,Function-Rescue (Alan Fersht) 2008-04-17 14:15: An analytical approach to a model of spin interactions in quartic wells (Dr Godfrey Akpojotor, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems) 2008-04-18 11:30: Herschel and Future Far Infrared Space Astronomy Missions (Prof. Matt Griffin, University of Cardiff) 2008-04-21 11:15: Treed Gaussian Processes for Regression and Classification (Tamara Broderick (University of Cambridge)) 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) 2008-04-22 16:30: A Bayesian approach for extracting galaxy clusters from SZ & weak lensing data-sets (Farhan Feroz (Cavendish Astrophysics )) 2008-04-22 17:00: Detecting primordial gravitational waves with Clover: overcoming systematics and foregrounds (Daniel O'Dea (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2008-04-23 10:30: A New Kind of Protein-DNA Interaction in Replication Termination (Nick Dixson) 2008-04-23 11:00: The Hegemony of Reason: An (Incredibly) Abridged and (Ludicrously) Biased History of Western Philosophy (Jonathan Pober, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-04-23 11:15: Quantum criticality in slightly Ir- and Co-doped YbRh2Si2 (Manuel Brando, University of Dresden) 2008-04-23 11:15: Paradoxes (Luke Butcher, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-04-23 14:00: On Sparsity and Overcompleteness in Image Models (Pietro Berkes (and Richard Turner)) 2008-04-24 14:15: Complex dynamics in simple models of shear banding. (Dr Suzanne Fielding, University of Manchester) 2008-04-25 15:00: Some models for biology (Leopold Parts) 2008-04-25 16:00: Supersymmetry in light of colliders and cosmology (Dr Nazila Mahmoudi (Uppsala)) 2008-04-28 15:30: Hidden topological order in 1D Bose insulators (Ehud Altman (Weizmann Institute)) 2008-04-29 13:30: Designing Light Absorbing Materials for Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunction Devices (Prof. Iain McCulloch, Imperial College London) 2008-04-30 10:30: On the Quaternary Structure of Macromolecular Protein Complexes in the Absence of Bulk Solvent (Brandon T. Ruotolo) 2008-04-30 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Ian Sollom, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-04-30 11:15: Infrared-Faint Radio Sources: A new high-redshift population? (Tim Garn, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-05-01 14:15: Spin Dynamics in a One-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Bose Gas (Dr Vadim Cheianov, Lancaster University) 2008-05-01 16:00: Sudden energy release around interfaces during quasistatic loading (Henry Tan, University of Manchester) 2008-05-02 14:15: Modelling Self-Assembled Polymer Composites (Dr Nigel Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Durham University) 2008-05-02 16:00: Heavy Dark Matter Through the Higgs Portal (Dr Stephen West (Oxford)) 2008-05-02 16:00: Forces controlling protein interactions: theory and experiment (Albert Bartok-Partay) 2008-05-05 15:30: Phase transitions from unconventional vortices in spinor Bose condensates (Prof Joel Moore (UC Berkeley)) 2008-05-06 16:30: Phase Correction for ALMA: Adaptive Optics in the Submillimetre (Bojan Nikolic (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2008-05-07 10:30: Physical Insights into Protein Aggregation (Tuomas Knowles) 2008-05-07 11:00: Cloned Meat (Tim Shimwell, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-05-07 11:15: Spin Correlations in the Paramagnetic Phase of Quantum Magnets (Jon Goff, Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London) 2008-05-07 14:00: Noise in the central nervous system (Aldo Faisal) 2008-05-08 14:15: Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for resonant fermions. (Prof. Nikolay Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) 2008-05-08 16:00: Immobilisation of nuclear and toxic wastes by vitrification (Russell J. Hand, Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield) 2008-05-09 14:15: Capillary-Gravity Waves (Elie Raphael, ESPCI, Paris, France) 2008-05-09 16:00: Mass Determination of Dark Matter at Hadron Colliders (Mario Serna (Oxford)) 2008-05-12 15:30: Photonic Nanostructures and materials for lasing and switching applications (Dr Thilo Stoeferle (IBM Rueschlikon)) 2008-05-13 16:30: Infrared interferometry with ESO's VLTI: what it can do for you (Christian Hummel (European Southern Observatory, Garching)) 2008-05-14 11:15: Probing the electronic structure of layered 4d transition metal oxides by ARPES (Felix Baumberger, Univeristy of St. Andrews) 2008-05-14 11:15: Title to be confirmed (Matthew Davies, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-05-15 14:00: Reverse engineering cell mechanics (Prof. Daniel Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA) 2008-05-15 14:15: Spin Polarization and Superfluidity in Atomic Gases (Dr Carlos Lobo, University of Nottingham) 2008-05-15 16:00: The dynamics of molecules on oxide surfaces modelled with ab initio methods (Mike Gillan, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London) 2008-05-16 15:30: Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life) (J. C. Phillips, Rutgers) 2008-05-16 16:00: Recent developments in jet clustering (Dr Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE, Paris)) 2008-05-19 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-05-20 16:30: A New Generation of Superconducting Detector Technology for Submillimetre-wave and FIR Astrophysics (Stafford Withington (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-05-22 14:15: Electronic structure in real space: optimised local orbitals for linear scaling, band structure and polarisation (Dr Peter Haynes, Imperial College London) 2008-05-22 16:00: Accentuate the negative: anomalous thermal expansion in cyanide frameworks (Anthony E. Phillips, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-05-22 16:30: Crystallography of NLO materials: battle of the charge-density models (Daniel D. Hickstein, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-05-23 14:15: Force generation at dynamic microtubule ends (Prof Marileen Dogterom, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, AmsterdamThe Netherlands) 2008-05-23 15:30: Cycling in the wind (Hatem Helal) 2008-05-23 16:00: Neutrino masses in supersymmetry with R-parity violation (Steve Chun-Hay Kom (DAMTP)) 2008-05-23 16:00: Two new vortex liquids (Wittaya Kanchanapusakit) 2008-05-26 15:30: Quantum hydrodynamics of coherent polaritons (Prof Luis Vina (UAM Madrid)) 2008-05-27 14:15: Andreev reflection spectroscopy in CeCoIn5 (Laura Greene, UIUC) 2008-05-27 16:30: Sizing-up extrasolar planets (Andrew Collier Cameron (University of St Andrews)) 2008-05-28 11:00: Vibrating branes in a throat (Pierre Dechant, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-05-28 11:15: Getting Things Done (Rebecca Johnston, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-05-29 14:15: Correlations in an expanding gas of hard-core bosons (Dr Dimitri Gangardt, University of Birmingham) 2008-05-29 16:00: Energetic phenomena in an underwater environment (Robert H. Telling, [dstl] Fort Halstead) 2008-05-29 16:00: Gaussian Process Density Sampler (Ryan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-05-30 14:15: Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels (Prof Anna C Balazs, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh) 2008-05-30 15:30: Scramjet Engines: The First Forty Years (Mikhail Kibalchenko) 2008-05-30 16:00: SUSY particle mass measurement with the contransverse mass technique (Dr Dan Tovey (Sheffield)) 2008-05-30 16:00: Topology of the conceptual network of language (Graham Spink) 2008-06-02 10:30: Ions: the neglected carriers in organic electronics (Prof. George Malliaras, Cornell University, Ithaca) 2008-06-02 15:30: The single-atom box: bosonic staircase and effects of parity (Prof Christoph Bruder (Universitat Basel)) 2008-06-03 14:15: Position and momentum detection in nano-electromechanical systems. (Prof. Christoph Bruder, University of Basel) 2008-06-03 16:30: Gould's Menagerie (David Nutter (University of Cardiff)) 2008-06-04 14:15: Recent Progress on the Phase Diagram of High Temperature Superconductors (Doug Bonn, University of British Columbia) 2008-06-05 14:15: Emergent Behaviour in Heavy Electron Materials (David Pines, ICAM, UC Davis) 2008-06-05 16:30: Initiation systems and novel explosives for laser flyer initiation (Adam Parker, QinetiQ Fort Halstead) 2008-06-06 14:15: Quadruplexes. What else ? (Dr Jean-Louis Mergny, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle USM 503, Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes, Paris, France) 2008-06-09 16:00: Quantum Dynamics in the Thermodynamic Limit (Dr Jasper van Wezel) 2008-06-10 14:15: Long wavelength spin dynamics of ferrromagnetic condensates (Prof. Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia) 2008-06-10 14:30: Towards a second generation OLED model (Prof. Reinder Coehoorn, Philips Research Laboratories) 2008-06-10 16:30: Star Formation in Perseus (Emily Curtis (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2008-06-10 17:00: G1.9+0.3 : the youngest known galactic supernova remnant (Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2008-06-12 14:15: SU(2) gauge theory, the Berry phase and spintronics (Prof. Stewart Barnes, University of Miami) 2008-06-12 15:30: MIT's chase of the Fermi-Hubbard model with ultracold atoms (Aviv Keshet MIT) 2008-06-13 14:15: Optically-assisted interrogation of cells (Dr Lynn Paterson, Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) 2008-06-13 16:00: Quantum monopoles on lattice (Dr Arttu Rajantie (Imperial)) 2008-06-17 11:00: From Ultrafast Spectroscopy to X-ray imaging and back again (Dr Jeff Davis Swinburne Univ of Tech Australia) 2008-06-17 11:15: Bayesian Models for Dependency Parsing Using Pitman-Yor Priors (Hanna Wallach (University of Cambridge)) 2008-06-17 16:30: Star Formation and Planets - some unusual results from Astronomical Polarimetry (Philip Lucas (University of Hertfordshire)) 2008-06-18 11:00: Atomic espionage: J-resolved NMR spectroscopy (Dr. Jonathan Yates (TCM)) 2008-06-20 15:00: "Room-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates of Magnons in Yttrium Iron Garnet (Philip Stamp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia) 2008-06-23 14:30: Optical force and torque on a spheroid: Generalized Lorenz Mie Theory (Dr Feng Xu, TU Darmstadt, Germany) 2008-06-25 11:15: THE FLUCTUATING BOND MODEL – A WAY TO UNDERSTAND CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS? (Dennis Newns, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) 2008-06-30 08:00: Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008 (Miscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates) 2008-07-01 11:15: Dynamics of 1d quantum liquids (Prof. Alex Kamenev) 2008-07-03 08:00: Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008 (Miscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates) 2008-07-08 16:30: An algorithm for the denoising of cosmic strings in CMB data (Yves Wiaux (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)) 2008-07-09 16:30: The Geometry of the Space of Shapes (Prof. David Mumford (Brown University)) 2008-07-11 14:00: Magnetic Phenomena in a Spin-1 Bose Gas (Sabrina Leslie (UC Berkeley)) 2008-07-16 11:00: Modeling the oxidation of supported clusters in nanocatalysis and nanotribology by density functional theory (Michael Moseler (Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Werkstoffmechanik)) 2008-07-16 14:00: Modeling with Bounded Partition Functions (Ryan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-07-23 14:00: Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation. (Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College) 2008-07-29 14:30: Welcome and Introduction (Professor Jim Smith, (Director, Gurdon Institute)) 2008-07-29 14:40: Different ways to look at Cells (Professor Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-07-29 14:55: Looking for morphogenetic mechanisms (Dr Richard Adams (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-07-29 15:10: Soft Matters (Dr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-07-29 15:25: Force sensing protein complexes in the developing animal (Dr Nick Brown, (Gurdon Institute)) 2008-07-29 15:40: Bioimaging using atomic force microscopy (Dr Mike Edwardson, (Department of Pharmacology)) 2008-07-29 15:55: Coffee Break (Coffee Break) 2008-07-29 16:15: Molecular motors at work (Masanori Mishima, (Gurdon Institute)) 2008-07-29 16:30: Physiological effects of four-stranded G-quadruplex DNA (Dr Julian Huppert (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-07-29 16:45: Analysing protein kinase activity and proteolysis in dividing cells (Dr Jonathon Pines (Gurdon Institute)) 2008-07-29 17:00: Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues (Professor Ben Simons (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-07-29 17:15: Self-renewal and differentiation in the nervous system (Professor Andrea Brand (Gurdon Institute)) 2008-07-29 17:30: Glass of Wine (Glass of Wine) 2008-07-30 14:00: From Automated Currency Validation to Protein Fold Recognition: Probabilistic Multi-class Multi-kernel Learning (Theodoros Damoulas (CS, University of Glasgow)) 2008-08-05 11:15: Orbital Physics in Spinel Oxides (Takuro Katsufuji, Dept. Phys., Waseda Univ) 2008-08-05 14:30: Scanning Probe Microscopy of Active Polymer Electronic Devices (David Ginger, University of Washington, Seattle) 2008-08-07 14:30: CELL-BASED BIOSENSORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BACK TO THE BASICS OR A QUANTUM LEAP FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY? (Prof. Spiridon KINTZIOS, Faculty of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultular University of Athens, Greece and EMBIO Diagnostics, Nicosia, Cyprus) 2008-08-13 14:00: Artificial intelligence in combinatorial game design (Cameron Browne, Queensland University of Technology) 2008-08-18 15:30: A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice (Dr Henning Moritz (ETH Zurich)) 2008-08-27 14:00: Associative Memories (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2008-09-15 11:15: Novel quantum phases on Kondo lattices due to quantum criticality and geometrical frustraton (Satoru Nakatsuji, ISSP Tokyo) 2008-09-16 14:00: Clustering by linear programming, convex optimization and belief propagation (Brendan Frey, University of Toronto) 2008-09-22 14:15: Counting statistics and shot noise for single electron transport (Dr Frank Hohls, Nanostructures Group, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Hannover, Germany) 2008-09-23 13:30: Shock Compression of Metals: From Monocrystals to Nanocrystals, from Explosives to Lasers (Marc André Meyers, University of California San Diego) 2008-09-29 14:30: Physics at the kitchen (Prof. Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome) 2008-10-01 11:15: Ferromagnetic insulating state of manganites: Is it an electron glass? (Prof. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences) 2008-10-06 14:15: Electrons and holes in double-gate SiO2-Si-SiO2 quantum wells: transport and drag resistance studies (Dr Mikka Prunnila) 2008-10-07 14:00: Inferring the hazard rate in change point models ( Robert Wilson, U. Penn) 2008-10-08 10:30: Flux Control Analysis and the Systems Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell (Steve Oliver - Cambridge System Biology Centre- University of Cambridge) 2008-10-08 11:00: Phonon renormalisation and electron-phonon coupling in doped single- and bi-layer graphene (Stefano Piscanec (Engineering)) 2008-10-08 11:15: Brian Pippard and non-local response in normal metals and superconductors (David Khmelnitskii, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-10-08 11:20: A QMC study of the homogeneous electron gas (Graham Spink (TCM)) 2008-10-08 11:40: Minimal parameter implicit solvent model for electronic structure calculations (Hatem Helal (TCM)) 2008-10-09 14:15: Random searching: shining a light on structure space (Dr Chris Pickard, University of St Andrews) 2008-10-10 14:15: The biophysical properties of microtubules and their technological potential (Prof. Jack Tuszynski, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) 2008-10-10 16:00: Generalised Unitarity of One-Loop Amplitudes (Dr Pierpaolo Mastrolia (CERN)) 2008-10-13 15:30: Polariton condensatesin Microcavities (Prof David Whittaker (Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Sheffield University)) 2008-10-14 14:15: Expansion of cold atomic gases in the presence of disorder. (Boris Shapiro, Technion) 2008-10-14 15:00: Shower Monte Carlos at Next-to-Leading Order (Dr. Paolo Nason (INFN Milan)) 2008-10-14 16:00: Organic Opto-Electronics: A materials scientist point of view (Dr. Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, Queen Mary, University of London) 2008-10-14 16:00: Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (Ben Schlein (DPMMS)) 2008-10-14 16:30: Probability, Why and How (John Skilling, Maximum Entropy Data Consultants Ltd, Kenmare, Ireland (ex DAMTP)) 2008-10-14 16:30: DNA beyond the double helix (Julian Huppert, Biological and Soft Systems, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2008-10-15 10:30: Determination of the Stoichiometry of Intact Membrane Protein Complexes using Mass Spectrometry (Nelson Barrera, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-15 14:00: Far-IR/Submm Missions of the Future: Scientific and Technology Challenges (Wayne Holland, Royal Observatory Edinburgh) 2008-10-15 16:15: Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3He (Professor George Pickett, FRS, Physics Department, University of Lancaster) 2008-10-16 16:00: Soft, Self-Organized Systems: Templates for Functional Nanomaterials (Erika Eiser, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-10-17 16:00: SUSY Seesaw and Lepton Flavor Violation in the Era of the LHC (Dr Frank Deppisch (Manchester)) 2008-10-20 14:15: Gigahertz quantized charge pumping (Dr Mark Blumenthal, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-10-20 15:30: Light interactions in Rydberg ensembles (Prof Charles S Adams (Durham University)) 2008-10-21 13:30: Nonlocality and dynamic fracture: Are multiscale models the answer in dynamic fracture? (Florin Bobaru, Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 2008-10-21 15:00: How plasmids cope with noise in the bacterial cell (David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2008-10-21 16:00: Near horizon optical geometry and universal properties of black holes (Claude Warnick (DAMTP)) 2008-10-21 16:30: Twists, turns and radio lensing (David Bacon, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth) 2008-10-22 11:00: Determining the atomic structure of an amyloid fibril (Mark Robinson (TCM)) 2008-10-22 11:15: Quantum oscillations in an iron-based superconductor (Amalia Coldea, University of Bristol) 2008-10-22 11:20: QMC calculations on biexcitons in bilayer systems (Robert Lee (TCM)) 2008-10-22 11:40: What I did on my summer holidays: graphene-based solution gate FETs as pH sensors (Danny Cole (TCM)) 2008-10-22 14:15: Forensic Genomics:Kin Privacy, Driftnets and Other Open Questions (Frank Stajano, Lucia Bianchi, Pietro Liò and Douwe Korff) 2008-10-23 14:15: Towards density functional theory calculations of defects in crystals (Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology) 2008-10-23 16:00: Nano-wires and islands - the structure of rare earth silicides on silicon surfaces (Steve Tear, Department of Physics, University of York) 2008-10-24 11:30: Detection of First Order Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions (Professor Neville Greaves, Aberystwyth University) 2008-10-24 15:30: Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (John Biggins, TCM) 2008-10-24 16:00: Relic density and SUSY GUT models with non-universal gaugino masses (Dr Jari Laamanen (Dortmund)) 2008-10-24 16:00: Particle–Wave Association on a Fluid Interface (Alex Silver ( TCM)) 2008-10-27 14:15: Generations of entanglement between superconducting qubits using sidebands in Circuit QED (Dr Peter Leek, Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 2008-10-28 15:00: Hadronization: Concepts and Models (Prof. Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-28 16:30: Biophysics of behaviourally defined neurocircuits (Dennis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2008-10-29 10:30: Molecular Dynamics in Living Cells (Gabriele Kaminski Schierle, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-29 11:15: Interactions and the dHvA Effect (P.C.E. Stamp , University of British Columbia; Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics) 2008-10-29 14:00: Low-cost large-scale renewable energy (Denis Bonnelle) 2008-10-29 16:15: Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity (Professor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia) 2008-10-30 14:15: Deconfinement in a 2D optical lattice of coupled 1D boson systems (Dr Andrew Ho, Royal Holloway) 2008-10-30 16:00: Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements (James Dean, Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-31 11:15: Unconventional superconductivity originating from disconnected Fermi surfaces in the iron-based compounds (Hideo Aoki (Dept of Physics, University of Tokyo):) 2008-10-31 14:15: Biological Photonics: Controlling the Flow of Colour (Dr Peter Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter) 2008-10-31 16:00: Non-Neutralino LSPs in mSUGRA with R-Parity Violation and their Signatures at Hadron Colliders (Sebastian Grab (Bonn)) 2008-11-03 14:15: The Quantum RC circuit: charge relaxation resistance and time-resolved single charge injection (Prof Christian Glatti, CEA Saclay, France) 2008-11-04 15:00: Soft gluon effects in the production of colored sparticles at the LHC (Dr. Anna Kulesza (DESY)) 2008-11-04 16:00: The topology of the Hitchin map (Tamas Hausel (Oxford)) 2008-11-04 16:30: Probing Young Stars at high resolution : disks, outflows and binaries (Rene Oudmaijer, University of Leeds) 2008-11-04 16:30: Transcriptional noise in gene regulatory networks (Lawrence Wernisch, MRC Biostatistical Unit, Cambridge) 2008-11-05 10:30: Bacterial actin: plasmid segregation by ParMRC (Jan Loewe, MRC-LMB) 2008-11-05 11:00: A general Jastrow factor (Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM)) 2008-11-05 11:40: Band-resolved analysis of linear and nonlinear optical properties (Shyong Chen (TCM)) 2008-11-06 16:00: On the probabilistic–deterministic transition involved in a fragmentation process of brittle materials (Pascal Forquin, Laboratory of the Physics and Mechanics of Materials, University of Metz, France) 2008-11-07 14:00: Riddle posed by computer (6): The Computer Generation of Cryptic Crossword Clues (Robert Lee ( TCM)) 2008-11-07 14:15: Designing Molecular Swimmers (Prof. Ramin Golestanian, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield) 2008-11-07 14:30: The Tether Solution (Jonathan Edge ( TCM)) 2008-11-07 15:30: Fractal superconductivity near localization threshold (Prof. Mikhail Feigel'man, Landau Institute) 2008-11-07 16:00: Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories (Professor Richard Kenway (Edinburgh)) 2008-11-10 15:30: Superconducting qubits and cavity QED (Andreas Wallraff (ETH)) 2008-11-11 15:00: The NA62/P326 Experiment at CERN (Dr. Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham)) 2008-11-11 16:00: Integrable systems and differential equations ( Clare Dunning (Kent)) 2008-11-11 16:30: Jets and molecular outflows: cause and effect? (Turlough Downes, Dublin City University) 2008-11-11 16:30: Molecular bases and function of cellular heterogeneity in development (Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2008-11-12 10:30: Pilus Formation Across the Bacterial Outer Membrane by the Chaperone/Usher Pathway (Gabriel Waksman, Birkbeck College) 2008-11-12 14:00: Thermochemistry and Nuclear power - Clean responsive electricity (Jonathan Lee, Trinity College) 2008-11-12 16:15: Lord Rayleigh's Legacy (Professor Ted Davis, Universities of Leicester and CAmbridge) 2008-11-13 14:15: How to keep a qubit alive (Prof. John Cardy FRS, All Souls, Oxford) 2008-11-13 16:00: Mesoscopic to macroscopic behaviour of particulate composites: Experimental and numerical aspects (Alain Fanget, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, France) 2008-11-13 16:00: The Wrong-Higgs Couplings of the MSSM (Prof. Howie Haber, SCIPP) 2008-11-14 14:15: Rare events and the flipping of genetic switches (Dr Rosalind Allen, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh) 2008-11-14 16:00: Cosmological constant in SUGRA models inspired by degenerate vacua (Dr Roman Nevzorov (Glasgow)) 2008-11-14 16:00: Version Control Software (James Kermode (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-17 14:15: TBA (TAB) 2008-11-17 14:15: Microcavity in strong coupling regime: polariton lasing and bistability (Dr Jacqueline Bloch (CNRS France)) 2008-11-18 15:00: Parton Distribution Functions for LHC Physics (Prof. James Stirling (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-18 16:00: Isomonodromy via twistor theory (Mitul Shah (Oxford)) 2008-11-18 16:30: High redshift galaxies: how well do numerical simulations capture their physical properties ? (Julien Devriendt, University of Oxford) 2008-11-18 16:30: Stochasticity in stem and progenitor cell fate (Ben Simons, TCM The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2008-11-19 10:30: Structural Reorganisation and Potential Toxicity of Oligomeric Species (Giorgio Favrin, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-19 11:00: Currents in carbon nanotubes (Mikhail Kibalchenko (TCM)) 2008-11-19 11:15: Heavy fermion states and quantum criticality (Prof. Yoshichika Onuki, Osaka University) 2008-11-19 11:20: O(N) DFT+U with ONETEP - Towards a linear-scaling ab initio treatment of local correlation effects (David O'Regan (TCM)) 2008-11-19 11:40: An adaptive QM/MM molecular dynamics scheme for reactions in solutions (Csilla Varnai (Engineering)) 2008-11-19 12:00: Bending modes, elastic constants and mechanical stability of graphitic systems (Gianluca Savini (University of Sussex)) 2008-11-20 14:15: Freezing of cluster solids and the Gibbs phase rule (Prof. Daan Frenkel FMRS, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-20 16:00: Quasicrystals: there be monsters... (Professor Ronan McGrath, Surface Science Centre, Department of Physics, The University of Liverpool) 2008-11-21 16:00: Fun with LHC physics (Dr Tilman Plehn (Edinburgh)) 2008-11-24 14:15: TBA (TBA) 2008-11-24 14:30: Generation and recombination of charges in multicomponent polymer layers (Professor Dieter Neher, University of Potsdam) 2008-11-24 15:30: Anderson localization of ultracold atoms in disordered lattices (Prof Massimo Inguscio (Florence University)) 2008-11-25 15:00: Top Quarks at the LHC (Dr. Bobby Acharya (ICTP Trieste)) 2008-11-25 16:30: An anisotropic, non-singular early universe model leading to a realistic cosmology (Pierre Dechant, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-11-25 16:30: Network Biology (Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2008-11-25 17:00: Classical Big Bounce Cosmology (Sylvain Brechet, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2008-11-26 10:30: Everything you wanted to know about haem proteins, but were afraid to ask! (Paul Barker, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-26 11:15: Larmor diffraction from antiferromagnetic and hidden order in URu2Si2 (Philipp Niklowitz, Royal Holloway) 2008-11-26 14:00: Bayesian Inductive Programming (R J Henderson (Edinburgh)) 2008-11-26 16:15: Inaugural Lecture: "Blink, and you miss it" (Professor Jeremy Baumberg) 2008-11-27 13:00: Patterns of co-existing order parameters and universal escapeway to the magnetic quantum critical point (Prof. Georgios Varelogiannis, National Technical University of Athens) 2008-11-27 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-11-27 16:00: New generation X-ray diffraction: technology and applications (Jacqui Cole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-11-28 11:30: Quantum Criticality, the Alpha/Delta Puzzle, and Dual Vacua (Prof George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) 2008-11-28 14:15: A singular view of DNA transactions (Dr Gijs Wuite, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2008-11-28 16:00: Collider and Astroparticle Physics of the G2-MSSM (Dr Bobby Acharya (ICTP)) 2008-12-01 14:15: Optical characterisation of mode-locked Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (Dr Rakchanok Rungsawang) 2008-12-01 14:30: Exciton delocalization dynamics in self-assembled pi-conjugated molecular materials (Dr. Laura Herz, University of Oxford) 2008-12-02 15:00: Hard Multi-Jet Predictions using High Energy Factorisation (Dr. Jeppe Andersen (CERN)) 2008-12-02 16:30: On the way from molecular cloud to solar system: New insights into the earliest stages of low-mass protostars (Jes Jørgensen, Argelander-Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn) 2008-12-02 16:30: Biology in five dimensions - the evolution of development (Michael Akam, Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2008-12-03 11:00: Empirical pseudopotentials? (Mikhail Kibalchenko (TCM)) 2008-12-03 11:20: DFT exploration of photoinduced linkage isomers (Anthony Phillips (SMF)) 2008-12-03 11:40: Efficient factorisation of the nonlocal van der Waals density functional (Jose Soler (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid)) 2008-12-03 16:15: Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives. (Dr Saul Griffith, Makani Power) 2008-12-05 11:00: Estimating the Pen Trajectories of Handwritten Static Scripts using Hidden Markov Models (Emli-Mari Nel, Vicon) 2008-12-05 14:15: Understanding shape and traction of adherent cells (Prof. Ulrich Schwarz, University of Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & University of Heidelberg, Germany) 2008-12-05 15:30: Nonequilibrium generation of information in copolymerization processes (Jamie Blundell (TCM)) 2008-12-05 16:00: Implications from the ratio of surface tension to bulk modulus and nearest neighbour distance, for planar surfaces (A E Phillips (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)) 2008-12-08 10:30: Eye-Tracking in Virtual Reality ( Alessio Murgia , Reading) 2008-12-08 14:00: Visual Search: Applications and Computational Modelling (Xiao-Peng Hu, Imperial College) 2008-12-09 10:00: Optimizing Similarity Functions in Various Pattern Recognition Problems (Sang Wan Lee, KAIST Korea) 2008-12-10 10:00: Linear scaling algorithms: applicability, accuracy and scalable implementation (Vincent Sacksteder (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)) 2008-12-10 10:40: Point defects in alumina (Matthew Foulkes (Imperial College)) 2008-12-15 09:00: Heterogeneity and transcriptional noise in cell populations (One Day Special Meeting - see abstract for details) 2008-12-16 09:00: Physics of Living Matter 3 (registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you) 2008-12-16 16:30: Compressed Sensing Imaging Techniques for Radio Interferometry and Cosmic String Reconstruction (Yves Wiaux (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)) 2009-01-12 14:15: Layered Kondo lattice model for novel quantum critical compound beta-YbAlB4 (Dr Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rutgers University) 2009-01-13 09:10: Introduction to graduate students' conference (Professor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-13 10:50: Poster session I (Department of Physics) 2009-01-13 14:30: Functional interfaces in organic electronic devices (Dr. Norbert Koch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Germany) 2009-01-13 15:00: High Energy Atmospheric Ionisation and Clouds (Giles Harrison, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading) 2009-01-13 15:20: Poster session II (Department of Physics) 2009-01-13 16:00: Electron gases of many flavours (Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics) 2009-01-13 16:30: A Bayesian Approach to Testing for Uniformity (Dr Devinder Sivia (University of Oxford)) 2009-01-13 17:00: Announcement of poster and talk winners (Professor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-14 11:00: All-electron quantum Monte Carlo using Slater-type orbitals (Norbert Nemec (TCM)) 2009-01-14 11:40: Coming soon to the HPCS... (Mike Payne (TCM)) 2009-01-15 14:15: Electron-phonon contribution to the photoemission kink in cuprate superconductors (Dr Feliciano Giustino, University of Oxford) 2009-01-15 16:00: Little Higgs Model with T-Parity (Professor Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)) 2009-01-16 14:15: Experiments on cytoskeletal and “Recombinase” motors (Dr Giovanni Cappello, Institut Curie, France) 2009-01-16 15:30: Error of finite basis expansions in time-dependent calculations of atom-laser interaction (David O'Regan (TCM)) 2009-01-16 16:00: How Many Shuffles to Randomize a Deck of Cards? (Richard Brierley (TCM)) 2009-01-19 15:30: Going round the bend with Bose-Einstein condensates (Dr Aidan Arnold (Strathclyde)) 2009-01-20 15:00: SUSY Weather Forecasts for LHC and Dark Matter (Dr. Ben Allanach (DAMPT, University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-20 16:00: New Poisson algebras arising in Teichm\"uller theory (Marta Mazzocco (Loughborough)) 2009-01-20 16:30: Fast CMB maps simulations and spectrum estimations (Dr. Dmitri Novikov (Imperial College, London)) 2009-01-20 16:30: Precision and exploration in assembling neural circuits (Michael Bate (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-21 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College) 2009-01-21 16:15: Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matter (Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai) 2009-01-22 14:15: Large Deviation Functions in the Dynamics of Glasses (Prof. Juan P. Garrahan, University of Nottingam) 2009-01-22 16:00: Biomolecular adsorption at a silicon/water interface driven by water-structure effects (Daniel J. Cole, Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-01-23 14:15: Canceled (Dr James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre , University of Nottingham) 2009-01-23 16:00: The Search for the Absolute Neutrino Mass (Prof. Dr. Amand Faessler (Tuebingen)) 2009-01-27 14:30: Alkyl chain length independent hole mobility in poly(3-alkylthiophene)s via morphological control with nanofibres (Wibren Oosterbaan, Hasselt University, Belgium) 2009-01-27 15:00: The Search for Exotic Stable Massive Particles (David Milstead, Stockholm) 2009-01-27 16:00: On magnetic pseudodifferential operators with coefficients in C*-algebras. (Serge Richard, DPMMS) 2009-01-27 16:30: Modern microwave radios and antennas (Dr Dave Waymont (Waymont Consulting Limited)) 2009-01-27 16:30: Mapping Morphogenesis (Richard Adams (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-28 11:00: Intermolecular interactions using perturbation theory (Alston Misquitta (TCM)) 2009-01-28 16:00: Parakeet: A Continuous Speech Recognition System for Mobile Touch-Screen Devices (Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-28 16:30: NIPS Highlights (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-29 14:15: Topological Phases of Matter and Why You Should be Interested (Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford) 2009-01-29 16:00: Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements (James Dean, Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2009-01-30 16:00: Gauge boson fusion processes at the LHC (Prof Dieter Zeppenfeld (Karlsruhe)) 2009-02-02 14:00: The Atlas Trigger (Bilge Demirkoz, CERN) 2009-02-02 15:30: Quantum coherence and decoherence in biological complexes (Dr Martin Plenio (Imperial College, London)) 2009-02-03 16:00: Strominger-Yau-Zaslow geometry, Affine Spheres and Painleve III. (Prim Plansangkate (DAMTP)) 2009-02-03 16:30: MWC 297: a young high-mass star rotating at critical velocity (Dr. Bram Acke (Institute for Astronomy, KU Leuven, Belgium)) 2009-02-03 16:30: Cell movements in reshaping tissues (Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-04 11:15: Skyrmion lattice in chiral magnets (Christian Pfliederer, Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Germany) 2009-02-04 16:00: More NIPS highlights (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-05 16:00: Site specific residual stress analysis using focused ion beam machining (Richard Langford, Biological and Soft Systems (BSS) Sector, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-02-06 14:15: Forms and Flows of Ferrofluids (Dr Reinhard Richter, Experimentalphysik 5, Universität Bayreuth, Germany) 2009-02-06 15:30: Optimization of ionic conductivity in doped ceria (Nick Bristowe (TCM)) 2009-02-06 16:00: Weak-scale MFV MSSM Global Fit to indirect Collider and WMAP-5 data (Shehu S. AbdusSalam (DAMTP)) 2009-02-06 16:00: Constrained Geometric Simulation of Diffusive Motion in Proteins (William Belfield (TCM)) 2009-02-09 15:30: Nuclear spin effects in optically pumped quantum dots (Dr Alexander Tartakovskii (Sheffield University)) 2009-02-10 15:00: ILC : Detector and Physics (Prof. Mark Thomson, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-10 16:00: Monopoles, Sphalerons and Non-Abelian Black Holes (Jutta Kunz (Oldenburg)) 2009-02-10 16:30: Molecular Clouds: Turbulence, Magnetic Fields, and Spiral Structure (Dr. Chris Brunt (University of Exeter)) 2009-02-11 11:00: Charles Babbage: The Man Behind Charles Babbage: The Man behind the Machine (Philip Graff, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-02-11 11:20: Dynamics of solid catalytic particles during carbon nanotube growth (Felipe Cervantes Sodi (Engineering)) 2009-02-11 11:40: Liquid argon from first principles, a suicidal choice of project (Emilio Artacho (Earth Sciences)) 2009-02-12 14:15: Towards an understanding of how general anaesthetics work (Dr P.-L. Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur) 2009-02-12 16:00: Going for strength: The development of carbon nanotube fibres and fibre composites (Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-13 16:00: A predictive model of leptogenesis (Dr Andrea Romanino (SISSA, Trieste)) 2009-02-16 15:30: Shaken to order: Dressed matter waves in driven periodic potentials (Dr Oliver Morsch (University of Pisa)) 2009-02-17 14:30: Charge transport in supramolecular assemblies: An atomistic description (Dr. Jerome Cornil, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium) 2009-02-17 15:00: The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (CANCELLED) (Tobias Raufer, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2009-02-17 16:00: Berry Phase and Supersymmetry (David Tong (DAMTP)) 2009-02-17 16:30: EBEX: Measuring B modes from a balloon (Dr. William Grainger (University of Cardiff)) 2009-02-17 16:30: Magnificent pas de deux: spindle orientation in yeast - ACT I (Marisa Segal, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-18 10:30: Probing myosin dynamics (Clive R. Bagshaw) 2009-02-18 11:00: Twins: Double Trouble (Roshina Nandra, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-02-18 11:00: Accelerating large DFT calculations using auxiliary density functionals (Phil Hasnip (York)) 2009-02-18 11:15: Extrasolar planets: a world of giants? (Sreekumar Thaithara Balan, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-02-18 16:15: Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon Beams (Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester And Director, Cockcroft Institute Daresbury, Cheshire, UK.) 2009-02-19 11:00: Superfluidity and other quantum fluid effects of microcavity polaritons (Dr Alberto Amo, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel) 2009-02-19 14:15: Multiparticle Interference in Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (Dr Dmitry Kovrizhin, University of Oxford) 2009-02-19 16:00: The use of chirped fibre Bragg grating sensors to monitor disbond growth in bonded composite structures (Steve Ogin, Department of Materials, Surfaces and Structural Systems, University of Surrey) 2009-02-20 16:00: Quantum Gravity at the LHC (Dr Daniel Litim (Sussex)) 2009-02-23 17:00: Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their Applications (Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard)) 2009-02-24 14:00: A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels (Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University) 2009-02-24 14:30: Soft X-ray spectro-microscopy of polymer solar cells (Benjamin Watts, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland) 2009-02-24 15:00: The ALICE Experiment (Roman Lietava, University of Birmingham) 2009-02-24 16:00: The Multiple Layer Structure of Non-Abelian Vortices (Minoru Eto (Pisa)) 2009-02-24 16:30: Formation of dense cores in a turbulent molecular cloud (Dr. Jongsoo Kim (KAIST Fellow, Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2009-02-24 16:30: Physics of Multicellularity (Prof Ray Goldstein ( DAMTP, Cambridge)) 2009-02-25 11:00: Structural elucidation of the self-assembly mechanism of amyloid fibrils (Sheena Radford, University of Leeds) 2009-02-25 11:00: Quantum critical itinerant ferromagnetism (Gareth Conduit (TCM)) 2009-02-25 11:00: Basic Principles of Quantum Computing (Malak Olamaie, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-02-25 11:15: Spin-Excitation Spectroscopy: Probing Magnetic Nanostructures at the Atomic Scale (Cyrus Hirjibehedin, University College London) 2009-02-25 11:15: The Turbulent Atmosphere (James Gordon, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-02-25 11:40: A Gaussian approximation potential for metals (Gabor Csanyi (Engineering)) 2009-02-25 16:00: Dasher in Mandarin Chinese with Phonetic Pin Yin (Will Zou) 2009-02-26 14:15: Ehrenfest Simulations of Radiation Damage in Metals (Prof. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College) 2009-02-26 16:00: Dynamic behaviour of granular materials during penetration and compaction (John Addiss, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-02-27 14:15: The Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Protein Import (Dr Murray Stewart, MRC-LMB, Cambridge) 2009-03-03 15:00: Superleading logarithms and the breakdown of QCD coherence (Prof. Jeff Forshaw (Manchester)) 2009-03-03 16:00: Measures on the space of CKM matrices (Steffen Gielen (DAMTP)) 2009-03-03 16:30: AGN feedback on the magnetic fields of the intra-galactic medium (Martin Huarte-Espinosa (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2009-03-03 16:30: What does a living cell know of itself? (Dennis Bray, Department of PDN, University of Cambridge) 2009-03-04 10:30: Tales of a two-stroke motor: allostery in the mechanism of the GroE chaperonin (Steve Burston) 2009-03-04 11:00: Optical characterisation of bolometric detectors (Chris Thomas, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-03-04 11:15: Some time travel -- optical spectroscopy in the 17th and 16th centuries (David Green, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-03-04 16:15: The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation: Overview, Motivation and Status of the Project (Professor Peter Jenni, CERN) 2009-03-05 14:15: Quantum Noise and Entanglement in Mesoscopic Devices (Prof. Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick) 2009-03-05 16:00: Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Bound state resonances (Fay Tuddenham, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-03-05 16:30: Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Surface dynamics (Pepijn Kole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-03-06 14:15: Identification of structure-conserving correlated motions in the β-sheet of ubiquitin (Xavier Salvatella, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, IRB Barcelona) 2009-03-06 16:00: Mass and spin measurement with m_T2 at hadron colliders (Dr Yeong Gyun Kim (KAIST)) 2009-03-09 15:30: Cold atoms in rotating optical lattice (Prof Chris Foot (Oxford)) 2009-03-10 14:30: Material and device engineering: Two converging routes to improve the efficiency of polymer solar cells (Dr. Sjoerd Veenstra, Energy research Centre of the Netherlands) 2009-03-10 16:00: What is a quantum constraint? Examples from Loop Quantum Cosmology (Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw)) 2009-03-10 16:30: What soft matter physics can give and take from cell biology (Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-11 10:30: Extracellular chaperones and their role in the disposal of misfolded proteins from extracellular spaces (Justin Yerbury) 2009-03-11 11:00: BEC-BCS crossover in ultracold atoms using quantum Monte Carlo (2 years later...) (Andrew Morris (TCM)) 2009-03-11 11:15: Electric Field Tuning of Manganites and Cuprates (Anoop Singh Dhoot, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-03-11 11:40: ONETEP-PBSA: Application to G-quadruplex DNA stability (Danny Cole (TCM)) 2009-03-11 16:00: Painless Parse Errors (Kathryn Gray, Computer Laboratory) 2009-03-11 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Sir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal (Patents) 2003 -) 2009-03-12 11:00: Cloud Ships for global warming reduction (Fred Farrell) 2009-03-12 11:30: Geothermal power in Australia (Catriona Knox) 2009-03-12 16:00: Green Explosives: Saving the environment, one war at a time… (Adam Collins, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-03-17 16:30: Do cells care about physics? (Dr. Jochen Guck (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-18 10:30: Alpha-synuclein and protein aggregation (Chris Waudby) 2009-04-02 16:00: Multipotency and cell fate decisions: Three neglected principles towards understanding the epigenetic landscape (Sui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and informatics, University of Calgary, Canada) 2009-04-15 14:00: Deducing Principles in Natural Perception (Mike Lewicki - CMU, Berlin, and Case Western) 2009-04-15 16:00: Feature tracking with full posteriors (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-17 11:00: Controlling nuclear spins in quantum dots (Dr Jake Taylor) 2009-04-21 15:00: Time-dependent analysis of the B0->rho0rho0 decay and alpha angle at BABAR (Loic Esteve, University of Cambridge) 2009-04-21 16:30: Large antenna arrays for astronomic applications: effects of mutual coupling on signal and on noise ( Professor Christophe Craeye, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 2009-04-22 11:00: Quasiparticle effective mass of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas (Neil Drummond (TCM)) 2009-04-22 11:00: Literature review presentations - Tidal power, and Fuel cells (Geoffrey Supran and Colm Seeley) 2009-04-22 11:40: Surface acidity from first principles: the water-quartz interface (Marialore Sulpizi (CUC3)) 2009-04-22 14:00: Bayesian periodicity detection (Tamara Broderick (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-23 14:15: QMC applied to two-component molecular systems (Dr Ryo Maezono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 2009-04-23 16:00: Photonic Doppler velocimetry: The easy way to measure particle velocity (Philip Rae, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico) 2009-04-24 14:15: Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields (Roel Dullens, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford) 2009-04-24 16:00: Flavour Violation in Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (Professor Tim Jones (Liverpool)) 2009-04-27 15:30: Diffractive light scattering from fermionic atomic gases in optical lattices (Dr Janne Ruostekoski (Southampton University)) 2009-04-27 16:15: Physics and Complexity : An Overview (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) 2009-04-28 16:00: Twistors and horospheres (Simon Gindikin (Rutgers)) 2009-04-28 16:30: The OOF Holography Technique: Correcting the Effects of Gravity and Thermal Gradients on Large Filled-Aperture Telescopes (Bojan Nikolic, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-04-29 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Stefan Wallin) 2009-04-29 11:15: de Haas-van Alphen studies of the YbRh2Si2 Fermi surface: Lifshitz transition at H0 ~ 10 T (Patrick Rourke, University of Bristol) 2009-04-29 14:00: Useful Computation with Coincidence Detection (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-29 16:15: Physics and Complexity : Methodologies (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.) 2009-04-30 16:00: The Myth of Mithril: Real materials for body armour (Celia Watson, Cranfield Defence and Security, Shrivenham) 2009-05-01 16:15: Physics and Complexity : Examples (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) 2009-05-04 15:30: Spin qubits in electrically defined quantum dots (Edward Laird (Harvard University)) 2009-05-05 14:30: X-ray scattering studies on F8T2 polymer thin films and self assembled monolayers (Prof. Roland Resel, T.U.Graz, Austria) 2009-05-05 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Harvey Reall (DAMTP)) 2009-05-05 16:30: Obscured star formation at high-z; What do we know, what do we not know? (Scott Chapman, IoA) 2009-05-07 14:15: Fermi-surface and volume-collapse transitions in heavy fermions and pnictide superconductors (Prof. Matthias Vojta, University of Cologne) 2009-05-07 16:00: Dislocation dynamics simulations of plasticity in dispersion hardened metals (Sylvain Queyreau, Laboratoire d’Etude des Microstructures, ONERA, Chatillon, France) 2009-05-07 16:00: Inferring building properties from temperature data (Dan Ryder-Cook) 2009-05-08 14:15: Non-equilibrium fluctuations and mechanics of active gels and living cells (Fred Mackintosh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit) 2009-05-08 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Bogdan Mihaila, Los Alamos National Laboratory) 2009-05-08 16:00: Flavor violation in SUSY (Professor Gudrun Hiller (Dortmund)) 2009-05-11 11:00: Sir Brian Pippard Memorial Meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-05-11 15:30: Optical Atomic Clocks (Prof Patrick Gill (NPL)) 2009-05-12 15:00: Recent Results from the CDF Experiment (POSTPONED UNTIL MICHAELMAS TERM) (Prof. Mark Lancaster, UCL) 2009-05-12 16:00: Title: Cartan geometry of ODEs (Michal Godlinski (Warsaw)) 2009-05-12 16:30: The implementation of multi-dimensional FFTs in high performance computing codes (Lawrence Mulholland and Themos Tsikas, The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd) 2009-05-13 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Dafydd Jones) 2009-05-13 11:15: Natural Optical Activity of Metals (Vladimir Mineev, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France) 2009-05-13 16:15: Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleships (Professor J Roy Sambles, School of Physics, University of Exeter) 2009-05-14 14:15: Glasses, Jamming and Spin Glasses (Prof. Mike Moore FRS, University of Manchester.) 2009-05-14 16:00: High-power lasers and the extreme conditions that they can produce (Steven Rose, Plasma Physics Group, Imperial College, London) 2009-05-15 14:15: Thick & thin: physics of polymers with sticky ends. (Prof. Martien Cohen Stuart, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) 2009-05-15 16:00: Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions (Dr Kostya Trachenko (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-15 16:30: Selecting a Model of Supersymmetry Breaking Mediation (Matthew Dolan (DAMTP)) 2009-05-18 15:30: Physics with Atomic Clocks: Beyond what time is it? (Prof Kurt Gibble (Penn State)) 2009-05-19 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Alessandro Troisi, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick) 2009-05-19 15:00: CHARYBDIS2: Modeling black hole events at the LHC (Marco Sampaio (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-19 16:00: A class of (1+1) dim models that generalise the Sine Gordon model (Wojtek Zakrzewski (Durham)) 2009-05-19 16:30: Delivering transformational science with the SKA (Paul Alexander, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-05-20 11:00: Bridging the gap: Gaussian Approximation Potential (Albert Bartok-Partay (TCM)) 2009-05-20 11:00: Bleeding-Edge Graphics for Physics (Pedro Carvalho, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-05-20 11:15: Autism - Broken Mirrors (Jamie Farnes, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-05-20 11:40: First-principles study of a quasicrystalline molecular material (Mark Robinson (TCM)) 2009-05-21 14:15: Kondo physics in multilevel quantum dots. (Prof. David Logan, Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford University) 2009-05-21 14:30: And we thought organic MIS devices were simple structures! (Professor Martin Taylor, School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University) 2009-05-21 16:00: Splitting in the Fermi surface of ZrTe3: A surface charge density wave system (Moritz Hoesch, Diamond Light Source, Harwell, Oxon) 2009-05-22 14:15: Nucleation and growth of insulin fibrils in bulk solution and at hydrophobic polystyrene surfaces (Dr. James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, University of Nottingham) 2009-05-22 16:00: A spin on the proton for seeking nucleon structure (Dr Nigel Buttimore (Trinity College, Dublin)) 2009-05-22 16:00: Local density of states of electron-crystal phases in graphene in the quantum Hall regime (Oleksandr Poplavskyy (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-26 16:30: AMI Observations of Galaxy Clusters (Natasha Hurley-Walker, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-05-26 17:00: Cold dark matter isocurvature perturbations (Ian Sollom, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-05-27 11:00: People and Traffic (Arthur Henderson, Cavendish) 2009-05-27 11:15: Theory of the Phase Diagarm of the Cuprates (Chandra Varma, University of California Riverside) 2009-05-27 11:15: Some time travel -- optical spectroscopy in the 17th and 16th centuries (David Green, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-05-28 14:30: Porphyrin-based molecular wires: versatile new pi-systems (Professor Harry L. Anderson, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford) 2009-05-28 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Jorge Quintanilla, ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2009-05-28 16:00: What happens when a bomb explodes: A review of current understanding in conventional munitions (Mike Hutchinson, AWE, Aldermaston) 2009-05-29 11:15: One bubble, two bubbles, three bubbles, four... the physics of bubbles and how to eavesdrop on a breaking wave (Helen Czerski, Department of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island) 2009-05-29 14:15: Survival of the aligned: Modeling the cortical microtubule array in plant cells (Bela Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wageningen University) 2009-05-29 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Gerald Mahan, Penn State University) 2009-05-29 15:30: Pressures produced when penguins pooh (Priyanka Seth (TCM)) 2009-05-29 16:00: How to quantify energy landscapes of solids (Gareth Griffiths (TCM)) 2009-05-29 16:00: Cybersusy: A new mechanism for supersymmetry breaking in the Supersymmetric Standard Model (Dr John Dixon) 2009-06-01 15:30: A measurement of the atomic recoil frequency using a ground state atom interferometer (Scott Beattie (York University)) 2009-06-02 16:30: Galaxy formation and evolution: the far-IR/sub-mm view (James Dunlop, ROE) 2009-06-02 17:00: Ultra-cold bosonic gases in one-dimension (Dr Thomas Busch (University College Cork)) 2009-06-03 11:00: Bulk diffusion in alumina: solving the corundum conundrum (Nick Hine (TCM)) 2009-06-03 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Sarah Graves, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-06-03 11:40: Game of Life in Slater determinant space (Ali Alavi (CUC3)) 2009-06-04 14:15: Quantum Many-Body Phenomena in Coupled Arrays of Cavities (Dr Michael Hartmann, Technische Universitaet Muenchen) 2009-06-04 14:15: Quantum Many-Body phenomena in coupled arrays of cavaties (Dr Michael Hartmann ( Technische Universitaet Muenchen)) 2009-06-05 14:15: Chemically modifying surfaces and biomolecules for nanopore analysis (Dr Stefan Howorka, Department of Chemistry, University College London) 2009-06-05 15:30: Can the thermal conductivity of semiconductors be controlled by impurities? (Stefan K. Estreicher, Physics Department, Texas Tech University) 2009-06-05 16:00: CP-violation and mixing effects in SUSY cascades at the LHC (Dr Gudrid Moortgat-Pick (IPPP, Durham)) 2009-06-08 11:00: Inference in Models with Latent Hierarchies (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-08 14:15: The Flexibility Window in Networks and Proteins ( Prof. Mike Thorpe, Arizona State University) 2009-06-10 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Matthew Davies, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-06-10 11:15: Title to be confirmed (Luke Butcher, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2009-06-11 14:15: Heterogeneities in granular media (Prof. Anita Mehta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta) 2009-06-12 11:00: Short ICML Practice Talk (Ryan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2009-06-12 16:00: Heavy quark spectroscopy and accurate predictions of b-baryon masses (Prof Marek Karliner (Tel Aviv)) 2009-06-15 15:00: A quick way to learn a mixture of exponentially many linear models (Geoffrey Hinton, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & University of Toronto) 2009-06-17 11:00: Diffusion Monte Carlo: exponentially inefficient for large systems? (Norbert Nemec (TCM)) 2009-06-17 11:40: Localisation tensor (Bohshiang Jong (TCM)) 2009-06-18 14:15: What is the momentum of a photon propagating in a medium? (Prof. Steve Barnett, University of Strathclyde) 2009-06-25 14:15: Electronic Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the Iron Pnictides (Qimiao Si, Rice University, Texas) 2009-07-03 16:00: Bayesian approach and Naturalness in MSSM forecast for the LHC (Maria Cabrera (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)) 2009-07-06 10:30: Mapping facial gestures to control cursors and switches (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-08 14:00: Dashing this way and that ( Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-14 16:30: Gravity: An Emergent Perspective (T.Padmanabhan, IUCAA, Pune and Kavli Institute, Cambridge) 2009-07-15 11:15: Exotic or conventional - the physics of High-Tc Superconductors (Professor Jeffery Tallon, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology) 2009-07-28 11:00: Physics Dimensions in Sage (Miriam Backens, University of Cambridge) 2009-08-11 15:00: Combining Collaborative Filtering with Meta Data for Scalable Recommendations (David Stern (Microsoft)) 2009-08-14 14:00: Building blocks for a trapped ion quantum computer (Dr Simon Webster (Oxford)) 2009-08-24 11:00: Text entry performance of state of the art unconstrained handwriting recognition: a longitudinal user study (Leif Denby (University of Cambridge)) 2009-08-28 15:30: Simplifying the theory of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloys (Chris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews)) 2009-09-10 14:15: Overdetermined PDE and differential complexes (Prof Rod Gover, University of Auckland, New Zealand) 2009-09-14 11:00: Thermal expansion of beta-eucryptite (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-18 14:00: Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin (Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-21 11:00: Capacity of Spiking Neural Networks (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-21 14:00: Quantum Transport in Interfermoetry in BEC (Peter Drummond (Univ of Technology, Australia)) 2009-09-29 11:00: Of Uncertain Value -- Bayesian Quadratic Reinforcement Learning (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-02 14:15: Kinetics and Bose-Einstein condensation of parametrically driven magnons at RT. (Prof. Sergej Demokritov, Muenster University) 2009-10-05 11:00: Recognition and Correction of Voice Web Search Queries (Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-07 11:00: A general backflow transformation (Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM)) 2009-10-07 11:30: Understanding anomalous thermal expansion and negative thermal expansion (Martin Dove (Earth Sciences)) 2009-10-08 14:15: Hybrid density functionals for accurate semiconductor band gaps (Prof. John Robertson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2009-10-09 11:30: Resolving the Cosmic IR Background with BLAST (Mark Halpern (University of British Columbia)) 2009-10-09 14:00: Dipolar Gels (Dr Mark Miller (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-12 11:00: Learning Logical Relations (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-13 15:00: Central exclusive processes at the Tevatron and LHC (Prof. Valery Khoze (IPPP)) 2009-10-13 16:00: Highly Supersymmetric Solutions (Jan Gutowski (Kings College London)) 2009-10-13 16:30: The History of Radio Astronomy (Rosie Bolton (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2009-10-14 10:30: Exploring the folding energy landscape of a series of design consensus TPR proteins (Dr Ewan Main Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex) 2009-10-14 16:15: The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters! (Professor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-10-15 14:15: Topological Insulators: New Phases with a Twist (Dr Rahul Roy, University of Oxford) 2009-10-15 16:00: First principles simulations of water-solid interfaces and the initial stages of ice nucleation (Angelos Michaelides, London Centre for Nanotechnology) 2009-10-15 16:00: Intensity effects in the standard model and beyond (Dr Anton Ilderton (Trinity College Dublin)) 2009-10-16 14:00: Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin (Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-19 11:00: Inclusive user modelling (Pradipta Biswas (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-19 15:30: Electron Microscopy of Ultracold Quantum Gases (Professor Herwig Ott (Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern)) 2009-10-20 16:00: Hamiltonian Structure of the Water Wave Equations (Anthony Ashton (DAMTP)) 2009-10-21 10:30: “Mechanisms of Prion and PolyQ Misfolding” (Prof Sarah Perrett, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) 2009-10-21 11:00: QMC and the 1D electron gas (Robert Lee (TCM)) 2009-10-21 11:15: Ultrafast measurements of the nonequilibrium charge-transfer state of Sr2CuCl2O2 (Jesse Petersen, University of Oxford) 2009-10-21 11:20: Some ideas for calculating phase diagrams for interacting electrons (Roger Haydock (TCM / Oregon)) 2009-10-21 11:40: Modelling proteins using coarse-grained techniques (William Belfield (TCM)) 2009-10-22 14:15: Polarised Fermi Gases. (Meera Parish (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-22 16:00: Probing dark energy with colliders (Dr Clare Burrage (DESY)) 2009-10-22 16:00: PBX 9502 detonation propagation (Stefan Schoch, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 2009-10-22 16:30: Simulation of void collapse in heterogeneous explosives (Louisa Michael, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 2009-10-23 14:00: Cells Under the Tip (Prof. Andrew E. Pelling, University of Ottawa, Canada) 2009-10-23 15:30: Journal Club Talk | The Particle Swarm - Explosion, Stability, and Convergence (Anthony Leung (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-23 16:00: 'Luttinger liquid theory' of one-dimensional quantum fluids. I. Properties of the Luttinger model and their extension to the general 1D interacting spinless Fermi gas (Richard Brierley (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-26 11:00: A facial gesture switch using hidden Markov models (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-27 16:30: ICRAR: A New Radio Astronomy Venture (Peter Hall (Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia)) 2009-10-28 10:30: “Dissecting the membrane dynamics of amyloid oligomers at a single molecule level” (Dr Martino Calamai, University of Florence) 2009-10-29 16:00: Adventures in catalytic nanospace: Resolving surface phenomena at the atomic scale (Michael Bowker, Wolfson Nanoscience Laboratory and Cardiff Catalysis Institute) 2009-10-29 16:00: Leptogenic Supersymmetry at the LHC (Andrea De Simone (MIT)) 2009-10-30 14:00: Engineered protein pores as components of soft micromachines (Hagan Bayley) 2009-10-30 14:00: Association mapping and prediction of complex structured phenotypes (Oliver Stegle (Max Planck Institutes, Tübingen)) 2009-10-30 14:30: Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vortices (Prof. Lu Yu (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)) 2009-11-02 11:00: Optimizing Dasher for the iPhone (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-03 14:30: 3D Nanoscale Organization of Bulk heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells (Dr. Joachim Loos, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2009-11-03 15:00: Recent results from CDF and prospects for a measurement of charged lepton violation at J-PARC (Prof. Mark Lancaster (UCL)) 2009-11-03 16:00: Quantum Gravity and Monstrous Moonshine (John Duncan (DPMMS)) 2009-11-03 16:30: The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope: an overview, some results and future plans (Yashwant Gupta (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India)) 2009-11-04 10:30: “Peptides in solution, aggregates, and membranes: 2DIR spectroscopy as a probe of structure and function.” (Prof James Skinner, University of Wisconsin - Madison) 2009-11-04 11:00: More random results from structure searching (Richard Needs (TCM)) 2009-11-04 11:30: The transport mechanism of mitochondrial carriers based on an analysis of symmetry (Edmund Kunji (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit)) 2009-11-05 14:15: Amplified stochastic oscillations (Prof. Alan McKane (Univeristy of Manchester)) 2009-11-05 16:00: Constructing All-Order Corrections to Multi-Jet Rates (Dr Jennifer Smillie (UCL)) 2009-11-05 16:00: Optical techniques for characterising shock ejecta (David Bell, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-11-05 16:30: Mechanical behaviour of particulate polymer composites (Dan Drodge, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-11-06 14:00: Colloidal Characterization and Thermodynamic Stability of Binary Protein Mixtures ( Prof. Giuseppe Foffi) 2009-11-06 14:30: High mobility soluble polyacene–dielectric polymer formulations - a facile approach to large area printed electronics (Professor Stephen Yeates, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester,) 2009-11-06 15:30: Normal State of Highly Polarized Fermi Gases: Full Many-Body Treatment (Kayvan Sadegzadeh) 2009-11-06 16:00: Reptation Quantum Monte Carlo (Bohshiang Jong (TCM)) 2009-11-09 15:30: The atomic Hanbury Brown Twiss effect: Fluctuations and correlations in cold quantum gases (Dr Chris Westbrook (Institure Optique, Orsay)) 2009-11-10 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Vera Cimrová, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) 2009-11-10 15:00: First Data with the Atlas Experiment (Dr. K. Stevenson (Queen Mary, University of London)) 2009-11-10 16:00: Trialities and Exceptional Lie Algebras: Deconstructing the Magic Square (Jonathan Evans (DAMTP)) 2009-11-10 16:00: Ultracold Atoms near superconductors and carbon nanotubes (Dr Jozsef Fortagh) 2009-11-10 16:30: Numerical Simulations of Deflagration to Detonation Transitions (Nikos Nikiforakis (Centre for Scientific Computing, Cambridge)) 2009-11-11 11:15: Low temperature transport in an electron-hole bilayer: search for excitonic phases and collective modes. (Kanti Das Gupta, SP group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-11-11 11:30: “Structure and dynamics of globular and disordered proteins from Residual Dipolar Couplings” (Dr Xavier Salvatella, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona) 2009-11-12 14:15: Entanglement Percolation with Bipartite Mixed States (Dr Dieter Jaksch, University of Oxford) 2009-11-12 16:00: MSSM Parameters from Orbifold GUTs (Dr Felix Bruemmer (IPPP)) 2009-11-12 16:00: Liquid crystal elastomers (Jonathan Biggins, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2009-11-13 14:00: Intracellular signalling in a molecular jungle: insights from bacterial chemotaxis (Prof. Dennis Bray) 2009-11-16 11:00: 研究の紹介 (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-16 14:00: Flow-Induced “Shish-kebab” Formation: A New-Scenario of Kinetic Pathways for􀀁Entangled Polymer Solutions (Takeji Hashimoto, Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) 2009-11-17 15:00: Dark Matter in the Galaxy and at the LHC - making the connection (Dr. Malcolm Fairbairn (KCL)) 2009-11-17 16:00: Asymptotic stability of Chern-Simons vortices (David Stuart (DAMTP)) 2009-11-18 10:30: “Structural disorder and induced folding within the replicative complex of measles virus: experimental assessment and functional implications”. (Dr Sonia Longhi, Universities of Aix - Marseilles) 2009-11-18 11:00: Self-consistent treatment of local correlation effects in magnetic nanostructures with ONETEP (David O'Regan (TCM)) 2009-11-18 11:20: An adaptive QM/MM molecular dynamics scheme for reactions in solution (Csilla Varnai (Engineering)) 2009-11-18 11:40: QMC studies of first row atoms and ions (Priyanka Seth (TCM)) 2009-11-19 14:15: Theory of exchange splittings of bands in diluted magnetic semiconductors (Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietl, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Physics, University of Warsaw) 2009-11-19 16:00: Predicting surface structures from first principles (Phil Hasnip, Department of Physics, University of York) 2009-11-19 16:00: The fine tuning guide for SUSY searches (Dr Sebastian Cassel (Oxford)) 2009-11-23 11:00: Probabilistic feature tracking with non-probabilistic techniques (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-23 15:30: Josephson junctions for ultracold gases (Prof Markus Oberthaler (University of Heidelberg)) 2009-11-24 15:00: Weak boson pair production at the LHC (Dr. Nikolas Kauer (RHUL)) 2009-11-24 16:00: Subsectors of sigma models on G/H superspaces (Constantin Candu (DESY)) 2009-11-24 16:30: Galactic Plane HI Surveys, Real and Imagined (Kevin Douglas (University of Exeter)) 2009-11-25 10:30: “Towards a quantitative assessment of amyloid formation in vitro and in vivo by mulitparametric fluorescence microscopy” (Dr Carlos Bertoncini, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-25 11:15: Evidence for Unusual Magnetic Order in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition (Heribert Wilhelm, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Diamond Light Source) 2009-11-26 14:15: Majorana anyons: their statistics, interactions and alter ego (Dr Jiannis Pachos, University of Leeds) 2009-11-26 16:00: A new type of SO(10) grand unified family models (Dr Christoph Luhn (Southampton)) 2009-11-26 16:00: Ice accretion on aircraft (Graeme Leese, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 2009-11-27 15:00: Last bets for new physics at the LHC (Prof. John Ellis (CERN)) 2009-11-27 15:00: Last bets for new physics at the LHC (Prof. John Ellis (CERN)) 2009-11-30 11:00: Face Recognition: Who's That Blonde? (Ulrich Paquet (Imense)) 2009-11-30 11:15: Emergence of local broken symmetries with hole-doping in Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2 (Dr. Yuki Kohsaka, Magnetic Materials Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan) 2009-11-30 11:40: NIPS poster (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2009-12-01 15:00: Towards Antihydrogen confinement with the ALPHA Anithydrogen Trap (Dr. J. Storey (TRIUMF, Canada)) 2009-12-01 16:00: Lieb-Liniger Bose gas as the non-relativistic limit of the sinh-Gordon model (Marton Kormos (SISSA)) 2009-12-01 16:30: Music, architecture and acoustics in Renaissance Venice: recreating lost sound-scapes (Malcolm Longair and Braxton Boren (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2009-12-02 10:30: “Evolution & Dynamics of Protein Complexes” (Dr Sarah Teichmann, MRC-LMB, Cambridge) 2009-12-02 11:00: Error cancellation in atomisation and chemical-reaction energies (Norbert Nemec (TCM)) 2009-12-02 11:15: Neutron scattering studies of ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2 under pressure (Dmitri Sokolov, University of Edinburgh) 2009-12-02 11:20: First-principles NMR study for Ge-O-Ge angle in vitreous GeO2 (Mikhail Kibalchenko (TCM)) 2009-12-02 11:40: Post-Cotunnite phase of TeO2 (Gareth Griffiths (TCM)) 2009-12-03 16:00: Composite models at the LHC (Dr Ben Gripaios (CERN)) 2009-12-03 16:00: Next generation initiators (Tracy Vine, QinetiQ) 2009-12-04 14:00: DNA homology recognition: love on first sight (Prof. Alexei A. Kornyshev, Imperial College London) 2009-12-04 14:30: Quantum Optics Experiments with Multiple Qubits and Multiple Photons in Superconducting Electronic Circuits (Johannes Fink (ETH, Zurich)) 2009-12-07 14:30: Quantum dot based nanophotonics: Optical control of charge spin states (Prof Jonathan Finley (Walter Schottky Institut, Germany)) 2009-12-08 16:30: e-MERLIN: Scientific Opportunities and Commissioning Update (Simon Garrington (Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester)) 2009-12-09 10:30: “Understanding protein aggregation in bacteria” (Dr Salvador Ventura, Autonomous University of Barcelona) 2009-12-15 11:30: Excitons and photons in cavity-embedded quantum dot lattices (Dr Michal Grochol (Instut Fur Theoretische Physik, Germany)) 2010-01-11 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-13 11:00: Exchange, antisymmetry, and Pauli repulsion (Mike Towler (TCM)) 2010-01-13 11:40: Textures of the polarisation field in ferroelectric nanowires (Emilio Artacho (Earth Sciences)) 2010-01-14 14:15: Quantum transport beyond the independent-electron approximation (Prof. Rex Godby, University of York) 2010-01-14 16:00: Organic Monolayers, Networks, Electrochemistry: A Toolbox for the Nanoscale? (Manfred Buck, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews) 2010-01-14 16:00: Vector boson + jets at NLO (Dr. Daniel Maitre (Durham)) 2010-01-15 14:00: In Vivo studies with Optical Tweezers (Prof. Lene B. Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark) 2010-01-15 14:00: The long-standing puzzle of missing inelastic neutron scattering intensity in the cuprates (Andrew C. Walters, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France) 2010-01-19 15:00: Measurements of Neutral Current Pion Production by Neutrinos at 1 GeV with SciBooNE (Morgan Wascko (Imperial College London)) 2010-01-19 16:30: Radiation transfer experiments using high-power lasers (Steven Rose (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London)) 2010-01-20 16:00: Synthetic structures and machines from DNA (Prof Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,) 2010-01-21 16:00: Toward understanding the role of heterogeneity in powder mixtures (Dan Eakins, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London) 2010-01-21 16:00: Accelerated Bayesian inference in cosmology (Dr. Mike Hobson (Cambridge)) 2010-01-26 15:00: No Seminar (No Seminar) 2010-01-26 16:00: Kahler metrics and Killing-Yano forms in conformal geometry (Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)) 2010-01-27 10:30: Information-driven modelling of biomolecular complexes. (Prof. Alexandre Bonvin, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University) 2010-01-27 11:00: First-principles study of a positron immersed in an electron gas (Neil Drummond (TCM)) 2010-01-27 11:40: Open Innovation - the future of scientific software engineering? (Mike Payne (TCM)) 2010-01-27 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Stephen Driver, Surface Science Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-28 15:00: Highly Efficient Organic Devices (Professor Karl Leo, Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany) 2010-01-28 16:00: Rational material selection in product design (Stephen Grantham, Granta Design Ltd., Cambridge) 2010-01-28 16:00: Cloudy, with certainty of rain: QCD Effects on global inclusive variables (Andreas Papaefstathiou (Cambridge)) 2010-01-29 14:00: What keeps sand-castles standing? The physics of wet granular matter (Prof. Stefan Herminghaus, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany) 2010-02-01 11:00: NIPS 2009 highlights (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge), Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-02 15:00: Simulations of Hard QCD Radiation (Peter Richardson (IPPP, Durham University)) 2010-02-02 16:00: Twisted Darboux transformation and quasideterminant solutions of a super KdV equation (Jonathan Nimmo (Glasgow)) 2010-02-02 16:30: Relativistic Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion (Philip Blakely (Centre for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2010-02-03 10:30: Protein misfolding in Alzheimer's disease: a neuroscientist takes lessons in biophysics (Dr Leila Luheshi, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-03 11:00: Possible field-induced superconductivity in the quasi-1D purple bronze Li0.9Mo6O17 (Alimamy Bangura, University of Bristol) 2010-02-03 16:00: 'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines' (Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office) 2010-02-04 14:15: Interaction-induced criticality in topological insulators (Dr Pavel Ostrovsky, Karlsruhe) 2010-02-04 16:00: Gaps between jets at the LHC (Dr. Simone Marzani (Manchester)) 2010-02-08 11:00: Automatic Selection of Recognition Errors by Respeaking the Intended Text (Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-09 15:00: No Seminar (postponed) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-02-09 16:00: Automorphic Lie algebras and corresponding integrable systems (Alexander Mikhailov (Leeds)) 2010-02-09 16:30: First power spectrum results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (Joanna Dunkley (Astrophysics, University of Oxford)) 2010-02-10 10:30: PDI and oxidative protein folding: conformations, dynamics and substrate interactions (Prof. Robert Freedman, University of Warwick) 2010-02-10 11:00: Dynamical relaxation to quantum equilibrium (Mike Towler (TCM)) 2010-02-10 11:40: Multigrid method for density functional theory (Hatem Helal (TCM)) 2010-02-11 14:15: Exciton condensation in quantum Hall bilayers: disorder and transport (Paul Eastham, Trinity College, Dublin) 2010-02-11 16:00: Constant Intermittency: Central problems in dislocation plasticity (Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-12 14:00: How disordered is a pile of marbles? 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(Dr Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-17 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-02-18 14:15: Condensation Transitions between Topological Phases (Dr Joost Slingerland, National University of Ireland, Maynooth) 2010-02-18 16:00: Whipple shields for spacecraft (David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-02-18 16:30: The use of Taylor impact for validating material constitutive models (Stephen Walley, SMF Group) 2010-02-19 14:00: Wires, Reporters and Information Capsules: Cellular journalism with DNA. 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(Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2010-03-17 11:15: From vacuum tunnelling to quantum transport: Recent developments and new opportunities in Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (Stefan Tautz, Forschungszentrum Juelich) 2010-03-19 11:15: Crystal structures from nothing - new materials from random numbers (Chris J Pickard) 2010-03-22 11:00: Language Modelling with PPM (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2010-03-25 14:00: Fractional Quantum Hall effects in Rotating Optical lattices (Eliot Kapit (Cornell University)) 2010-03-29 11:00: Speech Dasher: Fast Writing using Speech and Gaze (Keith Vertanen, University of Cambridge) 2010-04-06 14:15: Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics (Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue University) 2010-04-14 11:15: Probing the normal and superconducting state electronic structure of iron-pnictide superconductors (Tony Carrington, University of Bristol) 2010-04-21 10:30: Adapting to unfolded protein load in the endoplasmic reticulum (Prof. David Ron (University of Cambridge)) 2010-04-21 11:00: Optimising stoichiometries using ab initio random structure searching (Andrew Morris (UCL)) 2010-04-21 11:15: Nanodomains in Ferroelectrics and Magnetoelectrics (J. F. Scott, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2010-04-21 11:40: Pressure-induced metallisation / superconductivity of hydrogen-dominant materials (Duck Young Kim (TCM)) 2010-04-22 14:15: The Local Approach to Electronic Structure and Band Gaps (Roger Haydock (TCM and University of Oregon )) 2010-04-23 11:00: CdSe Colloidal Quantum Dots Strained by ZnxCd1-xS or ZnyCd1-ySe Alloyed Shells (Claudine Allen (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada)) 2010-04-26 15:30: The N+1 body problem and the phase diagram of a spin imbalanced fermi gas (Dr Frederic Chevy) 2010-04-27 15:00: New Jet Wisdom (Yuri Dokshitzer (LPTHE Paris VI & VII)) 2010-04-27 16:00: Superstring sigma models from generalised self-dual Yang-Mills theory (Martin Wolf (DAMTP)) 2010-04-28 16:00: Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole (Professor James Pinfold, University of Alberta) 2010-04-29 14:15: Quantum phase transitions and novel phases. (Philipp Gegenwart, University of Goettingen) 2010-04-29 14:30: Light structuring of functional polymers (Dr. Carlos Sánchez, University of Zaragoza, Spain) 2010-04-29 16:00: Behaviour of structures under extreme dynamic loadings: Characterisation and modelling (Yong Lu, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, The University of Edinburgh) 2010-04-29 16:00: Minimal Walking Technicolor: Dark matter and LHC signatures (Dr. Mads Frandsen (Oxford)) 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) 2010-04-30 14:15: Talk Cancelled (Prof. Pawel Hawrylak, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada) 2010-04-30 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Franco Cacialli, University College London) 2010-05-03 11:00: Report from CHI 2010 (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-03 15:30: Tunable quantum gases in optical lattices: ground state molecules and strongly-interacting 1D systems (Hanns-Christoph Naegerl (University of Innsbruck)) 2010-05-04 14:30: Polymer Solar Cells: From structure-property-relations to module fabrication (Dr. Harald Hoppe, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany) 2010-05-04 15:00: Exclusive Physics at the Tevatron and the LHC (Prof. Jim Pinfold, University of Alberta) 2010-05-04 16:00: Nearly Kaehler manifolds and G_2-instantons (Derek Harland (Durham)) 2010-05-05 09:00: Hitachi - Cambridge Seminar "Physics for Sustainable Technology" (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-05-05 10:30: NMR studies of a helical 7-transmembrane receptor (Dr. Daniel Nietlispach (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-05 11:00: QMC in Slater determinant space (Ali Alavi (CUC3)) 2010-05-05 11:20: Non-Hamiltonian quantum mechanics: some simple ideas (Roger Haydock (TCM / Oregon)) 2010-05-05 11:40: Dynamical effects in ab initio NMR calculations (Mark Robinson (TCM)) 2010-05-05 14:00: Quantum information exchange between photons and electrons in solids (Hideo Kosaka (Tohoku Univeristy, Japan)) 2010-05-05 17:30: Life, extended mind, and physical reality (Prof. Brian Josephson, Mind-Matter Unification Project, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2010-05-06 14:15: How a non-Fermi liquid can emerge at a metal-insulator transition (Prof. Gabriel Aeppli, University College London) 2010-05-06 16:00: Low work function diamond surfaces (Kane O’Donnell, Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, University of Bristol) 2010-05-06 16:00: N_2-dominated leptogenesis (Dr. Pasquale Di Bari (Southampton)) 2010-05-07 14:00: Active self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton driven by molecular motors (Dr. Gijsje Koenderinck) 2010-05-07 15:30: Are Hartree–Fock atoms too small or too large? 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Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute) 2010-05-11 15:00: First Results from ALICE (Orlando Villalobos-Baillie, University of Birmingham) 2010-05-11 16:30: Radiative Transfer Models of Dusty Evolving Galaxies (Douglas O'Rourke (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2010-05-11 16:45: Transparent connections over negatively curved surfaces (Gabriel Paternain (DPMMS)) 2010-05-12 10:30: Evolutionary strategies to prevent protein aggregation (Dr. Annalisa Pastore (National Institute for Medical Research, London)) 2010-05-12 11:30: Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells (Dr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin) 2010-05-12 16:00: Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes (Malcolm Longair and Braxton Boren) 2010-05-12 16:00: Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes (Malcolm Longair and Braxton Boren) 2010-05-13 14:15: Critical parameters from generalised multifractal analysis at the Anderson transition (Dr Alberto Rodriguez (Warwick)) 2010-05-13 16:00: The use of innovative optimisation methods in computational mechanics: Application to structures, material processing technologies and constitutive models (A. Andrade-Campos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal) 2010-05-13 16:00: General Gauge Mediation in 5D and application to ISS models (Moritz McGarrie (QMUL)) 2010-05-13 16:00: Collective qubits and hybrid schemes for quantum computing (Klaus Moelmer (University of Aarhus, Denmark)) 2010-05-14 15:15: New Breath: regenerative medicine of the airways (Prof. M. Birchall, Professor of Laryngology and Consultant Laryngologist at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Reader in Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Bristol) 2010-05-17 11:00: Ticker: A text-entry interface with audio feedback for single-switch users (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-17 14:15: Electron confinement in graphene quantum dots (Prof Peter Maksym (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester) 2010-05-17 15:30: Semiconductor Microcavities Galore (Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton)) 2010-05-17 16:00: Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.) 2010-05-18 14:00: Laser cooling of atoms using multi-photon transitions (Saijun Wu (Trey Porto Lab, NIST)) 2010-05-18 15:00: CMS Status (TBC) (Clare Shepherd-Themistocleous, STFC) 2010-05-18 16:00: The Quillen bundle and geometric prequantization of various moduli spaces (Rukmini Dey (Harish Chandra Institute)) 2010-05-19 10:30: Fibril fragmentation in amyloid assembly and cytotoxicity - When size matters (Dr. Wei-Feng Xue (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Leeds)) 2010-05-19 11:00: Lattice dynamics of mercury (II) iodide (Lydia Nemec (TCM / Regensburg)) 2010-05-19 11:40: DFT mapping of the reaction cavity in photolinkage isomerism complexes (Anthony Phillips (TCM/SMF)) 2010-05-19 16:00: Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.) 2010-05-20 16:00: How water wets metal surfaces (George Darling, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool) 2010-05-20 16:00: Probing CP Violation with Kinematic Reconstruction at the LHC (Dr. Krzysztof Rolbiecki (Durham)) 2010-05-21 14:00: Microfluidics: a tool for discovery and development (Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto) 2010-05-21 14:15: Optical properties of III – V semiconductor nanostructures (Prof Jan Misiewicz, Laboratory for Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructures, Dept of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland) 2010-05-21 16:00: Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.) 2010-05-24 11:00: Conditional Counting: Approximate Multinomial Probit Regression (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-24 14:15: Quantised charge pumping in a perpendicular magnetic field (Mr Sam Wright (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cambridge)) 2010-05-25 16:30: Ultra-wideband Phased Array Antennas for Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy (Eloy de Lera Acedo (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2010-05-26 10:30: NMR Toolkit for studying biomolecular folding (Dr. Danny Hsu (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-26 11:15: Quantum criticality and dynamical scaling in YbRh2Si2 (Sven Friedemann, QM group) 2010-05-26 16:00: The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease (Prof Steven Schiff, Director of the Penn State Centre for Neural Engineering) 2010-05-27 14:15: Strongly correlated lattice polaritons (Dr Sebastian Schmidt (ETH Zurich)) 2010-05-27 16:00: Nanohardness of high purity Cu (111) single crystals: The effect of indenter load and prior plastic strain (Munawar Chaudhri, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-05-27 16:00: Double Parton Distributions incorporating pQCD Evolution and Sum Rule Constraints (Jonathan Gaunt (Cambridge)) 2010-05-28 11:00: Harnessing the Interactions of Ultrasound Waves and Acoustic Cavitation With Biological Tissue for Non-Invasive Therapy and Drug Delivery (Dr Constantin Coussios, Biomedical Ultrasonics & Biotherapy Laboratory, University of Oxford) 2010-05-28 14:00: Insights into disorder (Dr. Tomaso Aste, Materials Dept, Univ. Kent) 2010-05-28 15:30: Half Vortices in Exciton Polariton Condensates (Marianne Bauer (TCM)) 2010-05-28 16:00: Potential Energy Surfaces Fitted by Artificial Neural Networks (Wojciech Szlachta (TCM)) 2010-05-31 11:00: Robust Associative memory (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-31 14:15: Cutting graphene with an AFM: device lithography in under a minute (Mr Philip Scard (Semiconductor Physics Group, Cambridge)) 2010-06-01 16:30: Characterising anomalous microwave emission from spinning dust (Anna Scaife (Dublin Institute for Advaced Studies)) 2010-06-02 10:30: TBA (Dr. Monika Fuxreiter (Institute of Enzymology, BRC, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)) 2010-06-02 11:00: VMC sampling efficiency (Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM)) 2010-06-02 11:40: Structural assignments of NMR chemical shifts in Ge_xSe_(1-x) glasses through first-principles calculations for GeSe_2, Ge_4Se_9, and GeSe crystals (Mikhail Kibalchenko (TCM)) 2010-06-02 14:30: Quarkonium Production at the LHC (Prof. Sridhar (Tata Institute, Mumbai)) 2010-06-02 16:00: LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM (Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania) 2010-06-03 16:00: How to make polymers as strong as steel – and also more environmentally friendly (David Barton, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds) 2010-06-03 16:00: Standard Candle Central Exclusive Processes at Hadron Colliders (Lucian Harland-Lang (Cambridge)) 2010-06-04 14:00: Physical Aspects of Multicellular Behaviour (Dr. Knut Drescher, DAMTP, Cambridge, UK) 2010-06-04 14:15: Theoretic Study of Unitary Fermi Gas (Dr. Matthew Wingate, University of Cambridge) 2010-06-07 14:15: Adiabatic transport through interacting quantum dots (Dr Janine Splettstoesser (Institut fur Theoretische Physik A, Physikzentrum, RWTH Aachen, Germany)) 2010-06-07 15:30: Time-resolving attosecond phenomena in multi-electron ionization of atoms driven by single photon and strong fields (Agapi Emmanouilidou (UCL)) 2010-06-08 16:15: Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity ( Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia) 2010-06-10 14:15: Universal phase transitions in topological lattice models (Dr Fiona Burnell (All Souls, Oxford)) 2010-06-10 16:00: Structures of materials at high pressures (Richard Needs, Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-06-10 16:00: Dark Matter candidate and LHC phenomenology on the Real Projective Plane (Dr. Giacomo Cacciapaglia (IPN Lyon)) 2010-06-11 10:30: From pathology to function: the many faces of fibrillation (Dr. Daniel Otzen (Aarhus University)) 2010-06-11 10:30: From pathology to function: the many faces of fibrillation (Dr. Daniel Otzen (Aarhus University)) 2010-06-11 14:30: Life, Hypervelocity Impacts and the Solar System (Mark Burchell, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury) 2010-06-11 15:30: Toward a quantitative approach to migrants integration (Felix Nissen (Cavendish Lab (TCM) / Churchill College)) 2010-06-11 16:00: A new mixing of Hartree-Fock and local density-functional theories (Gihan Weerasinghe (TCM)) 2010-06-14 09:00: The AEGIS project (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-16 11:00: Statistical errors and application to QMC (Robert Lee (TCM)) 2010-06-16 11:40: Distinguishing weak hydrogen bonding with NMR (Mikhail Kibalchenko (TCM)) 2010-06-17 16:00: Looking for New (BSM) Physics at the LHC with Single Jets: Jet Substructure and Pruning (Prof. Steve Ellis (Washington, Seattle)) 2010-06-18 14:00: Nanoplasmonics: Classical oscillator physics at the nanoscale (Prof. Stefan Maier, Experimental Solid State Group Department of Physics Imperial College London) 2010-06-21 11:00: Differential Privacy and Probabilistic Inference (Oliver Williams (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-24 16:00: Charming Higgs (Brando Bellazzini, Cornell University) 2010-06-28 11:00: Intelligently Aiding Human-Guided Correction of Speech Recognition (Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-30 16:30: EMC Metrological Issues Relevant to SKA Demonstrator (MeerKAT) (Professor Howard Reader (Stellenbosch University, SA)) 2010-07-05 11:00: Bayesian head pose estimation (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 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) 2010-07-08 09:00: Lectureship Seminars (HEP Lectureship Candidates) 2010-07-12 12:00: “Disordered Proteins and their Dynamic Complexes in Biological Regulation” (Prof. Julie Forman-Kay (University of Toronto)) 2010-07-12 16:30: From Solar Noise to Cosmic Noise to Radio Astronomy: Australian contributions to opening a new window to the Universe (Professor Miller Goss (NRAO)) 2010-07-15 16:00: Fluctuation Electron Microscopy of Amorphous Materials: The Twinkle in the Microscopist's Eye. (Mike Treacy, Department of Materials, Oxford University) 2010-07-16 11:00: Dasher on a Space-filling curve (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-19 11:00: Introduction to Geometric Algebra (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-19 15:30: When molecular physics meets ultracold gases (Olivier Dulieu (CNRS Paris)) 2010-07-23 14:00: Quantum Simulations with Cold Atoms: Challenges and proposed Solutions (Prof Tin-Lun Ho (Ohio state University)) 2010-07-26 11:00: Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-30 15:30: Marginal Fermi liquid behaviour and competing orders with topological characteristics in bilayer graphene. (Rahul Nandkishore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2010-08-02 14:15: Some Uses of Hashing in Networking Problems (Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University) 2010-08-03 11:00: Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank (Prof Michael Mitzenmacher - Computer Science, Harvard) 2010-08-09 11:00: Topic Models -- and how to break them (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2010-08-10 16:00: Recent developments on Riemann solvers and application to very complex hyperbolic systems (Professor E F Toro, University of Trento, Italy) 2010-08-16 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Laurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge)) 2010-08-23 11:00: Statistical Language Modelling (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-08-26 10:00: Disordered and spin-dependent optical lattices (Prof B DeMarco (University of Illinois)) 2010-08-30 11:00: Research adventures in Japan (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2010-09-06 11:00: Ticker: Case Study (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2010-09-06 15:30: Electromagnetically induced transparency with single atoms in a cavity (Dr Stephan Ritter (Max-Planck-Institute)) 2010-09-07 16:30: The Cosmic Radio Background: Recent Measurement and Implications (Jack Singal (SLAC National Accelerator Centre, Stanford, USA)) 2010-09-13 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2010-09-13 15:30: Electromagnetically induced transparency with single atoms in a cavity (Dr Stephan Ritter (Max-Planck-institute)) 2010-09-16 14:00: Solid state physics with fermionic atomic quantum gases: engineering metals and Mott insulators in an optical lattice (Dr Robert Jordens (ETH Zurich)) 2010-09-20 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor John E. Anthony, University of Kentucky) 2010-09-21 15:30: Present status and future prospects for the Higgs boson (Prof. Howie Haber (SCIPP)) 2010-09-22 11:15: Common behaviors of unconventional superconductors indicating non-BCS condensation and spin-mediated resonant pairing (Yasutomo J. Uemura, Columbia University, New York, 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) 2010-10-01 15:30: The Supramolecular Chemistry of the Homeopathic Remedy (John Benneth) 2010-10-04 11:00: Continuous Gesture Recognition and Visualization (Leif Denby (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-06 11:00: Gaussian Approximation Potential for Metals (Wojciech Szlachta (TCM)) 2010-10-06 11:20: High Pressure Random Structure Searching on the Fe-C System (Gihan Weerasinghe (TCM)) 2010-10-07 14:15: Possibility of Hot Superconductivity in Charged Graphene (G Baskaran, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) 2010-10-08 14:00: Bacterial swarming in Pseudomonas A.: socio-microbiology or hydrodynamics? (Prof. Jan Vermant, Unive Leuven, Belgium) 2010-10-11 11:00: Bayesian Psychometry (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-12 14:30: Molecular electronics from thin films to single molecules (Dr J Emyr Macdonald, Cardiff University) 2010-10-12 16:00: G_2 geometry and twistor theory (Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)) 2010-10-13 11:00: Modelling Cu(I) based p-type semiconducting oxides (Graeme Watson (School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin)) 2010-10-14 11:00: Quantum Optics experiments with single Barium Ions (Sebastian Gerber (University of Innsbruck)) 2010-10-14 16:00: Recent progress on statistical methods for LHC physics (Dr. Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)) 2010-10-14 16:00: A two dimensional approach for measuring surface phonons using helium spin echo (Pepijn Kole, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-10-14 16:30: The dynamics of thermally activated motion of cyclopentadienyl and pyrrole on Cu(111) (Barbara Lechner, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-10-15 10:30: Transport and optical spectroscopy on semiconductor quantum dots (Dr Martin Geller (University of Duisburg-Essen)) 2010-10-18 14:15: Surface acoustic wave quantum electronic devices -- playing ping-pong with single electrons (Mr Robert Mc Neil, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-18 15:30: Hubbard-Mott physics of electrons in an artificial semiconductor lattice (Vittorio Pellegrini (NEST Instituto Nanoscienze-CNR)) 2010-10-19 11:00: Rydberg physics with cold strontium (Dr James Millen (Durham University)) 2010-10-19 15:00: Charged Lepton Flavour Violation: a factor one million improvement (Yoshi Uchida (Imperial)) 2010-10-19 16:00: Narcissistic Skyrmions (Claude Warnick (DAMTP)) 2010-10-20 11:00: The ionic states of combinatorial phosphorous (Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences)) 2010-10-20 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Marc Gheoghegan, Reader in Experimental Polymer Science, Univ. Sheffield) 2010-10-20 11:40: Modelling conformational changes of proteins (William Belfield (TCM)) 2010-10-21 11:30: Unveiling the High-frequency Radio Sky with the AT20G Survey (Elizabeth Mahony (University of Sydney)) 2010-10-21 14:15: Force generation in the lamellipod of crawling cells (Tom Duke, University College London) 2010-10-21 16:00: Titanium dioxide: Interplay between non-stoichiometry, point and planar bulk defects and surface structure and reactivity (Roger Bennett, Department of Physics, University of Reading) 2010-10-21 16:30: Neutrino Masses & Phenomenological Aspects in the L-violating MSSM (Marja Hanussek (Bonn)) 2010-10-22 11:00: Universal spin transport in strongly interacting fermi gases (Prof Martin Zwierlein (MIT)) 2010-10-22 14:00: Plasmon-induced DNA damage? (Prof. Zdenka Kuncic, University of Sidney) 2010-10-25 11:00: Putting Some Language Back Into Language Modelling (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-25 14:15: Two-dimensional electron systems in ultra-pure GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures (Dr Stefan Schmult, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart) 2010-10-25 15:30: Measuring the electron EDM with cold molecules (Ed Hinds (Centre for cold matter, Imperial College, London)) 2010-10-26 15:00: The NOvA Experiment (Prof. Alec Habig (University of Minnesota Duluth)) 2010-10-26 16:00: The Babaev-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition. (Juha Jaykka (Leeds)) 2010-10-26 16:30: The Murchison Widefield Array - Status and lessons from a sparse-array demonstrator perspective (Mark Waterson (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Australia)) 2010-10-27 11:30: STORM below the localisation limit (Susan Cox, Kings College London) 2010-10-27 16:00: The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and Supersolidity (Prof. Tilman Esslinger, ETH, Zurich) 2010-10-28 14:15: The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity (Kristian Baumann, ETH Zurich) 2010-10-28 16:00: Characterisation of anisotropic materials at high rates of strain (Clive Siviour, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) 2010-10-28 16:00: Stop reconstruction using HEPTopTagger (Michihisa Takeuchi (Heidelberg)) 2010-10-29 14:00: self-assembly of colloidal molecules. (Prof. Willem Kegel, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) 2010-11-01 11:00: The Multiscale Composite Dirichlet Process and its applications (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-01 14:15: TBA (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-02 15:00: The Properties of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and the problems that these pose (Prof. Alan Watson (Leeds)) 2010-11-02 16:00: On the integrability of symplectic Monge-Ampere equations. (Eugene Ferapontov (Loughborough)) 2010-11-02 16:30: Submillimetre Spectroscopy of Clustered Star Formation in the Gould Belt (Sarah Graves (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2010-11-02 17:00: Fitting and Comparison of Models of Radio Spectra (Bojan Nikolic (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2010-11-03 11:00: The electride story continued (Richard Needs (TCM)) 2010-11-03 11:40: Random search - lessons from model potentials (Chris Pickard (UCL)) 2010-11-04 14:15: Dynamics and critical behaviour of the spin-boson model (Andreas Alvermann, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-04 16:00: Simple systems at extreme conditions (Eugene Gregoryanz, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh) 2010-11-04 16:00: Measuring new particle masses at the LHC (Dr. Kazuki Sakurai (Cambridge)) 2010-11-05 11:30: Layered Systems of Cold Polar Molecules (Nikolaj Zinner, University of Aarhus) 2010-11-05 15:30: Quantum Critical Scaling of the Geometric Tensors (Gen Zhang (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-05 16:00: Transition from metallic to tunneling regimes in superconducting microconstrictions: Excess current, charge imbalance, and supercurrent conversion (Marianne Bauer (TCM)) 2010-11-08 11:00: South Africa's Involvement With Square Kilometre Array Bid: Infrastructure and Electromagnetic Quietness (Prof. Howard Reader, University of Stellenbosch) 2010-11-08 14:15: Spin injection into semiconductors from ferromagnetic materials (Dr Rhodri Mansell, Thin Film Magnetism Group, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-09 13:00: Multi-scale multi-physics approaches for forecasting weather and climate variability (Keiko Takahashi, Japan Agency for Marine and Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)) 2010-11-09 14:30: Solar H2 production and CO2 reduction with bio-inspired hybrid systems (Dr. Erwin Reisner, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-09 15:00: The SNO+ Project (Prof. Steven Biller (Oxford)) 2010-11-09 16:00: Optical structures and algebraic speciality of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensions (Arman Taghavi-Chabert (Oxford)) 2010-11-09 16:30: Localising the Energy and Momentum of Linear Gravity (Luke Butcher (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2010-11-10 11:15: Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition (Andras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest) 2010-11-10 11:15: Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition (Andras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest) 2010-11-10 16:00: Charge transport in molecular semiconductors – Bloch electron or hopping transport ? (Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-11-11 14:15: Domain wall in a chiral p-wave superconductor: Majorana fermions and their transport properties (Dr Benjamin Beri, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-11 16:00: Impact cratering: Shock physics on a planetary scale (Gareth Collins, Department of Earth Science, Imperial College, London) 2010-11-11 16:00: QED is not imperiled by the proton's running radii (Prof. Alvaro De Rujula (CERN)) 2010-11-12 11:00: Surface chemistry and energy transfer between semiconductor nanocrystals and cyanine J-aggregates (Brian Walker, MIT) 2010-11-12 14:00: Developing cell-scale biomimetic models involving lipid vesicles. (Miglena Angelova, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) 2010-11-15 11:00: Out-of-band Language Modelling (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-15 14:15: Phase transitions in nanostructures (Dr David Cobden, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle) 2010-11-15 15:30: Full counting statistics of the interference contrast from independent Bose-Einstein condensates (Willhelm Zwerger (Technische Universitat Munchen)) 2010-11-16 11:00: Two-Component Bosons in state-dependent optical lattices (Daniel Pertot (Dept of Physics, Stony Brook Univeristy)) 2010-11-16 13:00: ADER high-order schemes for evolutionary PDEs (Professor E F Toro, University of Trento, Italy) 2010-11-16 15:00: New Physics at LHCb (Sebastian Jaeger (University of Sussex)) 2010-11-16 16:30: CB12: Observations of the Thermal SZ Effect at 30 GHz (James Allison (University of Oxford)) 2010-11-16 17:00: Theodora Ioannidou (Thessaloniki) (Noncommutative Baby Skyrmions.) 2010-11-17 11:00: Accelerating linear-scaling DFT: Differential geometry meets electronic structure theory (David O'Regan (TCM)) 2010-11-17 11:40: Adaptive QM/MM simulations for reactions in solution (Csilla Varnai (Engineering)) 2010-11-17 16:00: How English Libel Law Threatens Science (Simon Singh) 2010-11-18 14:15: Towards realistic calculations of molecular adsorption and desorption on surfaces (Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London) 2010-11-18 16:00: Single atoms and ultracold atomic gases (Michael Koehl, Atomic, Mesoscopic, and Optical Physics (AMOP) Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-11-18 16:00: QCD Hard Processes in the Forward Region at the LHC (Dr. Francesco Hautmann (Oxford)) 2010-11-19 14:00: Proteomic and cell biological approaches to the study of clathrin in a vertebrate conditional knockout cell-line (Dr. Tony Jackson, Univ. Cambridge, Neuroscience) 2010-11-19 15:30: On the Equations of Motion of Crystal Dislocations (Wojciech Szlachta (TCM)) 2010-11-19 16:00: Time-reversal-symmetry breaking in circuit-QED-based photon lattices (Felix Nissen (Cavendish Lab (TCM) / Churchill College)) 2010-11-22 14:15: Calculation of few-electron states in carbon nanotube quantum dots (Dr Mervyn Roy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester) 2010-11-23 13:00: Diffuse interfaces modelling (Richard Saurel, Aix-Marseille University, IUSTI - SMASH Group, France) 2010-11-23 15:00: Supersymmetry with a large reheating temperature (James Wells (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-23 16:00: Quaternionic Geometry and String Theory (Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht)) 2010-11-23 16:30: Constraining Early Dark Energy with Current and Future CMB Data (Erminia Calabrese (University of Rome)) 2010-11-24 09:30: The strange world of low Reynolds numbers: Fluiddynamics at the micron scale (Professor Holger Stark, Technical University, Berlin) 2010-11-24 16:00: The 2010 CU Canon Foundation Lecture : Creative tensions between science and technology (Prof Sir Richard Friend, The Cavendish Labortory) 2010-11-25 14:15: Artificial gauge potentials for neutral atoms: from Sagnac's to Berry's phases (Prof. Jean Dalibard, CNRS and ENS Paris) 2010-11-25 16:00: Artificial nacre with vertically bridged tablets by ambient solution processing (Alex Finnemore, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory) 2010-11-25 16:00: A not so elementary Higgs (Prof. Christophe Grojean (CERN)) 2010-11-26 10:00: Insight into the synthesis and processing of narrow band gap organic semiconducting polymers for solar cell fabricationTitle to be confirmed (SpeaGuillermo C. Bazan Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;ker to be confirmed) 2010-11-26 12:30: Numerical modelling of two HMX-based plastic-bonded explosives at the mesoscale (Caroline Handley (AWE)) 2010-11-29 11:45: Title to be confirmed (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-29 13:00: Block-structured AMR algorithms for complex hyperbolic applications (Dr Ralf Deiterding, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) 2010-11-29 14:15: Gate-dependent spin-orbit coupling in multi-electron carbon nanotubes (Dr Casper Grove, Niels Bohr Institute & Nanoscience Center, University of Copenhagen) 2010-11-29 15:30: Dynamics of coupled QED-cavaties (Rosario Fazio (Scoula Normale Superiore, Pisa)) 2010-11-30 15:00: The possible impact of astrophysical observations on LHC physics (Celine Boehm (LAPTH, Universite de Savoie, CNRS Annecy-le-Vieux)) 2010-11-30 16:00: The phases of extremely dense deuterium (Aleksey Cherman (DAMTP)) 2010-11-30 16:30: An Update on Progress with AMI (Matthew Davies (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2010-11-30 17:00: Investigations of the Radio Source Population at High Frequencies (Thomas Franzen (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2010-12-01 11:00: Molecular Doping of Graphene ( Louis Lee (TCM)) 2010-12-01 11:20: Trapping, linking and encapsulating molecules in metal-based complexes and cluster cages. (Fedor Naumkin (Univ. of Ontario Institute of Technology)) 2010-12-02 16:00: Webs! (Chris White (Glasgow)) 2010-12-03 14:00: Kidney Transplantation (Dr. Frederieke Bemelman, Head of Kidney transplants, Hospital of Amsterdam (AMC), Netherlands) 2010-12-06 11:00: Introduction to Geometric Algebra II (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-12-06 15:30: Optical trapping of an ion (Christian Schneider (Max-Planck-Institut)) 2010-12-07 15:00: (Talk postponed until 2011) (Chris White (University of Glasgow)) 2010-12-08 14:00: Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales (Prof. Fridrich Kremer) 2010-12-13 11:15: A New Machine Learning Library (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-18 11:15: The nucleation and growth of nanovoids: Molecular dynamics calculations (Marc André Meyers, The University of California at San Diego) 2011-01-18 16:30: Progress and Science with the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (Michelle Creech-Eakman (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology)) 2011-01-19 11:00: Quantum Monte Carlo study of the first row atoms & ions. (Priyanka Seth (TCM)) 2011-01-19 11:20: The crystal structure of ammonia dihydrate II (Gareth Griffiths (TCM)) 2011-01-19 11:40: Oddities of QMC with the 1D electron gas (Robert Lee (TCM)) 2011-01-20 14:15: Groebli solution for three magnetic vortices (Stavros Komineas, University of Crete, Heraklion) 2011-01-20 16:00: Nanotechnology: Challenging chips and crime (Russell Cowburn, TFM Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-01-21 14:00: Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales (Prof. Fridrich Kremer, University Leipzig, Germany) 2011-01-25 15:00: SUSY Monojets at the LHC (Ben Allanach (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-25 16:00: Supersymmetric black holes in N=2, D=4 gauged supergravity and attractors (Dietmar Klemm (Milan)) 2011-01-27 14:15: (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-01-27 16:00: On the twist: Chirality at surfaces (Stephen Driver, Surface Science Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2011-01-27 16:00: Minimal Walking Technicolor on the Lattice (Francis Bursa (DAMTP)) 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) 2011-02-01 15:00: Gravitational wave searches - status and plans (Prof. Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)) 2011-02-01 16:00: The hyperbolicity of Skyrme model through the lens of elastodynamics (Willie Wong (DPMMS)) 2011-02-01 16:30: Gravitation, Condensation, Deuteration, Star Formation (or how to piece together the chemical and physical influences thereof!) (Helen Fraser (University of Strathclyde)) 2011-02-02 11:00: Structural composition of GeSe_2 and GeSe_4 glasses (Mikhail Kibalchenko (TCM)) 2011-02-02 11:30: A Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Uniform Electron Gas (James Shepherd (CUC3)) 2011-02-03 14:15: Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the full configuration interaction problem (Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge) 2011-02-03 16:00: Physics in innovation consultancy (Tim Goldrein, Innovia Technology Ltd., Cambridge) 2011-02-03 16:00: Properties of the minimal U(1)_B-L extension of the SM (Lorenzo Basso (Southampton)) 2011-02-04 14:00: Active Emulsions (Prof. Seth Fraden, Brandeis University, USA) 2011-02-07 11:00: A computer-vision based facial gesture switch (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-07 14:15: Giant Fluctuations of Coulomb Drag (Dr Adam Price, Quantum Systems and Nanomaterials Group, School of Physics, University of Exeter) 2011-02-08 14:30: Studying polaron generation and recombination in pristine films of conjugated polymer P3HT (Steffan Cook, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) 2011-02-08 15:00: Measurement of the neutral D meson mixing parameters at the BaBar experiment (Jordi Garra Ticó (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-08 16:00: Projective, Optical, and Path Geometries (Stephen Casey (DAMTP)) 2011-02-09 17:30: The Evolution of Telepathy (Perrott-Warrick Lecture) (Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Perrott-Warrick Scholar in Psychical Research, 2005-2010)) 2011-02-10 14:30: Conical Intersection Dynamics in Rhodopsin and its 9-cis Isorhodopsin analog studied with femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. (Dario Polli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 2011-02-10 16:00: Research in the Semiconductor Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory (David Ritchie, Semiconductor Physics (SP) Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-02-15 16:00: The Skyrme model and Nuclear Physics (Steffen Krusch (Kent)) 2011-02-16 11:00: Guest desorption and rearrangement in a metal-cyanide framework (Anthony Phillips (Structure & Dynamics)) 2011-02-16 11:20: Distinction of disorder, classical and quantum vibrational contributions to atomic mean-square amplitudes in dielectric pentachloronitrobenzene (Jacqui Cole (Structure and Dynamics)) 2011-02-16 16:00: Molecular Soup* with a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics) (Prof Harry Coles, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics & Electronics, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge) 2011-02-17 14:15: Quantum Ice (Dr Nic Shannon, University of Bristol) 2011-02-17 16:00: Improving laser-driven flyer performance (Hannah Brierley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-02-17 16:00: Warped string excitations at the Tevatron and the LHC (Joao Rosa (Edinburgh)) 2011-02-18 14:00: Liquid Crystal and Nonequilibrium states in mixed suspensions of mineral colloidal plates and spheres (Prof. Henk Lekkerkerker, University of Utrecht, Netherlands) 2011-02-18 15:30: Natural Population Analysis (Louis Lee (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-18 16:00: The Deep Blue chess algorithm (Pascal Bugnion) 2011-02-21 14:15: Quantum memories using electron and nuclear spins in the solid state (Dr John Morton, Materials Department, University of Oxford) 2011-02-22 15:00: Recent results in single top physics (Chris White (University of Glasgow)) 2011-02-22 16:00: Octonionic Instantons (Moritz Hoegner (DAMTP)) 2011-02-24 14:15: Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance (Jesper Levinsen, University of Cambridge) 2011-02-24 16:00: Shock compression of Mie-Grüneisen liquids (Mike Morley, SMF Group, The Cavenidsh Laboratory) 2011-02-24 16:00: Squark and gluino production at the LHC (Anna Kulesza (Aachen)) 2011-02-25 14:00: Mechanics and growth of tissues (Jean-Francois Joanny, Institute Curie) 2011-02-28 14:15: Spin and valley control in semiconductor and carbon quantum dots (Prof Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz, Germany) 2011-03-01 14:30: Gravure contact printing and charge injection and transport studies of polymer LEDs and FETs (Alasdair Campbell, Imperial College, London, UK.) 2011-03-01 15:00: Searching for third generation scalar Leptoquarks at the LHC (Andreas Papaefstathiou (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-01 16:00: Dirac operators with torsion (Ilka Agricola (Marburg)) 2011-03-01 16:30: Modelling Astrophysics Data for Discovery, Classification and Precise Measurements (David Hogg (Centre for Cosmology & Particle Physics, New York University)) 2011-03-02 11:20: Materials Design using Ab Initio Random Structure Searching (Andrew Morris (UCL, UK)) 2011-03-02 16:00: Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array (Prof Paul Alexander, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-03-03 14:15: Superconductor proximity effects in half-metallic ferromagnets (Prof Piet Brouwer, FU Berlin) 2011-03-03 16:00: Erosion of thermal barrier coatings (Richard Wellman, Cranfield University) 2011-03-03 16:00: Supersymmetry without prejudice at the LHC (John Conley (Bonn)) 2011-03-04 14:00: Multivariant gradient assemblies of oligomers and polymers on flat surfaces (Prof. Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, USA.) 2011-03-04 15:30: Experimental Quantum Teleportation (Gihan Weerasinghe (TCM)) 2011-03-04 16:00: A Quantitative, Theoretical Framework for Understanding Mammalian Sleep (Wave Ngampruetikorn) 2011-03-07 11:30: Ultrabright solid state sources of quantum light (Pascale Senellart (CNRS/LPN)) 2011-03-07 14:15: Carbon nanotubes as Cooper pair beam splitters (Dr Takis Kontos, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) 2011-03-07 16:00: Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS) 2011-03-08 13:00: Ultra-High Resolution Atmospheric Modeling Using Cut Cells (Hiroe Yamazaki, Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan) 2011-03-08 15:00: Precision B Physics in the LHC Era (Robert Fleischer (Nikhef)) 2011-03-08 16:00: Moduli of vortices and Grassmann manifolds (Nuno Romao (Barcelona)) 2011-03-08 16:30: Water Vapour Radiometry at ALMA: Properties of the Atmosphere and First Tests of Phase Correction (Bojan Nikolic & Rosie Bolton (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-03-09 16:00: Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS) 2011-03-10 16:00: Scratching the surface: Measuring the wear and frictional response of surfaces (Mark Gee, National Physical Laboratory) 2011-03-10 16:00: Comparison of BSM mass determination methods at the LHC (Tania Robens (Glasgow)) 2011-03-11 16:00: Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS) 2011-03-14 11:00: CRH: a Central Reference Handling system (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-14 15:30: Control and manipulation of spontaneous emission in photonic crystal and plasmonic nanostructures (Michael Kaniber (TU Munich)) 2011-03-15 13:00: Phase diagrams from first principles using Gaussian Approximation Potentials (Gabor Csanyi) 2011-03-15 14:30: Raman Spectroscopy - Any Use for Organic Electronics? (Ji-Seon Kim, Imperial College, London) 2011-03-15 15:00: Gauge Boson Ratios and New Physics in ATLAS - POSTPONED (Dr Stefan Ask (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-15 16:00: Skyrmion Solutions (Richard Battye (Manchester )) 2011-03-15 16:30: The Renaissance of Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays (Tim Huege (Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie, Germany)) 2011-03-16 11:00: Free Energy Calculations with ONETEP: the pKa of phenol (D.J. Cole (TCM)) 2011-03-16 11:20: An ab initio study of the Little-Parks effect (G.J. Conduit (Weizmann Institute of Science)) 2011-03-17 14:15: Magnetic field-induced anisotropy in specific heat and transport properties of unconventional superconductors. (Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University) 2011-03-17 16:00: Pulsed power driven shock physics experiments at Imperial College (Simon Bland, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College) 2011-03-17 16:00: Cosmic Ray Backgrounds for Dark Matter Indirect Detection (Philipp Mertsch (Oxford)) 2011-03-18 14:00: Electrochemical detection in nanochannels: a new single-molecule technique (Prof. Searge J. G. Lemay, University of Twente, The Netherlands) 2011-03-21 11:00: Rigid body motion in conformal geometric algebra (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-21 15:30: Cavity quantum electrodynamics using optical fibre cavities (Jakob Reichel (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de I'E.N.S.)) 2011-03-22 14:30: Excitation delocalisation dynamics in conjugated molecular materials. (Laura Herz, Oxford University, UK) 2011-03-25 15:00: Fusion Power: Sometime/Never, or This Year/Next Year? (Brian Josephson) 2011-03-28 15:30: Quantum photonics with color centers in diamond (Christoph Becher (University of Saarland)) 2011-03-31 16:00: Hardness-induced elastic, plastic, cracking observations (Ron Armstrong, Center for Energetic Concepts Development, University of Maryland) 2011-04-01 13:00: Modelling Needs Related to Case Studies in the Sanitary Engineering Sector (Prof. Marco Ragazzi, University of Trento, Italy) 2011-04-11 11:00: Mandarin Dasher (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2011-04-13 11:30: Strain effect on electronic and structural properties of metal nanoislands grown on reconstructed Au(111) (Guido Fratesi, Materials Science Department, Milano-Bicocca University, Milan, Italy) 2011-04-18 11:30: Recent ATLAS Results (Prof. Andy Parker (Cambridge)) 2011-04-18 12:00: Comparisons between event generators and data (Dr Peter Richardson (IPPP)) 2011-04-18 12:30: Jet definitions and data (Prof Matteo Cacciari (Jussieu)) 2011-04-18 14:00: Recent Tevatron Results (Dr Jonathan Hays (Imperial)) 2011-04-18 14:30: Beyond the Standard Model fits (Prof Michael Hobson (Cambridge)) 2011-04-18 15:00: Recent CMS Results (Dr. Claire Shepherd (RAL)) 2011-04-18 16:00: Review of recent LHCb results (Prof Val Gibson (Cambridge)) 2011-04-18 16:30: Recent topics in flavour phenomenology (Dr. Thorsten Feldmann (IPPP, Durham)) 2011-04-26 16:30: Important Chemistry in Cold Dark Places (Glen Langston (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)) 2011-04-28 14:15: Ultracold atoms and fermionic simulations (Prof. Matthias Troyer, ETH Zürich) 2011-04-28 16:00: Explosive interactions of granular media with structures (Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-03 14:00: Umbrella Sampling with Laser Tweezers: Measurement of the Pair Potential of Charged Colloidal Stars (Prof. Seth Fraden ( Brandeis University, USA)) 2011-05-03 14:00: Probing Soft Structures (Prof. Peter Schall, vander Waals Zeeman Institute, Univ. Amsterdam) 2011-05-03 16:00: Scattering Amplitudes, Wilson Loops and Correlation Functions in Twistor Space (Matthew Bullimore (Oxford)) 2011-05-04 16:00: Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron Collider ( Prof. Valerie Gibson, High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-05-05 14:15: Complex temperature: correlation functions and quantum critical points (Dr Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews) 2011-05-05 16:00: Review of the mechanical properties of diamond (John Field, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-05 16:00: Did the Higgs boson puff-up the Universe? (Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster Univ., Niels Bohr Inst.)) 2011-05-09 14:15: Electron interaction effects in one-dimensional quantum wires (Mr Luke Smith, Semiconductor Physics Group, UK) 2011-05-10 15:00: First Neutrino Oscillation Results from T2K. (Dr. Constantinos Andreopoulos (RAL)) 2011-05-10 16:00: Galilean conformal and superconformal symmetries. (Jerzy Lukierski (Wroclaw)) 2011-05-10 16:30: Model Based Calibration and Imaging for Phased Array Radio Telescopes (Stefan Wijnholds (ASTRON)) 2011-05-11 11:00: The equilibrium of energy levels in phosphorous linkages (Dr Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences)) 2011-05-11 11:20: Computational Studies of Realistic Multiband Models of the Copper Oxides (Cedric Weber (TCM)) 2011-05-12 14:15: Bulk-boundary correspondence of topological insulators (Prof. Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado at Boulder) 2011-05-12 16:00: Ultrafast charge transfer in pyridine on Cu(110) (Heike Arnolds, Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool) 2011-05-12 16:00: Gravitino dark matter and a high reheating temperature. (Krzysztof Turzynski (University of Warsaw)) 2011-05-13 10:00: Neither crystalline nor amorphous: Disorder, microstructure and transport in organic semiconductors. (Alberto Salleo, Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University, USA.) 2011-05-13 14:30: Molecular and Fabrication Strategies for Small-Molecule Solution- Processed Organic Solar Cells with Record Efficiencies. (Greg Welch, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.) 2011-05-16 11:00: Hierarchical hidden Markov models revisited (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2011-05-16 14:15: Robust quantum computers (Dr Sean Barrett, Quantum Information Theory Group, Imperial College London (UK)) 2011-05-16 15:30: Optical control and dynamics of a single Mn spin in a CdTe/ZnTe quantum dot (Claire Le Gall (Grenoble)) 2011-05-17 14:30: Synthesis of Low Symmetry Responsive Materials from Nanoscale to Micro- and Macroscale (Stoyan Smoukov, North Carolina State University, USA) 2011-05-17 15:00: Supersymmetric flavour problem and supersymmetric spectrum (Prof. Stefan Pokorski (University of Warsaw)) 2011-05-17 16:00: Symmetry, Curves and Monopoles (Harry Braden (Edinburgh)) 2011-05-17 16:30: Nets and Nests: Accelerated Bayesian Inference for Astrophysics (Mike Hobson (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-05-18 16:00: Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imagined (Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaSpeaker to be confirmed) 2011-05-19 14:15: Superfluidity of a non-equilibrium polariton condensate (Dr Jonathan Keeling, University of St Andrews) 2011-05-19 16:00: Novel multi-functional lightweight armour (David Townsend, BAe Systems, Filton, Bristol) 2011-05-20 14:00: Colloidal Gas-Liquid-Solid phase transitions induced by the Critical Casimir Effect (Dr. Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam) 2011-05-23 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Miriam Vitiello, Scuola Normale Super (SNS), Pisa, Italy) 2011-05-24 15:00: Recent Results from the ATLAS Experiment in Searches with Tau Lepton Final States (Dr. Trevor Vickey) 2011-05-24 16:00: seminar cancelled (Fernando Alday (Oxford)) 2011-05-24 16:30: The interplay between cosmological expansion and massive objects (Roshina Nandra (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-05-24 17:00: Polarimetry with the GMRT at 610 MHz (Jamie Farnes (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-05-25 11:00: Distinction of disorder, classical and quantum vibrational contributions to atomic mean-square amplitudes in dielectric pentachloronitrobenzene (Jacqui Cole (Structure and Dynamics)) 2011-05-26 14:15: Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different (Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-05-26 16:00: Polymer solar cells (Neil Greenham, Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-05-26 16:00: Flight of the Warped Penguins (Flip Tanedo (Cornell)) 2011-05-27 14:00: Porous Multilayers: Novel Multifunctional Optical Materials for Applications (Dr. Hernán Míguez, Institute of Materials Science of Seville, Spain) 2011-05-30 14:15: Development of high performance THz photoconductive antenna (Mr Richard Faulks, Semiconductor Physics Group, (UK)) 2011-05-31 14:30: CANCELLED! Organic Semiconductor Laser Sensors (Graham Turnbull, St Andrews University, UK) 2011-05-31 16:30: The Evolution of Star-Forming Galaxies across Cosmic Time, with HiZELS (Philip Best (Royal Observatory Edinburgh)) 2011-06-02 14:15: Topological phases in 1D: An entanglement point of view (Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden) 2011-06-02 16:00: Microscopic characterization of organic thin films for appliactions in organic electronics (Gregor Witte, Department of Physics, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) 2011-06-02 16:00: Colour Evolution and Jet Vetoes (Alex Schofield (Manchester)) 2011-06-06 14:15: Insulators on InGaAs (Mr Marc Fletcher, Semiconductor Physics Group, UK) 2011-06-06 15:30: Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body systems of ultracold atoms (Prof Eugene Demler (Harvard University)) 2011-06-07 14:30: Charge-transfer absorption and emission in organic donor/ acceptor solar cells (Koen Vandewal, Linköping University) 2011-06-07 16:30: Spider - A balloon-borne CMB polarimeter (Carrie MacTavish (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge)) 2011-06-08 11:20: Title to be confirmed (Alston Misquitta (TCM)) 2011-06-08 14:00: Aggregation of Gap Junctions (Prof. Phillip Pincus, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA) 2011-06-09 14:15: Modelling non-classical mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth (David Quigley, Warwick University) 2011-06-09 16:00: Steam and Gas Turbines – Wear and Erosion Challenges at High Temperatures (Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester) 2011-06-09 16:00: Transplanckian scattering at the LHC and beyond (Helen Vryonidou (Cambridge)) 2011-06-13 14:15: Phase-­locking and active mode-­locking of terahertz quantum cascade lasers (Dr Stefano Barbieri, Laboratoire MPQ, University Paris VII – CNRS, France) 2011-06-14 14:15: The topology of smectics (Prof. Randy Kamien, Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania) 2011-06-14 16:30: “PowellSnakes”, a Bayesian methodology for detecting compact sources: An application to Planck data (Pedro Carvalho (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-06-15 16:15: Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars (Professor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden) 2011-06-16 16:00: Yukawa unification in SO(10) with light sparticle spectrum (Marcin Badziak (Cambridge)) 2011-06-20 15:30: Bose-Einstein condensation with tunable interactions: from solitons to molecules (Simon Cornish (Durham)) 2011-06-21 16:30: The First Detection of the CMB Lensing Power Spectrum with ACT and its implications for Cosmology (Blake D Sherwin (Department of Physics, Princeton University)) 2011-06-23 16:00: Finding and interpreting new physics at the LHC (Alan Barr (Oxford)) 2011-06-27 14:15: Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (Prof F D M Haldane, Princeton University) 2011-06-28 14:30: Probing the nano-structure of polymer-fullerene blends (David Lidzey, University of Sheffield, UK) 2011-06-28 14:30: Imaging Bulk Heterostructure Blends, Carrier Dynamics and Fluctuations in Bulk Heterostructure Blends and Ferroelectric Polymer Transistors. (K. S. Narayan - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore India) 2011-07-05 14:30: Optical properties and structure of C8S3 aggregates (Sebastiaan Maarten Vlaming, MIT USA) 2011-07-15 14:30: Imaging Bulk Heterostructure Blends, Carrier Dynamics and Fluctuations in Bulk Heterostructure Blends and Ferroelectric Polymer Transistors. (K. S. Narayan - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore India) 2011-07-28 14:00: Multidimensional spectroscopy in Semiconductor nanostructures and biological light-harvesting complexes (Dr Jeff Davis (Swinburne University, Australia)) 2011-08-09 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Labs, USA.) 2011-08-09 16:30: Radio Relics: Unique probes of galaxy cluster mergers (Reinout van Weeren (Leiden Observatory, Netherlands)) 2011-08-17 14:00: Towards quantum simulation of 2D disordered gases (Prof Kai Bongs (University of Birmingham)) 2011-08-19 14:15: Large out-of-plane g-factor for quasi 2D holes in GaAs heterostructures (Mr Ashwin Srinivasan, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) 2011-08-30 16:30: Evolutionary Map of the Universe (Julie Banfield (CSIRO, Aistralia)) 2011-09-09 15:30: Interplay of disorder and interactions in 1d cold fermi gases (Prof. Masaki Tezuka, Kyoto University) 2011-09-21 15:30: Probing the equation of state of Bose and Fermi gases (Nir Navon (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel)) 2011-09-23 10:00: 47th UKELG One Day Discussion meeting on “Condensed and Gas Phase Detonation Phenomena” (Professor Martin Braithwaite, LSC academic visitor and Organiser of UKELG meeting) 2011-10-06 14:15: Plasma Analogy and non-Abelian Braiding Statistics in Ising-type Quantum Hall States (Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara) 2011-10-10 14:15: Quantized current and voltage sources based on non-adiabatic charge pumping (Dr Bernd Kaestner, PTB Braunschweig) 2011-10-11 16:00: Tensor tomography on surfaces (Gabriel Paternain (DPMMS)) 2011-10-11 16:30: Modelling Astrophysics Data for Discovery, Classification and Precise Measurement (David Hogg (Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University)) 2011-10-12 15:00: Dynamic response of electronic systems to shocks and vibrations: Applications ot analytical ("mathematical") modelling and design for reliability (DfR) (Ephraim Suhir, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz) 2011-10-12 16:00: Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid Applications (Professor Clare Grey FRS, The Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-13 13:30: Anyonic quantum chains: Fibonacci and beyond (Prof Eddy Ardonne, Nordita, Stockholm) 2011-10-13 16:00: Prospects for studying how high-intensity compression waves cause damage in human blast injuries (Kate Brown, Imperial College Blast Biomechanics and Biophysics Group) 2011-10-13 16:00: Predicting Missing Transverse Energy Distributions at the LHC (Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)) 2011-10-18 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Jan Vogelsang and Takuji Adachi University of Regensburg and University of Texas at Austin) 2011-10-18 15:00: Improved measurement of the electron EDM (Prof. Edward Hinds (Imperial College London)) 2011-10-18 16:30: AGN Space Densities and the FR Dichotomy (Melanie Gendre (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester)) 2011-10-20 14:15: Structure and dynamics of water-solid interfaces (Prof. Angelos Michaelides, London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials) 2011-10-20 16:00: Charge transport physics of high mobility organic semiconductors (Henning Sirringhaus, Microelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-10-20 16:00: Two ways to get superluminal neutrinos but not enough to explain OPERA (Tim Morris (Southampton)) 2011-10-21 14:00: Hydrodynamic interactions: from Brownian motion to swimming bacteria (Dr Roberto Dileonardo, University of Rome, Italy) 2011-10-24 14:15: Crystallography on curved surfaces (David Nelson, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University) 2011-10-24 14:15: Single Electron Displacement in Nanostructures (Dr Tristan Meunier, Institut Néel, CNRS, and Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France)) 2011-10-24 15:30: Simulating a gravity-wave observatory with a few thousand atoms (Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley)) 2011-10-25 14:30: Charge recombination dynamics in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors (Carlos Silva, University of Montréal) 2011-10-25 15:00: Introduction to ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (Dief Alexander, Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP)) 2011-10-25 16:00: Superconformal index and duality (Hugh Osborn) 2011-10-25 16:30: Some Results from the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (HeViCS) (Marcel Clemens (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-10-27 16:00: Interaction of phonons and Dirac fermions on the surface of Bi2Se3: A strong Kohn anomaly (Michael El-Batanouny, Department of Physics, Boston University, USA) 2011-10-27 16:00: Superpotential Renormalisation and Supersymmetric Radiative Flavour (Joseph Conlon (Oxford)) 2011-10-28 14:00: Probing liquid crystal elastomers with light (Professor Martin Copic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2011-10-28 16:00: Computational enzymology (Greg Lever (Cavendish Lab. (TCM) & Magdalene College)) 2011-10-31 14:15: Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins (Prof. Chin-Kun Hu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) 2011-10-31 14:15: Magneto-transport through graphene nanoribbons : numerical simulations (Dr Alessandro Cresti, IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble (France)) 2011-10-31 15:30: Many-body physics with cold Rydberg gases (Matthew Jones (Durham University)) 2011-11-01 16:00: Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time (Paul Mansfield (Durham)) 2011-11-01 16:30: Searching the WISE Sky (Andrew Blain (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester)) 2011-11-03 14:15: Quantum mechanical perspective on dynamical glass transitions (Dr Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University of London) 2011-11-03 16:00: Organic electronics: Applied nanotechnology (Paul Dastoor, Centre for Organic Electronics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) 2011-11-03 16:00: Implications of LHC Searches on Constrained Supersymmetric Models (Matthew Dolan (IPPP, Durham)) 2011-11-04 14:00: Combining Optical and Electrochemical Devices to Investigate Activities of Biological Nano-Structures (Dr Stephane Arbault, University of Bordeaux, France) 2011-11-07 14:15: TBA (Dr Neil Wilson, Department of Physics, University of Warwick) 2011-11-07 15:30: Single-Photon shaping and phase control (Axel Kuhn (Oxford University)) 2011-11-08 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Maxim Pchenitchnikov, University of Groningen) 2011-11-08 15:00: Searches for CP violation in charm decays at LHCb (Matthew Charles (Oxford)) 2011-11-08 16:00: Hyperbolic monopoles and pluricomplex geometry (Roger Bielawski (Leeds)) 2011-11-08 16:30: Probing the Innermost Dusty Accretion in AGN Tori with Infrared Interferometry (Makoto Kishimoto (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn)) 2011-11-09 16:00: Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies. (Prof Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford) 2011-11-10 14:15: Order-disorder in trajectory space and the glass transition (Prof. David Chandler, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA) 2011-11-10 16:00: Modelling the behaviour of multiscale cellular materials (Philippe Viot, Institut de Mécanique et Ingénerie, Bordeaux, France) 2011-11-10 16:00: Dilepton transverse momentum distribution variables at hadron colliders (Simone Marzani (IPPP, Durham)) 2011-11-11 14:00: Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft matter of living cells at the single molecule level (Dr Mark Leake, University of Oxford, UK) 2011-11-14 14:15: Quantum information processing with superconducting qubits at IBM (Dr Antonio Corcoles, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (USA)) 2011-11-14 15:30: Pushing the frontiers of nanoscale spin detection (Christian Degen (ETH Zurich)) 2011-11-15 15:00: First Results from the T2K Experiment (Matthew Malek (Imperial College London)) 2011-11-15 16:00: Projective Structure in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (Graham Hall (Aberdeen)) 2011-11-15 16:30: The Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization (Chris Carilli (NRAO, USA)) 2011-11-16 11:00: Just a few atoms: Imaging for matter-waves optics (Wolf von Klitzing (FORTH, Crete)) 2011-11-17 14:15: Fluctuation-driven first order transition in the chiral magnet MnSi (Markus Garst, University of Cologne) 2011-11-17 16:00: Current research at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory (Arthur Blackburn, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory) 2011-11-18 14:00: Crystallization and Structure Formation in Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers for Applications in Organic Photovoltaics (Professor Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Martin Luther Unversity, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) 2011-11-18 15:30: A review of structure-searching methods (Matthew Lyle (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-18 16:00: Theoretical Biology: Comprehending the Noisy Edge of Travelling Waves (Sam Greenbury, TCM) 2011-11-22 11:30: Title to be confirmed (David Vanden Bout, University of Texas) 2011-11-22 14:30: Exploring the relationship between organic PV performance to bulk and surface morphology: A joint morphological and charge transport modelling approach (Chris Groves, Durham University) 2011-11-22 15:00: Counting Dark Matter particles in LHC events ( Ben Gripaios (Cambridge)) 2011-11-22 16:00: Living in curved momentum space. ( Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman (Wroclaw)) 2011-11-22 16:30: Bias-Free Bispectrum Estimation for Optical Interferometry (James Gordon (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-11-22 17:00: BAMBI: Combining Neural Networks and Nested Sampling for Rapid Bayesian Analysis (Philip Graff (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2011-11-23 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Michael Hausser, Univeristy College London, UK) 2011-11-23 16:00: Polymer Solar Cells (Prof Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-11-24 16:00: Mechanisms of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylenes subjected to ballistic impact (Benjamin Russell, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2011-11-28 14:15: Insulators on InGaAs (Mr Marc Fletcher, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2011-11-28 15:30: Quantum gases in micro-engineered environments near surfaces (Peter Kruger (Nottingham University)) 2011-11-29 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Matthias Opel, Walther Meißner Institute in Garching, Germany.) 2011-11-29 15:00: Prospects for NNLO measurements using jets at the LHC (Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham)) 2011-11-29 16:00: Particles -- are they 4-manifolds? (Nick Manton (DAMTP)) 2011-11-29 16:30: Cosmic Evolution from Galaxy Zoo (Karen Masters (Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, Portsmouth)) 2011-11-30 16:00: Do biological cells care about physics? (Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory) 2011-12-01 16:00: Evasive Higgs Maneuvers at the LHC (Christoph Englert (IPPP, Durham)) 2011-12-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Clive Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK) 2011-12-06 16:30: Recent Developments at Arecibo - Scientific and Administrative (Chris Salter (Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico)) 2011-12-08 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Ian Howard Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany) 2011-12-13 13:00: CERN Higgs webcast (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-12-13 14:00: Landau-Zener transitions in pairs of frozen Rydberg atoms (Anne Cournol (Universite Paris-Sud)) 2011-12-15 14:15: Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture (Dr. Pietro Massignan, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain) 2012-01-18 11:00: Absorption energy decay rates show peptide phosphate bonding structures (Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences)) 2012-01-18 11:40: Perfect parallel scaling for quantum Monte Carlo on hundreds of thousands of cores (Mike Towler (TCM)) 2012-01-18 12:30: A new finite element shallow water model on the sphere: Model setup, grid refinement, and boundary separation (Peter Dueben (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany)) 2012-01-19 14:00: Deconstructing Nuclear Pore Complex Function by Bio-Synthetic Reconstruction (Professor Roderick Lim, University of Basel, Switzerland) 2012-01-20 14:15: Observing holographic superconductivity in the laboratory (Jan Zaanen, Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands) 2012-01-23 15:30: Recent progress in force-detected MRI (Martino Poggio (University of Basel)) 2012-01-24 14:30: Photochromics meet Organic Electronics: a Novel Generation of Functional Materials and Interfaces (Emanuele Orgiu, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.), Université de Strasbourg, France) 2012-01-24 15:00: Boosted Jets in searches for New Physics (Michael Spannowsky (IPPP Durham)) 2012-01-24 16:00: Invisibility Cloaks, Transformation Optics, Liquid Crystals and General Relativity. (Gary Gibbons (DAMTP)) 2012-01-24 16:30: Evidence for a Cosmic Battery (Denise Gabuzda (University College Cork)) 2012-01-25 16:00: The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor Microcavities (Professor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield) 2012-01-26 16:00: Surface diffusion on the atomic scale (Graznya Antczak, Department of Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland) 2012-01-26 16:00: The other Higgses, at resonance, in the Lee-Wick Extension of the Standard Model (Terrance Figy (Manchester)) 2012-01-26 18:00: On origins (Brian Josephson, Trinity College) 2012-01-27 14:00: Mesoscopic Systems: Synthesis, Interactions and Analysis (Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University Konstanz, Germany) 2012-01-30 15:30: Quantum correlated photons in arrays of weakly nonlinear cavities (Vincenzo Savona(EPFL)) 2012-01-31 15:00: DEAP/CLEAN-ing Dark Matter: the Search for Direct Detection with Liquid Argon (Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway)) 2012-01-31 16:00: Deformations of G2-structures with torsion (Sergey Grigorian (Stony Brook)) 2012-02-01 11:00: Weak Measurements: Wigner-Moyal and Bohm in a New Light? (Basil Hiley (Birkbeck College)) 2012-02-02 16:00: Screen-printable energetic inks for mining detonators (Tuuli Sutinen, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-02-02 16:00: PDFs and the relation to LHC and Higgs Physics (Robert Thorne (UCL)) 2012-02-03 11:00: A conservative level-set based method for multi-components problems on fixed grids (Ben Obadia (Cranfield University)) 2012-02-03 14:00: Functionalised nanoparticles and SERS for bioanalysis (Professor Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK) 2012-02-03 16:00: The moment of truth for WIMP Dark Matter (Gianfranco Bertone (Amsterdam)) 2012-02-03 16:30: Planck Early Results on the Galaxy (Clive Dickinson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester)) 2012-02-07 14:30: To be confirmed. General topic: Langevin and trap limited recombination in OLEDs (Martijn Kuik, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials) 2012-02-07 16:00: The Penrose transform and Gerbes in 6-dimensions (Lionel Mason (Oxford)) 2012-02-08 11:15: Hole Doping and Dimensionality in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets (Siân Dutton, QM Group, Cambridge) 2012-02-08 16:00: Graphene: Materials in the Flatland (Sir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK) 2012-02-09 16:00: Probing micro-mechanical deformation behaviour with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction. (Benjamin Britton, Department of Materials, University of Oxford) 2012-02-09 16:00: Spin before mass at the LHC (Tom Melia (Oxford)) 2012-02-10 14:00: Shaping the Future of Manipulation (Professor Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK) 2012-02-13 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Juergen Eschner (Saarbruecken)) 2012-02-14 16:00: Twistors and conformal theories from six dimensions (Martin Wolf (Surrey)) 2012-02-15 11:00: Convergence of wave function expansions using a plane wave basis: from the homogeneous electron gas to the solid state (James Shepherd (CUC3)) 2012-02-15 11:40: Cold atoms in a spin (Gareth Conduit) 2012-02-15 11:55: A brief discussion about weak measurements (Mike Towler) 2012-02-16 16:00: Probabilistic automated alloy development (Bryce Conduit, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) 2012-02-17 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Reinhard Miller, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany) 2012-02-17 15:30: Power-law distributions for the areas of the basins of attraction on a potential energy landscape (Robert Baldock (University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-17 16:00: Repulsive polarons in 2D Fermi gases (Wave Ngampruetikorn (University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-20 14:30: Hydrogen fuel cells (Winton community) 2012-02-20 15:30: Prospects for Superconducting Qubits (David DiVincenzo (RWTH Aachen)) 2012-02-20 16:00: Introduction to information theory (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-02-21 12:30: Slug initiation modelling and two-phase flow prediction (Dr Stamatis Kalogerakos (Cranfield University)) 2012-02-21 15:00: The SuperB Project (Adrian Bevan (QMUL)) 2012-02-21 16:00: Weyl metrisability for projective surfaces (Thomas Mettler (MSRI, Berkeley).) 2012-02-21 16:30: Filaments in the Interstellar Plasma Probed by Pulsar Scintillation (Barney Rickett (University of California, San Diego)) 2012-02-23 16:00: Exploring structural phase transitions in nanofriction (Andrea Benassi, Statistical Materials Modeling Laboratory, Institute for Energetics and Interphases, Milan, Italy) 2012-02-23 16:00: Calculating the Higgs to diphoton decay amplitude on the lattice (Francis Bursa (Swansea)) 2012-02-24 14:00: Photons, dust, and honeybees (Diederik Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy) 2012-02-27 14:30: Entropy and data compression (I) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-02-27 16:30: Tea time conversation (Winton community) 2012-02-28 12:30: A high order cell centred Lagrangian Godunov scheme for cylindrical geometry (Dr Andy Barlow (AWE)) 2012-02-28 14:30: The effect of conjugation length on exciton dissociation (Anna Kohler, Bayreuth University) 2012-02-28 15:00: V+jets Ratios and the Search for New Physics in ATLAS (Stefan Ask (Cambridge)) 2012-02-28 16:00: Mathematical aspects of the supergravity c-map. (Vincente Cortes (Hamburg)) 2012-02-28 16:30: AGN and Star Formation Feedback in Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Times (Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2012-02-29 11:00: Materials discovery: the systematic prediction of new classes of organic non-linear optical materials (Jacqui Cole) 2012-02-29 11:40: Ligand discrimination in myoglobin from linear-scaling DFT+U (Daniel Cole (TCM)) 2012-03-01 16:00: Nanomechanics of coatings for electronic and optical applications (Steve Bull, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University) 2012-03-01 16:00: Phenomenology of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons and their ongoing searches at the LHC (Andrew Akeroyd (Southampton)) 2012-03-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Peter Smith, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK) 2012-03-05 14:30: Entropy and data compression (II) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-03-05 15:00: Quantum-enhanced measurement of magnetic fields (Morgan Mitchell (ICFO)) 2012-03-05 16:00: Colouring the Noise (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich) 2012-03-06 15:00: QCD at the LHC (Joey Huston (Michigan State University)) 2012-03-06 16:00: Computational complexity in the formalism of quantum physics (Richard Jozsa (DAMTP)) 2012-03-06 16:30: Mobile Phone Positioning: Improving GPS Performance (Nicolas Couronneau (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2012-03-07 16:00: Ab-initio simulation of water and its ions (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich) 2012-03-08 16:00: Topics in quantum matter research (Malte Grosche, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-03-08 16:00: A novel derivation of the gravitational cusp anomalous dimension (David Miller (Glasgow)) 2012-03-09 14:30: Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields (Pascal Bugnion (TCM, Physics, Cambridge)) 2012-03-09 15:00: Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms (Hannah Price (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-09 16:00: Metadynamics (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich) 2012-03-13 14:30: To be confirmed (Stefan Meskers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) 2012-03-13 15:00: Asymmetric Dark Matter (Stephen West (Royal Holloway)) 2012-03-13 16:00: Skyrmion interactions (Dankrad Feist (DAMTP)) 2012-03-13 16:30: The early stages of low-mass star formation: subsonic turbulence, isothermal filaments and a First Hydrostatic Core Candidate (Jaime Pineda (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)) 2012-03-14 11:00: Water clusters, ice and liquid: Improving ab initio energetics (Mike Gillan (University College, London)) 2012-03-14 11:40: New bulk phases of alumina from random searches (Matthew Lyle (TCM)) 2012-03-14 12:00: General vs. geometrical reaction coordinates on QM and QM/MM surfaces (Letif Mones (Engineering)) 2012-03-14 12:30: The Flux Reconstruction Approach to High-Order Methods (Dr Peter E Vincent (Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College)) 2012-03-15 10:00: Localization of ultracold atoms in a disordered potential at three dimensions (Fred Jendrzejewski (Laboratoire Charles Fabry Institut d'Optique)) 2012-03-15 16:00: Ceramic armour: Past, present and future (Paul Hazell, Dynamic Response Group, Shrivenham Campus, Cranfield University) 2012-03-15 16:00: An alternative NLO subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper Dipoles (Tania Robens (TU Dresden)) 2012-03-16 14:00: Non stick surfaces and self motile particles: some old and new problems in colloid physics (Professor Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK) 2012-03-19 15:30: Magnetism in triangular and hexagonal optical lattices (Klaus Sengstock (Hamburg University)) 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) 2012-03-26 15:30: Quantum phases of ultracold bosonic atoms in a one dimensional optical superlattice (Prof Bhanu Das (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)) 2012-03-27 14:30: Spin quantum beating in OLEDs (Prof. John Lupton University of Regensburg, Germany) 2012-04-03 16:30: The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (David Kipping (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)) 2012-04-16 14:30: Entropy and data compression (III) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-04-16 16:30: Biofuels (Winton community) 2012-04-17 11:00: The end of simulation? (Mike Payne (TCM Group)) 2012-04-17 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Vladimir Bulovic Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, USA) 2012-04-23 14:30: Entropy and data compression (IV) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-04-25 11:15: Superconducting phase and pseudogap in the high-temperature cuprate superconductors. (Patrick Rourke, University of Bristol) 2012-04-25 16:30: Star Formation Activity in AGN Host Galaxies as seen by Herschel (Paola Santini (Astronomical Observatory of Rome)) 2012-04-26 14:15: Quasiparticle Self-consistent GW Approximation as a Universal Framework for Electronic Structure (Prof Mark v. Schilfgaarde, King's College London) 2012-04-26 16:00: Imaging structural performance (Janice Barton, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton) 2012-04-26 16:00: Automatic NLO calculations with GoSam (Gionata Luisoni (IPPP, Durham)) 2012-04-27 14:00: Engineering cellular systems (Dr Jim Hasellof, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2012-04-30 14:30: Communication over noisy channels (I) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-04-30 15:30: A miniature trapped-ion frequency standard with 171Yb+ (Heather Partner (University of New Mexico)) 2012-04-30 16:00: Energy Efficient Lighting (Winton Community) 2012-05-01 15:00: Final Higgs results from the Tevatron (Aidan Robson (Glasgow)) 2012-05-01 16:00: Magnetic defects in Yang-Mills theories (Luis Oxman (DAMTP)) 2012-05-02 16:00: The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle? (Professor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN) 2012-05-03 16:00: New Strong Dynamics for EWSB and DM (Mads Frandsen (Oxford)) 2012-05-03 16:00: Role of computer simulations in understanding surface processes (Lev Kantorovich, Department of Physics, King's College, London) 2012-05-04 14:00: Single molecule imaging of protein pore assembly using droplet interface bilayers (Dr Mark Wallace, University of Oxford) 2012-05-07 14:30: Communication over noisy channels (II) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-05-08 16:00: The Schwinger model at 50 (David Stuart (DAMTP)) 2012-05-09 11:00: Dynamical mean-field theory applied to linear scaling density functional theory (Cedric Weber (TCM)) 2012-05-09 11:40: Diffusion Monte Carlo, nodal surfaces and pairing functions (Pascal Bugnion (TCM)) 2012-05-09 16:00: COSMIC RAYS, CLIMATE AND THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENT (Jasper Kirkby, CERN) 2012-05-10 16:00: What can and do data from LHCb tell us about physics at the TeV scale? (Sebastian Jaeger (Sussex)) 2012-05-10 16:00: Structural modification of energetic materials using high pressures and co-crystallisation (Colin Pulham, School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh) 2012-05-11 14:00: Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials (Professor Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA) 2012-05-11 15:30: Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems (Prof Fuchun Zhang, Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences at Hong Kong University) 2012-05-15 15:00: Numerical many-body simulations of interacting 2D bosons using the MCTDHB method (Rostislav Doganov (University of Heidelberg)) 2012-05-15 15:00: Double Parton Scattering (Jo Gaunt (HEP Theory)) 2012-05-15 16:00: Buckling of Hopf solitons (Derek Harland (Loughborough)) 2012-05-16 11:15: Superconductors, multiferroic and magnetic materials (Geetha Balakrishnan) 2012-05-17 16:00: Strain localization in granular materials (Stephen Walley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-05-17 16:00: Squark Flavor Implications from B --> K^(*) l^+ l^- (Christian Gross (Basel)) 2012-05-18 14:00: Shocks in fragile matter (Professor Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands) 2012-05-21 14:30: Communication over noisy channels (III) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-05-22 11:00: Cavity optomechanics in the single-photon strong-coupling regime (Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Basel)) 2012-05-22 15:00: Future High Energy Electron-Proton Scattering: The LHeC Project [Postponed] (Paul Newman (Birmingham)) 2012-05-22 16:30: The Detection of Galaxy Cluster Motions Using Data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and BOSS (Nick Hand (University of California, Berkeley)) 2012-05-23 11:00: Multiscale simulation of brittle fracture in oxides and semiconductors (James Kermode (KCL)) 2012-05-23 11:15: Magnetothermopower in heavy fermion metamagnets CeRu2Si2 and YbRh2Si2 (Ramzy Daou) 2012-05-23 11:40: Enzyme catalysis from linear-scaling DFT: application to chorismate mutase (Greg Lever (TCM)) 2012-05-24 14:15: Quantum Order-by-Disorder Near Criticality and the Secret of the Partially Ordered Phase of MnSi (Frank Kruger, University of St Andrews) 2012-05-24 16:00: A new concept for high strain rate testing of materials based on the use of inertial forces (Fabrice Pierron, ParisTech, Chalons-en-Champagne, France) 2012-05-24 16:00: Generalised small-x double log resummation (Steve Chun-Hay Kom (Liverpool)) 2012-05-25 12:00: Biotechnology and biophysical phenotypes: the physics of pluripotency and differentiation (Dr Kevin Chalut, BSS Sector, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-05-28 11:00: Sustainable Manufacturing and the Myth of Efficiency (Winton Community) 2012-05-28 14:30: An Introduction to Statistical Inference, Data Modelling & Pattern Recogntion (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-05-28 15:30: Studying magnetism at the nanoscale (Dr Jan Dreiser (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerand)) 2012-05-29 16:00: Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron (Dr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology) 2012-05-29 16:30: Optical Interferometry and Adaptive Optics: False Friends? (Alex Rea (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2012-05-30 11:00: Gaussian Approximation Potentials at work: from silicon to water (Albert Bartok-Partay) 2012-05-30 11:00: Molecular imaging of cancer: understanding chemotherapy response and resistance. (Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Stanford University) 2012-05-30 11:20: Strongly correlated electrons driven by an electric field (Camille Aron (Rutgers)) 2012-05-31 09:30: Synchronisation of eukaryotic flagella (Dr Marco Polin, DAMTP, Cambriidge) 2012-05-31 14:15: Vortex lines, loop models, and SU(n) magnets (Adam Nahum, University of Oxford) 2012-05-31 16:00: Colorons at the LHC (Edwin Stansfield (Cambridge)) 2012-05-31 16:00: Chinese university and industrial espionage (Clark Barrett, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) 2012-06-07 14:15: Status and Outlook of Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments: Evidence of Nonabelions? (Steven H Simon, Oxford University) 2012-06-07 16:00: QCD phenomenology in (Quasi) Multi-Regge kinematics (Clara Salas (IFT, Madrid)) 2012-06-07 16:00: Heavy atom diffraction in scattering from surfaces (Eli Pollak, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) 2012-06-11 14:30: Approximating Probability Distributions (I)-(II): Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-06-12 16:30: Reconstruction of the Dark Energy Equation of State and the Primordial Power Spectrum P(k) (Jose Vazquez (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 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 11:15: Emergent chirality in charge ordered materials (Jasper van Wezel, Argonne) 2012-06-13 17:00: Noise and signal integration in cell cycle control (Dr Stefano Di Talia, Princeton University) 2012-06-14 14:15: Dynamics of quantum thermalization (Alexander Altland, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Cologne, Germany) 2012-06-14 16:00: How low can SUSY go? Matching, monojets and compressed spectra. (Jamie Tattersall (Bonn)) 2012-06-18 11:00: Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors (Anton Akhmerov, University of Leiden) 2012-06-19 16:30: “A New Way To See It”: Volunteering in Central Africa (Eloy de Lera Acedo) 2012-06-22 17:30: Creative Mind and Physical Reality (Prof. Brian Josephson, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-25 14:30: Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-06-25 15:30: Optical control of two quantum dots (Daniel Gammon (Naval Research Lab)) 2012-06-26 14:30: Multi-scale modelling of organic photovoltaic materials: from molecules to devices (Prof. Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, London) 2012-06-28 14:00: Bragg spectroscopy of a strongly interacting fermi gas (Peter Hannaford (Swinburne University, Australia)) 2012-06-28 14:30: Excited State NonAdiabatic Molecular Dynamics in dendrimers: crossings, energy funneling and state-specific vibrations (Prof. Sebastian Fernandez-Alberti, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina) 2012-07-02 16:00: The limits to energy and material efficiency (Jonathan Cullen) 2012-07-09 14:30: Approximating Probability Distributions (IV): Variational Methods (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-07-09 16:30: "MMICs and QUIET" "Update on C-BASS" (Tony Readhead and Tim Pearson (CALTECH)) 2012-07-10 16:30: Einasto-Like Profile from Finite Temperature Scalar Field Dark Matter (Tonatiuh Matos (CINVESTAV, Instituto Politecnico National, Mexico)) 2012-07-11 11:30: Early Science with the Murchison Widefield Array (Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR, Australia)) 2012-07-11 16:30: "A Practical Description of Spinning Dust Emission” "CARMA Observations of AME in Perseus” (Matthew Stevenson and Jackie Villadsen (CALTECH)) 2012-07-16 14:30: Data Modelling With Neural Networks (II): Content-Addressable Memories And State-Of-The-Art Error-Correcting Codes (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-07-17 13:00: Nanoparticle-based electrodes for sustainable energy (Dr Scott Warren, Northwestern University) 2012-07-18 11:15: Expanding the topological insulator horizon (Nicholas P. Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA) 2012-07-23 16:00: What scientists can do for sustainability that CEOs and Ministers can't (Matthew Brown) 2012-07-28 16:00: TBA (Jenya Ferapontov (Loughborough)) 2012-08-15 11:15: Magnetic versus dielectric pairing in cuprate superconductors (Jeff Tallon,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology) 2012-08-16 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Prof Carlo Beenakker) 2012-09-03 11:00: Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications (Dr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory)) 2012-09-10 14:15: Engineering quantum coherence in the integer quantum Hall effect (Dr Phuong-Anh Huynh - Solid State Physics Laboratory (SPEC), Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Saclay, France) 2012-09-20 10:30: Optoelectronic Processes in Organic Materials (Prof Neil Greenham (University of Cambridge)) 2012-09-24 16:00: Climate finance: barriers and opportunities (Dr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University) 2012-09-25 14:30: Rational Build-up of Structural Complexity in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanostructures (Prof. Yinthai Chan, National University of Singapore) 2012-09-26 14:30: Nanostructured solar cells (Prof. Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) 2012-09-27 14:30: Driving Force and Dielectric Constants: What Quantum Dot Acceptors Can Teach Us About Organic Solar Cell Performance (Prof. David Ginger, University of Washington, USA) 2012-10-01 15:30: Few-fermion quantum systems: How may are many? (Selim Jochim (Heidelberg University)) 2012-10-04 16:00: The angular momentum controversy: what's it all about and does it matter? 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Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan) 2012-11-01 11:30: Chile – A great place for work and play (Prof. Richard Hills) 2012-11-01 14:15: Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations (Dr Dimitry Kovrizhin, Imperial College London) 2012-11-01 16:00: Unusual phase diagrams in ferroelectric crystals (Jim Scott, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-11-02 14:00: Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields (Professor Stefan Egelhaaf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany) 2012-11-05 15:30: Coherent control of dense Rydberg gases (Tilman Pfau (University of Stuttgart)) 2012-11-06 15:00: Measuring the Top Quark Mass at the LHC with Applications to New Physics (Benjamin Nachman (DAMPT)) 2012-11-06 16:00: Dispersionless integrable systems in 3D and Einstein-Weyl geometry ( Jenya Ferapontov (Loughborough)) 2012-11-06 16:30: Measuring Distances in the Universe with Strong Gravitational Lenses (Phil Marshall (Department of Physics, University of Oxford)) 2012-11-07 11:00: Redox active species in liquid water compared to charged defects in solid oxides (Michiel Sprik (Chemistry)) 2012-11-07 11:40: Van der waals interactions in acenes and C60 (Alston Misquitta (Queen Mary)) 2012-11-07 16:00: “Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?” (Professor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT) 2012-11-08 14:15: Random-matrix theory of topological states of matter (Prof Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University) 2012-11-08 16:00: The use of H atom band structures in the first principles determination of H atom surface diffusion (John Ellis, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-11-08 16:00: Phenomenology of vector-like quarks (Luca Panizzi (University of Southampton)) 2012-11-09 14:00: Influence of the Glass Transition on the Liquid-gas Spinodal Decomposition (Professor Walter Kob, Universite Montpellier 2, France) 2012-11-12 14:15: Controlled emission of single-electron wavepackets in solid-state circuits (Dr Jonathan Fletcher (National Physical Laboratory)) 2012-11-12 16:00: Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money? 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magnetic state with electricity (Dr Andrew Ferguson, Microelectronics, Cavendsh Laboratory) 2013-02-06 16:00: Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility (Professor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London) 2013-02-07 14:15: Statistical Topological Insulators (Dr Jonathan Edge, Leiden University) 2013-02-07 16:00: Recent perspectives in the science of granular matter (Rafi Blumenfeld, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-02-08 14:00: Euler's elasticas and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibers (Prof Helmut Schiessel (Leiden)) 2013-02-08 16:00: Fitting the Fermi line with neutralino dark matter (Christopher McCabe (IPPP)) 2013-02-11 15:30: Coherence between singlet and triplet spin states in a coupled quantum dot (Jeroen Elzerman (UCL)) 2013-02-12 16:00: Beyond the fundamental group (Philip Boalch (Paris)) 2013-02-13 11:15: Electronic Structure of LuRh2Si2: ”Small“ Fermi Surface Reference of YbRh2Si2 (Sven Friedemann, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-13 11:30: 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(Robert Bell) 2013-02-13 14:00: Quantum computing with error prone components joined by a 'noisy network' (Simon Benjamin (University of Oxford)) 2013-02-14 10:00: Coherent control of Rydberg atoms in thermal vapor cells (Daniel Barredo (Universitat Stuttgart)) 2013-02-14 14:15: Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach (Gertud Zwicknagl, University of Braunschweig) 2013-02-14 14:15: Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach (Dr Gertrud Zwicknagl, TU Braunschweig) 2013-02-14 16:00: The working of ductile metals and the doctrine of maximum entropy (Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-02-15 14:00: Nano-optics of complex media (R. 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(Jonathan Duffy, University of Warwick) 2013-02-20 14:30: Observation of a distinct surface molecular orientation in films of a high mobility conjugated polymer (Dr. Chris McNeill, Monash University, Australia) 2013-02-20 16:00: CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs Boson (Professor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN) 2013-02-21 14:15: Entanglement spectra: A novel spectroscopic tool to investigate quantum many body wave functions (Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Universität Innsbruck) 2013-02-21 15:00: Special Seminar: Threshold Resummation in QCD vs SCET (Giovanni Ridolfi, INFN) 2013-02-21 16:00: Pipe dreams (Matt Causier, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2013-02-22 14:00: Polymer and hybrid nanostructures for applications in organic solar cells investigated with advanced x-ray techniques (Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technische Universität München )) 2013-02-22 16:00: Higgs physics at hadron colliders (Julien Baglio (Karlsruhe ITP)) 2013-02-25 16:00: Sustainability and Architecture (Prof Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture) 2013-02-26 11:00: The Evolution of GPU Accelerated Computing (Steve Scott (Chief Technology Officer for Tesla at NVIDIA)) 2013-02-26 15:00: (NN)PDFs for the LHC (Maria Ubiali (Aachen)) 2013-02-26 16:00: Null Geodesics and the Generalisation of the Optical Metric (Stephen Casey (DAMTP)) 2013-02-26 16:30: LOFAR Capabilities and Early Results (Michiel Brenjens (ASTRON)) 2013-02-27 11:40: How can energies be aligned in ab initio electronic transport calculations? 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Professor Chemotaxis Research Group – SRI Core Facility Department of Genetics, Cell- & Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary) 2013-04-18 16:00: Fracture mechanics, quantum mechanics and fractal geometry applied to brittle materials (Jack Mecholsky, Department of Materials Science, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA) 2013-04-23 09:30: A single ion in the focus of a parabolic mirror - Building block towards efficient free-space light-matter interaction (Robert Maiwald (Max Planck Institute)) 2013-04-25 14:15: Vortices and the BKT transition in regions of competing order (Dr Sam Carr, Kent University) 2013-04-25 16:00: Implementation of viscoelastic Hopkinson bars and their application to the testing of soft materials (Richard Curry, BISRU, University of Cape Town, South Africa) 2013-04-26 14:00: Patchy colloids: a simple model for complex fluids (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-04-26 16:00: Abelian and non-Abelian discrete symmetries in models of flavour (Christoph Luhn (IPPP)) 2013-04-29 14:00: Scanning gate microscopy: local mapping of functionality of graphene devices (Dr Vischal Panchal, NPL, University of London) 2013-04-30 15:00: (NN)PDFs for the LHC (Maria Ubiali (Aachen)) 2013-05-01 11:15: Fermi surface determination using positron annihilation (Stephen Dugdale, University of Bristol) 2013-05-01 16:00: The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six (Professor Frank Close, Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England ) 2013-05-02 14:15: Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime (Dr Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick) 2013-05-02 16:00: Complex molecules on surfaces: Synchrotron radiation, scanning probe and in situ electrospray deposition (James O'Shea, School of Physics, University of Nottingham) 2013-05-03 14:00: Mesenchymal stem cell response to nanotopographical features (Matthew Dalby (Univ Glasgow)) 2013-05-03 16:00: Dark matter with an asymmetric origin (James Unwin (Oxford University)) 2013-05-07 11:30: Some Experiences in Designing SKA-related Sites and Instruments: Engineers, Radio Astronomers and Construction Teams (Howard Reader (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)) 2013-05-07 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Claude Duhr, ITP Zuerich) 2013-05-07 16:00: Supersymmetric quantum mechanics on vortex moduli spaces (Nuno Romao (Bonn)) 2013-05-07 16:30: Galaxies in the first billion years: probing cosmic dawn (Pratika Dayal (Royal Observatory Edinburgh)) 2013-05-08 16:00: Exoplanet Science, the way forward (Professor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-09 14:15: Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle? (Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU München) 2013-05-09 16:00: Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms (Rob Smith, AMOP Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-05-10 14:00: Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems (Peter Sollich, Department of Mathematics, King's College London) 2013-05-10 14:00: Spin Scattering in Graphene: Impurity Characterization and Birefringent Electron Optics (Professor Sergio Ulloa , Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA and Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 2013-05-10 16:00: Aspects of R-Parity Violation (Marco Nardecchia (CP3-Origins)) 2013-05-13 14:00: Photonic Crystal and Hyper-uniform THz QCL lasers (Dr Riccardo Degl'Innocenti, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-05-13 16:00: The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,) 2013-05-14 15:00: Status of Flavour physics in 2013 (Alexander Lenz (IPPP Durham)) 2013-05-14 16:30: Waterfalls around Protostars (Joseph Mottram (Leiden Observatory)) 2013-05-15 11:00: GPU-accelerated Quantum ESPRESSO: between performance, correctness and sustainability (Filippo Spiga (HPCS, Cambridge)) 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 ) 2013-05-15 16:00: Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt Switch (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley ) 2013-05-16 11:30: Properties of the spiral structure in M51 as seen in CO J=3-2, and an overview of ALMA Science Verification (Cat Vlahakis (Leiden Observatory)) 2013-05-16 14:15: Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands (Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University ) 2013-05-16 16:00: Sum frequency generation spectroscopy of small molecules adsorbed at interfaces (Mike Casford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-17 14:00: Artificial Cells in Picoliter Droplets (Prof Wilhelm Huck (Nijmegen - Radboud Universiteit)) 2013-05-17 16:00: Neutrino-less double beta decay and lepton number violating processes (Silvia Pascoli (IPPP)) 2013-05-17 16:00: The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka Plasmonics (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley) 2013-05-20 14:15: Chemically Assembled Single-Electron Transistors with a Bottom-up Strategy (Dr Shinya Kano, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-05-20 16:00: Biological photovoltaic systems (Prof Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry) 2013-05-21 15:00: The NA62 experiment at CERN: recent results and prospects (Cristina Lazzeroni (Birmingham)) 2013-05-21 16:00: The Riemann-Hilbert Method for Soliton Equations (Spyros Kamvissis (DAMTP)) 2013-05-21 16:30: From Haloes to Galaxies (Yingjie Peng (Cavendish Astrophysics) 2013-05-22 11:00: Exploring the binary Lennard-Jones system with high throughput structure prediction and speeding up time to ground state (Martin Uhrin (UCL)) 2013-05-22 11:40: Anharmonic phonon properties: electron-phonon coupling and stress (Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM)) 2013-05-23 14:15: Correlated electrons on the nanoscale: models, issues, reality. (Prof. David Logan, Oxford University) 2013-05-23 16:00: Shock compression of geological materials (Simon Kirk, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-05-24 14:00: Approaching biology discretely (Professor Timothy Newman (Univ. Dundee)) 2013-05-28 15:00: The IceCube high energy neutrino events: has neutrino astronomy finally arrived? (Prof. Kael Hanson (Brussels)) 2013-05-28 16:00: Monopoles, instantons and polytopes (Paul Sutcliffe (Durham)) 2013-05-28 16:30: A Look at the Planck Cosmology Results (Anthony Lasenby & Mark Ashdown (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2013-05-30 14:15: Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model (Dr Benoit Doucot, CNRS / LPTHE Jussieu, France) 2013-05-30 16:00: Nano-particle polymer composites (Gerry Swallowe, Department of Physics, Loughborough University) 2013-05-31 14:00: Engineered protein pores in nanotechnology and single-enzyme studies (Giovanni Maglia, Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Belgium) 2013-05-31 14:00: Tuning magnetism and superconductivity in atomically engineered SrTiO3–based heterostructures (Christopher Bell (Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, California)) 2013-05-31 14:30: Progress in making organic solar cells highly efficient and stable (Prof. Michael McGehee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA) 2013-05-31 16:00: Particle spectra of non-minimal supersymmetric models (Alexander Voigt (Dresden University)) 2013-06-03 11:30: Supernova Remnants and Cosmic Rays: An update on recent progress (Daniel Castro (MIT, USA)) 2013-06-03 14:00: Entanglement and Quantum Gate Processes in the One-Dimensional Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (Mr Edmund Owen, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-06-03 14:00: Rigidity Theory and Some Applications (Micheal Thorpe) 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) 2013-06-04 16:30: Exploring the Dawn of Cosmic Structure with the 21cm Line (Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial College, London)) 2013-06-05 11:00: Linear-scaling time-dependent density-functional theory in the linear-response formalism: An implementation in the ONETEP code (Tim Zuehlsdorff (Imperial College)) 2013-06-05 11:40: White dwarf cooling: electron-phonon coupling and the metallization of solid helium (Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM)) 2013-06-06 11:15: Superconductivity and magnetism in doped graphene (Andrey Chubukov, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 2013-06-06 11:30: Oscillating superleak transducers and temperature mapping diagnostice for high gradient cavities at CERN (Kitty Liao (CERN)) 2013-06-06 14:15: Bad metals (Prof. Alexei Tsvelik) 2013-06-07 16:00: Exploring Universal Extra-Dimensions at the LHC (Alexander Belyaev (Southampton)) 2013-06-11 16:30: The Galaxy and Beyond with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (Yvette Perrott (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2013-06-12 11:15: Disorder driven superconductor-insulator transition: Do Cooper pairs still exist in the insulator? (Nandini Trivedi, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, USA.) 2013-06-12 14:00: Terahertz optics with graphene and nanostructured materials (Miss Shruti Badhwar (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2013-06-13 11:30: Towards the Future of Supernova Cosmology (Michelle Knights (University of Cape Town)) 2013-06-13 14:15: Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices (Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick) 2013-06-14 14:00: The influence of matrix geometry and stiffness on cancer invasion (Erik Sahai (Cancer Research UK, London)) 2013-06-17 14:15: 'High Frequency Measurements of Carbon Nanotube Double-Quantum Dots (Ms Zoe Penfold-Fitch, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-06-17 15:30: Exploring critically at the driven-dissipative Dicke phase transition (Ferdinand Brennecke (ETH Zurich)) 2013-06-17 16:00: Creating Impact from Research (Dr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise) 2013-06-18 10:00: Probing charge carriers in carbon materials with optical pulses (Dr. Enrico Da Como, Department of Physics, University of Bath, UK) 2013-06-19 11:15: Insulators, metals, pseudogaps and cuprate superconductivity (Andre-Marie Tremblay, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.) 2013-06-21 15:00: Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetism (Ludovic Jaubert) 2013-06-25 16:30: Spinning neutron stars – striking the right tone (Graham Woan (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow)) 2013-06-26 11:00: The bulk photovoltaic effect in polar oxides for robust and efficient solar energy harvesting (Andrew M. Rappe (University of Pennsylvania)) 2013-07-01 11:30: Astronomy and Space Geodesy Projects at the National Geographic Institute of Spain (Francisco Colomer (National Geographic Institute, Spain)) 2013-07-01 16:30: Searching for Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Array (Justin Ellis (University of Wisconsin, USA)) 2013-07-02 16:00: On the composite Higgs: the effect of massive gluon partners, and does the whole framework really make sense anyway? (James Barnard (Melbourne)) 2013-07-02 16:30: Probing the Reionization Epoch with High Redshift Galaxies (Laura Pentericci (Observatory of Rome)) 2013-07-08 14:15: High temperature superfluidity in double bilayer graphene and in electron-hole bilayers: comparison with diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo results (Dr Andrea Perali - University of Camerino, Italy) 2013-07-09 14:30: Localization of electronic excitations in organic semiconductors: theoretical views from different angles (Dr. Sergei Tretiak, Theoretical Division, Center for Nonlinear Studies and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) 2013-07-10 11:00: Nested sampling for bulk systems (Robert Baldock (TCM)) 2013-07-12 14:30: Interplay Between Intrachain and Interchain Interactions in Semiconducting Polymers: “Jekyll-Hyde” Behavior in Common Emissive Polymers (Prof. Frank Spano, Temple University, USA) 2013-07-15 16:00: Energy efficient magnetic cooling technology (Dr Sibel Ozcan) 2013-07-19 11:30: Controllable Synthesis of Nanostructural Materials for High Performance DSSCs (Prof. Dan Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) 2013-07-22 11:30: The state and mass of H2 in starbursts: a new emerging view in the age of ALMA (Padelis Papadopoulos (U. Cardiff)) 2013-08-12 14:15: Electron transport across interfaces (Kurt Stokbro, Copenhagen, Denmark) 2013-08-12 16:00: The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment (Dr Rosamunde Almond) 2013-08-20 14:30: Origin of coherence dynamics in biological complexes (Dr. Donatas Zigmantas, Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Sweden) 2013-09-09 16:00: Using sunlight-activated photo-catalysts to disinfect water (Dr Vasant Kumar) 2013-09-11 11:15: Universal behaviour in critical current density in HTS conductors (Dr Jeffery Tallon - CallaghanInnovation and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials& Nanotechnology Wellington, New Zealand) 2013-09-19 14:00: Materials design and functionality in oxide heterostructures (Christos Panagopoulos, Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological,University, Singapore) 2013-09-24 16:30: Subaru quasar surveys with Hyper-SuprimeCam (Tohru Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan) 2013-09-25 14:15: Single Atom Spin Qubits in Silicon (Professor Andrew Dzurak, University of New South Wales, Australia) 2013-09-27 11:00: High-fidelity entanglement between a quantum dot spin and a single photon via time-resolved downconversion to telecom wavelength (Kristiaan De Greve (Stanford University)) 2013-09-30 09:00: Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery (For full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery) 2013-10-01 14:30: Organic magnetoresistance – Search for the perfect defect (Prof. Bert Koopmans, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) 2013-10-02 11:00: Forces for electronic excited states: An implementation of TD-DFT in CASTEP (Dominik Jochym (Rutherford Appleton Lab)) 2013-10-02 11:40: The search for the optimal supercell (Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM) ) 2013-10-07 15:30: Quantum magnetism of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice (Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich)) 2013-10-08 16:30: Zooming in on the planet-forming zones of disks: Sweet results from ALMA (Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University)) 2013-10-09 11:15: The New Superconducting Quantum Devices (Phil Meeson, Royal Holloway, University of London.) 2013-10-10 14:15: Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum system (Dr Igor Lesanovsky, University of Nottingham) 2013-10-11 14:00: Stochastic signal encoding strategies in single cells (James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-14 14:15: Terahertz Heterodyne Spectrometer using a Quantum Cascade Laser (Dr Yuan Ren, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-15 16:00: Vortices on Surfaces of Small Curvature ( Daniele Dorigoni (DAMTP)) 2013-10-15 16:00: Vortices on Surfaces of Small Curvature ( Daniele Dorigoni (DAMTP)) 2013-10-16 11:00: Linking the continuous and the discrete -- coupling molecular dynamics to continuum fluid mechanics (Edward Smith (Imperial College)) 2013-10-16 11:40: The molecular vacancy in hexagonal ice from a random structure searching point of view (Edgar Engel (TCM)) 2013-10-16 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Steve Simon) 2013-10-16 16:00: Topological Matter and Why You Should Be Interested (Prof Steve Simon, Oxford Theoretical Physics) 2013-10-17 15:00: Multiscale modelling of brittle fracture in oxides and semiconductors (James Kermode, King's College, London) 2013-10-18 14:00: Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function (Lucy Colwell, Chemistry Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-21 14:15: Spin Lifetime Measurements in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots (Dr Jon Prance, Lancaster University) 2013-10-21 15:30: Tools for quantum computing with trapped ions: single-qubit addressing protocol and process tomography of a Molmer-Sorensen entangling gate (Dr Nir Navon (Trinity College, Cambridge)) 2013-10-22 14:30: Organic Bioelectronics (Prof. George Malliaras - Center of Microelectronics in Provence) 2013-10-22 15:00: Exploring new physics in the Top quark sector with the Compact Muon Solenoid (Prof. Freya Blekman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)) 2013-10-22 16:00: TBA (Erico Goulart (DAMTP, and CBPF, Rio de Janeiro)) 2013-10-22 16:30: The Cosmic Radio Background – Foregrounds to the Epoch of Reionization (Peter Sims (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2013-10-23 11:15: Critical dopings and superconducting domes in doped SrTiO3 (Kamran Behnia, ESPCI, Paris.) 2013-10-24 14:15: The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis (Prof. R. van Grondelle, VU University) 2013-10-24 15:45: The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis II (Elisabet Romero, VU University) 2013-10-24 16:00: Investigating single molecule transport at micro- and nanometre scales (Ulrich Keyser, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-10-25 11:00: Single photon state characterization for quantum technologies (Laura Wright (University of Oxford)) 2013-10-25 14:00: Accelerating localisation microscopy (Susan Cox, Department of Biology, King's College London) 2013-10-25 16:00: Ultra-high energy neutrino events at IceCube: Implications for the Standard Model and Beyond (Bhupal Dev (Manchester)) 2013-10-29 15:00: Towards Nc=3 parton showers (Malin Sjodahl (Lund)) 2013-10-29 16:00: How Many is Different? Answer from Ideal Bose Gas (Jeong-Hyuck Park (DAMTP, and Sogang U., Seoul)) 2013-10-29 16:30: The history of radio astronomy polarisation measurements (Richard Wielebinski (MPI fur Radioastronomie, Bonn) ) 2013-10-30 11:00: Wavefunction expansions in the solid state: New approaches to reach the thermodynamic limit (George Booth (Chemistry, Cambridge)) 2013-10-30 11:40: Towards ab initio optical spectroscopy of a bacterial light-harvesting complex (Danny Cole (Yale)) 2013-10-30 16:00: "Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms" (Prof Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel) 2013-11-01 14:00: Engineered Nanoparticles: the Bionano Interface in a Biological Environment (Francesca Baldelli-Bombelli, Department of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia) 2013-11-01 16:00: Higgs Boson(s) in the NMSSM (Ulrich Ellwanger (Paris)) 2013-11-04 14:15: Characterization of Qubit Dephasing by Landau-Zener Interferometry’ (Prof. Stefan Ludwig, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) 2013-11-04 15:30: Spin chains as data, entanglement and logic buses (Prof Sougato Bose (University College, London)) 2013-11-05 10:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Hiroshi Imahori, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan) 2013-11-05 15:00: Searching for weakly produced supersymmetric particles using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. (Sarah Williams (Cambridge)) 2013-11-05 16:00: Quantum Integrability and Conformally Equivariant Quantization. (Christian Duval (Marseille)) 2013-11-05 16:30: Luminous radio-loud AGN: Triggering and feedback (Clive Tadhunter (University of Sheffield)) 2013-11-07 14:15: Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields (Ryan Barnett, Imperial College) 2013-11-07 15:00: Plasmonics in the sub-nanometre and quantum domains (Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-07 15:00: Plasmonics in the sub-nanometre and quantum domains (Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg FRS, University of Cambridge) (Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg FRS, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-07 16:00: Ask not what you can do for outreach but instead what outreach can do for you! (Lisa Jardine-Wright, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-11-08 14:00: X-ray phase contrast imaging - detecting the undetectable (Sandro Olivo, Dept of Medical Phys & Bioengineering, University College London) 2013-11-08 16:00: The B->K*mu+mu- anomaly (Ulrich Haisch (Oxford)) 2013-11-11 12:00: Singlet fission photovoltaics: splitting one photon to two electrons (Dr. Jiye Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S) 2013-11-11 15:30: Splitting a single Cooper pair with microwave light (Dr Andrew Ferguson (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-12 11:00: Failures of density functional theory for strongly correlated systems using density-matrix renormalization group (Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine)) 2013-11-12 15:00: The Higgs is here, and now what? (Veronica Sanz, University of Sussex) 2013-11-12 16:00: TBA (Sakura Shaeffer-Nameki (KCL)) 2013-11-12 16:30: VIPERS: an unprecedented view of large-scale structure and galaxy properties at 0.5 < z < 1.2 (Luigi Guzzo (Observatory of Brera, Milan)) 2013-11-13 11:00: Pressure-induced structural transformations in nanomaterials: a linear-scaling DFT investigation (Niccolo Corsini (Imperial)) 2013-11-13 11:40: Intra- and intermolecular potential energy surfaces derived from ab initio data by machine learning (Alan Nichol (Eng) ) 2013-11-13 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton ) 2013-11-14 14:15: The Part is Greater than the Sum of the Wholes: How to Spin Light Into Anyons (Eliot Kapit, Oxford University) 2013-11-14 16:00: Knowledge exchange: What is it, who does it, and why do it? (Michael Simmons, Cavendish Laboratory) 2013-11-14 16:30: Physics in the oil and gas industry (Pepijn Kole, Shell, The Netherlands) 2013-11-14 16:30: Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012, and the Cosmic History of Star Formation (James Dunlop (Edinburgh)) 2013-11-15 14:00: VIRUS ASSEMBLY AND GENOME TRANSLOCATION: ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES FROM POLYMER PHYSICS (Murugappan Muthukumar, Dept Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2013-11-15 16:00: Asymmetric Dark Matter (Kalliopi Petraki (Nikhef)) 2013-11-18 14:15: Electron Quantum Optics in Quantum Hall Edge Channels (Dr Erwann Bocquillion, University of Wuerzburg, Germany) 2013-11-18 15:30: Spin qubits and nanomechanics in carbon nanotubes (Dr Edward Laird (Materials Science, Oxford University)) 2013-11-19 15:00: The GHOST Project: Study of Late Toxicity of Radiotherapy Treatments Through Simulation of Dose Deposition in Patients (Frederic Brochu (Cambridge)) 2013-11-19 16:00: The Equations of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. (Paul Tod (Oxford)) 2013-11-19 16:30: Tracing Radio Source Evolution through the Radio Power - Linear Size Plane (Tamela Maciel (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2013-11-19 17:00: The JCMT Gould Belt Survey – Results from HARP and SCUBA-2 (Samantha Walker-Smith (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2013-11-20 11:15: How supersolids melt: vortices near a high-symmetry phase coexistence point. (Chris Hooley - Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), University of St Andrews) 2013-11-21 14:15: Accurate Effective Hamiltonians via Unitary Flow in Floquet space (Florian Mintert, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies) 2013-11-21 16:00: Silk: Spiders, silkworms, and advanced materials (David Porter, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2013-11-22 14:00: Artificial evolution strategy for pet reconstruction (Franck Vidal, School of Computer Science, Bangor University ) 2013-11-22 16:00: IceCube: seeing the high energy universe (Subir Sarkar (Oxford)) 2013-11-25 15:30: Hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics (Dr Peter Leek (Clarendon Lab, Oxford Universtiy)) 2013-11-26 15:00: Electroweak production measurements in the forward region (William Barter (Cambridge)) 2013-11-26 16:30: The near-infrared background: the glow of the first black holes? (Andrea Ferrara (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)) 2013-11-27 11:00: Momentum-resonant tunnelling in carbon nanotube networks (Rob Bell (TCM)) 2013-11-27 11:40: Pseudopotentials in cold atoms (Pascal Bugnion (TCM)) 2013-11-28 14:15: Dynamics in one dimension: from fractional excitations to new out-of-equilibrium states of matter (Jean-Sébastien Caux, University of Amsterdam) 2013-11-29 14:00: Light, camera, action: watching single DNA/RNA polymerases at work in living cells (Achillefs Kapanidis, Dept Physics, University of Oxford) 2013-11-29 16:00: Higgs xi-inflation for the 125--126 GeV Higgs (Kyle Allison (Oxford)) 2013-12-02 14:15: Splitting Single Cooper Pairs (Dr Nicholas Lambert, Microelectronics Research Centre, University of Cambridge) 2013-12-02 16:00: Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow (Prof Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School) 2013-12-03 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Moritz Riede, University of Oxford) 2013-12-03 15:00: HEP Journal Club (Thomas Gillam, Simon Wright (Cambridge)) 2013-12-03 16:00: Conformal Standard Model. (Krzysztof Meissner (Warsaw)) 2013-12-03 16:30: Hunting for terrestrial planets transiting the most nearby very-low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (Michael Gillon (Liege University)) 2013-12-04 11:00: A new extension of QM/MM methods: the adaptive buffered-force QM/MM method (Letif Mones (Eng)) 2013-12-04 14:15: Quantized charge pumping with tunable-barrier quantum dots as electron "disequilibration" problem (Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia) 2013-12-04 16:00: Cosmic Reionization (Dr Chris Carilli, NRAO) 2013-12-05 14:15: Adiabatic reaction forces in mesoscopic systems (Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Freie Universität Berlin) 2013-12-05 15:00: Explorations in Adiabatic Quantum Optimisation (Dr. Joachim Wabnig, Nokia Research Centre, Cambridge) (Dr. Joachim Wabnig, Nokia Research Centre, Cambridge) 2013-12-06 16:00: Towards efficient evaluation of LHC constraints on supersymmetric models (Kazuki Sakurai (KCL)) 2013-12-09 09:00: HOPKINSON CENTENARY CONFERENCE CAMBRIDGE (Organiser: Dr Stephen Walley, SMF Group) 2013-12-09 09:00: HOPKINSON CENTENARY CONFERENCE CAMBRIDGE (Organiser: Dr Stephen Walley, SMF Group) 2013-12-09 14:15: Thermometry and Refrigeration using Quantum Dots (Miss Aquila Mavalankar, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge) 2013-12-12 14:15: Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors (Masafumi Udagawa, University of Tokyo) 2013-12-16 16:00: Open-ended inorganic nanotubes: band-gap and bands-engineering of a photo-catalyst (Dr Gilberto Teobaldi) 2014-01-15 15:00: Lighting the Future: the science behind understanding the efficiency and reducing the cost of GaN LEDs (Prof. Sir Colin J. Humphreys FRS, University of Cambridge) (Prof. Sir Colin J. Humphreys FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-16 14:15: Nucleation pathways in partially disordered lattice models (David Quigley, University of Warwick) 2014-01-17 14:00: Physico-chemical properties of colloids, their interaction with cells, and some applications (Prof Wolfgang Parak, Biophotonics Group, University of Marburg, Marburg Germany) 2014-01-17 16:00: A naturally light dilaton and a small cosmological constant (Brando Bellazzini) 2014-01-21 14:30: Bulk and interface doping of organic semiconductors (Prof. Norbert Koch, Humbold University, Berlin, Germany) 2014-01-21 16:30: Using the Milky Way as a template for understanding star formation in extreme environments across cosmological timescales (Steve Longmore (Liverpool John Moore University)) 2014-01-22 11:00: Pseudopotentials reach for the stars (Gareth Conduit (TCM)) 2014-01-22 11:40: Electronic structure and impact (Mike Payne (TCM)) 2014-01-23 14:15: Stationary Behaviour of Observables after a Quantum Quench (Maurizio Fagotti, University of Oxford) 2014-01-23 15:00: Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-24 14:00: Reversible Control of NON-Volatile Magnetic Memory Using Soft Materials: Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Nanocomposites (Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zurich) 2014-01-24 16:00: Factorizing Theoretical Uncertainties from LHC Higgs Coupling Measurements (Sven Kreiss) 2014-01-27 15:30: A new setup for Ultracold mixtures of lithium and cesium (Lucia Hackermuller (Nottingham University)) 2014-01-27 16:00: Business-oriented Solutions for Resource Recovery and Reuse at Scale in Developing Countries (Luca Di Mario) 2014-01-28 16:00: A gauge theoretic approach to Einstein 4-manifolds. (Joel Fine) 2014-01-28 16:30: The use of the Moon as a Particle Detector (Justin Bray (University of Southampton)) 2014-01-29 16:00: Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY (Dr. Isobel Falconer, Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University) 2014-01-30 14:15: First-principles dynamics applied to energy materials (Keith Refson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2014-01-30 15:00: Gauge dependence and the Standard Model vacuum stability (Luca Di Luzio (KIT, Karlsruhe)) 2014-01-30 16:00: Solids under high-pressure shock compression: The interplay between simulation and experiment (Gabriele Mogni, The Clarendon Laboratory, The University of Oxford) 2014-01-31 14:00: Bioinspired materials and devices (Dr Elisa Mele, The Italian institute of Technology ) 2014-01-31 15:00: Solitonic waves in a Fermionic Superfluid (Martin Zwierlein (MIT)) 2014-01-31 16:00: Vector-like fermions in Composite Higgs Models (Ramona Grober) 2014-02-03 15:30: Fermions in two dimensions (Meera Parish (UCL)) 2014-02-04 14:30: Morphology and composition control of solution deposited, mixed halide perovskite solar cells (Dr. Pablo DoCampo, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany) 2014-02-04 15:00: The hunt for Dark Matter: First results from the LUX Experiment (Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)) 2014-02-04 16:00: Twistors, Massive Particles and Hidden Supersymmetries (Alasdair Routh (DAMTP)) 2014-02-04 16:30: ALMA studies of submm galaxies (Ian Smail (University of Durham)) 2014-02-05 11:00: The 2-particle density matrix and the exchange-correlation holes (Jian Wang (Huzhou University)) 2014-02-05 16:00: Soft Matter in Motion (Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-06 14:15: Pairing symmetry and dominant band in Sr2RuO4 (Thomas Scaffidi, University of Oxford) 2014-02-06 16:00: Numerical simulations of high-speed droplet splashing (Steve Millmore, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-02-07 14:00: Are CMOS image sensors (and CCDs) dinosaurs? (Dr Renato Turchetta, STFC-RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2014-02-10 15:30: Trapping, cooling and high-fidelity manipulation of cold atoms using laser pulses (Tim Freegarde (Southampton University)) 2014-02-11 15:00: Use of computational techniques from particle physics to improve radiotherapy treatment of cancer (Karl Harrison (Cambridge)) 2014-02-11 16:00: Cyclic monopole chains (Derek Harland (Leeds)) 2014-02-11 16:30: Massive galaxy growth from 3D studies (Natasha Foerster-Schreiber (MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics)) 2014-02-12 11:00: GAP potential for tungsten (Wojciech Szlachta (Eng)) 2014-02-12 11:40: Slicing a system for optimization in QMC (Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM)) 2014-02-13 14:00: Integrated Sensor Using CMOS (Prof. David R. S. Cumming, University of Glasgow) (Prof. David R. S. Cumming, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow) 2014-02-13 14:15: What’s the point of linear-scaling electronic structure methods? (Prof. Peter Haynes, Imperial College London) 2014-02-13 15:30: The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect - From Electron Transfer in Biology to Spintronics. (Prof. Ron Naaman, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute) 2014-02-13 16:00: The development of the hybrid rocket for Bloodhound SSC (Daniel Jubb, The Falcon Project Ltd.) 2014-02-14 14:00: Biomimetic routes to colloidal self-assembly (Jasna Burjic, NYU, Physics and Soft Matter Center) 2014-02-14 16:00: Progress in multi-loop integrand reduction methods (Simon Badger) 2014-02-17 15:30: Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of cold Rydberg gases in a dissipative environment (Igor Lesanovsky (Nottingham University)) 2014-02-18 15:00: Precision physics and the LHC (Alex Mitov) 2014-02-18 16:00: Generalised geometry in eleven dimensions ( Mahdi Godazgar (DAMTP)) 2014-02-18 16:30: The evolution of galaxies from z=3 to z=0 (Marijn Franx (Leiden Observatory)) 2014-02-19 16:00: Improving cancer survival through molecular imaging (Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Biological & Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-02-20 14:00: Discrete flavor symmetries for lepton mixing and quark mixing (Atsushi Ogasahara, Kyoto University) 2014-02-20 14:15: The nature of the quantum spin-liquid state in Herbertsmithite (Matthias Punk, Universität Innsbruck) 2014-02-20 16:00: Ammonium nitrate: Safe oxidizer or dangerous explosive (Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-02-21 14:00: Working under confinement (Miguel Rubi, Universitat de Barcelona & Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London) 2014-02-21 16:00: Higgs and Flavour Portals to the Dark Sector (Jernej Kamenik) 2014-02-24 15:30: Let nothing slow you down: trapping, rotating and cooling mesoscopic particles in vacuum (Kishan Dholakia (St Andrews University)) 2014-02-25 15:00: Neutrino Oscillation with the T2K Experiment: Recent Results and Beyond (Matthew Malek: Imperial College) 2014-02-25 15:00: Unravelling electronic processes and phenomena in organic materials through polymer scientists’ tools (Dr. Natalie Stingelin, Imperial College London, UK) 2014-02-25 16:00: Characterising classical minimal surfaces via the entropy differential ( Thomas Mettler (Oxford)) 2014-02-25 16:30: Molecular gas and star formation across the Hubble time (Francoise Combes (l’Observatoire de Paris)) 2014-02-26 11:00: The method of entropy calculations for biochemical bonds (Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences)) 2014-02-26 11:40: Towards first-principles biomimetic catalyst design (Greg Lever (TCM)) 2014-02-27 14:15: Exploring Thermal Transport via Gauge-Gravity Duality and Hydrodynamics (M. Joe Bhaseen, King's College, London) 2014-02-27 16:00: The working of metals and Deep Thought (Mick Brown, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-02-28 11:00: Hyperspectral imaging of exciton dynamics in individual carbon nanotubes controlled by high magnetic fields (Dr Jack J. Alexander-Webber, University of Oxford) 2014-02-28 14:00: Mechanisms of leading edge protrusion in interstitial migration (Dr Guillaume Charras, UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology ) 2014-02-28 16:00: M-theory implications for phenomenology, including Higgs physics and superpartners (Gordon Kane (University of Michigan)) 2014-03-03 14:15: Controlling Single-Electrons with SINIS Turnstile (Ville Maisi, Aalto University and MIKES (Finland)) 2014-03-04 15:00: A Measurement of ZZ Production with the ATLAS Detector (Steven Kaneti (Cambridge)) 2014-03-04 16:00: Exact results in AdS/CFT from localization (James Sparks (Oxford)) 2014-03-04 16:30: Searching for Earth-like exoplanets with ESPRESSO@VLT (Francesco Pepe (Geneva University)) 2014-03-06 16:00: Semi-metal surfaces: A new territory for helium atom scattering measurements (Anton Tamtögl, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-03-07 14:00: Living Clusters in Suspensions of Active Colloids (Bortolo Mognetti, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles) 2014-03-07 16:00: Compressed electroweakino spectra at the LHC (José Zurita (Mainz)) 2014-03-10 14:00: Molecules and spins for quantum technologies (Prof. G. A. D. Briggs, University of Oxford) (Prof. G. A. D. Briggs, Department of Materials, University of Oxford) 2014-03-10 15:15: Optical properties of exotic epitaxial nanostructures with respect to nanophotonic applications (Dr. Grzegorz Sęk, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland) 2014-03-10 15:30: Quantum effects in light-initiated reactions in biology (Alexandra Olaya-Castro (UCL)) 2014-03-11 15:00: HEP Journal Club (Imran Yusuff, Thibaut Mueller (Cambridge)) 2014-03-11 16:00: G_2 conifolds (Jason Lotay (UCL)) 2014-03-12 11:00: Quantum Monte Carlo at the research frontier: useful calculations for big, complicated systems (Mike Towler (TCM)) 2014-03-13 14:15: Paradigms of the interaction effects in Fermi surface topological reconstruction (Dr Joseph Betouras, Loughborough University) 2014-03-14 14:00: Living photonic devices from patchy colloids: Inspiration from cephalopods (Alison Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania) 2014-03-14 16:00: Multiple polylogarithms and Feynman integrals (Christian Bogner (Humboldt Uni Berlin)) 2014-03-17 16:00: Electric buses - can they really compete on the front line? (Professor John Miles) 2014-03-19 11:00: Algorithmic differentiation of diffusion Monte Carlo (Tom Poole (Imperial)) 2014-03-19 14:15: Heat Transport Measurements in Electronic Quantum Channels (Dr Ulf Gennser, CNRS - Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures, France) 2014-03-21 10:30: Report from a Meeting on Far-IR Interferometry in Space (Richard Hills (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2014-03-24 15:00: Templated self-assembly of Block Copolymers and Multiferroic Oxide Nanocomposites (Caroline A Ross, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA) 2014-03-25 16:30: Quiescent black holes in globular clusters: the nature of low-luminosity accretion (James Miller-Jones (Curtin University)) 2014-03-26 14:15: "WORKSHOP" - Driving a single electron current using RF electrodes applied to graphene quantum dots (Miss Cassandra Chua, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-31 14:00: Heavy Quark Production in Soft Collinear Effective Theory (Emanuele Mereghetti (LBNL)) 2014-03-31 16:00: The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application? (Dr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2014-04-01 16:30: Star formation and nuclear activity in hidden massive galaxies at high redshifts (Karina Caputi (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)) 2014-04-02 14:15: "SP WEDNESDAY'S WORKSHOP" - III-V waveguides with integrated quantum dots for single photon emission (Mr Robert Taylor, Semiconductor Physics Group, University of Cambridge) 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) 2014-04-14 15:00: Spin-Orbit Effects in Electron Transport (Prof. Bryan J. Hickey, University of Leeds) (Prof. Bryan J. Hickey, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds) 2014-04-24 14:15: Topological Kondo Insulators and SmB6: magnetism meets topology. (Piers Coleman, Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA) 2014-04-24 16:00: The diffusion of benzene adsorbed on graphite surfaces studied with quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) techniques (Irene Calvo-Almazán, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France) 2014-04-25 14:00: Particles and fluids (Dr Mark Haw, Department of Engineering, University of Strathclyde) 2014-04-25 15:00: High spin at low temperatures (Dr Christoph Becker, Institut für Laserphysik, University of Hamburg) 2014-04-25 16:00: SUSY model building for a 126 GeV Higgs (Moritz McGarrie) 2014-04-28 11:30: Photonic topological insulators and pseudomagnetism (Dr Mikael Rechtsman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Solid State Institute, Haifa 32000, Israel) 2014-04-28 14:15: Single electron pumping: Current accounting and electron partitioning (Dr Frank Hohls, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany) 2014-04-29 16:00: Superconformal quantum mechanics and the exterior algebra. (Andrew Singleton (DAMTP)) 2014-04-29 16:30: Shedding Light on the Dark Ages of Star Formation: Dense gas kinematics and core formation (Nicolas Peretto (University of Cardiff)) 2014-04-30 16:00: Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces (Prof Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen) 2014-05-01 12:00: How to keep women (and men) in science (Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen) 2014-05-01 14:15: Odd Times for Triplet Pairing (Prof. James Annett, University of Bristol) 2014-05-02 14:00: If the fittest never arrive, then they can't survive: on the topology of evolutionary search. (Prof. Ard A Louis, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University) 2014-05-02 15:00: Orbitronics in Silicon (Prof. Gabriel Aeppli FRS, London Centre for Nanotechnology) (Prof. Gabriel Aeppli FRS, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London) 2014-05-05 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation (Professor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2014-05-06 11:45: Harnessing cold atoms to empower quantum technologies (Dr Marco Koshorreck, University of Bonn) 2014-05-06 15:00: Dark Matter searches at ATLAS (Caterina Pizio, INFN Milano) 2014-05-06 16:00: Integrable dispersionless PDEs in multidimensions: rigorous aspects of the Cauchy problem, wave breaking and exact implicit solutions. (Paolo Santini (Rome)) 2014-05-06 16:30: The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet (Dave Charbonneau (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, USA)) 2014-05-07 12:00: Exploring Many-Body Quantum Physics with Ultracold Atoms (Dr Rob Smith, AMOP, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-05-07 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) Applications of the quantum multiplexer (Mr Arthur Lesage, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-07 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively. (Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2014-05-08 14:15: Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models (Stefanos Kourtis, IFW Dresden) 2014-05-08 15:00: Tomonaga-Luttinger like-physics in electronic quantum circuits (Associate Professor Anne Anthore, Paris Diderot University, CNRS Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures (LPN). ) 2014-05-08 16:00: Soft capture of 'shrapnel' in foams (Mike Hutchinson, AWE Aldermaston) 2014-05-09 11:00: Ultracold atoms in optical lattices – a versatile quantum simulator for many-body physics (Dr Ulrich Schneider, University of Munich) 2014-05-09 14:00: Contact Line – Quo Vadis? (Professor Dirks Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford) 2014-05-09 16:00: W-assisted top-charge asymmetry at the LHC (Marco Zaro (Paris VI)) 2014-05-09 16:00: Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter. (Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2014-05-12 09:00: Probing Nanostructures and Optoelectronic Properties of BHJ Solar Cells by conductive AFM (Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen) 2014-05-12 15:30: experimental and theoretical results on silicon Isolated Double Quantum Dots (IDQDs) with nearby Single Electron Transistors (SETs) (David Williams (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-12 16:00: Current Issues in Energy Policy (Dr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-13 09:00: Ultrafast spectroscopy, microscopy, and nanoscopy in optoelectronic materials (Prof. Tobias Brixner) 2014-05-13 15:00: Search for Exotics at CMS. (Jim Brooke) 2014-05-13 16:00: Dynamics of Monopole Walls (Richard Ward (Durham)) 2014-05-13 16:30: Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres: Challenges with Observations and Data Analysis (Neale Gibson (ESO)) 2014-05-14 11:00: Exotic physical properties of matter studied by simulation (Martin Dove, Queen Mary University) 2014-05-14 11:45: Short range order in liquid metals (Martin Mayo, TCM) 2014-05-14 12:00: Core loss spectroscopy of graphene oxide (Gleb Shiroki (Cavendish)) 2014-05-14 16:00: Higgs Vortices and Black Hole Hair (Professor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University) 2014-05-15 10:30: Generation of indistinguishable single photons from separate silicon vacancy centers in diamond (Alp Sipahigil (Harvard University)) 2014-05-15 14:15: IS GREEN TEA GOOD FOR YOU? INSIGHTS FROM ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS (Carla Molteni, King's College London) 2014-05-15 16:00: The properties of silicate glass relevant to their use in ballistics applications (Stephen Walley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-05-16 14:00: Watching single molecules (Professor David Klenerman FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-16 16:00: Higgs inflation vs BICEP (Fedor Bezrukov (CERN)) 2014-05-19 14:15: Quantum transport in mesoscopic graphene/superconductor hybrid devices (Miss Carly Richardson, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-20 15:00: Progress on long-distance singularities in gauge theory scattering amplitudes (Einan Gardi, University of Edinburgh) 2014-05-20 16:30: The Submillimetre Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies (Kristen Coppin (University of Hertfordshire)) 2014-05-21 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - Charge Locking Quantum Multiplexer and Triple Addressing Gate System (Mr Chi Han Chong, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-22 14:15: Active nematics and topological defects (Prof. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford) 2014-05-22 16:00: Shock-induced cavity collapse in liquid nitromethane (Louisa Michael, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-05-23 14:00: Biomolecular machines on and of DNA (Professor Dr Ralf Seidel, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany) 2014-05-23 16:00: Resummation for Squark and Gluino production (Eric Laenen) 2014-05-27 15:00: MiNLO: Multiscale improved NLO (Keith Hamilton, UCL) 2014-05-27 16:30: The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe (Michael Edmunds (University of Cardiff)) 2014-05-28 11:00: Pseudoψence (Gareth Conduit (TCM)) 2014-05-28 14:00: Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order. (Georg Bruun, Aarhus University) 2014-05-28 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in Graphene (Mr Kai Yuan Huang, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-28 16:00: Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy (Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA) 2014-05-29 14:15: Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity (Dr Jonathan Yates, Department of Materials, University of Oxford) 2014-05-30 14:00: Tuning Protein Aggregation Pathways by Charges (Prof. Dr. Frank Schreiber, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany) 2014-06-02 14:15: Electrostatic manipulation of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) and interface fluctuation GaAs/AlAs QDs (IF-QDs) by focused laser assisted diffusion of Manganese interstitial ions in GaAs/AlAs/GaMnAs resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) structures (Dr Ateeq Nasir, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-03 16:30: The CAMbridge Emission Line Surveyor (CAMELS) (Chris Thomas & Stafford Withington (Quantum Sensors, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2014-06-04 11:15: Spin-orbit coupled quantum magnets (Giniyat Khaliullin, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany.) 2014-06-04 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - Contacting low numbers of nano-crystals using graphene (Mr Joel Fruhman, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-06 14:15: Unitary Fermi gas, unitary Bose gas: theory and experiments (Felix Werner, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris) 2014-06-06 16:00: Multilepton and multiphoton signatures of supersymmetry at the LHC (Christoffer Petersson (ULB)) 2014-06-09 14:15: Growth mechanisms and electronic properties of epitaxial graphene (Dr Graham Creeth, University College London) 2014-06-10 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Koen Vandewal) 2014-06-10 16:30: Growing supermassive black holes with a little help from their friends (John Silverman (Kavli IPMU, Japan)) 2014-06-11 10:00: Pulsars: precision tools for understanding the Universe (Dr Robert Ferdman, McGill University) 2014-06-11 10:40: Can Quantum Optics serve astronomy? (Aglae Kellerer, University of Durham) 2014-06-11 11:00: Molecular dynamics with linear scaling density functional theory: the CONQUEST code (David Bowler (UCL)) 2014-06-11 11:15: Exploring quantum magnetism using molecules, magnetic fields and pressure. (Paul Goddard, University of Warwick.) 2014-06-11 11:30: Hunting for Extra Dimensions and Black Holes at the LHC (Dr James Frost, HEP, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-06-11 11:40: Graphene electronics and optoelectronics (Antonio Lombardo) 2014-06-11 12:10: "Searching for Dark Matter with ATLAS" (Dr Bjoern Penning, CERN) 2014-06-11 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - TBC (Mr Hangtian Hou, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-12 09:00: Soft Solids: Elastic Instability, Morphogenesis, and Rubbery Crystals (Dr John Biggins, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-06-12 09:40: Control of Cavity Polaritons (Dr Gabriel Christman, IESL-FORTH. Heraklion, Crete, Greece) 2014-06-12 11:00: Sonocytology: Manipulation and Sensing Particles (Dr Anne Bernassau, University of Glasgow) 2014-06-12 11:00: Emergence of a novel correlated-electron metal in a 2D electron gas (Dr. Vijay Narayan, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-06-12 11:15: Intermetallic compound for demagnetisation refrigeration just below 0.2K (Thomas Gruner, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden) 2014-06-12 11:40: Diffusion and Assembly of Bacterial Nanomotors (Dr Eileen Nugent, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-06-12 12:20: Metallic non-local spin transport at the nanoscale (Dr Liam O'Brien, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota) 2014-06-12 14:15: Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms (Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde) 2014-06-13 14:00: Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences (Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London) 2014-06-13 16:00: Understanding Uncertainties: an extensive survey of theoretical uncertainty estimates for perturbative observables (Alberto Guffanti (Bohr Institute, Copenaghen)) 2014-06-16 14:15: Optically driven domain wall motion in dilute magnetic semiconductor (Dr Andrew Ramsey, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory) 2014-06-18 16:00: CheckMATE: Confronting your Favourite New Physics Model with LHC Data (Jong Soo Kim (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)) 2014-06-19 14:15: First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Prof. Zheshuai Lin, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) 2014-06-23 16:00: Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different? (Professor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science) 2014-06-25 11:15: Thermodynamics and critical current density in HTS superconductors and beyond (Jeff Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University, New Zealand.) 2014-06-25 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - Probe for Cryostat with RF Input and Optical Scanning Function (Mr Tzu-Kan Hsiao, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-30 15:30: Towards single-site-resolved detction of fermions in an optical lattice (Proessor Stefan Kuhr (University of Strathclyde)) 2014-07-04 14:00: Yang-Mills on a hyperbolic space (Piotr Bizon (Cracow) ) 2014-07-04 14:15: Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol (Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 2014-07-10 14:15: The density is not enough (Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL) 2014-07-11 02:15: 'Surface states and topology in Kondo insulating SmB6 and superconducting Tl5Te3' (Tyrel McQueen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.) 2014-07-11 11:00: Experiments on a mixture of bosonic and fermionic superfluids (Igor Ferrier-Barbut (Ecole normale Superieure, Paris)) 2014-07-15 14:00: Boosting stop searches with boosted di-boson (Diptimoy Ghosh (INFN and Univeristy of Rome)) 2014-07-24 14:15: Spin Hall Effect (Guang-Yu Guo, National Taiwan University,) 2014-07-25 11:00: The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with massive particles (Raphael Lopes (Institut Optique, France)) 2014-07-28 11:00: All optical production of a 39K BEC (Guillaume Salomon (Institut Optique, France)) 2014-07-28 12:30: Neutralino Dark Matter in the (N)MSSM: Direct/Indirect Detection and Collider Searches (Zhen Liu (Pittsburgh)) 2014-07-30 15:00: Engineered Quantum Systems (Prof. Gerard J. Milburn, The University of Queensland) (Prof. Gerard J. Milburn, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland) 2014-08-06 16:30: Rapid radio follow-up of GRBs with the Arcminute Microkelvin Image (Gemma Anderson (University of Oxford)) 2014-08-08 11:00: Taking control of coherent superconducting quantum electronics (Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley)) 2014-08-26 14:00: Photonic Crystals - why the holes ? (Prof. Thomas F. Krauss FRSE, University of York) (Prof. Thomas F. Krauss FRSE, Department of Physics, University of York) 2014-08-27 14:15: Versatile ‘Quantum Multiplexing’ for Nanoelectronic Applications (Dr Luke Smith, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2014-09-01 16:00: Meeting the challenges of cancer through nanotechnology. (Quentin Harmer) 2014-09-05 15:30: CALYPSO: A Useful Tool for Discovering Novel Structures and Properties of Materials at Extreme Conditions (Yanming Ma, Jilin University) 2014-09-19 16:00: State-of-the-Art Tests of Lepton Number Violation and Seesaw Mechanisms (Richard Ruiz (Pittsburgh)) 2014-09-26 15:00: Artificial Magnetic Materials and Chiral Spin Textures (Prof. Robert L. Stamps, University of Glasgow) (Prof. Robert L. Stamps, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow) 2014-09-26 16:00: Glauber Gluons and Multiple Parton Interactions (Jonathan Gaunt (DESY Hamburg)) 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) 2014-10-01 15:00: Double Higgs Production at the LHC (Matthew Dolan (SLAC)) 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) 2014-10-08 11:00: Molecular excited states and QMC (Mike Towler) 2014-10-08 11:40: Comparing site occupancy calculations with experimental observations (Robbie Bennett (Mat)) 2014-10-08 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - Towards lower losses in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers (Mr Adam Klimont, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2014-10-09 14:15: One-dimensional boson flow between weakly couple reservoirs (Professor Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham) 2014-10-10 16:00: Probing the HB/FP area for the CMSSM with Yukawa Quasi-Unification conditions (Nikos Karagiannakis) 2014-10-14 16:00: How to recognize a conformally Einstein metric (Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)) 2014-10-14 16:30: The formation and evolution of galaxy clusters and proto-clusters: Recent results from optical, IR, X-ray and LOFAR radio studies (Huub Rottgering (Leiden Observatory)) 2014-10-15 11:15: The heavy-fermion compound CeRhIn5: d-wave superconductivity and density waves (Dr Philip Moll, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich.) 2014-10-15 16:00: The Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory (Malcolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-10-16 14:15: Spectroscopic signatures of collective modes in superconductors (Lara Benfatto, University of Rome, La Sapienza) 2014-10-16 16:00: i2®©: Investigative & Interpretative Radiochemistry – The development of nuclear forensic science (Paul Thompson, AWE Aldermaston) 2014-10-17 14:00: What is Biological Adaptation and How Can it be Measured? (Dr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge ) 2014-10-17 16:00: Physics of charm on the lattice (Francesco Sanfilippo (Southampton)) 2014-10-20 14:15: Probing the limits of gate-based charge sensing (Dr. M. Fernando Gonzalez Zalba, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory) 2014-10-21 16:00: Ambitwistor strings at null infinity (Yvonne Geyer (Oxford)) 2014-10-21 16:30: What are the progenitors of type Ia Supernovae? (Filippo Mannucci (Arcetri Observatory)) 2014-10-22 11:00: Quantum many body effects in transition metal molecules? (Cedric Weber, Kings College London) 2014-10-22 11:40: Thermal effects in NMR (Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez, TCM) 2014-10-22 14:15: Microscopic Origin of the 0.7-Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts (Professor Jan von Delft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München) 2014-10-23 14:15: Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential (Jesper F. Levinsen, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark) 2014-10-23 16:00: Machine learning in materials design, oil exploration, and beyond (Gareth Conduit, TCM Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-10-24 11:00: Pair condensation in a strongly interacting 2D Fermi gas (Andre Wenz (Heidelberg University)) 2014-10-24 14:00: The complexity, modularity and evolution of self-assembling structures in biology (Dr Sebastian Ahnert, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-10-24 16:00: Phenomenology of bottom-initiated processes at the LHC (Maria Ubiali (Cambridge)) 2014-10-27 14:15: Silicon quantum electronics (Prof. Floris Zwanenburg, University of Twente, Netherlands) 2014-10-28 14:30: Strong Coupling in Organic and Hybrid Semiconductor Microcavities (Prof. David Lidzey (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, UK)) 2014-10-28 15:00: Electron and nuclear spin qubits based on donors in silicon (Prof. John J. L. Morton, University College London) (Prof. John J. L. Morton, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London) 2014-10-28 15:00: Resolving the Tevatron top quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry puzzle (Alexander Mitov (Cavendish)) 2014-10-28 16:00: Universal properties of quantum gravity (Pierre Vanhove (IHES & Saclay)) 2014-10-28 16:30: Searching for Earth-like exoplanets with ESPRESSO@VLT (Francesco Pepe (Geneva University)) 2014-10-29 14:15: Hierarchy of modes in an interacting system (Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev, University of Birmingham) 2014-10-29 16:00: High magnetic fields as a tool for discovery (Dr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-10-30 14:15: Non-equilibrium processes from an ab-initio perspective: generalized Hedin's equations and ultra-fast processes in paradigmatic materials (Andrea Marini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) 2014-10-31 16:00: Antideuterons: what's the fuss? (Are Raklev (Oslo)) 2014-11-03 14:15: Manufacture of Low Cost Semiconductor Tunnelling Devices (Professor Michael Kelly, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-04 16:00: Instantons, moduli, and the ADHM construction (Kenny Wong (DAMTP)) 2014-11-04 16:30: Cosmological Tests of Gravity (Luca Amendola (University of Heidelberg)) 2014-11-05 11:00: 2D molecular self assembly - quantifying electrostatic interactions in monolayers of charged molecules with CDFT (Valerie Vaissier, Imperial College London) 2014-11-05 11:40: Tracing potential energy surfaces of electronic excitations via their transition origins: application to oxirane (Jian-Hao Li, TCM) 2014-11-05 14:15: A Glance at the Exotic Quantum Liquids and Solids of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas (Associate Professor Gábor A. Csáthy, Purdue University, USA) 2014-11-06 16:00: Structural and functional characterisation of oxide nanomaterials (Donald MacLaren, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Glasgow) 2014-11-07 14:00: Enhancing single-molecule detection with DNA origami nanostructures (Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld, Institut für Physikalische & Theoretische Chemie TU Braunschweig) 2014-11-07 14:30: Singlet Fission: Looking for New Chromophores (Prof. Josef Michl (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemhistry, Univ. of Colorado, USA & Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, Czech Republic)) 2014-11-07 15:30: Two alternatives to particle dark matter? (Fabio Capela (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-10 14:15: Unconventional Superconductivity in Quantum-Dot Systems (Prof Jürgen König) 2014-11-11 14:30: Developing semiconductor nanowires for future optoelectronics (Dr. Hannah Joyce (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-11 15:00: Test of Lorentz and CPT violation with neutrinos (Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University London)) 2014-11-11 16:00: Hierarchy from time evolution (Bernd Schroers (Heriot-Watt)) 2014-11-11 16:30: The relationship between the inter-galactic medium and galaxies *** Seminar cancelled *** (Simon Morris (University of Durham)) 2014-11-12 11:00: Quantum Monte Carlo study of the phase diagram of solid molecular hydrogen at extreme pressures (Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM)) 2014-11-12 11:40: Comparing site occupancy calculations with experimental observations (Robbie Bennett) 2014-11-12 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - Fibre Coupled Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (Mr Robert Wallis, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-13 14:15: Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids (Maria Hermanns, University Köln) 2014-11-13 16:00: Understanding human injury from under vehicle explosions (Spyros Masouros, Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College) 2014-11-14 14:00: On growth and flow: bacterial biofilms in porous environments (Mack Durham, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2014-11-14 16:00: Machine Learning for high-energy physics and the Higgs ML challenge (Gabor Melis and Tim Salimans) 2014-11-17 14:15: Novel designs and waveguides in terahertz quantum cascade lasers (Mr. Yash Shah, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2014-11-18 15:00: Measuring the Bs mixing phase at LHCb (Greig Cowan (University of Edinburgh)) 2014-11-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Mike Gillard (Leeds)) 2014-11-18 16:30: The Dynamics and Evolution of the Galactic Disk (Hans-Walter Rix (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Germany)) 2014-11-19 11:00: Theory and simulation of electronic and optical properties of thin film BaxSr1-xTiO3 (Jawad Al-Saei (Imperial College London)) 2014-11-19 11:40: Noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling (Dan Jones (Oxford/TCM)) 2014-11-19 14:15: ResearchBud.com - a new way to order products in SP (Mr Jignesh Radia, University of Cambridge, Thin Film Magnetism) 2014-11-20 14:15: Fermions in two dimensions (Meera Parish, University College London) 2014-11-20 16:00: The nuclear detective: The role of particle characterisation (Jane Collins & Dave Mitchell, AWE Aldermaston) 2014-11-21 14:00: CANCELLED - The transport of active swimmers in shear flows (Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool ) 2014-11-21 16:00: On the Origin of Neutrino Mass and Experimental Searches (Manimala Mitra (Durham)) 2014-11-24 14:15: Cryogenic on-chip multiplexer for the statistical study of quantum transport in low dimensional devices (Mr. Haider Al-Taie, SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2014-11-25 11:00: Doping and Interfacial Chemistry for Organic Electronics (Prof. Seth Marder, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (U.S.)) 2014-11-25 14:30: Novel light-harvesting materials: pie-in-the-sky versus state-of-the-art (Prof. Laura Herz (University of Oxford) ) 2014-11-25 15:15: Ds meson spectroscopy at LHCb (Tom Latham (University of Warwick)) 2014-11-25 16:00: Relativistic Collisions and Reflections (Nick Manton (DAMTP)) 2014-11-25 16:30: The First Stars and Galaxies (Raffaella Schneider (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy)) 2014-11-27 14:15: Long-time behaviour of periodically driven many-body quantum systems (Achilleas Lazarides, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems) 2014-11-27 16:00: Properties and applications of diamond (Jim Pickles, Element Six) 2014-11-28 14:00: Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences (Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London) 2014-11-28 16:00: Hidden GeV-scale interactions of quarks and dark matter (Claudia Frugiuele (Fermilab)) 2014-12-01 14:15: CANCELLED - Growth of III-V Nitrides via MBE: from Nanorods to Flat Layers (Dr. Lucy Goff , SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2014-12-02 15:00: Closing in on the tip of the CMSSM stau-coannihilation strip (Nishita Desai (Heidelberg)) 2014-12-02 16:00: Carroll Symmetry (Gary Gibbons (DAMTP)) 2014-12-02 16:30: Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Theory and Simulation (Professor Kevin Heng (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)) 2014-12-03 11:00: Making quantum chemistry work for metals (James Shepherd, Rice University) 2014-12-03 11:00: Making quantum chemistry work for metals (James Shepherd (Rice University)) 2014-12-03 11:15: High-pressure studies into the thermal properties of MnSi (Dr Anna Kusmartseva, Dept. of Physics, University of Loughborough.) 2014-12-03 11:40: Energy landscape and band-structure tuning in realistic MoS2/MoSe2 heterostructures (Gabriel Constantinescu (TCM)) 2014-12-04 14:15: The winding road to topological insulators (Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania) 2014-12-05 15:00: Kaon decay and neutral Kaon mixing within and beyond the Standard Model (Nicolas Garron) 2014-12-08 14:30: Singlet Fission Dynamics from femtoseconds to nanoseconds (Prof. Christopher Bardeen, University of California at Riverside (USA)) 2014-12-09 15:00: Looking for hot physics in ultracold places (Kevin Peter Hickerson (UCLA)) 2014-12-09 16:00: Jumps, twists & reflections in integrable field theories (Anastasia Doikou (Heriot-Watt)) 2014-12-10 13:45: Control of electronic and optical properties of single and double quantum dots via growth and electroelastic fields (Dr Eugenio Zallo, Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, Germany) 2014-12-10 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) - TBC (Mr Ziwei Dou, University of Cambridge) 2014-12-11 11:15: Quantum criticality in iron-based superconductors (Antony Carrington, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol) 2014-12-12 14:30: Solar Photoconversion: Proton Reduction Photocatalysis and Sensitized Triplet Fusion (Prof. Felix Castellano, North Carolina State University (USA)) 2014-12-15 14:15: Measuring photon-assisted shot noise in capacitively-coupled quantum point contacts (Dr Yodchay Jompol, Mahidol University) 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) 2015-01-13 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos (Imperial College London)) 2015-01-13 14:30: Novel materials and fabrication paradigms for plastic micro & nano-scale electronics (Thomas Anthopoulos, Imperial College London) 2015-01-14 11:00: The role of van der Waals interactions and nuclear quantum effects in soft layered materials (Gabriella Graziano (Cambridge Graphene Centre)) 2015-01-14 11:40: Electron-phonon coupling and the vibrational averaging over proton-orderings in ice (Edgar Engel (TCM) ) 2015-01-15 14:15: Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in nearly ferromagnetic metals: a new fixed point (Dr Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews ) 2015-01-16 14:00: An evolutionary perspective to systems and synthetic biology: From cellular networks to microbial communities (Dr Orkun Soyer, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick) 2015-01-16 15:30: A model-independent method and a model-dependent result in direct dark matter detection (Eugenio Del Nobile (UCLA, Los Angeles)) 2015-01-19 14:00: SP Special Seminar - TBC (Professor Charlie Marcus, University of Copenhagen) 2015-01-20 16:30: Coming in from the dark – gas-fuelling and galaxy evolution (Meiert Grootes (Max-Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Germany)) 2015-01-22 14:15: From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope (Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich) 2015-01-22 16:00: An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms (Dr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz) 2015-01-23 14:00: Surgical Imaging, Biophotonics and Endoscopy (Dr Daniel Elson, Reader in Surgical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London) 2015-01-23 16:00: Gauge theory webs in coordinate space (Ozan Erdogan (University of Cambridge)) 2015-01-27 16:00: An Abelian-Higgs vortex on a compact hyperbolic surface (Rafael Maldonado (DAMTP)) 2015-01-27 16:30: Galactic Astroarchaeology: Constraints on Formation and Evolution of Galaxies (Francesca Matteucci (Trieste University, Italy)) 2015-01-28 11:00: Towards time-dependent current density functional theory in real time (José María Escartín Esteban (TCM)) 2015-01-28 11:40: Ab initio study of phosphorus anode for lithium and sodium-ion batteries (Martin Mayo (TCM)) 2015-01-29 14:15: Two-dimensional Valence Bond Solid (AKLT) states from t2g electrons (Maciej Koch-Janusz, Weizmann Institute) 2015-01-29 16:00: Nanostructures for tuning of optical properties: Light and matter wave applications (Martin Greve, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway) 2015-01-30 14:00: The transport of active swimmers in shear flows (Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool ) 2015-01-30 16:00: Dark matter decay into gamma-ray lines (Tiziana Scarna (Brussels ULB & Cavendish)) 2015-02-02 15:30: From x-ray tubes to storage rings and beyond (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-02-03 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Sandrine Heutz (Imperial College London)) 2015-02-03 15:00: The Top/Higgs gateway to new physics (Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Louvain)) 2015-02-03 16:00: Tree-Level S-Matrices: from Einstein to Yang-Mills, Born-Infeld, and More (Ellis Yuan (Perimeter Institute) ) 2015-02-03 16:30: Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies *** Seminar cancelled *** (Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON)) 2015-02-04 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Frederik Floether, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-02-04 16:00: Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materials (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-02-05 14:15: TCM's "Dragon's Den" (multiple internal speakers - see abstract) 2015-02-05 16:00: Quasi-elastic neutron scattering: a powerful tool to investigate molecular dynamics in two dimensions (Irene Calvo Almazán, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-02-06 16:00: BSM Primary effects (Rick Gupta (Weizmann)) 2015-02-09 15:30: Interaction of x-rays with matter (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-02-10 16:00: From the positive Grassmannian to shallow water waves, via soliton solutions to the KP equation (Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley)) 2015-02-10 16:30: Detecting and Characterising Planets with Direct Imaging (Beth Biller (Royal Observatory Edinburgh)) 2015-02-11 11:00: Classical statistical mechanics with nested sampling (Robert Baldock (TCM) ) 2015-02-11 11:40: Emergent phenomena in the BiS2 family of superconductors from first principles (Corentin Morice (TCM) ) 2015-02-11 16:00: Lepton Flavor Violation in B decays? (Diego Guadagnoli (Annecy,LAPTH) ) 2015-02-12 14:15: Topological order from parafermions (Paul Fendley, Oxford University, All Souls College) 2015-02-12 16:00: Shocking temperatures. 1: What did you expect? (David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-02-12 16:00: Beyond the pit latrine - developing new tools for organic waste management in the global south (John Mullet - SOWTech Ltd) 2015-02-13 14:00: Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions (Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-16 14:15: Modulation of THz Metamaterials Using Graphene Surface Plasmons (Dr Isaac Luxmoore, University of Exeter) 2015-02-16 15:30: Levitated Optomechanics (Peter Barker (UCL)) 2015-02-17 16:00: From the twistor action to amplitudes, Wilson loops, dlogs and dilogs (Lionel Mason (Oxford)) 2015-02-17 16:30: Science with ALMA: the cool side of the universe (Leonardo Testi (ESO)) 2015-02-18 16:00: Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities (Professor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds) 2015-02-19 16:00: Scanning helium microscopy (SHeM): Real space imaging of delicate surfaces (David Ward, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-02-20 11:30: Charge, spin and vacancy ordering in perovskites obtained from high pressure and reductive chemistry. (Dr Angel Arevalo Lopez, CSEC, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-20 14:00: Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution (Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-20 14:00: Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution (Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-20 16:00: Aspects of Vector Like Confinement (Michele Redi (INFN,Florence)) 2015-02-24 16:00: Mass renormalization in (super)string theory (Arnab Rudra (DAMTP)) 2015-02-24 16:30: LITTLE THINGS and other things: probing star formation near and far (Elias Brinks (University of Hertfordshire)) 2015-02-25 11:00: Superconductivity in high-pressure phases of hydrogen sulfides (Joseph Nelson (TCM Group, University of Cambridge)) 2015-02-25 11:40: Anharmonic vibrations and the neutral vacancy in diamond and silicon (Joseph Prentice (TCM)) 2015-02-25 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Miss Cassandra Chua, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-02-26 16:00: Probing surface structure and interactions of ionic liquids (Karen Syres, Department of Physics, University of Central Lancashire) 2015-02-27 14:00: Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes (Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona) 2015-02-27 16:00: TCSA, or: yet another look at the Ising phase transition (Matthijs Hogervorst (CERN)) 2015-03-02 15:30: Synchrotron radiation and beamlines at 3rd generation synchrotrons (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-03-02 15:30: Experimental investigations of the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms (Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique, France)) 2015-03-03 14:30: TBA (Antonios G. Kanaras , University of Southampton) 2015-03-03 15:00: Composite leptoquarks and anomalies in B decays (Sophie Renner (DAMPT)) 2015-03-03 16:00: Knotted structures of light, gravitational radiation, and plasma (Dirk Bouwmeester (UC Santa Barbara & Leiden)) 2015-03-03 16:30: Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies (Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON)) 2015-03-04 16:00: New directions in liquid crystals (Professor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds) 2015-03-05 16:00: Magnetic resonance in physics and engineering: Dynamics of solids and fluids (Andy Sederman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2015-03-06 14:00: Growth and form of the gut (Dr Thiery Savin, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University ) 2015-03-06 16:00: Models of Modified Gauge Mediation (Robert Ziegler (UPMC, Paris)) 2015-03-09 14:15: Nano-Spintronic Devices (Prof Atsufumi Hirohata, Dept of Electronics, University of York and PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency) 2015-03-09 15:30: X-ray diffraction techniques to obtain structural information (powder and single crystal) (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-03-09 15:30: Cavity Quantum Optomechanics with Optical Microresonator (Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL, Switzerland)) 2015-03-10 12:30: Quantum interfaces between single atoms and single telecom photons (Christoph Becher (Universitat des Saarlandes)) 2015-03-10 15:00: Supergravity, T-duality and Double Field Theory (Eric Bergshoeff (Groningen)) 2015-03-10 15:00: Theory Uncertainties in LHC Higgs Production and N3LO QCD (Franz Herzog (Nikhef)) 2015-03-10 16:00: Recent developments in galaxy spectral modelling (Stephane Charlot (Institut Astrophysique de Paris)) 2015-03-11 11:00: Computing optical properties of large systems: linear-scaling time-dependent density functional theory (LS-TDDFT) in ONETEP (Tim Zuehlsdorff (TCM)) 2015-03-11 11:40: Linear scaling DFT for the investigation of defective oxide nanomaterials (Edward Tait (TCM)) 2015-03-11 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr David Jessop, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-03-12 14:15: Non-equilibrium steady states in many-body quantum systems (Benjamin Doyon, King's College London) 2015-03-12 16:00: Shocking sand: Granular materials under extreme conditions (James Perry, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-03-12 16:00: A remarkable set of contemplations (Craig Bennett - Friends of the Earth) 2015-03-13 16:00: Higgs mass in heavy-SUSY scenarios (Pietro Slavich (LPTHE, Paris)) 2015-03-17 15:00: Analysing data with fake lepton backgrounds (Tom Gillam (Cambridge)) 2015-03-17 16:00: Cell-size control and homeostasis at the single-cell level (Professor Suckjoon Jun, UCSD Physics and Molecular Biology) 2015-03-18 11:00: Electronic structure and computational design of hybrid lead-iodide perovskites (Marina Filip (Oxford)) 2015-03-18 11:40: Pseudopotentials for a dipolar ultracold atomic gas (Thomas Whitehead (TCM)) 2015-03-18 18:00: “Light and colour: experiments and theory” (Malcolm Longair ( Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2015-03-24 15:00: Radiation beyond the soft approximation (Chris White (Glasgow)) 2015-03-25 11:15: Spin and Orbital Order in the vanadium spinels (Elisa Wheeler, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France) 2015-03-25 14:15: Conductivity-scaling in highly-resistive two-dimensional electron gases (Dr Dirk Backes, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-04-02 11:00: Tailoring the properties of NV colour centers in diamond (Jean-Francois Roch (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton - ENS Cachan, Université Paris-Sud and CNRS Orsay, France)) 2015-04-07 16:00: Divisor braids and gauge theory (Nuno Romao (Goettingen)) 2015-04-08 11:00: Quantum methods in bioluminescence imaging and analysis (Shane Lawrence, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-08 11:40: Xenon oxides under pressure (Nicholas Worth, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-04-13 15:30: Quantum optics in One-dimensional photonic reservoirs (Peter Lodahl (Niels Bohr Institute)) 2015-04-14 15:00: Ultrasonic gas mixture analysis for Cherenkov Refractometry and coolant leak hunting in silicon trackers. (Greg Hallewell, CNRS Marseille) 2015-04-16 16:00: Patents in theory and in practice (Dr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley) 2015-04-20 14:15: Transport and superconductivity at topological surfaces and interfaces (Professor Alexander Brinkman, University of Twente, The Netherlands) 2015-04-20 15:30: Broken summetries in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (Sandro Stringari (Trento, Italy)) 2015-04-21 15:00: Energy peaks and future progress on the top quark mass measurement (Rroberto Franceschini (CERN TH)) 2015-04-22 11:00: Prediction of NMR J-coupling in condensed matter (Tim Green (Oxford)) 2015-04-22 11:40: First-principles investigation into surfaces of lithium-ion battery silicon anodes (Darren Valentine (Chem)) 2015-04-22 12:00: Time-dependent density functional theory: past and future (Yutian Wu (TCM)) 2015-04-22 14:00: The quest for electron-hole superfluidity (Prof David Nielson, University of Camerino, Italy) 2015-04-23 14:15: Exploiting locality: large-scale first-principles simulations of nanostructures (Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London) 2015-04-24 14:00: Interferometric scattering microscopy: From high-speed nanometry to ultra-sensitive label-free imaging (Professor Philipp Kukura, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford ) 2015-04-24 16:00: Recent excess in Dark Matter Indirect Detection and possible interpretations (Giorgio Arcadi (Orsay, LPT)) 2015-04-27 15:30: Resonant x-ray diffraction techniques to probe magnetic and electronic properties (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-04-27 15:30: Dynamics of cold bosons in microtraps (Peter Kruger (The University of Nottingham)) 2015-04-28 14:00: Galaxy evolution in the era of large-scale galaxy surveys (Daniel Thomas (University of Portsmouth)) 2015-04-28 15:00: Light stops, kinematic variables, and gaps from LHC Run I (Ben Nachman (SLAC)) 2015-04-28 16:00: Instanton Solutions from Abelian Sinh-Gordon and Tzitzeica Vortices. (Felipe Contatto (DAMTP)) 2015-04-30 16:00: On the characterisation of shock-induced sliding along multi-material interfaces (Mark Collinson, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London) 2015-05-01 15:00: Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain model (Prof Ian Affleck) 2015-05-05 14:00: The cold winds of change – hot cores and molecular outflows in dusty galaxies (Susanne Aalto (Chalmers, Sweden)) 2015-05-05 14:15: Van der Waals heterostructure devices (Dr Freddie Withers, University of Manchester) 2015-05-05 16:00: Spectral Sequences Applied to Two Specific Problems in the BRST Cohomology of Supersymmetric Theories in D=4 and D=10 Spacetime dimensions. (John Dixon (visiting Oxford)) 2015-05-06 11:00: Correcting the heavy-tailed local energy distribution in QMC (Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM)) 2015-05-06 11:40: Singlet fission in pentacene dimers (David Turban (TCM)) 2015-05-07 14:15: Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty (Prof. Christiane Morais Smith, University of Utrecht) 2015-05-07 16:00: The Doctoral Training Centre in computational materials science (James Elliott, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-08 14:00: Nanostructure characterization of planar biomimetic membranes with neutron reflectometry (Dr. Marco Maccarini, TIMC/IMAG, Grenoble) 2015-05-08 16:00: The Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory (Tevong You (King's College London)) 2015-05-11 14:15: Effect of optical feedback on Quantum Cascade Lasers (Dr Francesco Mezzapesa, Università degli Studi e Politecnico di Bari, Italy) 2015-05-11 15:30: X-ray spectroscopic methods to measure energy response function (absorption techniques) (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-05-12 09:00: Geological materials under extreme conditions (Dr Chris Braithwaite, Surfaces, Microstructure & Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-05-12 09:40: Light-matter interaction in complex dielectric media (Dr P. David Garcia-Fernandez, Quantum Photonics Group, Niels Bohr Institute) 2015-05-12 10:20: Beautiful CP Violation: Looking for cracks in the Standard Model (Dr Sneha Malde, Department of Physics, University of Oxford) 2015-05-12 11:10: Thermoelectric signatures of topological media (Dr Vijay Narayan, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-05-12 11:50: Searching for EWK SUSY at ATLAS (Dr Christina Potter, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex) 2015-05-12 12:30: Design and Applications of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers in Imaging and Sensing (Dr Alexander Valavanis, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.) 2015-05-12 14:00: Revisiting AGN accretion disks: Black hole spin and growth rate (Hagai Netzer (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel)) 2015-05-12 16:00: Integrable tops, separation of variables and Stasheff polytopes (Alexander Veselov (Loughborough) ) 2015-05-13 14:15: Silicon quantum dots for quantum information processing (Dr. Chih-Hwan Henry Yang, University of New South Wales, Au) 2015-05-14 14:15: Wavefunctions of symmetry protected topological phases and conformal field theories (Zohar Ringel, Oxford University) 2015-05-15 14:00: Developing and using atomic force microscopy to understand soft and biological systems, from bacteria to plastic bags (Professor Jamie Hobbs, Physics Department, University of Sheffield) 2015-05-15 16:00: Higgs pseudo-observables (David Marzocca (Zurich)) 2015-05-18 14:15: DNA nanotechnology, nanomachines and molecular computing (Dr Katherine Dunn, University of York) 2015-05-18 15:30: X-ray Spectroscopy: Photoemission and magnetic dichroism (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-05-19 14:00: A consistent view on normal star-forming galaxies from z~2 to 8 from multi-wavelength observations and SED modelling (Daniel Schaerer (Université de Genevé, Switzerland)) 2015-05-19 16:00: Folded self-dual geometry (Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)) 2015-05-20 11:00: Interfacial materials and interface structure prediction: an ab initio random structure searching approach (Georg Schusteritsch (UCL)) 2015-05-21 13:45: Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets (Julien Vidal, CNRS, LPTMC Paris) 2015-05-21 16:00: Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices (Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science) 2015-05-21 16:00: Measurement of mechanical properties of diamond via solid particle erosion (Ben Ramsay, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-05-21 16:30: Shocking temperatures. 2: What did we get? (Alyssa Picard, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-05-22 14:00: A microfluidic diffusion chamber for the analysis of soft biological matter (Professor Jure Derganc, Institute of Biophysics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2015-05-22 16:00: Constraints on the alignment limit of the MSSM Higgs sector (Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz & LBNL)) 2015-05-26 14:00: Linking the formation history of planets with their spectrum (Christoph Mordasini (University of Bern, Switzerland)) 2015-05-26 14:30: Carrier mobility, multiple exciton generation and charge trapping in quantum-dot solids (dr. Arjan Houtepen, TU Delft) 2015-05-26 15:00: Search for the associated production of Higgs bosons and top quarks at sqrt(s)=7-8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at LHC (Giuseppe Salamanna (Roma Tre)) 2015-05-26 16:00: Vacuum Decay by Topological Solitons (Manu Paranjape, Université de Montréal) 2015-05-27 11:15: Magnetic Structure Solution of Frustrated Spin Systems (Joe Paddison, University of Oxford and STFC-ISIS Facility, UK.) 2015-05-27 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr David Jessop, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-05-28 14:15: Trions and Biexcitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors (Dr Neil Drummond, Lancaster University) 2015-05-28 16:00: Quantification of near field blast loading (Sam Clarke, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield) 2015-05-29 14:00: Polymer enhanced oil recovery; soft matter physics to explain an industrial question (Dr Andrew Clarke, Schlumberger Gould Research) 2015-05-29 16:00: Is Our Universe Metastable, Stable, Critical ... ? (Enzo Branchina (Catania U. & INFN)) 2015-06-02 14:00: The relationship between the inter-galactic medium and galaxies (Simon Morris (University of Durham)) 2015-06-02 14:30: Spin Polarisation Effects in C60 Spectroscopy (Dr. Oscar Cespedes, University of Leeds) 2015-06-02 15:00: The SoLid experiment (Nick Ryder, Oxford) 2015-06-03 11:00: Dirac cones in two-dimensional borane? (Miguel Martinez-Canales (Edinburgh)) 2015-06-05 16:00: Model-independent precision constraints on physics beyond the standard model (Adam Falkowski (Orsay, LPT)) 2015-06-08 14:15: Copper Indium Sulphide Colloidal Quantum dots (Dr. Kevin Critchley, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. United Kingdom.) 2015-06-09 14:00: Towards imaging the event horizon in the galactic centre (Heino Falcke (IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)) 2015-06-09 15:00: Displaced decays of a SM-like Higgs boson (Jackson Clarke (Melbourne)) 2015-06-10 14:00: Effective field measurements and spin torque dynamics in magnetic nanostuctures (The Sir martin Wood Lecture Prize - Dr Masamitsu Hayashi, National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan) 2015-06-10 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Chi Man (Jason) Cheng, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-06-10 15:30: Imaging techniques - Some spectroscopy techniques (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.) 2015-06-12 14:00: Osmosis beyond van't Hoff: molecular views, osmotic diodes and energy harvesting (Professor Lyderic Bocquet ) 2015-06-12 16:00: Dark Matter at the LHC: Understanding experimental reach (Thomas Jacques (Geneva)) 2015-06-16 11:00: Materials beyond the periodic table: a high-throughput structure prediction study (Martin Uhrin (EPFL)) 2015-06-16 15:00: Looking for a hidden sector in exotic Higgs decays with the ATLAS experiment (Andrea Coccaro (University of Geneva)) 2015-06-17 11:00: Understanding interacting many-particle systems: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excitations in solids (Johannes Lischner (Imperial)) 2015-06-17 11:40: Real space calculation of response functions using non-diagonal supercells (Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM)) 2015-06-18 14:15: Z4 parafermions in time-reversal invariant topological insulators (Prof. Thomas Schmidt, University of Luxembourg) 2015-06-22 15:30: Dipolar QED: an alternative paradigm for quantum optics, sensors, and non-equilibrium dynamics (Charles Adams (Durham University)) 2015-06-24 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) Electrically contacting a low number of PbS nanocrystals using graphene (Mr Hippolyte Astier, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-06-26 15:00: Listening to Individual Nanoparticles (Prof. Reuven Gordon, University of Victoria, Canada) (Prof. Reuven Gordon, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Victoria (Canada)) 2015-07-01 11:00: Excited state calculations and theoretical spectroscopy of complex nanomaterials using Linear-Scaling Density Functional Theory (Dr Nick Hine (University of Warwick)) 2015-07-01 11:40: Excited-state calculations in FCIQMC (Nicholas Blunt (Chemistry)) 2015-07-01 14:00: The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) (Dave DeBoer (University of California, Berkeley)) 2015-07-01 14:15: (SP Wednesday Workshop) Quantum multiplexer based on 1D quantum wires in low-dimensional heterostructures (Mr Ma Pengcheng, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-07-08 14:15: (SP Workshop) One-dimensional electron systems beyond the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid model (Miss Ankita Anirban, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-07-09 14:00: Quantum Complexity in Ultracold Quantum Systems (Lincoln D. Carr (Colorado School of Mines)) 2015-07-15 14:15: Integration of quantum dot light sources (SP Workshop) (Mr Eoin Murray, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-07-22 11:00: Physics Without Borders (Greg Benesh (Baylor University)) 2015-07-22 14:15: Terahertz Quantum Cascade lasers based on Micro-resonators (SP Workshop) (Miss Yuqing Wu, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-07-27 15:30: Bragg spectroscopy of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (Konrad Viebahn (Cavendish Lab)) 2015-07-29 14:15: Measurement and control of electron wavepackets from a single-electron source (SP Workshop) (Miss Joanna Waldie, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-08-03 11:00: Metamaterial based devices for imaging, sensing and biological applications in the terahertz frequency range (Dr Riccardo Degl'Innocenti) 2015-08-06 14:15: Superconducting states in time reversal invariant Landau levels (Prof. Bruno Uchoa, Oklahoma) 2015-08-12 14:15: Probing Quantum Transport in CVD Graphene (SP Workshop) (Mr Shu-Wei Wang, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-08-14 14:00: Thermalization vs localization in a solvable circuit model (Anushya Chandran, Perimeter Institute) 2015-08-17 14:15: Probing the coupling between holes and nuclear spins in GaAs using a Landau level diode (Mr Oleh Klochan, University of New South Wales, Sydney) 2015-08-19 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Miss Egle Tylaite, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-08-26 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Vivek Chidambaram, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-09-01 14:00: GLEAM: The Galactic and Extragalactic All-Sky MWA Survey (Randall Wayth (ICRAR, Australia)) 2015-09-02 14:15: Observations of the 0.7 anomaly in p-type quantum point contacts (SP Workshop) (Miss Karina Hudson, University of New South Wales) 2015-09-15 14:00: Next Generation Radio Arrays for Geospace Science (Frank Lind (MIT Haystack Observatory, USA)) 2015-09-16 14:15: Annual Safety Talk (SP Workshop) (Mrs Melanie Tribble, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-09-17 14:00: Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure? (Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham) 2015-09-17 14:15: Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure? (Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham) 2015-09-18 13:30: Deformation Pathways in Shock Compressed Silicon: Experiments and Atomic Simulations (Eric Hahn, UCSD San Diego, California) 2015-09-22 16:00: Looking for lepton flavour violation in supersymmetry at the LHC (Abhishek Iyer, TIFR, Mumbai) 2015-09-30 10:00: Emergent phenomena from topological magnets (Professor Yoshinori Tokura, RIKEN and University of Tokyo) 2015-09-30 14:15: Towards Single-electron Pumping with Graphene Quantum Hall Antidots (SP Workshop) (Mr Jinggao Sui, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-10-05 14:30: Photon Upconversion by Triplet Energy Migration in Molecular Assemblies (Professor Nobuhiro Yanai, Kyushu University) 2015-10-06 15:00: Modern event generation for the LHC: Features and caveats of Sherpa (Frank Siegert (TU Dresden)) 2015-10-07 14:15: The realization of large arrays of quantum dots via a multiplexed charge-locking system (SP Workshop) (Mr Moda Cao, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-10-13 14:00: Galaxy luminosity function and Tully-Fisher relation: reconciled at last (Andrea Cattaneo (Observatorio de Paris, France)) 2015-10-13 14:30: Photophysics and Opto-electronics of Organic-Inorganic Hybrids (Professor Maria Loi, University of Groningen) 2015-10-13 15:00: A search for diboson resonances at ATLAS using boson-tagged jets (Alex Martyniuk (UCL)) 2015-10-13 16:00: Hitchin Equations on R^2 and Z^2 (Richard Ward (Durham)) 2015-10-14 11:15: Complexity and self-organization in superconducting metamaterials. (Prof Giorgos Tsironis, University of Crete and Nazarbaev University) 2015-10-14 14:15: Welcome New 1st Year Students (SP Workshop) (Prof David Ritchie; Prof Charles Smith; Prof Chris Ford; Dr Harvey Beere; Dr Malcolm Connolly; Dr Vijay Narayan) 2015-10-14 16:00: More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical Lattices (Dr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-10-15 14:00: New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale (Dr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore) 2015-10-15 14:15: Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms (Dr Hannah Price, Universita di Trento) 2015-10-15 16:00: A dynamic discrete dislocation plasticity study of plastic relaxation phenomena in shock loading (Beñat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, Imperial College, London) 2015-10-16 14:00: Substituted Nucleotides: versatile building blocks in DNA bio-nanotechnology (Prof. Eugen Stulz, School of Chemistry and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton) 2015-10-16 16:00: New physics at the TeV scale: extra Higgses and WIMP Dark Matter (Filippo Sala (IPhT, Paris Saclay)) 2015-10-19 15:30: Bose-Einstein Condensates of light: Thermodynamics, Fluctuations and Evolution (Frank Vewinger (University of Bonn)) 2015-10-20 14:00: Studying galaxy evolution using integral-field spectroscopy (Michele Cappellari (University of Oxford)) 2015-10-20 15:00: A general subtraction scheme for NNLO computations in perturbative QCD (David Heymes (Cavendish)) 2015-10-20 16:00: Commuting the mean-field and classical limits in quantum mechanic (Clément Mouhot (DPMMS)) 2015-10-21 14:15: Getting the most out of CryoMeas (SP Workshop) (Prof Chris Ford, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-10-21 16:00: Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities (Professor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay) 2015-10-22 14:15: Experiments with the iterated stockholder atoms procedure in intermolecular interaction models (Alston Misquitta, Queen Mary University, London) 2015-10-22 16:00: Investigating pnictogen surfaces via HAS: The effect of electron-hole excitations on measured vibronic modes (Patrick Kraus, Graz University of Technology, Austria) 2015-10-23 14:00: Continuous Droplet Interface Crossing Encapsulation (cDICE): artificial cells and capsules (Dr. Gladys Massiera. Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C – UMR 5221), CNRS - Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier, France) 2015-10-23 16:00: CheckMATEing BSM models in general and a natural NMSSM in particular (Daniel Schmeier (Bonn University)) 2015-10-26 16:00: Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida) 2015-10-27 14:00: Challenges of the Doppler technique in the presence of stellar noise (Guillem Anglada (Queen Mary University of London)) 2015-10-27 15:00: Status of global sterile neutrino fits (Gabriel Collin (MIT)) 2015-10-27 16:00: Quartics, sextics and G_2 structures (Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)) 2015-10-27 16:00: Quartics, sextics and G_2 structures (Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)) 2015-10-28 14:15: Molecular Beam Epitaxy in the Semiconductor Physics Group (SP Workshop) (Dr Harvey Beere, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-10-28 16:00: Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida) 2015-10-29 14:15: Dynamical constraints, metastability and many-body localisation (Juan P Garrahan, University of Nottingham) 2015-10-29 16:00: New opportunities and challenges for electron microscopy (Archie Howie, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-10-30 14:00: How to Understand Molecular Transport through Channels: The Role of Interactions (Prof. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston) 2015-10-30 16:00: Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida) 2015-11-02 15:30: Does an isolated quantum system relax? (Joerg Schmiedmayer (VCQ, Atominstitut, TU-Wein)) 2015-11-03 14:00: Studying the Cosmic Large-Scale Structure and Testing Cosmological Models with X-ray Galaxy Clusters (Hans Böhringer (MPI fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany)) 2015-11-03 15:00: Inelastic proton-proton cross section at 13 TeV (Miguel Arratia-Munoz (Cambridge)) 2015-11-03 16:00: Topics in modern surface theory with visualizations (David Brander (Technical University of Denmark)) 2015-11-04 11:00: Multi-purpose Black-Phosphorus/hBN heterostructures (Gabriel Constantinescu, TCM Group, Cambridge) 2015-11-04 14:15: Tensor Network Representation of Strongly Correlated States of Matter (Didier Poilblanc, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse) 2015-11-05 16:00: Sine-Gordon kinks and dislocation motion (Steven Fitzgerald, Department of Materials Science, University of Oxford) 2015-11-06 16:00: A review of the Run 1 diboson excesses at the LHC (Dave Sutherland (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-09 15:30: Visualizing Quantum Turbulence in Superfluid 3 He-B using quasiparticles (Viktor Tseplin (Lancaster University)) 2015-11-10 14:00: Prestellar cores in the ALMA era (Malcolm Walmsley (INAF, Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory, Italy)) 2015-11-10 14:30: Self-Assembled DNA Nanosystems for Energy and Electron Transfer Applications (Professor Bo Albinsson, Chalmers University of Technology) 2015-11-10 15:00: Drell-Yan Production at NNLL'+NNLO Matched to Parton Showers (Simone Alioli (CERN TH)) 2015-11-10 16:00: Vortices, non-relativistic field theory and the Quantum Hall Effect (Carl Turner (DAMTP)) 2015-11-11 11:00: Navigating Our Way to Understanding Avian Magnetoreception – from Electron Hole Recombination Reactions to Chemical Amplification Pathways (Emrys Evans, University of Oxford) 2015-11-11 11:15: Emergence of the nematic state in FeSe (Dr. Amalia Coldea, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.) 2015-11-11 14:15: Investigating Charge and Vorticity in the Cooper Pair Transistor using RF Reflectometry (SP Workshop) (Mr Vivek Chidambaram, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-11-11 16:00: Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems" (Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden) 2015-11-12 14:15: Powerful and deceptive Feynman diagrammatic series (Evgeny Kozik, King's College London) 2015-11-12 16:00: Structural energetics based on intermetallic reactions (Chris Braithwaite, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-11-13 11:00: Hyperspectral imaging - a flexible tool for tissue characterization (Prof. Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) ) 2015-11-13 16:00: Hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice QCD (Bipasha Chakraborty (University of Glasgow)) 2015-11-16 15:30: Excitonic properties and valley dynamics in monolayer transitioin metal dichalcogenides (Bernhard Urbaszek (Toulouse, France)) 2015-11-17 14:00: Chemical Tagging with APOGEE: Discovery of a population of stars with globular cluster chemical compositions in the field of the galactic bulge (Ricardo Schiavon (Liverpool John Moores University)) 2015-11-17 15:00: The status of EWK SUSY searches at ATLAS and future prospects (Tina Potter (Cambridge)) 2015-11-17 16:00: The mathematical structure of covariant loop quantum gravity and an application to primordial black holes decay (Carlo Rovelli (Marsellie)) 2015-11-18 11:15: Effects of interactions on Lifshitz transition: taking sodium cobaltate as a possible example. (Dr. Jospeh Betouras, Dept. of Physics, Loughborough University.) 2015-11-18 14:15: Towards measuring decoherence times of Undoped GaAs/AlGaAs spin qubit (SP Workshop) (Miss Egle Tylaite, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-11-19 14:15: Recent progress in linear scaling DFT: Molecular dynamics, basis sets and applications (Prof. David Bowler, University College London) 2015-11-19 16:00: Adhesive properties of polymer bonded explosive constituents: An experimental, analytical and computational approach (Neil Hamilton, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2015-11-20 14:00: Nanophotonic approaches to investigate the spatiotemporal organization of biological membranes (Prof. Maria F. Garcia-Parajo, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain and ICREA- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain) 2015-11-20 14:30: Membrane Technologies Toward Resolving the Energy-Water Nexus (Professor Easan Sivaniah, Kyoto University) 2015-11-20 16:00: The Universal One-Loop Effective Action (Jeremie Quevillon (King's College London)) 2015-11-23 14:00: Quantum Dot Growth Technology by MBE for Advanced Photovoltaics (Professor Yoshitaka Okada) 2015-11-23 15:30: Light-matter interactions in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-24 14:00: Molecular Gas, Star Formation and Galaxy Dynamics from z=2.5-0 (Linda Tacconi (MPI fuer Extraterrestriche Physik, Garching, Germany)) 2015-11-24 15:00: Discovery through precision: perturbative QCD at the dawn of Run II (Juan Rojo (Oxford)) 2015-11-24 16:00: Symplectic geometry and feedback loops on graphs. (David Tourigny (DAMTP)) 2015-11-25 11:00: The generation of free charges in efficient organic solar cells (Samuel Smith (TCM Group, University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-25 11:15: Ionitronic Effects in Strongly Correlated Oxide Thin Films (Professor Judith Driscoll, Dept. Materials Science, University of Cambridge.) 2015-11-25 11:40: High pressure structure searching: calcium oxides under mantle conditions (Joseph Nelson (TCM Group, University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-25 14:15: Determining the energy relaxation length scale in two-dimensional electron gases (SP Workshop) (Mr Jordan Billiald, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-11-25 14:30: Unraveling the Photophysical Properties of Organic Semiconductors (Professor Natalie Banerji, University of Fribourg) 2015-11-26 14:15: Dragons' Den (Various members of TCM) 2015-11-26 16:00: Hybrid functional devices based on graphene (Vincent Bouchiat, Institut Néel, CNRS-Grenoble, France) 2015-11-27 16:00: Natural Heavy Supersymmetry (Matthew McCullough (CERN)) 2015-11-30 15:30: Realizing quantum networks and secure computations using photons (Stefanie Barz (Oxford University)) 2015-12-01 14:00: Are Bulges and Disks Real? *** Seminar cancelled *** (Michael Merrifield (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham)) 2015-12-01 14:30: Strategies for scalable large-area electronics with improved operation frequency (Dr Mario Caironi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) 2015-12-01 15:00: Detection of the missing Universe with xenon. (Auke-Pieter Colijn (UvA Amsterdam & NIKHEF)) 2015-12-01 16:00: TBA (Mark Gross (DPMMS)) 2015-12-02 11:00: The exact functional of density functional theory (Dr Aron Cohen, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2015-12-02 11:15: Complexity at High Pressure From Pure Elements to Thermoelectrics (Dr. Ingo Loa, CSEC Edinburgh.) 2015-12-02 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Wooi Kiat Tan, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2015-12-03 14:15: Coupling Spin and Charge Transport in Complex Materials (Dr Martin Gradhand, University of Bristol) 2015-12-07 14:15: The development of silicon compatible processes for HEMT realisation (Dr Menglin Cao (CAPE), University of Cambridge) 2015-12-14 14:15: High-sensitivity superconducting detectors for mm/submm/THz astronomy (Professor Sheng-Cai Shi, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) 2016-01-13 11:00: Computing solvent effects on electronic excitations with linear-scaling TDDFT (Tim Zuehlsdorff (TCM)) 2016-01-13 11:40: Investigating Defective Anatase Surfaces Using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory (Edward Tait (TCM)) 2016-01-15 16:00: Resonances in coupled-channel scattering from QCD (David Wilson (DAMTP)) 2016-01-18 15:30: Bell correlations in a Bose-Einstein condensate (Philipp Treutlin (Unibas Switzerland)) 2016-01-19 14:00: Galaxy assembly in 2<z<6.5 from the VUDS survey (Olivier Le Fèvre (Laboratoire D’Astrophysique de Marseille, France)) 2016-01-19 14:30: Towards a Multi-Scale Theory for Charge and Spin Transport in Organic Single Crystal-based Devices (Professor Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin) 2016-01-19 15:00: Looking out for new physics through the top window (Oleg Brandt (Heidelberg)) 2016-01-19 15:00: Multiferroic hexagonal RMnO3: a model system for 2D triangular lattice antiferromagnets (Prof. Je-Geun Park. 1-Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul. 2-Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul ) 2016-01-19 16:00: Baby Skyrme models without a potential term ( Jenny Ashcroft (Kent)) 2016-01-20 11:15: The magnetic structure and dynamics of the MPS3 family (M=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) (Dr Andrew Wildes - Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble.) 2016-01-20 16:00: "Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory" (Professor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia) 2016-01-21 15:30: Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems (Sebastian Müller, University of Bristol) 2016-01-21 16:00: Molecular engineering for sustainable energy applications (Jacqui Cole, Molecular Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-21 16:00: Living Laboratory for Sustainability (Emily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability) 2016-01-22 14:00: Composite Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioimaging (Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director, CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain) 2016-01-22 16:00: Signatures of axion-like particle dark matter and dark radiation (Francesca Day (University of Oxford)) 2016-01-25 14:15: Landau level spectroscopy reveals the chirality and Klein tunnelling of electrons in twisted graphene tunnel transistors (Dr Mark Greenaway, Nottingham University) 2016-01-25 14:30: The Transient Localization Scenario for Charge Transport in Crystalline Organic Materials (Professor Simone Fratini, CNRS) 2016-01-25 15:30: Many-Body Localization Characterized from a One-Particle Perspective (Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (LMU)) 2016-01-26 10:00: Taming Complexity in Dynamic Multicomponent Materials: Tailoring Low Dimensional Multifunctional Nanostructures (Professor Paolo Samori, University of Strasbourg) 2016-01-26 14:00: The James Webb Space Telescope: Capabilities, status and scientific timeline (Pierre Ferruit (ESA)) 2016-01-26 15:00: Matching the Nagy-Soper parton shower at next-to-leading order (Manfred Kraus (Aachen)) 2016-01-26 16:00: Evanescent ergosurfaces and ambipolar hyperkähler metrics (Ben Niehoff (DAMTP)) 2016-01-27 11:00: Ice surfaces – Surface energies and proton-ordering (Edgar Engel (TCM)) 2016-01-27 11:40: Improving anharmonic vibrational calculations from first principles (Joseph Prentice (TCM)) 2016-01-28 14:30: Computational Studies of Photophysical Phenomena in Molecules and Aggregates (Dr David Casanova, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science) 2016-01-29 09:00: Cell shape and dynamics in biological development (Dr Kevin Chalut, BSS Sector, Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-01-29 09:45: Spying on the inner workings of cells with super-resolution microscopy (Dr Suliana Manley, EPFL, Switzerland) 2016-01-29 10:30: The biosynthetic basis of budding yeast cell size control (Dr Kurt Schmoller, Stanford University) 2016-01-29 14:00: Droplet-Based Microfluidics: High-Throughput Experimentation One Drop at a Time (Prof. Andrew J. deMello, Professor of Biochemical Engineering Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland) 2016-01-29 14:15: Application of CFT to spin chains and the Fractional quantum Hall wave functions on the lattice. (German Sierra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) 2016-01-29 16:00: Renormalization-group effects in dark-matter direct detection (Joachim Brod (University of Dortmund)) 2016-02-01 09:00: Quantitative Evolutionary Dynamics (Dr Jamie Blundell, SUNY, Stony Brook) 2016-02-01 09:45: Tradeoffs between fast growth and adaptability shape microbial phenotypes (Dr Markus Basan, ETH Zurich) 2016-02-01 10:30: The Different Angles of Cell and Tissue Polarity (Dr Veronica Grieneisen, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park) 2016-02-01 15:30: Light-matter interactions in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (Dr Tijmen Euser (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-02 13:00: Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids (Masaki Oshikawa, ISSP Tokyo) 2016-02-02 14:00: The cosmological velocity field: from Slipher to modified gravity (John Peacock (Royal Observatory Edinburgh)) 2016-02-02 15:00: Recent results and prospects of charm physics at LHCb (Marco Gersabeck (Manchester)) 2016-02-02 16:00: Frobenius manifolds, TQFT’s and a class of elliptic solutions (Ian Strachan (Glasgow)) 2016-02-03 11:00: Nested sampling with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (Robert Baldock (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-03 11:30: High-throughput calculation of phase diagrams with nested sampling (Livia Bartók-Pártay (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-03 14:15: Fast Terahertz Optoelectronic Amplitude Modulator Based on Plasmonic Metamaterial Antenna Arrays and Graphene (SP Workshop) (Mr David Jessop, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-02-03 16:00: Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamics (Prof David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure)) 2016-02-04 14:15: Geometric responses of Quantum Hall systems. Bulk and boundary. (Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University) 2016-02-04 16:00: Birefringence measurements in calcite and sapphire under shock compression (Gareth Tear, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London) 2016-02-05 16:00: The Coannihilation Codex (Felix Yu (University of Mainz)) 2016-02-08 14:15: Programming nanoparticle assembly’ (Dr Amelie Heuer-Jungemann, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton) 2016-02-09 14:00: The dawn of star formation: a local perspective (Piercarlo Bonifacio (Observatoire de Paris, France)) 2016-02-09 14:30: Low-Temperature Solution-Processed Metal-Oxide Semiconducting Heterostructures for Large-Area Electronics: A Facile Approach Towards Charge-Transport Enhancement (Dr Yen-Hung Lin, Imperial College London) 2016-02-09 15:00: Bottom-quark mass effects in bbH production (Andrew Papanastasiou (Cavendish)) 2016-02-09 16:00: Berry's connection, Kahler geometry and the Nahm construction of monopoles (Kenny Wong (DAMTP)) 2016-02-10 11:00: Many-body effects on electron-phonon coupling (Bartomeu Monserrat (TCM, University of Cambridge and Rutgers University)) 2016-02-10 13:00: Crystalline Covalent Organic Frameworks Designed for Optoelectronic Applications (Dr Florian Auras, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) 2016-02-10 14:15: Research on InP-based SWIR optoelectronic materials and devices (Dr Yi Gu, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Science) 2016-02-11 14:15: Ultracold dipolar gases with quantum Monte Carlo (Stefano Giorgini, Università degli Studi di Trento) 2016-02-11 16:00: The dynamic compression and subsequent freezing of water (Sam Stafford, Instutute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London) 2016-02-12 14:00: New Directions for Organic Spintronics (Professor Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin) 2016-02-12 16:00: Multiquark Hadron Spectroscopy (Antonio Polosa (University of Rome)) 2016-02-15 14:15: Spin-orbit coupling, superconductivity, and topological states in Sb2Te3-GeTe-based heterostructures (Dr. Vijay Narayan (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-15 15:30: Quantum science and technology with cavity optomechanical systems (Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-16 14:00: A giant cloud of hydrogen escaping a Neptune-mass exoplanet (David Ehrenreich (Université de Genèva)) 2016-02-16 14:30: Transparent Conductive Materials at the LMGP: Nanowire networks and oxides (Dr David Munoz-Rojas, Grenoble Institute of Technology) 2016-02-16 15:00: Electroweak physics in the forward region (Marek Sirendi (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-16 16:00: Metrisability of Painleve equations, and Hamiltonian systems of hydrodynamic type (Felipe Contatto (DAMTP)) 2016-02-17 14:15: Imaging Ballistic Trajectory in High Mobility Graphene Sample Using Scanning Gate Microscopy (Mr Ziwei Dou ( University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-18 12:00: Directed Assembly of Active Colloidal Devices (Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP)) 2016-02-18 16:00: Diffusion dynamics of adsorbates from tunnelling and other quantum effects (Roberto Marquardt, Laboratory of Quantum Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France) 2016-02-19 16:00: Direct vs indirect probes of New Physics at Future Colliders (Andrea Thamm (University of Mainz)) 2016-02-22 14:15: Superconducting Photonics and Quantum Electronics (Dr Kaveh Delfanazari, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-22 15:30: Diamond Quantum Photonics and Optomechanics (Marko Loncar (Harvard)) 2016-02-23 14:00: Interstellar scintillation – near and far (Barney Rickett (University of California, San Diego, USA)) 2016-02-23 15:00: Status and prospects of the NA62 experiment (Antonino Sergi (University of Birmingham)) 2016-02-23 16:00: Supersymmetric Anti-de-Sitter Solutions (Jan Gutowski (Surrey)) 2016-02-24 11:15: Large non-saturating magnetoresistance in a novel superconductor Ca3.2Co4Sn12.8 (Dr. Monika Gamza, University of Central Lancashire) 2016-02-24 14:15: Computational Designs for Homogeneous Catalysts for Chemo-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity (Prof. Robert Paton, University of Oxford) 2016-02-24 14:15: Powerful and efficient energy harvester with resonant-tunneling quantum dots (SP Workshop) (Miss Gulzat Jaliel, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-02-25 16:00: A molecular perspective of water structure at metal surfaces (Nadav Avidor, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-02-26 14:00: Conformational Spread: The Propagation of Allosteric States in Large Multiprotein Complexes (Prof. Dennis Bray, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-26 14:30: Controlling Photon Upconversion in Lanthanide-doped Nanocrystals (Professor Xiaogang Liu, National University of Singapore) 2016-02-26 15:00: Advanced epitaxy of the group IV (Si-Ge-C-Sn) semiconductors (Dr Maksym Myronov (Department of Physics, University of Warwick)) 2016-02-26 16:00: Impact of Observing Lepton Number Violation on Models of Baryogenesis (Julia Harz (UPMC,Paris)) 2016-02-29 14:15: An introduction to Rinocloud a new data sharing hub (Mr Eoin Murray ( University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-03-01 14:00: Galaxy Bimodality and Post-Starburst Galaxies (Vivienne Wild (University of St Andrews)) 2016-03-01 14:30: Photonic, Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications of Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes (Professor Jana Zaumseil, Heidelberg University) 2016-03-01 15:00: Low-energy resonant neutrino processes (Rolf Oldeman (University of Cambridge)) 2016-03-01 16:00: A positive Bondi--type mass in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes (Paul Tod (Oxford, visiting DAMTP)) 2016-03-01 16:00: Global Parallel Computation, Networks and Geometry (Peter Braam (Braam Research LLC, USA)) 2016-03-02 14:15: Low bias gate tunable THz plasmonics signatures in CVD graphene of varying grain size (SP Workshop) (Mr Varun Kamboj, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-03-03 16:00: Power laws in dislocation plasticity (Mick Brown, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-03-07 14:15: Scalable microfabricated ion traps for quantum information processing, quantum simulations and sensing (Dr Bjeorn Lekitsch, University of Southampton) 2016-03-08 14:00: PICSAT: A space mission dedicated to the transit of Beta Pictoris b (Sylvestre Lacour (L’Observatoire de Paris, France)) 2016-03-08 15:00: DUNE: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (Mark Thomson (Cambridge)) 2016-03-08 16:00: On Witten - Kontsevich tau-function and its generalisations (Boris Dubrovin (SISSA, Trieste)) 2016-03-09 11:00: Electronic Structure Aided Drug Discovery (Daniel Cole (TCM)) 2016-03-09 11:40: The v Jastrow factor (Thomas Whitehead (TCM)) 2016-03-09 12:00: Incorporating prior information into global search for improved structure prediction (Saki Shinoda (University of Cambridge)) 2016-03-09 14:15: The design of an active Terahertz polarisation modulator device by integrating Chiral metamaterials with Graphene (SP Workshop) (Mr Stephen Kindness, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-03-10 13:00: "The particulars of particulates". (Dr Nathalie Vriend, DAMTP, Cambridge) 2016-03-10 14:15: Frustration meets topology: from C>1 fractional Chern insulators to tilted Weyl semimetals (Emil Bergholtz, Freie Universität Berlin) 2016-03-14 09:15: Shock Compression of Inhomogeneous Materials (Dr Chris Braithwaite, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-03-14 10:00: "Expanding the Capability Envelope of Instrumented Indentation using Finite Element Method Modelling" (Dr James Dean, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2016-03-14 10:45: New Approaches for Studying the Physics of Challenging Materials (Dr Andrew Jardine, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-03-14 10:45: New Approaches for Studying the Physics of Challenging Materials (Dr Andrew Jardine, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-03-14 15:30: 'Changing the character of characterisation; a physical approach to understanding the thermomechanical properties of polymers and polymer bonded composites' (Dr David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-03-16 16:00: Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar system (Professor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern) 2016-03-17 16:00: Nurturing a political economy for a sustainable future: technology, innovation, and science (David Bent - Forum for the Future) 2016-03-21 15:30: Quantum optical switch controlled by a colour centre in a diamond nanocavity (Alp Sipahigil (Harvard)) 2016-03-22 16:00: Aspects of warped extra-dimensional models (Abhishek Iyer (TIFR, Mumbai)) 2016-04-06 11:00: Control variate method for vibrational corrections in DFT (Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM)) 2016-04-06 11:40: Thermal expansion of graphene beyond the quasiharmonic approximation (Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM, Cambridge)) 2016-04-08 14:15: Overcoming the Terahertz Gap Using High-Tc Superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+Mesa Devices as Emitters (Professor Kazuo Kadowaki; University of Tsukuba, Japan) 2016-04-20 14:15: Improved single-electron pumping with surface acoustic waves in ZnO/GaAs systems (Mr Hangtian Hou ( University of Cambridge)) 2016-04-21 16:00: Characterization of gravelly soils for geotechnical engineering applications (Jason DeJong, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis) 2016-04-21 16:00: Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy (Gareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL)) 2016-04-22 10:00: Time-resolved detection of single-electron wave packets (Dr Masaya Kataoka - National Physical Laboratory) 2016-04-22 14:00: Nanoscale organisation and dynamics of molecules and ions at the interface with solids in solution (Dr Kislon Voitchovsky, Lecturer in Soft Matter and Biological Physics. Durham University) 2016-04-22 16:00: One-Loop Soft Theorems via Dual Superconformal Symmetry (Edward Hughes (Queen Mary, London)) 2016-04-25 14:15: Strong coupling between hybrid nuclear-electron magnons and microwave photons (Dr Leonid Abdurakhimov, Microelectronics Group, University of Cambridge) 2016-04-25 15:30: Experimental reconstruction of the Berry curvature in a Floquet Bloch band (Christof Weitenberg (Universitat Hamburg)) 2016-04-26 16:00: Charge Quantization from a Number Operator ( Cohl Furey (Cavendish and DAMTP)) 2016-04-27 11:00: First-Principles Study of Frequency-Dependent Resonant Raman Scattering (Yannick Gillet, Université catholique de Louvain) 2016-04-27 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Bibin Wei, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-04-27 16:00: Kinetic challenges in solar energy conversion (Professor James Durrant ) 2016-04-28 16:00: Engineering structure and response of soft materials with DNA-mediated interactions (Lorenzo Di Michele, BSS Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2016-04-29 14:00: Onsager Principle -A useful principle in soft matter dynamics - (Prof. Masao Doi. Center of Soft Matter Physics and its Applications, Internationa Research Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China) 2016-04-29 16:00: B_c decays from highly improved staggered quarks and NRQCD (Andrew Lytle (Glasgow University)) 2016-05-02 15:30: Unconventional quantum oscillations in the Kondo insulator SmB6 (Suchitra E. Sebastian (University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-03 16:00: Skyrmions, Oxygen-16 and the 6-punctured sphere (Christopher Halcrow (DAMTP)) 2016-05-05 14:15: Stripe Phases in Quantum Dipolar Gases (Prof. Jordi Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) 2016-05-05 16:00: The characterisation of a shock tube system for blast injury studies (Luz Nguyen, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London) 2016-05-06 16:00: Dark matter and gauged flavor symmetries (Fady Bishara (University of Oxford)) 2016-05-10 14:00: Early galaxy formation processes: clues from Near-Field Cosmology (Stefania Salvadori (Observatoire de Paris-CNRS)) 2016-05-10 14:30: Novel Conjugated Materials for Fission, Fusion and Reverse Intersystem Crossing (Dr Hugo Bronstein, UCL) 2016-05-10 15:00: Searches for Sphaleron: LHC vs. IceCube ( Kazuki Sakurai (IPPP Durham)) 2016-05-10 16:00: Painlevé monodromy: geometry and quantization (Vladimir Roubtsov (Angers)) 2016-05-11 11:00: Applied CAMD in Development of Adsorbents for Extraction of Uranium from Seawater (Sinisa Vukovic ( University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-11 14:15: Undoped 2D Electron systems as a tool for optimising MBE growth (SP Workshop) (Mr Ben Ramsay, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-05-12 14:15: New understanding of liquid thermodynamics and supercritical state (Kostya Trachenko, Queen Mary, University of London) 2016-05-12 16:00: Post-blast explosive residue: Morphological, chemical and computational studies (Nadia Abdul-Karim, Security Science Doctoral Research Training Centre, University College London) 2016-05-13 14:00: Bespoke Crystals: Using Bio-Inspired Approaches to Generate Crystals with Target Properties (Prof. Fiona Meldrum, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds) 2016-05-13 16:00: The PADME experiment at DAFNE Linac (Mauro Raggi (INFN, Frascati)) 2016-05-16 16:00: Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here? (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University) 2016-05-17 14:00: Quasars into the epoch of reionization (Richard McMahon (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-17 14:30: Probing molecular excitons with ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy (Professor Jacob Krich, University of Ottowa) 2016-05-17 15:00: Calorimetry with humans: measuring delivered dose in radiotherapy treatment of cancer (Karl Harrison and Ping Lin Yeap (Cambridge)) 2016-05-17 16:00: A new look at the hydrogen atom (Sir Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)) 2016-05-18 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr James Dann, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-05-18 16:00: Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University) 2016-05-19 14:00: Recent progress at Quantum Computing and Devices Laboratories (Prof Mikko Möttönen) 2016-05-19 14:15: Fermionic spinon and holon statistics in the pyrochlore quantum spin liquid (Bruce Normand, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) 2016-05-19 16:00: Energy Catalyst (Michael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK) 2016-05-20 14:00: Exploring soft matter with DNA (Prof. Tommaso Bellini. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale. Laboratory of Complex Fluids and Molecular Biophysics. Università degli Studi di Milano ) 2016-05-20 14:00: Searching for slightly heavy SUSY scalars (Sebastian Ellis (University of Michigan)) 2016-05-20 16:00: Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond. (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University) 2016-05-23 14:15: Toward the realization of the quantum ampere with silicon nanoelectronics (Dr Alessandro Rossi, University of Cambridge, Microelectronics Group) 2016-05-23 15:30: Bosons in synthetic gauge fields: Dynamics and probing edge states (Ryan Barnett (Imperial)) 2016-05-24 14:00: Gas flows as fuel for star formation in distant galaxies: a spotlight on strong absorption line systems (Michele Fumagalli (Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, University of Durham)) 2016-05-24 15:00: R&D at Fermilab: Accelerators Towards Precision Neutrino Experiments and Quantum Sensors of the “Dark” Sector (Swapan Chattopadhyay (NIU / Fermilab/ CERN)) 2016-05-24 16:00: Exceptionally simple PDE and G_2 (Dennis The (Vienna)) 2016-05-25 11:00: Encapsulation of 1D crystals inside carbon nanotubes (Dr Paulo V C Medeiros (University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-25 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Bruno Villa, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-05-26 11:30: The Future of Microprocessors (Ms Sophie Wilson FREng FRS) 2016-05-26 14:15: Many-body interaction effects in Dirac-Weyl semimetals (Edwin Barnes, Virginia Tech) 2016-05-27 16:00: Collider tests of diphoton resonances and compositeness (Emiliano Molinaro (University of Southern Denmark)) 2016-05-31 14:00: Direct detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets (Sascha Quanz (ETH, Zurich)) 2016-05-31 15:00: Searching for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope (Ben Jones (University of Texas, Arlington)) 2016-06-01 14:15: Many-Body Excitations in One-Dimensional Electron Systems (SP Workshop) (Mr Wooi Kiat Tan, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-06-02 14:15: How to describe inhomogeneous quantum systems in one dimension with (conformal) field theory: lessons from non-interacting Fermi gases (Jerome Dubail, CNRS, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy) 2016-06-02 16:00: Microtribology of biological and bio-inspired surfaces (Lars Heepe, Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Germany) 2016-06-03 14:30: Solid-state organic/nanocrystal films for infrared↔visible photon conversion via excitonics (Professor Mark Wilson, University of Toronto) 2016-06-07 14:00: Improving our knowledge on planetary systems using dynamics (Alexandre Correia (Department of Physics, University of Aveiro)) 2016-06-07 15:00: Studying the QGP with heavy flavours and quarkonia (Francesco Bossu (LAL, France)) 2016-06-08 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Teng Yi, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-06-09 14:15: Non-local density functional theory (Prof. Stewart Clark, Durham University) 2016-06-10 11:15: Frustration and Correlations in Stacked Triangular Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets (John Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford University)) 2016-06-13 14:15: Mesoscopic thermocouples (Dr Rafael Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)) 2016-06-14 15:00: A modular architecture for Unicode text compression (Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-14 16:00: Radio observations of exoplanets and their host stars (Alex Wolszczan (Penn State University, Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds)) 2016-06-15 14:15: Development of a SAW-driven source of polarised single photons (Mr Antonio Rubino, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group) 2016-06-21 14:30: From Visible to Infrared Emitters 2D Nanoplatelets (Professor Sandrine Lhuillier-Ithurria, ESPCI) 2016-06-23 14:15: Liquid-crystalline states of ultracold atomic systems (Sarang Gopalakrishnan) 2016-06-27 14:15: TBC (SP Monday Seminar) (Dr Joseph Goodwin, Imperial College London) 2016-07-01 14:00: Transverse momentum resummation: general formalism and the case of diphoton production at LHC (Francesco Coradeschi (Florence University)) 2016-07-01 16:00: Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications (Laura Marcu, PhD. Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering. University of California at Davis) 2016-07-06 11:00: Two theoretical approaches to nanostructured interfaces (Georgios Tritsaris) 2016-07-06 14:15: Charge transport in strongly disordered and high-mobility two-dimensional materials (SP Wednesday Seminar) (Dr Chi-Te Liang, Taipei) 2016-07-21 14:00: Twistor theory and topology of Ward solitons (Prim Plansangkate (Prince of Songkla University)) 2016-07-22 15:30: interactions in strongly spin-orbit coupled systems (Dimi Culcer (UNSW)) 2016-08-16 16:00: Low and High Energy Lepton Flavor Violation and Higgs Decays (Manimala Mitra, Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.) 2016-08-30 11:30: The importance of electroweak corrections at high energies (Christian Bauer (LBNL)) 2016-09-19 16:00: Claim of discoveries based on sigma's (Prof. Giulio D'Agostini (University of Rome "Sapienza")) 2016-09-20 16:00: Probabilistic inference in Physics illustrated with a toy model (Prof. Giulio D'Agostini (University of Rome "Sapienza")) 2016-10-04 15:00: Top quark effective theory in the LHC era (Michael Russell (Glasgow)) 2016-10-05 11:00: Fröhlich electron-phonon coupling from first principles: theory and applications (Carla Verdi (University of Oxford)) 2016-10-07 16:00: Prompt Signals and Displaced Vertices in the NMSSM (Giovanna Cottin (University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2016-10-11 14:30: Studying and Controlling Live Cells with OLEDS and Intracellular Organic Micro-lasers (Professor Malte Gather) 2016-10-11 15:00: LHCb combination of the CKM angle gamma (Matthew Kenzie (Clare College, Cambridge)) 2016-10-11 16:00: Algebraically special solutions in various theories of gravity (Vojtech Pravda) 2016-10-12 16:00: The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Epochs (Professor Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Centre for Cosmology, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-13 14:15: Current trends in cold atom physics (Prof. Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-13 16:00: The particulars of particulates (Nathalie Vriend, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, The University of Cambridge) 2016-10-13 16:00: France’s Nuclear Energy Transition: Turning Points in National Policy and Innovation (Dr. Kathleen Araújo, Stony Brook University) 2016-10-14 16:00: Lepton Number Violation at Low and High Energies (Frank Deppisch (UCL)) 2016-10-17 15:30: Mesoscopic transport experiments with cold atoms (Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL)) 2016-10-18 15:00: Multivariate Visualisation and Searches for a Z’ decaying to Leptons at CMS (Benjamin Radburn-Smith (Seoul National University)) 2016-10-19 11:00: Doping-dependent screening of adatoms in graphene from first-principles multiscale simulations (Fabiano Corsetti (Imperial College London)) 2016-10-19 11:15: The next generation of Dirac materials, from discovery to new physical phenomena realized in the solid state (Leslie Schoop, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.) 2016-10-19 14:15: Electron Tunnelling through Rigid Molecular Wire Anchored between Nanogap Electrodes and on Metal Surface (SP Workshop) (Mr Chun Ouyang, Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology) 2016-10-20 16:00: Caging the Sun: Materials challenges in magnetic confinement fusion reactors (Simon Kirk, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) 2016-10-21 16:00: “Lab on chip” – microfluidics, organ on chip and biomimetic channel networks (Prof. Andreas Manz. Head of Research Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Universität des Saarlandes. Saarbruecken, Germany) 2016-10-21 16:00: The Leptonic Dirac CP Phase from Residual Symmetry and Muon Decay at Rest Experiment (Shao-Feng Ge (MPIK Heidelberg)) 2016-10-24 15:30: Single-atom and momentum-resolved measurement of the depletion of a Bose condensate (David Clement (Institut Optique, France)) 2016-10-25 15:00: Pdf from lattice (Fernanda Steffens (DESY Zeuthen)) 2016-10-25 16:00: Geometrical Interpretation of Vortices (Nick Manton (DAMTP).) 2016-10-26 14:15: Fast Room Temperature Detection of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Graphene Loaded Plasmonic Antenna (SP Workshop) (Mr Long Xiao (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-10-27 14:15: Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors (Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside) 2016-10-27 14:15: Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors (Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside) 2016-10-27 16:00: On the development and calibration of an in vitro platform to investigate the response of stem cells over a wide range of pressure and strain rate (David Sory, Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London) 2016-10-28 15:00: Superconducting quantum circuits: qubits and not only (Prof. Yuri Pashkin, Lancaster University) (Prof. Yuri Pashkin, Department of Physics, Lancaster University) 2016-10-28 16:00: Searching for – and finding!  gravitational waves (Gabriela Gonzalez, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University ) 2016-11-01 15:00: LHC Event Generation with Herwig 7: Status and Prospects (Simon Platzer (IPPP Durham)) 2016-11-01 16:00: Spectral stability of nonlinear Dirac equation (Andrew Comech (Texas A&M)) 2016-11-02 14:15: Quantum relay using semiconductor light sources (SP Workshop) (Mr Ziheng Xiang (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-11-03 14:15: Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding (Prof. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-03 16:00: Crystalline growth of ice – Restructuring of the first wetting layer during multilayer formation (Barbara Lechner, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany) 2016-11-04 16:00: Vesicle bionanotechnology and biophysics: from hybrid lipid-copolymer systems to anticancer peptides (Prof. Paul Beales. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds,) 2016-11-07 14:00: Controlled crystallisation of semiconducting polymer films of polymer electronics (Professor Sabine Ludwigs, University of Stuttgart) 2016-11-07 15:30: Topological pumps and topological quasicrystals (Oded Zilberberg (ETH, Zurich)) 2016-11-07 16:00: MSSM4G scenario (Sho Iwamoto) 2016-11-08 15:00: The future of top physics (Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia)) 2016-11-08 16:00: Resurgence and novel solitons in eta-deformed principal chiral models (Daniele Dorigoni (Durham)) 2016-11-09 11:00: First-principles non-equilibrium transport simulation to nano-electronics devices: Topological super-lattice PCM and HfOx ReRAM cells (Hisao Nakamura (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)) 2016-11-09 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Hippolyte Astier (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-11-10 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Prof Michael J Hartmann) 2016-11-10 14:30: Progress on Ferromagnetic Molecular Thin Films (Professor Sandrine Heutz) 2016-11-10 16:00: The focusing neutral helium beam microscope NEMI (Sabrina Eder, Department of Physics and Technology, The University of Bergen, Norway) 2016-11-11 16:00: Probing the electroweak phase transition at the LHC (and beyond) (Jose Miguel No (King's College London)) 2016-11-14 15:30: Topological sound and light (Florian Marquardt (University of Erlangen)) 2016-11-15 15:00: History, status, and future perspectives of glueballs (Francesco Giacosa (Kielce, Poland & Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main)) 2016-11-15 16:00: Tractor calculi for conformal and other geometries (Jan Slovak) 2016-11-16 11:15: Spin orbit coupling and magnetism in low dimensions for room temperature applications (Christos Panagopoulos. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.) 2016-11-16 14:15: The Answers (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-17 14:15: Theoretical Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory: from the Beginning to 1962 (Prof. Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-18 16:00: Bioluminescent Reporter Screens: Illuminating Novel Regulators and Dynamics of Signaling Pathways (Prof. David Piwnica-Worms. Department of Cancer Systems Imaging Deputy Division Head, Research Affairs, Division of Diagnostic Imaging Gerald Dewey Dodd, Jr., Endowed Distinguished Chair in Diagnostic Imaging The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer C) 2016-11-22 14:30: Modelling Electronic Processes at Heterojunctions: from Molecules to Perovskites (Professor David Beljonne) 2016-11-22 16:00: Minimal Lagrangian connections on compact surfaces (Thomas Mettler (Frankfurt)) 2016-11-23 11:15: Phase diagram and spin dynamics of the frustrated pyrochlore magnet Yb2Ti2O7 in applied field (Paul McClarty, Wadham College, University of Oxford. Science & Technology Facilities Council.) 2016-11-23 12:00: Moving Pictures: Mathematical Reconstruction of Paintings (Dr Carola Schonlieb, DAMTP) 2016-11-23 14:15: Unusual magnetoresistance in Ge-Au alloys for low temperature thermometry (Mr James Dann (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-11-23 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr James Dann (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-11-23 16:00: Visualizing Quantum Matter (J.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University; Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University) 2016-11-24 11:45: Quantum criticality and Fermi surface instabilities in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe (Gael Bastien, 1. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France. 2.INAC/SPSMS, CEA-Grenoble, France.) 2016-11-24 14:15: The intimate relation between mechanics and geometry (Prof. Mark Warner, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-25 11:00: Kernels for Sequentially Ordered Data (Dr Franz Kiraly) 2016-11-25 16:00: Exotic Hadrons with hidden Charm (Sebastian Neubert (Heidelberg)) 2016-11-28 15:30: Quantum models of quasicrystals (Anuradha Jagannathan (Paris)) 2016-11-29 11:30: Scalable quantum information processing in diamond (William J Munro (NTT Basic Research Labs, NTT Corp, Japan)) 2016-11-29 15:00: The Higgs pt spectrum with finite top mass (Stefano Forte (Milan U. and INFN Milan, Italy)) 2016-11-29 16:00: Jumping Twistor Spaces, and folded hyper-Kahler manifolds. (James Gundry (DAMTP)) 2016-11-30 11:00: Nature of the Metalization Transition in Solid Hydrogen (Sam Azadi (Imperial College London)) 2016-11-30 11:15: Coordination Frameworks: New routes to multiferroics and low dimensional magnetism (Paul Saines, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent.) 2016-11-30 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Vivek Chidambaram (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-12-02 16:00: Supersymmetric decays in Softsusy (Tom Cridge (University of Cambridge, DAMTP)) 2016-12-07 11:00: First-principles anharmonic calculations and the dynamic Jahn-Teller effect (Joseph Prentice (TCM)) 2016-12-07 11:30: From zeolite nets to (meta-) stable ice structures: a theoretical study (Edgar Engel (University of Cambridge)) 2016-12-07 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Hangtian Hou (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-12-14 11:00: Spin-orbit coupling, photoemission and light absorption from first-principles calculations (Cheol-Hwan Park (Seoul National University)) 2016-12-14 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Moda Cao (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-01-11 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Miss Yuqing Wu (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-01-12 14:00: Skyrmions, multi--instantons, and SU(infinity) Toda equation (Prim Plansangkate (Prince of Songkla University)) 2017-01-12 14:30: Transient grating ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy and its applications (Justin Hodgkiss, Victoria University of Wellington) 2017-01-13 16:00: Soft physics and interpretation challenges for LHC supersymmetry searches (Jesse Liu, University of Oxford) 2017-01-17 15:00: alpha_s from lattice QCD (Luigi Del Debbio (Edinburgh)) 2017-01-18 11:00: Combined first principles and experimental NMR of paramagnetic materials - application to LiTi(x)Mn(2-x)O4 cathode material (Roberta Pigliapochi (Chemistry)) 2017-01-18 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Teng Yi (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-01-19 14:15: TCM Dragons' Den (First year PhD students) 2017-01-19 16:00: Where have all the speckles gone? Incoherence and decoherence in fluctuation electron microscopy (Mike Treacy, Department of Physics, Arizona State University) 2017-01-20 16:00: Transverse momentum resummation and Higgs-background interference in diphoton production (Francesco Coradeschi, DAMTP, Cambridge) 2017-01-24 15:00: Ratio measurements at ATLAS: More sensitivity to constrain Parton Distributions (Kristin Lohwasser (DESY, Zeuthen)) 2017-01-25 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Matthew Anderson (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-01-26 11:00: The Future of Microprocessors (Ms Sophie Wilson FREng FRS) 2017-01-26 14:15: Counting the Uncountable (Prof. Daan Frenkel) 2017-01-26 16:00: The Whittle Laboratory: Fluid mechanics of jet engines and vacuum cleaners (Masha Folk and Wen Yao Lee, The Whittle Laboratory, The University of Cambridge) 2017-01-27 16:00: 3D holographic imaging of microswimmers (Dr. Laurence Wilson. Department of Physics. University of York) 2017-01-27 16:00: Effective Higgs Interactions at the LHC (Christoph Englert (University of Glasgow)) 2017-01-30 10:00: Academic Writing (Dr. Karen Ottewell MCIL, University of Cambridge Language Centre) 2017-01-31 15:00: One year on: LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes (Alberto Vecchio (Birmingham)) 2017-01-31 16:00: Integrable Boundary Scattering in AdS3/CFT2 (Andrea Prinsloo (Surrey)) 2017-02-01 14:15: Experimental realisation of a quantum dot energy harvester (SP Workshop) (Miss Gulzat Jaliel (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-02-02 14:15: Curl forces and beyond (Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol)) 2017-02-02 14:30: Two-dimensional spectroscopy from the visible to the ultraviolet (Guilio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano) 2017-02-02 16:00: Neutron spin echo and reflectivity (at OFFSPEC) (Jos Cooper, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2017-02-03 16:00: Two Generic Predictions Concerning Dark Matter (Bobby Acharya, KCL) 2017-02-03 16:00: Simple regulatory strategies to control stochastic fluctuations in gene expression ( Prof Michele Caselle, Department of Physics, University of Turin, Italy) 2017-02-06 14:15: Annual Safety Talk on Using the SP Cleanroom (Mrs Melanie Tribble ( University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-02-06 15:30: Dipolar quantum matter near absolute zero temperature (Francesca Ferlaino (IQOQI Innsbruck)) 2017-02-07 14:30: Chirality-led design of organic conjugated materials (Matthew Fuchter, Imperial College London) 2017-02-07 15:00: LHCb highlights and future prospects (Tim Gershon (Warwick)) 2017-02-08 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Binbin Wei (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-02-09 16:00: The wetting of metal surfaces and nano-structured interfaces (Andrew Hodgson, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool) 2017-02-09 16:00: Greening up the Cavendish and the University: the Maxwell Centre as a test case (Ottavio Croze) 2017-02-10 16:00: Differential equations and iterated path integrals for the two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to Drell-Yan processes (Stefano Di Vita, DESY Hamburg) 2017-02-13 13:00: Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in Quantum Complexity (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-02-14 14:30: Spin pumping and inverse spin hall effect in organic materials (Georg Schmidt, Martin Luther Universitat Halle-Wittenberg) 2017-02-14 15:00: Measurement of jets with SISCone and anti-kt algorithms with data from the OPAL experiment at LEP (Stefan Kluth (MPI, Munich)) 2017-02-15 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Shu-Wei Wang (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-02-16 14:15: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Water-Solid Interface with Statistical Mechanics and Ab Initio Simulations (Angelos Michaelides, University College London) 2017-02-16 16:00: Molecular adsorption and strained graphene on boron nitride (Peter Beton, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham) 2017-02-17 14:00: Time to go beyond oblique parameters and triple gauge couplings (Zhengkang Zhang) 2017-02-20 15:30: Realizing the classical XY Hamiltonian with polariton graphs (Prof Natalia Berloff (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2017-02-21 14:30: Solar energy with a twist: dynamic disorder in halide perovskites (Aron Walsh, Imperial College London) 2017-02-21 15:00: Using Truth to find Beauty: Measuring CP-violation in b-hadron decays using top quarks collected by the ATLAS detector (Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway)) 2017-02-21 16:00: Four-dimensional quasi-Einstein manifolds ( Eduardo Garcia-Rio (Santiago de Compostela)) 2017-02-22 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Ziwei Dou (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-02-23 11:30: Car and Parrinello meet Green and Kubo: simulating atomic heat transport from equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics (Prof. Stefano Baroni (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati)) 2017-02-23 16:00: Chiral surface systems (Georg Held, Department of Chemistry, The University of Reading) 2017-02-24 14:15: Nanopores in 2d materials‐opportunities and challenges (Aleksandra Radenovic, Associate Professor,Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 2017-02-24 16:00: Efficient evaluation of tree-level and one-loop amplitudes (| Andreas van Hameren, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN) 2017-02-28 15:00: New frontiers in PDF determinations: NNPDF3.1 (Maria Ubiali (Cavendish)) 2017-02-28 16:00: Mathematical structures in QFT: between functional analysis and geometry (Kasia Rejzner (York)) 2017-03-01 11:15: The pervasive influence of strain coupling and dynamic strain relaxation associated with ferroic, multiferroic and superconducting phase transitions. (Prof. Michael Carpenter, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Earth Sciences) 2017-03-01 14:15: TBC (SP Workshop) (Mr Jinggao Sui (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-03-02 14:15: The Times They Are A-Changin' (Prof. Nicola Marzari, EPFL) 2017-03-03 16:00: Cancelled (Andreas Vogt, University of Liverpool) 2017-03-07 15:00: Recent results from the T2K experiment on CP violation in the lepton sector (Constantinos Andreopoulos (Liverpool & STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)) 2017-03-07 16:00: On a Quantum Construction for Classical Space-Times: Palatial Twistor Theory (Roger Penrose (Oxford)) 2017-03-08 11:15: Engineering Approach to Instrumentation Development for High-Pressure Research (Prof. Konstantin Kamenev, University of Edinburgh, Schl of Engineering & Electronics and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions) 2017-03-08 14:15: Multiplexer on the 0.7 anomaly in quantum point contacts (SP Workshop) (Mr Pengcheng Ma (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2017-03-08 17:00: More Diversity = Better Science: International Women’s Day 2017 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-03-10 16:00: Paving the way for large-scale quantum computation (Deyan Mihaylov (IoA, Cambridge)) 2017-03-14 15:00: The NEXT neutrinoless double beta decay experiment (Paola Ferrario (IFIC, Valencia)) 2017-03-14 16:00: The Binet-Legendre metric in Finsler geometry and some applications (Marc Troyanov (Lausanne)) 2017-03-15 09:00: Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in Functional Materials/Electrochemistry (Candidates for the lectureship in Functional Materials/Electrochemistry) 2017-03-15 11:00: Atomistic modelling of excited states and luminescence in sodium silicate glass (Dr Konstantinos Konstantinou, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-15 11:15: Hidden fluctuations close to a quantum bicritical point (Corenting Morice, CEA, University of Paris-Saclay.) 2017-03-16 16:00: Thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur: What questions will you be asked? (Paul Mantle, Frontier IP Group) 2017-03-21 16:00: Nucleon charges and probing novel CP violation via neutron EDM (Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)) 2017-03-22 11:15: High pressure synthesis of novel perovskite-type oxides with unusually high valence Co(IV) and Cu(III) ions (Shintaro Ishiwata, University of Tokyo.) 2017-03-24 10:00: Excitons in emerging materials: single layer transition metal dichalcogenides and hybrid perovskites (Paulina Plochocka) 2017-03-30 09:30: Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in High Energy Physics (see information in abstract) 2017-04-12 09:45: Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in Biological Physics (See above) 2017-04-12 09:45: Candidates Seminars for the Lectureship in Biological Physics (See above) 2017-04-18 14:00: On-chip quantum photonics using quantum dots (Peter Lodahl (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)) 2017-04-21 09:00: Candidates Seminar for the Lectureship in Experimental Quantum Condensed Matter Physics (Please see abstract) 2017-04-21 11:00: Quantum emitters in 2D semiconductors (Artur Branny (Heriot-Watt)) 2017-04-25 15:00: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay at SNO+ (Jack Dunger (QMUL)) 2017-04-27 16:00: Diffraction of noble gases from surfaces: A challenge for theoreticians (Cristina Díaz, Department of Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) 2017-04-28 16:00: Lattice QCD and Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents (Andreas S Kronfeld (Fermilab & IAS TU München)) 2017-05-02 15:00: The SHIP Experiment (Mitesh Patel (Imperial College London)) 2017-05-02 16:00: Spacetime near an extreme horizon (James Lucietti (Edinburgh)) 2017-05-03 16:00: Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences (Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc) 2017-05-04 14:15: Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids (Ludovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux) 2017-05-04 16:00: High strain rate deformation response of titanium for aerospace gas turbines (Steven Lainé, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge) 2017-05-05 11:30: Impact of a high SUSY scale in the MSSM and beyond (Florian Staub (CERN)) 2017-05-09 14:30: Revealing the charge carrier dynamics in metal halide perovskites using time-resolved microwave conductivity (Professor Tom Savenije, Delft University of Technology) 2017-05-09 15:00: Tests of lepton universality in B decays (Patrick Owen (University of Zurich)) 2017-05-10 11:00: The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion? (Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley) 2017-05-10 16:00: “Topology in materials science” (Prof Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden) 2017-05-11 14:15: Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces (Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London) 2017-05-11 16:00: Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories (Prof Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich) 2017-05-12 16:00: Opening loops into trees: the loop-tree duality at work (German Sborlini (IFIC, Valencia)) 2017-05-15 14:15: Cooling Nano-electronic Devices to Ultra-Low Temperatures (Dr Lev Levitin, Royal Holloway University of London) 2017-05-15 15:30: Spin-wave quantum memories for single photon storage and generation (Hugues de Riedmatten (ICFO)) 2017-05-16 15:00: PRaVDA project for Proton Computed Tomography (Dr. Tony Price (University of Birmingham)) 2017-05-16 16:00: The geometry of the space of BPS vortex-antivortex pairs (Martin Speight (Leeds)) 2017-05-16 16:00: Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story (Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University) 2017-05-17 11:15: Scattering, Fermi surface reconstruction and the gap above Tc in cuprate superconductors (James G. Storey. Robinson Research Institute & MacDiarmid Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 2017-05-17 14:30: Role of Morphology in Organic Thermoelectric Materials (Professor Michael Chabinyc) 2017-05-17 16:00: Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics (Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University) 2017-05-18 14:00: Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice (Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon) 2017-05-18 14:00: Strain-tuning of the magnetic compounds Sr3Ru2O7, CeAuSb2, and PdCrO2 (Clifford Hicks. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany) 2017-05-18 16:00: Enhanced structural evolution in the dynamic plasticity of fcc metals (Lewis Lea, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2017-05-19 16:00: Fractal based observables to probe jet substructure of quarks and gluons (Joseph Davighi, DAMTP, Cambridge) 2017-05-22 15:30: Quantum metrology with Bose Einstein condensates (Markus Oberthaler (Universitat Heidelberg)) 2017-05-23 14:30: Probing morphology, electronic structure, and triplet routes: the case for time-resolved EPR in organic electronics (Dr. Till Biskup, University of Freiburg) 2017-05-23 15:00: Dark Matter Searches at CMS (Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College London)) 2017-05-23 16:00: Integrable systems associated to submanifolds in Grassmanians (Boris Kruglikov (Tromso, visiting DAMTP)) 2017-05-25 14:15: Correlated electronic structure: What can physicists and chemists learn from each other? (Dr George Booth) 2017-05-25 16:00: Dynamics of carbon and hydrogen on Ru(001) (Peter Townsend, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2017-05-26 16:00: Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for fast volumetric imaging of bio-samples (Pablo Loza-Alvarez. Staff Scientist SLN Chief at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences. Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain ) 2017-05-26 16:00: Searches for light BSM higgs bosons and constraints on BSM models (Claire Shepherd (Rutherford Lab.)) 2017-05-30 15:00: CANCELLED (Searches for exotic physics with photons in ATLAS) (Miguel Villaplana (University of Milan) ) 2017-05-30 16:00: Reflection Positivity: Something Old and Something New ( Arthur Jaffe (Harvard, visiting INI)) 2017-05-31 11:15: Superfluid density, universal scaling of critical current and the quest for room-temperature superconductivity (Jeffery Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, New Zealand.) 2017-05-31 14:15: Hidden Order of Cooper Pairs in a Striped Cuprate at High Magnetic Fields (SP and QM) (Dragana Popović, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University) 2017-06-01 14:15: On signatures of Majorana fermions (Dr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) ) 2017-06-02 16:00: Drops: A tool to structure materials (Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL. Soft Materials Laboratory) 2017-06-02 16:00: Jet Production at High Energy Colliders (Jennifer Smillie (University of Edinburgh)) 2017-06-06 14:30: Vibrational coherence spectroscopy applied to biomimetic molecular photoswitches (Dr. Jeremie Leonard, University of Strasbourg) 2017-06-06 15:00: The LHCb Upgrade and Flavour Physics Prospects (Johannes Albrecht (Technical University of Dortmund)) 2017-06-07 16:00: "Dark Matter (at the LHC and other experiments)" (caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se) 2017-06-08 14:15: Magnetic moments in superconductors: From Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, to topological superconductors and frustrated magnetism (Prof. Jens Paaske, University of Copenhagen) 2017-06-09 16:00: Stellar cooling bounds on new light particles: including plasma effects (Edward Hardy (ICTP Trieste)) 2017-06-12 14:15: Bose-Einstein condensation of semiconductor excitons: 50 years later, at last! (Prof. Francois Dubin, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris) 2017-06-13 15:00: Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab (Wesley Ketchum (FNAL and University of Bern) ) 2017-06-16 14:15: New studies on the g-factors of 1D holes on GaAs quantum point contacts (Karina Hudson, University of New South Wales) 2017-06-16 16:00: How to read and write mechanical information in DNA molecules (prof. dr. Helmut Schiessel, University of Leiden) 2017-06-16 16:00: Z’ physics at the LHC (Elena Accomando (University of Southampton)) 2017-06-20 15:00: LHCb: a general purpose detector in the forward region (Xabier Cid Vidal (Santiago)) 2017-06-20 16:00: Conformal and projective compactifications in GR (Rod Gover (Auckland NZ)) 2017-06-22 14:30: ARE WE ALONE SEARCHING FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Dr S. Pete Worden, Chair of the Breakthrough Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation) 2017-06-27 15:00: MSSM: muon g-2, dark matter and cosmology (Matthew Talia (University of Sydney)) 2017-07-04 14:30: TBD (Professor Frank Wuerthner, University of Wurzburg) 2017-07-06 14:30: The roles of exciton and molecular diffusion in real-time sensing (Dr. Paul Shaw, University of Queensland) 2017-08-22 14:15: Electron doping of samarium nickelate from first principles (Michele Kotiuga (Rutgers University)) 2017-10-03 15:00: Strongly-Interacting Dark Matter and Neutrino Astronomy (Dr Jonathan Davis (Kings College, London)) 2017-10-05 14:15: Topological electronic properties of silicon (Prof. Claudio Chamon, Boston University) 2017-10-06 16:00: Precision in EFT studies for top quark and Higgs physics (Eleni Vryonidou (CERN)) 2017-10-06 16:00: Using DNA to Program Nanostructure Assembly and Molecular Machinery (Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory.) 2017-10-10 15:00: Physics with photons in ATLAS: Standard Model and beyond (Dr Miguel Villaplana, University of Milan ) 2017-10-10 16:00: Exact Gravitational Wave Signatures from Colliding Extreme Black Holes (Joan Camps (UCL)) 2017-10-11 14:15: Electrical control of magnetism and orbital reconstruction in oxide bilayers (Dr. Cheng Song, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China) 2017-10-11 16:00: No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition (Professor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder) 2017-10-12 14:15: Scaling laws for spreading the quantum information (Dr Adam Nahum, University of Oxford) 2017-10-12 14:30: Strategies to boost the power conversion efficiencies in quantum dot sensitised solar cells (Professor Sayan Bhattcharya, IISER Kolkata) 2017-10-13 14:00: Cold atoms vs solids: Differences and opportunities (Dr. Ulrich Schneider, AMOP group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2017-10-13 16:00: Isospin Breaking Corrections to the Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation on the Lattice (Vera Guelpers (University of Southampton)) 2017-10-16 15:30: Hanbury Brown-Twiss, Hong-Ou-Mandel, and other landmarks in quantum optics: from photons to atoms (Prof. Alain Aspect) 2017-10-17 15:00: The CERN CLOUD experiment: overview and recent results (Dr Hamish Gordon, University of Leeds) 2017-10-17 16:00: Towards bulk extension of near-horizon geometries ( Andrea Fontanella (Surrey)) 2017-10-18 14:15: Topological Surface States - Tunnelling and Patterning (Ankita Anirban, Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge) 2017-10-19 14:15: Surprises from 'simple' metals -- a case study of layered delafossites (Prof. Andrew Mackenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids) 2017-10-20 16:00: Searches for axion-like particles at the intensity frontier (Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)) 2017-10-24 15:00: Direct neutrino mass determination with the KATRIN experiment (Dr Philipp Chung-On Ranitzsch) 2017-10-24 16:00: On the Construction of Monopoles (Harry Braden (Edinburgh)) 2017-10-25 14:15: Transport of modulation-doped Al0.2Ga0.8Sb/GaSb heterojunctions (Laura Hanks, University of Lancaster) 2017-10-25 14:30: From Lithium Batteries to Perovskite Solar Cells: Atomic-Scale Insights into Energy Materials (Professor M. Saiful Islam, University of Bath) 2017-10-26 14:15: Entanglement and thermodynamics in out-of-equilibrium systems (Vincenzo Alba) 2017-10-26 16:00: Thermodynamics de-mystified? /Thermodynamics without Ansätze? (John Ellis, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2017-10-27 14:00: Concepts and techniques in Magnetism (Dr. Adrian Ionescu, TFM group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2017-10-27 16:00: Gaining control of DNA-based nanodevices (Prof. Francesco Ricci, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata) 2017-10-27 16:00: Standard Model EFT at NLO: Electroweak Higgs production and connecting to Top physics (Ken Mimasu (UC Louvain)) 2017-10-30 15:30: Evolution of Gaussian wave packets in the presence of losses and gains (Dr. Eva-Maria Graefe, Imperial College London) 2017-10-31 15:00: Recent results from Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment and their implication on the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly (Dr David Martinez (Illinois Institute of Technology)) 2017-10-31 16:00: Number theory and classification of integrable systems (Jing Ping Wang (Kent)) 2017-11-02 16:00: Aristotle, projectiles and guns (Stephen Walley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2017-11-03 16:00: Motion of uni-flagellated bacteria at interfaces and in complex media (Prof. Jay Tang, Brown University) 2017-11-03 16:00: Dissecting Jets (Simone Marzani (Università di Genova)) 2017-11-07 11:00: Simultaneous and coded seismic sources: Present and upcoming technologies (Raymond Abma - BP America) 2017-11-07 15:00: Future prospects for LHCb (Johannes Albrecht (Technical University of Dortmund)) 2017-11-07 16:00: Stationary black holes with matter fields and negative cosmological constant (Piotr Chrusciel (Vienna)) 2017-11-09 14:15: Anharmonic and quantum effects in (bio)organic systems with first-principles accuracy (Dr Mariana Rossi, Fritz Haber Institut) 2017-11-10 14:00: Introduction to topological phases (Dr. Benjamin Beri, Cavendish & DAMTP, Cambridge) 2017-11-10 16:00: Light exotic meson candidates in COMPASS (Bernhard Ketzer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)) 2017-11-13 14:15: From low-cost to high efficiency inorganic photovoltaics (Prof Neil Beattie, Northumbria University) 2017-11-13 15:30: Double Feature: Loss, correlation and energy dynamics of a Bose gas quenched to unitarity & Nonreciprocity through reservoir engineering in cavity optomechanics (Christoph Eigen & Daniel Malz, Cavendish) 2017-11-14 10:30: Visualizing and suppressing interfacial recombination for high efficiency large area pin-perovskite solar cells (Dr. Martin Stolterfoht, University of Potsdam) 2017-11-14 11:10: On the role of excess energy on free charge generation and recombination in polymer:fullerene blends (Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher, University of Potsdam) 2017-11-14 15:00: Volcanoes and other things that go boom... applications of muon tomography (Dr. Jaap Velthuis (Bristol University) ) 2017-11-16 14:15: Exploring Chemical Space with Random Matrix Theory (Dr Alpha Lee, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-16 14:30: nfluence of molecular weight and solvent quality on the microstructure and charge transfer properties of thin films of the n-type polymer P(NDI2OD-T2) (Assoc. Prof. Chris McNeill, Monash University) 2017-11-16 16:00: Damage of polymer-bonded composites (David Williamson, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2017-11-17 16:00: An intracellular organization of extracellular information (Prof. Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh ) 2017-11-17 16:00: Azurite and Cristal: new tools for integration-by-parts reductions (Kasper Larsen (Southampton University)) 2017-11-20 14:15: Electrical and Optical Properties of Hole Spin Storage Devices Based on InGaAs Self-assembled Quantum Dots (Wladislaw Michailow, Walter Schottky Institute and University of Cambridge) 2017-11-21 15:00: Forward heavy quark production and the structure of the proton (Dr Rhorry Gauld (ETH, Zurich)) 2017-11-22 11:15: Thermodynamics of high-Tc superconductors as related to other spectroscopies – the legacy of John Loram (Professor Jeff Tallon Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology) 2017-11-22 14:15: Superconducting spin valves based on spiral magnets (Dr. Nataliya Pugach, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 2017-11-23 14:15: Unconventional Order in some Framework Materials (Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford) 2017-11-24 14:00: Concepts and techniques in Quantum Matter research at the Cavendish (Dr. F. Malte Grosche, QM group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2017-11-24 16:00: Fragmentation Functions of Light Charged Hadrons (Emanuele Nocera (University of Edinburgh)) 2017-11-27 15:30: Ultracold Bose soup: where few-body meets many-body physics (Professor Eric Cornell ( University of Colorado, Boulder)) 2017-11-28 15:00: Results of the COHERENT experiment (Mr. Alexey Konovalov (ITEP/MEPhI, Moscow) ) 2017-11-28 16:00: Yang-Mills measure on Riemann surfaces, large N limits ( Antoine Dahlqvist (DPMMS)) 2017-11-29 10:00: Incorporating Meaning into Fundamental Physics (Brian Josephson, Physics Department, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-29 11:15: Advanced neutron diffraction for functional materials (Pascal Manuel: Isis Neutron and Muon Source) 2017-11-29 14:15: Towards a low temperature terahertz near-field microscope (Dr. Robert Wallis, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK) 2017-11-29 16:00: A physicists perspective on osteoarthritis: From hydration lubrication to gene regulation (Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel ) 2017-12-01 16:00: Disassembling the Clockwork Mechanism (Isabel Garcia Garcia, University of Oxford) 2017-12-04 14:15: Coherent spin manipulation in a CMOS transistor: an introduction to fabrication and applications of hole spin quantum bits (Xavier Jehl, CEA-INAC, Institut Nanosciences et Cryogenie) 2017-12-06 11:15: Emergent quantum coherent state on the border of ferroelectricity (Dr Matt Coak: Institute for Basic Sciences , Center for Correlated Electron Systems Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea) 2017-12-06 14:15: An introduction to GaAs multiplexed electron pump arrays (Mr Teng Yi, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK) 2017-12-11 15:30: Double Feature: Controlling mesoscopic nuclear spin ensembles & Quantum Walks in four dimensions (Dorian Gangloff & Ed Carter , Cavendish) 2018-01-15 14:15: Ultrafast laser-induced demagnetization and generation of THz radiation bursts (Prof. Peter Oppeneer, Upsalla University) 2018-01-16 15:30: Quantum Simulation of Mesoscopic Fermi Systems (Dr. Philipp Preiss, Heidelberg University, Germany ) 2018-01-17 14:15: Electrically controlled nano and micro actuation in a memristive switching device with on-chip gas encapsulation (Mr. Hippolyte P.A.G. Astier, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. ) 2018-01-18 14:15: Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism at the nanoscale (Prof. Alexandre Buzdin, University of Bordeaux) 2018-01-19 16:00: Making sense of sewage: a multi-omics approach (Dr James Chong, University of York) 2018-01-22 14:15: Towards functional molecular devices based on electrically-burnt graphene nano-electrodes (Dr Xinya Bian, University of Oxford) 2018-01-23 15:00: The CMS HGCAL (Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College)) 2018-01-24 11:15: Thermal Conductivity in Quantum Materials Research (Prof. Robert Hill, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo) 2018-01-24 14:00: Investigation on the operations of a multiplexed charge-locking device (Mr. Moda Cao, ) 2018-01-25 14:15: Metastability in open quantum dynamics (Dr Katarzyna Macieszczak, University of Nottingham) 2018-01-26 16:00: Reprogramming the Genetic Code (Prof. Jason Chin, MRC LBM and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2018-01-26 16:00: From the relaxion to the hierarchion, a biased overview (Rick Gupta, IPPP, Durham) 2018-01-29 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Louise Hirst, University of Cambridge) 2018-01-30 15:00: Precision calculations for high-pT
 dark matter searches (Dr. Jonas Lindert (IPPP, Durham University)) 2018-01-30 16:00: Quasinormal modes of black holes ( Claude Warnick (DPMMS)) 2018-02-01 14:15: TCM Dragon's Den (TCM first year students) 2018-02-01 16:00: A history of seeing sound: From medieval phonetics to high-speed photography (Joshua Harvey, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Oxford) 2018-02-02 15:00: Quantum Gas Microscopes - From Textbook Experiments to New Frontiers (Dr. Christian Gross, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany) 2018-02-02 16:00: Recent four- and five-loop results in QCD (Andreas Vogt, Liverpool University) 2018-02-06 15:00: Calorimetry at a Future Linear Collider (Steven Green, Cambridge) 2018-02-06 16:00: Localization and chiral splitting in scattering amplitudes ( Kai Roehrig (DAMTP)) 2018-02-07 11:15: Magnetic van der Waals Materials: Potentials and Applications (Professor Je-Geun Park: Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul ) 2018-02-07 14:00: Observation of photon antibunching from a potential SAW-driven single-photon source (Tzu-Kan Hsiao, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) 2018-02-08 14:15: Using molecular orbital arguments to explain acene-based chromophore spectra (Dr Tim Hele, University of Cambridge) 2018-02-08 16:00: The quasi-stationary nature of ‘steady-state’ cyclic deformation (Hael Mughrabi, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) 2018-02-09 16:00: The race to solve the solar metallicity problem with neutrinos and discover dark matter (Jonathan Davis, King's College London) 2018-02-13 15:00: GENIE plan for global tunes for future Long baseline experiments (Dr. Marco Roda, University of Liverpool) 2018-02-14 14:00: 2D Transport Measurements in Undoped Electron Systems (Ben Ramsay, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) 2018-02-15 14:15: Topological Materials with liquid electrons (Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute) 2018-02-15 16:00: Undersampling in physical imaging inverse problems (Bogdan Roman, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, The University of Cambridge) 2018-02-16 15:00: Giant response of weakly driven systems (Prof. Achim Rosch, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany) 2018-02-16 16:00: Synthetic Cellularity via Protocell Design of Soft Matter Interfaces (Prof. Stephen Mann Centre for Protolife Research and Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK) 2018-02-16 16:00: Exploring the tension between nature and the Standard Model: the muon anomalous magnetic moment (Marina Marinkovic, Trinity College Dublin) 2018-02-20 15:00: Deep & Heavy: Using machine learning for boosted resonance tagging and beyond (Dr. Gregor Kasieczka (Hamburg University)) 2018-02-20 16:00: TBA (Eric D'Hoker UCLA) 2018-02-21 11:15: Crystal growth, structure and magnetic frustration in rare earth pyrochlore oxides (Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, University of Warwick) 2018-02-22 14:15: Ergodicity, dissipation, and large-deviation theory in non-equilibrium systems (Dr Robert Jack, University of Cambridge) 2018-02-22 16:00: Imaging surfaces with atoms (Matthew Bergin, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboraotry) 2018-02-23 16:00: Energy-parity from a bicomplex algebra (Peter Millington, University of Nottingham) 2018-02-27 15:00: Developments in Radiotherapy (Stacey Holloway (UCL)) 2018-02-27 16:00: Planck Stars: theory and observations ( Francesca Vidotto (Bilbao)) 2018-03-01 14:15: Delocalised atoms and electrons in quasi-periodic lattices, their edge modes and interactions with heavy impurities (Dr Manuel Valiente, Heriot-Watt University) 2018-03-01 16:00: Computer vision techniques for measuring deformation (Nick Taylor, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2018-03-02 16:00: Hawking-like radiation and “temperature” in gravitational scattering beyond the Planck scale (Dimitri Colferai, INFN, Florence) 2018-03-02 16:00: Talk title: Microfluidic devices for blood analysis (Debjani Paul, Department for Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA) 2018-03-06 15:00: Measurements of Neutrino Oscillations by MINOS and MINOS+ (Dr. Andrew Blake, Lancaster University ) 2018-03-06 16:00: Sine-Gordon on a Wormhole (Piotr Bizon (Krakow)) 2018-03-07 11:15: Inelastic neutron scattering and µSR investigations of an anisotropic hybridization gap in the Kondo insulators: CeT2Al10 (T=Fe, Ru and Os) (Dr. Adroja Devashibhai, ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2018-03-07 14:00: Surface acoustic wave modulation of a coherently driven quantum dot in a pillar microcavity (Mr Bruno Villa, University of Cambridge) 2018-03-08 14:15: Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization (Ivan Kokanović: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia ) 2018-03-08 14:15: Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization (Dr Ivan Kokanovic, University of Zagreb) 2018-03-08 16:00: A continuum theory for the fractures in brittle and ductile solids (Luca Cimbaro, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London) 2018-03-09 15:00: Measuring interacting electrons in low dimensional systems: spin-charge separation and 'replicas & tbd (Prof. Chris Ford & Prof. Charles Smith SP Group, Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge) 2018-03-09 16:00: Quantitative Super-Resolution Imaging of Biological Samples and DNA Nanostructures (Prof. Christian Soeller, Physics Department, University of Exeter) 2018-03-09 16:00: B-physics anomalies: Model building attempts (Admir Greljo, Mainz) 2018-03-13 15:00: ProtoDUNE: prototyping the ultimate medium–high energy (MeV – GeV) neutrino detector (Dr. Roberto Acciarri, CERN) 2018-03-13 16:00: Skyrmions, Quantum Graphs and Carbon-12 ( Jonathan Rawlinson (DAMTP)) 2018-03-14 14:00: Probing Magnetocaloric Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulator (Shu-Wei Wang, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) 2018-03-15 14:15: Quantum modelling of the interiors of rocky and icy planets (Dr Andreas Hermann, The University of Edinburgh) 2018-03-16 15:00: Tunable Functional Magnetic Skyrmions at Room Temperature (Prof. Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 2018-03-16 16:00: Understanding/engineering cell and community metabolism (Prof. Orkun Soyer, Life Sciences, University of Warwick) 2018-03-16 16:00: Dielectric haloscopes: a new way to search for axion dark matter (Alex Millar, Munich) 2018-03-19 15:30: Light-matter interaction in atomically thin semiconductors: darkness, brightness, spins and valleys (Dr. Bernhard Urbaszek, CNRS – Toulouse University, France) 2018-03-20 10:00: Quasiperiodic lattices as tunable quantum reservoirs: exploring the Markovian to non-Markovian crossover (Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco, University of Turku, Finland) 2018-04-03 16:00: IEEE Distinguished Lecture: Spin Conversion Phenomena in Spintronics (Prof. Yoshichika Otani, University of Tokyo, Japan) 2018-04-13 14:15: What is really extraordinary in superconducting cuprates? (Professor Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Applied Physics Department, Yale University) 2018-04-19 14:15: Multi-scale dynamic disorder in halide perovskite solar cells (Prof. Aron Walsh, Imperial College London) 2018-04-20 14:15: Semimetals Unlimited: Unbounded electrical and thermal transport properties in three-dimensional nodal semimetals (Dr Brian Skinner, MIT) 2018-04-23 11:00: Interaction of Low Energy Electrons with Matter (Wolfgang Werner) 2018-04-26 14:15: Quantum Thermalization Dynamics (Prof. Dr. Frank Pollmann, Technische Universität München) 2018-04-27 16:00: Phoretic Transport: a challenge for microscopic simulations (Prof. Daan Frenkel, Chemistry Department, Universtiy of Cambridge) 2018-04-27 16:00: Monte Carlo Integration and Generation with Neural Nets (Matthew Klimek (Cornell University)) 2018-05-01 15:00: Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision New Physics Search with IceCube (Teppei Katori, Queen Mary University of London) 2018-05-01 16:00:  Quantum geometry from the quantisation of gravitational boundary modes on a null surface (Wolfgang Wieland (Perimeter)) 2018-05-01 16:30: On the Topic of Jets (Jesse Thaler (MIT)) 2018-05-02 11:00: Magnetic-field Induced Pair Density Wave State in the Cuprate Vortex Halo (Dr. Stephen Edkins, Stanford) 2018-05-02 14:00: THz Near-Field Nanoscopy: Improving Stability (Nikita Almond) 2018-05-03 14:15: Magnetism and topology in strongly correlated metals (Prof. Qimiao Si, Rice University) 2018-05-04 16:00: Linking mechanochemistry with protein folding with single bond resolution (Prof. Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Department of Physics and and Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London ) 2018-05-04 16:00: Extracting and constraining scalar-only couplings in generic BSM theories (Mark Goodsell) 2018-05-08 15:00: The rich structure of the Underlying Event: what we learnt from the Large Hadron Collider Run I and II? (Dr Paolo Bartalini, CERN and CCNU (China)) 2018-05-08 16:00: Superconformal quantum mechanics and integrability (Nick Dorey (DAMTP)) 2018-05-09 14:00: 2D device engineering of van der Waals heterostructures using dry transfer techniques (Dr. Luke W. Smith, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2018-05-10 16:00: An exploration of grain growth & deformation in zirconium (Ben Britton, Department of Materials, Imperial College, London) 2018-05-11 16:00: Cell morphogenesis across scales, from molecular processes to cell surface mechanics (Prof. Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.) 2018-05-11 16:00: Shedding light on new physics with Effective Field Theories (Iliaria Brivio (Copenhagen)) 2018-05-14 14:15: Fractons (Prof. Rahul Nandkishore, Boulder) 2018-05-15 15:00: The MMHT view of the proton (Dr. Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)) 2018-05-16 14:00: Mapping a non-linear Luttinger Liquid using 1D-2D magnetotunelling spectroscopy (Pedro Vianez, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge 
) 2018-05-17 16:00: Understanding and manipulating monolayers of 1D and 2D conjugated polymers (Hugo Bronstein, Department of Chemistry, The University of Cambridge) 2018-05-21 14:15: Performance optimization of 2.0-2.6 mm metamorphic InGaAs photodetectors (Xingyou Chen, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) 2018-05-21 16:00: A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES (Prof. Nigel Hussey, Director of the Nijmegen High Magnetic Field Laboratory) 2018-05-22 15:00: Pixels detectors in particle physics and beyond (Enrico Junior Schioppa) 2018-05-23 14:00: A Semiconductor Photon Sorter ( Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2018-05-24 14:15: Computationally Driven Design of New and Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides (Dr David Scanlon, University College London) 2018-05-24 16:00: Chiral modification of surfaces (David Madden, The BP Institute, Cambridge) 2018-05-25 16:00: Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings (Marek Lewicki (King's College London)) 2018-05-29 12:00: Fighting Plagues in Southwest China: A case study in the history of science (Dr Mary Brazelton, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science) 2018-05-29 15:00: The XYZ-files: Exotic states in the heavy quarkonium spectrum (Pablo Ortega, University of Salamanca ) 2018-05-30 11:00: Wave propagation in complex media: Branching, chimeras and machine learning predictions (Professor G. P. Tsironis - Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece) 2018-05-30 11:00: An overview of protein phase behavior (Prof Neer Asherie, Yeshiva University, New York, USA) 2018-05-30 14:00: Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture "Measurement and Control of the Phase of an Electron Wave" (Dr Michihisa Yamamoto, Associate Professor, Quantum-Phase Electronics Centre, The University of Yokyo) 2018-05-30 16:00: A physicist's spin on data science (Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis) 2018-06-01 16:00: Precise QCD predictions for Higgs boson pair production (Javier Mazzitelli (Zurich University)) 2018-06-04 14:15: Electron Hydrodynamics in Graphene: Fundamentals and Application (Denis Bandurin, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom) 2018-06-04 15:30: Cavity-mediated interaction in a quantum gas - From supersolids to spin textures (Dr. Tobias Donner, ETH Zurich Switzerland ) 2018-06-06 14:00: A quantum light-emitting diode for the standard telecom window around 1,550 nm (Ginny Shooter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) 2018-06-07 14:15: Effective Edge State Dynamics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford) 2018-06-08 16:00: Half-Composite Higgs: a UV completion to the SM? (Alessandro Agugliaro (University of Florence)) 2018-06-11 15:30: Anomalous momentum diffusion of strongly interacting bosons in optical lattices (Dr. Fabrice Gerbier, Ecole Normale Supeerieure Paris, France) 2018-06-12 15:00: On determinations of the strong coupling constant from hadronic data (Dr. Zahari Kassabov (University of Cambridge)) 2018-06-13 14:00: Development of SAW-driven photon detectors and sources in an undoped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structure (Antonio Rubino, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) 2018-06-14 14:15: Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models (Dr Antonio Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) 2018-06-15 16:00: Flavored Axion Models (Robert Ziegler) 2018-06-15 16:00: Hidden problems in the global wind industry (Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge) 2018-06-19 15:30: Interaction instability of localization in quasiperiodic systems (Prof. Marko Žnidarič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2018-06-22 16:00: FINDING BETTER MATERIALS FASTER: THE EXAMPLE OF MAGNETOCALORICS (Prof. Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara) 2018-06-26 14:30: The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies (Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge) 2018-06-28 14:15: Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation (Bingqing Cheng, EPFL) 2018-07-04 11:00: High temperature superconductors from fundamental science to hybrid electric aircraft (Prof. Jeff Tallon, Victoria University of Wellington) 2018-07-04 11:00: Quantum transport in strongly interacting Fermi gases (Prof. Martin Zwierlein Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA) 2018-07-16 14:00: Seminars by the candidates for the lectureship in High Energy Physics (fixed term) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-07-18 09:00: Seminars by the candidates for the lectureship in High Energy Physics (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-07-20 14:15: New tools to simulate strongly correlated systems (Dr Norman Tubman, UC Berkeley) 2018-07-26 14:15: An overview of topological crystalline phases, defect physics and novel Floquet systems (Dr Robert-Jan Slager, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems ) 2018-08-17 15:30: Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic materials (Dr. Davide Bossini, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany) 2018-09-06 15:30: Interfacing Spins with Photons for Quantum Simulation and Quantum Control (Prof. Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University ) 2018-09-12 11:30: Why do we have three families of quarks and leptons? ---- Supersymmetric E_7 nonlinear sigma model (Tsutomu Yanagida, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo) 2018-09-25 16:00: Computational and experimental force multipliers for the discovery of new thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials (Prof Eric Toberer: Physics Dept., Colorado School of Mines) 2018-09-26 09:00: Seminars by the candidates for the Quantum Devices & Measurements Lectureship (Candidates for the Quantum Devices & Measurements Lectureship) 2018-09-28 11:15: Topological Kondo semimetals (Prof. Huiqiu Yuan: Center for correlated Matter and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University) 2018-10-02 16:00: Chiral anomaly and its implications on primordial magnetic fields and baryogenesis (Kohei Kamada -- IBS, Daejeon) 2018-10-03 11:30: Lieb's "Density Functionals for Coulomb Systems" (Nick Woods (University of Cambridge)) 2018-10-03 11:30: The role of spin-orbit coupling in superconducting In5Bi3 (Bartomeu Monserrat (University of Cambridge)) 2018-10-04 15:30: Spotting the elusive Majorana under the microscope (Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University) 2018-10-05 16:00: The extraordinary case of the sigma or f0(500) meson and the lightest scalar mesons (José Ramon Pelaez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)) 2018-10-08 15:30: Experiments with ultracold Li and cold Cs atoms (Dr Lucia Hackermüller, University of Nottingham) 2018-10-09 15:00: Vector Boson scattering at the LHC (Theory) (Mathieu Pellen (Cambridge)) 2018-10-10 11:30: Wibbles and wobbles of the Coulomb crystal (Gareth Conduit (TCM)) 2018-10-10 11:30: BEEF: Bayesian Error Estimate Functionals (Matthew Evans (University of Cambridge)) 2018-10-12 16:00: Efficiency in the interaction of light and matter: from nano-quantum optics to nanobiophotonics (Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light) 2018-10-15 16:00: Third Family Hypercharge Model: connecting B physics with the fermion mass hierarchy (Joseph Davighi (DAMTP)) 2018-10-16 15:00: Image analysis for cancer treatment (Dr. Mireia Crispin (CRUK & Cavendish Laboratory)) 2018-10-17 11:30: Superconducting DFT (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-17 11:30: Electronic Structure of Niobium Pentoxide-derived Crystallographic Shear Phases (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-17 11:30: Electronic Structure of Niobium Pentoxide-derived Crystallographic Shear Phases (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-18 14:15: Predicting the atomic structure of interfaces and extended defects using Ab Initio Random Structure Searching (Dr Georg Schusteritsch, University of Cambridge ) 2018-10-19 14:30: Electrical contacts between three-dimensional metals and two-dimensional semiconductors (Prof. Manish Chhowalla, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-19 16:00: Nanotools and materials assembled from DNA (Prof. Tim Liedl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) 2018-10-19 16:00: Heavy physics contributions to neutrinoless double beta decay from QCD (Nicolas Garron (Liverpool University)) 2018-10-22 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching) 2018-10-23 14:45: Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals: the interplay between morphology and optical properties (Prof Dr Alexander Urban) 2018-10-23 15:00: Hunting ultra high energy neutrinos with the ANITA experiment (Linda Cremonesi (UCL)) 2018-10-24 11:30: Analyzing the electronic structure of molecules using Continuous Symmetry Measures (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-24 11:30: Introducing Caesar: an attempt to calculate the properties of crystals at finite temperatures using self-consistent anharmonic phonons without running out of computing time (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-24 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching) 2018-10-25 14:15: Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites (Prof. Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London) 2018-10-25 16:00: Full-field optical metrology (Jonathan Huntley, Department of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Loughborough) 2018-10-26 16:00: Quantum gravity as an EFT, black hole thermodynamics and an excursion into the UV (Basem El-Menoufi (University of Sussex)) 2018-10-26 16:00: Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching) 2018-10-30 15:00: A particle physicist's experience at the NASA Frontier Development Lab (Will Fawcett (Cambridge)) 2018-10-31 14:00: Active THz Polarization Modulators (Stephen Kindness, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-01 10:00: New Phenomena in Driven Quantum Systems (Shankari Rajagopal, University of California, Santa Barbara) 2018-11-01 14:15: Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications (Dr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria) 2018-11-02 14:30: Probing Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Energy Materials with Extreme Spatio-Temporal Resolution ( Dr Akshay Rao, EPSRC Early Career Fellow, Winton Advanced Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory) 2018-11-02 16:00: Integration-by-parts reductions from algebraic geometry (Kasper Larsen (University of Southampton)) 2018-11-02 16:00: The world is not flat: Interfacing 3D organic electronic devices with 3D biological models (Roisin M. Owens - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology - University of Cambridge) 2018-11-05 14:30: Road to ultra-low switching energy Memories for artificial neurons (Professor Thirumalai Venkatesan) 2018-11-06 15:00: Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs Boson with ATLAS (Ben Carlson (Pittsburgh)) 2018-11-07 11:30: Chemical-physics properties, complexity and chirality measures for the amino acids of the isoleucine series from Antarctic meteorites (Fabiana Da Pieve) 2018-11-07 11:30: Crystal structure prediction for low cost battery anodes (Angela Harper (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-07 14:00: Selective Contact and Patterning of Topological Surface States by Interfacing with Trivial and Ferromagnetic Insulators (Ms. Ankita S Anirban, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-08 14:15: Dynamical quantum phase transitions (Dr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden) 2018-11-08 16:00: Analytical descriptions of atomic-scale surface dynamics (Peter Townsend, SMF Surface Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2018-11-09 16:00: Particle production during Axion Inflation (Valerie Domcke (DESY Hamburg)) 2018-11-09 16:00: Multilayer networks: Structure and Function (Ginestra Bianconi - Department of Applied Mathematics - Queen Mary University of London) 2018-11-13 15:00: Status and Prospects for Vub measurements (William Sutcliffe (Karhslruhe)) 2018-11-15 14:15: Theory of photon- and electron-stimulated surface chemistry (Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick) 2018-11-15 16:00: Some applications of DFT in surface dynamics (Marco Sacchi, Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey) 2018-11-16 11:30: Emergence of topological phases in lithium under pressure (Stephanie Mack, University of California, Berkeley) 2018-11-16 14:30: Helium Spin-Echo: A Flexible Tool for Studying Nanoscale Processes at Surfaces (Dr Andrew Jardine, University of Cambridge ) 2018-11-16 16:00: Nonlinear plasma waves as sources of axion-like particles (Adam Noble (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)) 2018-11-16 16:00: A soft matter perspective on protein self-assembly (Jennifer McManus - Deparment of Chemistry - Maynooth University) 2018-11-20 14:30: Strong induced chiroptical effects in light emitting polymer blends (Dr Jess Wade, Imperial College London) 2018-11-20 15:00: nuCSI: Neutrinos Leave No Shadows (Xianguo Lu (Oxford)) 2018-11-21 11:15: Ballistic electrons on the hexagonal Fermi surface of PdCoO2 (Maja Bachmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden) 2018-11-21 14:00: Development of a lateral pn junction (Mr. Shak Fernandes, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge ) 2018-11-22 14:15: Dissipative transition in synthetic matter (Prof. Rosario Fazio, ICTP) 2018-11-22 16:00: Borates as electrodes for lithium and magnesium-ion batteries (Siân Dutton, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2018-11-23 16:00: Hunting light dark sectors at colliders and fixed target experiments (Luc Darmé (NCBJ, Warsaw)) 2018-11-26 15:30: Recent results in 87Rb box trap (Dr Jinyi Zhang , University of Cambridge ) 2018-11-26 15:30: Linear-and-quadratic reservoir engineering of non-Gaussian states in cavity optomechanics (Dr Matteo Brunelli , University of Cambridge ) 2018-11-27 14:00: Quantum gas microscopy of the doped Fermi-Hubbard model (Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching, Germany) 2018-11-27 15:00: 3-body B decays (Keri Vos (Siegen University)) 2018-11-29 14:15: Quantum many-body scars (Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds) 2018-11-30 14:30: Topology, symmetry, and anomalies: investigating domain wall physics in quantum Hall nematic states (Associate Professor, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford ) 2018-11-30 16:00: High-Energy Limit of Mass-Suppressed Amplitudes in Gauge Theories (Alexander Penin (University of Alberta)) 2018-12-05 14:00: Quantum fluctuations in a two-component dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate (Mr. Shanglong Ning, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2018-12-21 11:15: High pressure Fermiology studies of YBCO (Audrey Grockowiak, NHMFL Tallahassee) 2019-01-15 15:00: Jets for the LHC and beyond (Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Genova)) 2019-01-17 14:15: Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride (Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata") 2019-01-17 16:00: Factorisation and Subtraction beyond NLO (Lorenzo Magnea (Torino)) 2019-01-18 14:30: Playing with perovskites - tuning physics through chemical control (Dr. Helen Walker. Merlin Instrument Scientist, STFC · Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ) 2019-01-18 16:00: Engineering Bioinspired Molecular Networks and Synthetic Cells (Prof. Tom De Greef, TU Eindhoven) 2019-01-21 15:30: Nanosatellites for Quantum Science and Profit (Dr Daniel Oi, University of Strathclyde) 2019-01-22 15:00: Reading charcoal: Using HEP detectors to decipher papirii (Jens Dopke (RAL)) 2019-01-22 16:00: Optimal collective coordinate in low-energy nuclear reactions (Kai Wen (Surrey)) 2019-01-23 14:00: "Molecular Beam Epitaxy in the Semiconductor Physics Group - and how to raise a sample request" (Dr Harvey Beere, University of Cambridge, UK) 2019-01-24 14:15: 3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops (Prof. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma) 2019-01-24 16:00: Numerical Multi-loop Computations: HJ and HH production at the LHC (Stephen Jones (CERN)) 2019-01-29 15:00: The precision siege of nature: theory, accelerators, and detectors (Andre David Tinoco Mendes (CERN)) 2019-01-29 16:00: Twists, categorification, and hyperKähler manifolds (Ed Walton (DAMTP)) 2019-01-30 11:15: Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures (Veronika Sunko, University of St Andrews and MPI-CPfS Dresden) 2019-01-30 12:00: A data-derived approach to initialise densities in DFT (Andrew Fowler) 2019-01-30 14:00: Long-lived non-equilibrium magnetoresistance in spin-orbit coupled systems (James Dann, Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge) 2019-01-31 14:15: 50 years on. Recollections of a former young theoretical physicist (Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge) 2019-01-31 16:00: Integration-by-parts identities and multi-loop QCD amplitudes (Herschel Chawdhry (Cambridge) ) 2019-02-01 15:00: Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits ( Prof. Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich) 2019-02-01 16:00: Modelling mechanics of the cell nucleus (Dr Rhoda J Hawkins) 2019-02-05 15:00: Illuminating Antimatter: the ALPHA antihydrogen experiment at CERN (Prof. Jeffrey Hangst (Aarhus University)) 2019-02-05 16:00: Digital quantum geometries (Anna Pachol (QMUL)) 2019-02-06 12:00: Colour prediction of organic molecules in solution: pH indicators (Joseph Prentice) 2019-02-06 14:00: Light Management Layers Based on Optical Nanostructures: Advancing Ultra-Thin Photovoltaics (Rose Scowen, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-07 14:15: Minimal models for chaotic quantum dynamics in spatially extended many-body systems (Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford) 2019-02-07 16:00: Experiments with high explosives (Jiri Pachman, Institute of Energetic Materials, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic) 2019-02-07 16:00: CTEQ-TEA: Precise analysis of hadron structure in the LHC era (Pavel Nadolsky (SMU)) 2019-02-08 16:00: Fabrication, assembly and propulsion of artificial microswimmers and nanorobotic systems (Prof. Peer Fischer, Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems) 2019-02-12 15:00: SBND -- a state of the art Liquid Argon TPC for Neutrino Physics (Nicola McConkey (University of Manchester)) 2019-02-12 16:00: Strings, high energy and curved spacetimes (Giuseppi D'Appollonio (DAMTP and Cagliari)) 2019-02-13 12:00: Exact exchange-correlation kernels for optical spectra (Mike Entwistle, University of York) 2019-02-14 14:15: Non-linear response of two dimensional crystals and layered materials (Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS) 2019-02-14 16:00: Imaging with atoms (Paul Dastoor, Department of Physics, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) 2019-02-14 16:00: Low Energy? Think Positive! (Scott Melville (Cambridge)) 2019-02-15 14:30: Quantum logic with trapped ions: precise, fast, networked (Prof. David Lucas, University of Oxford) 2019-02-19 15:00: New frontiers in LHC discovery strategies (Jesse Liu (University of Oxford)) 2019-02-19 16:00: Skyrmions and rho mesons, a successful relationship for light nuclei (Carlos Naya (INFN, Lecce)) 2019-02-21 14:15: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension (Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-21 16:00: The Higgs Bottom Line of Run II (Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg)) 2019-02-26 14:30: Deep Blue Organic TADF Emitters for Electroluminescent Devices (Prof Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews)) 2019-02-26 15:00: Fits to top data in the SMEFT (Emma Slade (University of Oxford)) 2019-02-26 16:00: Magnetic Skyrmions at critical coupling (Calum Ross (Heriot-Watt)) 2019-02-28 14:15: Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling (Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford) 2019-02-28 14:30: Flexible a-IGZO TFT Technology: Recent Developments & Applications (Dr Auke Kronemeijer (Holst Centre, TNO)) 2019-02-28 16:00: Using scanning probes to fabricate and characterise nanoscale donor devices in silicon (Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London) 2019-02-28 16:00: Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons (Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg)) 2019-03-01 14:30: Simulating higher spatial dimensions with atoms and photons (Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham) 2019-03-04 15:30: Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays (Prof. Jeremy Baumberg NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2019-03-05 15:00: ATLAS Trigger Level Analysis (William Kalderon (Lund)) 2019-03-06 11:00: CMB lensing reconstruction with AdvACT and beyond: new approaches for the ultra-high-precision era (Blake Sherwin) 2019-03-06 11:15: Chemical Control of Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors (Dr. Jonathan Alaria, University of Liverpool) 2019-03-07 15:30: Looking forward to new physics with FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC (Sebastian Trojanowski (NCNR Warsaw & CFP, Sheffield)) 2019-03-07 16:00: Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling (Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory) 2019-03-08 16:00: Sensing enhanced by DNA nanotech (Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München) 2019-03-12 14:30: Highly Luminescent Nanocrystals of Caesium and Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskites: From Discovery to Applications (Prof Dr Maksym Kovalenko) 2019-03-12 16:00: Phi^4 kinks on a wormhole spacetime (Alice Waterhouse (DAMTP)) 2019-03-13 11:00: Title: Next Steps for 21 cm Cosmology (Jonathan Pober (Brown)) 2019-03-14 16:00: Sterile Neutrinos in Reactor and Accelerator Experiments (Alvaro Hernandez Cabezudo (KIT)) 2019-03-14 16:00: Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C (Arthur Henderson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2019-03-15 14:30: Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms (Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry) 2019-03-19 14:30: Light-Conversion Mechanisms in Metal Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics (Prof Laura Herz (University of Oxford)) 2019-03-22 16:00: The All-in-one Relaxion (Rick Gupta (Durham)) 2019-03-29 14:00: Mini Colloquium on Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetic Superconductors and Related Materials - Chair and Discussion Lead: Malte Grosche (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-04-03 11:00: The SKA Science Data Processor Architecture (Verity Allen) 2019-04-04 14:30: Perovskite PV Research at ANU: From Drift-Diffusion Models to High Efficiency Tandems (A/ Professor Tom White (Australian National University)) 2019-04-05 10:30: Control of Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Materials (Professor Vinod Menon (City University of New York)) 2019-04-10 11:00: Phasing-up ALMA (Richard Hills (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2019-04-17 14:00: Topological and Charge-Ordered Phases in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides (Professor Phil King, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, UK) 2019-04-17 16:30: Exotic Hadrons with Heavy Quarks (Marek Karliner, University of Tel Aviv) 2019-04-23 16:00: The new g-2 experiment at Fermilab (Rebecca Chislett (UCL)) 2019-04-24 11:00: Measuring Cosmological 21-cm signal using Radio Interferometers (Samir Choudhuri (NCRA, Pune, India)) 2019-04-24 14:00: Sounds good: useful phonons (Professor Tony Kent, The university of Nottingham) 2019-04-25 14:15: Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via "Berryogenesis" in driven electronic systems (Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) 2019-04-25 16:00: The vector leptoquark solution to B-anomalies: from EFT to UV (Claudia Cornella (UZH Zurich)) 2019-04-26 14:30: Crystal and Magnetic Structures of a Family of Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnets (Dr Lucy Clark, University of Liverpool) 2019-04-26 14:30: Crystal and Magnetic Structures of a Family of Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnets (Dr Lucy Clark, University of Liverpool) 2019-04-30 16:00: Geometry and symmetries of homogeneous kinematical spacetimes. (José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh)) 2019-04-30 16:00: Analysis recasting for fun and profit (Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow)) 2019-05-02 14:15: Non-Hermitian symmetry-protected topological band theory (Simon Lieu, Imperial College London ) 2019-05-02 16:00: From the deuteron to the beauteron (Tim Burns (Swansea)) 2019-05-02 16:00: Studying charge density wave systems and THz collective excitations with a meV atomic beam (Toni Tamtögl, Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria) 2019-05-03 15:00: Excitons in Flatland: Exploring and Manipulating Many-body Effects on the Optical Excitations in Quasi-2D Materials (Diana Y. Qiu; University of California at Berkeley) 2019-05-03 15:30: Excitons and Symmetry: Studying Structural Effects on Complex Excited-State Phenomena in 2D and Molecular Crystals (Sivan Refaely-Abramson; Weizmann Institute of Science) 2019-05-07 16:00: Worldline Instantons for Magnetic Monopoles in Heavy-Ion Collisions (David Ho (Imperial College London)) 2019-05-07 16:00: Search for lepton flavour universality violation in B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− decays at LHCb (Paula Alvarez Cartelle (Imperial College)) 2019-05-08 11:00: The impact of 1/f noise on cosmological parameter constraints using SKA intensity mapping (Tianyu Chen (Jodrell Bank)) 2019-05-08 14:00: Supercurrent and Josephson field-effect transistors go metal (Dr. Francesco Giazotto, NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) 2019-05-09 14:15: Screening materials from high-throughput ab initio calculations (Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain) 2019-05-09 16:00: Studying molecule-surface interactions using rotational orientation control of ground-state molecular beams (Gil Alexandrowicz, Department of Chemistry, Swansea University) 2019-05-09 16:00: Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from B Mesons (Miguel Escudero (King's College, London)) 2019-05-10 14:30: Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Quantum Materials (Prof Dr Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt) 2019-05-10 14:30: Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Quantum Materials (Prof Dr Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt) 2019-05-10 16:00: Elements of a New Molecular Quantum Technology (Tim Albrecht, University of Birmingham) 2019-05-13 14:15: Flexoelectricity from first principles (Prof. Cyrus E. Dreyer, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute) 2019-05-14 16:00: Charming mixing and CP violation measurements at LHCb (Sascha Stahl (CERN)) 2019-05-15 11:00: Observational consequences of planet migration (Pooneh Nazari) 2019-05-15 11:30: Quantum Machine Learning in Chemical Space (Felix Faber, University of Basel ) 2019-05-15 14:00: Ultrafast Photoexcited Carrier Dynamics in Low Dimensional Systems by Time Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy (Dr. Srabani Kar, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-16 14:15: Computational modelling of itinerant electrons and fluctuating local moments in magnetic materials - permanent magnets, caloric effects and spintronics (Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick) 2019-05-16 16:00: Characterising explosive blast loading for structural engineering, protection and blast injury sciences (Jack Denny, Department of Engineering, University of Southampton) 2019-05-16 16:00: Fixed-order predictions for top-quark pair production and decay at the LHC (René Poncelet) 2019-05-17 11:00: Terahertz lights up the nanoscale: Paving the way for nanotechnology via terahertz spectroscopy. (Jessica Boland; The University of Manchester) 2019-05-17 16:00: Bringing electrostatics to light: Electrometry probes a new dimension at the molecular scale (Madhavi Krishnan, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford) 2019-05-21 16:00: Not a jet all the way: discovery prospects using substructure (Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand)) 2019-05-21 16:00: Twistor fishnets (Tim Adamo (Imperial College London)) 2019-05-22 14:00: Chemical Modifications and Passivation Approaches in Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells (Dr. Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi, Wolfson College Research Fellow, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-23 14:15: Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems (Prof. Rex Godby, University of York) 2019-05-23 16:00: Colloids in confinement: From two-dimensional melting to membrane transport (Alice Thorneywork, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2019-05-23 16:00: The Higgs width in the SMEFT (Tyler Corbett (NBI Copenhagen)) 2019-05-28 16:00: Learning from the Lund plane (Frederic Dreyer (University of Oxford)) 2019-05-30 14:15: Dissipative "time crystals" (Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University) 2019-05-30 16:00: Numerical stability in hard and infrared regions in OpenLoops2 (Jean-Nicolas Lang (Zurich)) 2019-05-31 14:30: Exciton Superfluid and Ferromagnetic Superconductivity in Graphene (Prof Philip Kim, Harvard University ) 2019-06-03 14:15: Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning (Dr. Bingqing Cheng, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge) 2019-06-04 16:00: Insights into the logarithmic accuracy of parton showers (Gavin Salam (University of Oxford)) 2019-06-05 14:00: A Liquid Helium Waveguided Terahertz and Optical Microphotoluminescence Setup (Wladislaw Michailow, University of Cambridge) 2019-06-06 14:15: Nonequilibrium Materials Engineering (Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg) 2019-06-06 16:00: Towards 1% precision at colliders: infrared subtraction in perturbative QCD (Fabrizio Caola (Oxford)) 2019-06-11 16:00: Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit (Leigh Whitehead (University of Cambridge)) 2019-06-12 11:00: Accelerated Bayesian inference using deep learning (Adam Moss (Nottingham)) 2019-06-12 14:00: Planar Hall effect from the surface of topological insulators (Dr. Satoshi Sasaki, University of Leeds, UK) 2019-06-13 14:15: Vestigial order in quantum materials (Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 2019-06-13 16:00: Flavor and high-pT implications of B-physics anomalies (David Marzocca (SISSA)) 2019-06-14 16:00: Microcavities, nanolasers and OLEDs to explore the biomedical world (Prof. Malte Gather, University of St Andrews) 2019-06-18 11:00: The enigmatic pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors (Louis Taillefer - Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) 2019-06-19 14:00: Writing, reading and transferring spins via electrical charges: moving towards ultra-fast and green computing (Dr. Chiara Ciccarelli, University of Cambridge, UK) 2019-07-02 14:30: Soft Ways to Shape Semiconductors with Tough Properties (Sebastian Polarz at the University of Konstanz) 2019-07-05 14:30: Time Scales in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar aAbsorbers (Michael F Toney) 2019-07-09 16:00: Anomaly-free Froggatt-Nielsen models of flavor (Michele Tammaro (University of Cincinnati)) 2019-07-22 09:00: Seminars by the candidates for the Harding Lectureships (Candidates for the Harding Lectureships) 2019-07-26 09:15: Seminars by the candidates for the Harding Lectureships (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-07-31 11:00: Inflation : an analytical study of primordial power-spectra (Denis Werth) 2019-08-07 11:00: Observing CMB foregrounds with QUIJOTE to unveil primordial B-modes in the CMB polarisation (Ricardo Genova-Santos) 2019-08-09 14:15: Accelerating Materials Science through High-throughput First Principles Computations and Machine Learning (Prof. Shyue Ping Ong, UCSD) 2019-08-28 11:15: A Square-Lattice Spin Liquid Candidate (Dr Otto Mustonen from Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Sheffield) 2019-09-04 11:30: Recent progress in the first-principles quantum Monte Carlo: New algorithms in the all-electron calculations and a workflow system for QMC optimizations (Kosuke Nakano) 2019-09-05 11:30: Extending the life of quantum information with smart control schemes (Ed Barnes) 2019-09-06 11:00: Building a quantum computer with neutral atoms (Prof. David Weiss, Penn State University) 2019-09-06 14:15: Towards automated self-correction of approximate DFT using first-principles Hubbard U and Hund's J parameters (David O’Regan, School of Physics, CRANN and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2019-09-11 11:30: Machine learning clustering technique applied to X-ray diffraction patterns to distinguish alloy substitutions ( Ryo Maezono , JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan) 2019-09-13 15:30: To catch and reverse a quantum jump mid-flight (Dr. Zlatko K. Minev, Research Scientist, IBM Quantum Computing) 2019-09-16 14:15: Towards the design of molecular materials (Dr Gerit Brandenburg, Heidelberg University and UCL) 2019-09-23 11:00: Anisotropic Dipolar Interactions in Indirect Exciton Bilayers (Paulo V. Santos, ) 2019-09-24 14:00: Conversion between singlet and triplet states in the strong and weak coupling regimes. (Karl Börjesson; University of Gothenburg) 2019-09-25 11:00: Zooming in an galaxy at a redshift of 7 with ALMA (Renske Smit (Kavli Institute of Cosmology)) 2019-10-02 11:00: Photometry and Performance of SPECULOOS-South (Catriona Murray) 2019-10-08 15:00: Beyond the Energy Frontier: the changing eras of LHCb (Prof. Christopher Parkes (University of Manchester)) 2019-10-09 11:30: Amorphous Al2O3 from Atomic Layer Deposition (Angela Harper, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-10 14:15: Photonic topological anomalies (Prof. Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University) 2019-10-10 16:00: On the Mis-use of Dark Matter detectors (Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College, London)) 2019-10-15 16:00: Iterated Kinks (Nick Manton (Cambridge)) 2019-10-15 16:00: ARIADNE: bringing a game changing optical readout to two phase LAr TPCs (Konstantinos Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool)) 2019-10-16 11:00: Solving discontinuous problems with pseudospectral methods (Joanna Piotrowska) 2019-10-16 11:30: First order insulator-metal transition at the LaAlO3 / SrTiO3 interface (Danny Bennett) 2019-10-17 14:15: Spin Transport in 2D Materials and Topological Matter (Prof. Stephan Roche, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) 2019-10-17 16:00: Axion superradiance in rotating neutron stars (Jamie McDonald (TU Munich)) 2019-10-22 16:00: New physics and tau g − 2 using LHC heavy ion collisions (Lydia Beresford (University of Oxford)) 2019-10-23 11:00: Direct imaging and polarisation analysis (Steve Gull) 2019-10-23 11:15: Charge-Density-Wave: Fermi-surface Reconstruction and Competing Orders (Dr. Sven Friedemann) 2019-10-23 11:30: Exchange-diffusion Monte Carlo (Michael Hutcheon) 2019-10-24 14:15: Axial anomalies in Weyl semimetals (Prof. Jens Bardarson, KTH Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden) 2019-10-24 16:00: Proton structure in the precision LHC era (Cameron Voisey (Cambridge)) 2019-10-29 14:00: Combination of transient and steady-state photoluminescence for the characterization of halide perovskite-based layer stacks (Thomas Kirchartz; Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH) 2019-10-29 16:00: TBA (David Stuart (Cambridge)) 2019-10-29 16:00: Parametrising proton structure for LHC Monte Carlo simulations (Andrzej Siodmok (Polish Academy of Sciences)) 2019-10-30 11:00: Modelling Foregrounds and Chromaticity in Global 21cm Experiments (Dominic Anstey) 2019-10-30 11:30: An analytic model of surface waveguide discontinuities using the Wiener-Hopf method (Tobias Schaich) 2019-10-31 14:15: Introducing Topological Quantum Chemistry and Topological Materials Data Base (Dr Maia Vergniory, Donostia International Physics Center) 2019-10-31 16:00: A voyage from bulk via thin film and nanoparticles to surface magnetism (Adrian Ionescu, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2019-10-31 16:00: Vacuum stability and phase transitions: A rich source for fascinating math, physics and phenomenology (Jose Eliel Camargo-Molina (Imperial College London)) 2019-11-01 16:00: The evolutionary dynamics and fitness landscape of clones in our blood (Jamie Blundell, University of Cambridge) 2019-11-05 16:00: On twistor geometry and black hole perturbation theory (Bernardo Araneda (Queen Mary, London)) 2019-11-05 16:00: The puzzle of dark matter: missing pieces at the LHC? (Katharina Behr (DESY)) 2019-11-06 11:30: Approaches to modelling organic/inorganic interfaces, with an example of a Tetracene/Metal halide perovskite interface (Alan Bowman) 2019-11-07 16:00: Recent developments of Herwig7 (Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe)) 2019-11-08 14:00: Building a dark matter wind chime (Jake Taylor, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland ) 2019-11-08 16:00: Principles of bacterial collective behaviour (Knut Drescher, MPI Terrestrial Microbiology) 2019-11-12 16:00: Optimal Transportation and Ricci curvature for Lorentzian manifolds (Stefan Suhr (Bohum)) 2019-11-12 16:00: Not Yet Finding Third Generation Supersymmetry (Calum Macdonald (University of Sheffield)) 2019-11-14 14:15: Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles (Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology) 2019-11-14 16:00: Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons (Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg)) 2019-11-14 16:00: Random explorations of materials space (Chris Pickard, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge) 2019-11-15 16:00: Scaling laws in blood platelets cytoskeleton (Francois Nedelec, University of Cambridge) 2019-11-18 15:00: Simplified models for long-lived particles and reinterpretation of LHC searches (Giovanna Cottin (FONDECYT Chile)) 2019-11-19 16:00: Recent theory developments in simulations for heavy flavour processes at the LHC (Davide Napoletano ) 2019-11-19 16:00: Black hole interiors and modular inclusions ( Ro Jefferson (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm)) 2019-11-20 11:00: BREAKFASTwithALMA: a pilot study for automated archival analysis techniques (Sandra Burkutean) 2019-11-20 11:15: Visualizing Landau Orbits, Quantum Hall Nematics, and Topological Edge Modes (Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University) 2019-11-20 11:30: First-principles Investigation of Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries (ASSBs) (Bora Karasulu, TCM) 2019-11-21 14:15: Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport (Dr. Curt von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham) 2019-11-21 16:00: Analytic two-loop multi-scale scattering amplitudes in QCD (Harald Ita (Freiburg)) 2019-11-21 16:00: Imaging materials structure and bonding using coherent and incoherent electron imaging (Peter Nellist, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford) 2019-11-26 14:45: Properties of Particle Fluxes in Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS (Jie Feng (MIT)) 2019-11-26 16:00: Monopoles and Number Theory (Harry Braden (Edinburgh)) 2019-11-26 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move (Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory) 2019-11-27 11:00: Global Analysis of the TRAPPIST Survey (Cavendish) (Florian Lienhard) 2019-11-27 11:15: The unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12 (Dr Kathrin Götze, Department of Physics, University of Warwick) 2019-11-27 14:00: Heat Transport in Lateral Spin Valve  (Dr. Georgios Stefanou, University of Cambridge, UK) 2019-11-27 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move (Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory) 2019-11-28 09:15: Efficient and intuitive modelling of electromagnetic nanoresonators and complex metasurfaces (Kevin Vynck, LP2N, CNRS, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Univ. Bordeaux, 33400 Talence, France) 2019-11-28 16:00: Ptychography (John Rodenburg, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield) 2019-11-28 16:00: Per aspera ad astra: Impact of high precision standard model predictions for new physics searches (Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)) 2019-12-03 16:00: Di-Higgs at the LHC: A Window on our Universe and BSM New Matter (Mike Nelson (Stockholm University)) 2019-12-05 14:15: Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics (Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London) 2019-12-05 16:00: Scale invariance, hierarchy generation and inflation. (Graham Ross (Oxford)) 2019-12-11 14:30: Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductors for Applications in Opto-electronic (University of California, Santa Barbara) 2019-12-12 11:15: Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electronic State in Twisted Bilayer Graphene (Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University) 2019-12-12 14:50: "Diffuse interface methods and conservative mesh-adaptation: how to combine their potential for highly accurate multiphysic simulations?" (Dr Barbara Re, Zurich University) 2019-12-12 16:00: Leptoquark Pair Production at Future Hadron Colliders (Maeve Madigan (DAMTP)) 2020-01-12 16:00: TBA (Tzany Kokalova Wheldon (Birmingham)) 2020-01-15 11:00: Resolving the Hubble tension with emergent dark radiation in unitary gravity (Will Barker) 2020-01-15 11:30: Optical excitations in layered semiconductors - the case of BiI3 (Ivona Bravić) 2020-01-16 14:15: Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland (Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel) 2020-01-16 16:00: Local anomalies in Z’ models (Joseph Tooby-Smith (Cavendish)) 2020-01-17 14:30: Vibronic coherence in light harvesting systems (Professor Alexandra Olaya-Castro) 2020-01-17 16:00: Predictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics (Bartek Waclaw, University of Edinburgh) 2020-01-21 14:00: Molecular strategies to increase robustness of organic semiconductor thin films for application in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices (Kevin Sivula EPFL) 2020-01-21 16:00: Holographic Uhlmann Holonomy and the Entanglement Wedge Symplectic Form (Josh Kirklin (DAMTP)) 2020-01-21 16:00: Searches for lepton flavour violation in B decays with the LHCb experiment (Alison Tully (EPFL)) 2020-01-22 11:00: The M*-SFR relation of galaxies at high redshifts - Future constraints from JWST. (Emma Curtis Lake) 2020-01-22 11:30: Structure searching and longitudinal-transverse mode coupling in sulfur (Jack Whaley-Baldwin) 2020-01-23 14:15: Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals (Dr Adolfo G. Grushin) 2020-01-23 16:00: Intersection Theory and Feynman Integrals (Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova)) 2020-01-24 16:00: From differential equations to deep learning for image processing (Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, University of Cambridge) 2020-01-28 16:00: Surface charges for gravity in tetrad variables: some surprises explained (Simone Speziale (Marseille)) 2020-01-28 16:00: Anubis (Oleg Brandt (University of Cambridge)) 2020-01-29 11:00: Machine learning the formation of dark matter halos (Luisa Lucie-Smith (UCL)) 2020-01-29 11:00: Machine learning the formation of dark matter halos (Luisa Lucie-Smith (UCL)) 2020-01-29 11:30: Forces in TDDFT with a moving basis set (Jessica Halliday) 2020-01-30 14:15: Moiré superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester) 2020-01-30 16:00: Quasi-PDFs as observables (Luigi del Debbio (Edinburgh)) 2020-01-31 15:00: Majorana edge modes in topological superconductors (Carlo Beenakker) 2020-02-04 16:00: Overview of ATLAS jet measurements (Jennifer Roloff (BNL)) 2020-02-04 16:00: Conformal geodesics, gravitational instantons, and integrability. (Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)) 2020-02-05 11:30: Exploring chemical space for computational drug discovery (Alex Wade, TCM) 2020-02-06 14:15: Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems (Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich) 2020-02-06 16:00: Field emitters at atomic scale: Insights from density functional theory (Chris Edgcombe, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2020-02-06 16:00: Lorentz and permutation invariants of particles (Ward Haddadin (University of Cambridge)) 2020-02-11 16:00: Skyrmions from monopoles and calorons (Josh Cork (Lancaster)) 2020-02-11 16:00: TBC (Giulio Falcioni (University of Edinburgh)) 2020-02-12 11:30: An ab initio approach for exciton-photon interactions in molecular crystals (Antonis Alvertis, TCM) 2020-02-13 14:15: Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics ( Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden ) 2020-02-13 16:00: Modelling energy dissipation at surfaces (Jörg Meyer, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands) 2020-02-13 16:00: Gravitational wave probes of new physics (Pedro Schwaller (Mainz)) 2020-02-14 14:30: Special purpose quantum computers in integrated photonics (Dr. Anthony Laing, University of Bristol) 2020-02-14 16:00: Mitochondria and Cancer: Metabolites and Beyond (Christian Frezza, University of Cambridge) 2020-02-17 14:15: Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies (Venkat Kapil, EPFL) 2020-02-18 16:00: The homology of correspondence spaces and some massless tree amplitude identities (Hadleigh Frost (Oxford)) 2020-02-18 16:00: The CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Upgrade (Samuel Webb (Imperial College London)) 2020-02-19 11:30: Quasi-1D Lithium-ion dynamics in high-rate complex oxide battery electrodes (Can Kocer) 2020-02-20 14:15: Simulating Disordered Supramolecular Materials for Organic Electronics using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory (Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London) 2020-02-20 16:00: Exploiting shape anisotropy for binary magnetic memories (Peter Newton, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2020-02-20 16:00: Can New Physics hide inside the proton? (Shayan Iranipour) 2020-02-21 16:00: Controlling the speed and trajectory of evolution with counterdiabatic driving: applications to human disease and expanding populations (Jacob Scott, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic) 2020-02-25 16:00: Dark matter searches with the ATLAS detector at the LHC (Phillip Gadow (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik)) 2020-02-25 16:00: Clusters in light nuclei matter ( Tzany Kokalova Wheldon (Birmingham)) 2020-02-26 11:30: Thermal transport beyond Fourier, and beyond Boltzmann (Michele Simoncelli, Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) 2020-02-27 14:15: Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core (Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London) 2020-02-27 16:00: Highways and byways in the history of high rate mechanical testing (Stephen Walley, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2020-02-27 16:00: Diboson production at the LHC: Precision phenomenology beyond NNLO QCD (Marius Wiesemann (Munich)) 2020-02-28 14:30: Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms (Prof Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry) 2020-02-28 16:00: Multiscale approaches to modelling vascular tumour growth (Helen Byrne, University of Oxford) 2020-03-03 09:00: Presentations by candidates for the Departmental Communications Manager position - Day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2020-03-03 16:00: Random surfaces and Liouville quantum gravity (Ewain Gwynne (DPMMS)) 2020-03-03 16:00: Search for new physics with kaons at NA62 and beyond (Prof. Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham)) 2020-03-04 09:00: Presentations by candidates for the Departmental Communications Manager position - Day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2020-03-04 11:30: Topological phonons in ferroelectrics switched by light (Bo Peng) 2020-03-05 16:00: Jet substructure and top-taggers for highly boosted tops (Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester)) 2020-03-05 16:00: Forensic explosives analysis (Mike O'Donnell, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2020-03-10 16:00: (Precision) New Physics searches within the LHC dataset (Raquel Gomez (Durham)) 2020-03-10 16:00: Skyrmions, quantum Hall droplets, and one current to rule them all (Avner Karasik (DAMTP)) 2020-03-11 09:00: Searching for New Physics in rare B decays at LHCb (Dr Paula Alvarez Cartelle) 2020-03-11 09:40: Looking Forward: Exploring Nature with Precision Measurements at LHCb (Dr William Barter) 2020-03-11 10:40: Searching for signs of new physics with rare beauty decays (Dr Harry Cliff) 2020-03-11 11:20: B physics: the next generation (Dr Michel De Cian) 2020-03-11 12:40: A symmetry called CP (Dr Sevda Esen) 2020-03-11 13:20: From dark matter to beauty: the hunt for new physics at the LHC (Dr Sarah Williams) 2020-03-12 16:00: **CANCELLED** Mock string theory (Steven Abel (Durham)) 2020-03-16 09:00: GAPSTI Lectureship in Medical Therapeutics - candidates seminars (Speaker to be confirmed) 2020-04-21 16:00: Updated angular analysis of the decay B0→K*0(→K+π−)µ+µ− (Eluned Smith (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch.)) 2020-04-23 16:00: Quantum Computing for Quantum Field Theory (Steven Abel (Durham)) 2020-04-28 16:00: 91 GeV revisited: the compelling case for 5 x10^12 Z^0's (Prof. Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)) 2020-04-30 16:00: On resonances, amplitudes and the UV completion of gravity (Rodrigo Alonso (Durham)) 2020-05-05 16:00: DUNE - Precision Neutrino Physics of the Future (Prof. Alfons Weber (University of Oxford)) 2020-05-07 16:00: Infrared Finite Cross Sections and S-matrix elements (Holmfridur Hannesdottir (Harvard)) 2020-05-12 16:00: Searching for Dark Matter with the LZ experiment (Theresa Fruth (UCL)) 2020-05-14 16:00: Discovering Goldstone bosons at the LHC (Martin Bauer (Durham)) 2020-05-15 16:00: Integrating Imaging and Computational Modelling to Gain Therapeutic Insights for Cancer (Becky Shipley, University College London) 2020-05-19 16:00: Extracting the most from collider data with deep learning (Benjamin Nachman (LBNL)) 2020-05-21 16:00: A New Concept for Axion Dark Matter Detection ( Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo (Saclay)) 2020-05-26 16:00: Neutrinos from Tokai to Kamioka: Oscillations, Interactions and the search for CP-Violation (Stephen Dolan (CERN)) 2020-05-28 16:00: (Machine) learning amplitudes for faster event generation (Fady Bishara (Desy)) 2020-06-02 16:00: Dual readout calorimeters for future e+e- colliders (Prof. Iacopo Vivarelli (University of Sussex)) 2020-06-03 11:30: How to compute spectral properties of operators on Hilbert spaces with error control (Matthew Colbrook -- DAMTP) 2020-06-04 14:00: Cascaded quantum systems - strongly correlated transport and remote interactions (Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover) 2020-06-04 16:00: The partonic structure of the electron (Stefano Frixione (Genoa)) 2020-06-05 16:00: TBA (Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute) 2020-06-09 16:00: Building blocks for scattering amplitudes and cross sections (University of Edinburgh) 2020-06-10 11:30: Universal exfoliation of 2D materials (Bo Peng ) 2020-06-11 16:00: Charging a leptoquark under Lmu-Ltau (Matthew Kirk (La Sapienza/ INFN, Rome)) 2020-06-16 16:00: Cosmic Ray Muography (Prof. Ralf Kaiser (University of Glasgow)) 2020-06-23 16:00: Measurement of VH,H->bb processes at low and high transverse momenta at ATLAS (Elisabeth Schopf (University of Oxford)) 2020-06-25 16:00: Looking at QED through the glasses of Very Special Relativity (Alex Soto Villarroel (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)) 2020-06-25 16:00: Hall Viscosity in Quantum Systems with Discrete Symmetry (Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2020-07-08 11:00: The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: the brightest radio-sources in the southern sky (Sarah White (Rhodes University)) 2020-07-14 16:00: The low energy electronic recoil excess observed in the XENON1T experiment (Matteo Alfonsi (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)) 2020-07-15 11:00: Nested sampling cross-checks using order statistics (Andew Fowlie (Nanjing Normal University)) 2020-08-06 11:00: Emergent topological phenomena in strained pyrochlore iridate thin films (Bohm Jung Yang (Seoul National University)) 2020-09-10 14:00: Solving the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks (Matthew Foulkes (Imperial College)) 2020-10-06 16:00: RPV and long lived SUSY (Katherine Pachal (Duke University)) 2020-10-08 16:00: Flavour constraints on flavourless new physics (Sophie Renner (SISSA, Trieste)) 2020-10-13 16:00: Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons (Raffaele Gerosa (University of California, San Diego)) 2020-10-14 16:00: 'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?' (Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory) 2020-10-14 16:00: Bypassing the energy functional in density functional theory: Direct calculation of electronic energies from conditional probability densities (Ryan McCarty (UC Irvine)) 2020-10-15 14:00: High-fidelity description of spectral functions in correlated materials (Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London) 2020-10-15 16:00: Computing Multi-Scale QCD Amplitudes (Bayu Hartanto (Cavendish)) 2020-10-20 16:00: Quantum Computing and High-energy physics (Heather Gray (UC Berkeley/LBNL)) 2020-10-21 11:30: Systematic improvement of molecular excited state calculations by inclusion of nuclear quantum motion (Antonios Alvertis) 2020-10-21 16:00: Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied (Dr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge) 2020-10-22 14:00: Topological Proximity Effects (Karyn Le Hur, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique) 2020-10-22 16:00: Rethinking the QCD axion (Luca di Luzio (DESY)) 2020-10-27 16:00: The Hidden Geometry of Particle Collisions (Jesse Thaler (MIT)) 2020-10-28 11:30: Discovery of a weak topological insulating state and van Hove singularity in triclinic RhBi2 (Gunnar Lange) 2020-10-28 16:00: Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos (Dr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP) 2020-10-29 14:00: A Supramolecular Approach to Templating Hybrid Perovskites (Jovana Milic, University of Fribourg) 2020-10-29 16:00: Searching for Ultralight Axions with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (Masha Baryakhtar (NYU)) 2020-11-03 16:00: Studies on exotic hadrons at LHCb (Liupan An (INFN Florence)) 2020-11-04 11:30: Letting the machines vote: Committee neural network potentials control generalization errors and enable active learning (Christoph Schran (UCL)) 2020-11-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2020-11-05 14:00: Order within disorder: approaching phase boundaries in high-entropy systems (Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University) 2020-11-05 16:00: McMule -- QED Corrections for Low-Energy Experiments ( Yannick Ulrich IPPP, University of Durham) 2020-11-10 16:00: Theory predictions for polarized weak bosons at the LHC (Giovanni Pelliccioli (University of Würzburg)) 2020-11-11 11:30: Understanding the Peculiarities of Metallic Bonding (Prof. Volker Heine FRS) 2020-11-11 16:00: ’Seeing early cancer in a new light’ (Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory) 2020-11-12 14:00: Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Molecular and Atomic Crystals (Mark Tuckerman, NYU) 2020-11-12 16:00: Is SMEFT enough? 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(Mick Brown, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-05-31 16:00: Precision Physics with Polarised W-bosons at the LHC (Andrei Popescu (Cambridge)) 2022-06-03 16:00: Anja Butter - Unfolding unbinned differential cross section measurements (Anja Butter (Heidelberg)) 2022-06-07 16:00: The upgrade of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC (Luigi Marchese (ETH, Zurich)) 2022-06-10 16:00: Christopher Lester - Data-data comparisons as searches for parity violation, symmetry violation and emus (Christopher Lester (Cambridge)) 2022-06-13 14:00: Topological skyrmion phases of matter (Ashley Cook (MPI PKS Dresden)) 2022-06-15 16:00: In Search for the Next Magic Stone (Prof Z X Shen, Stanford) 2022-06-17 16:00: Robin Schuermann - NNLO Photon Fragmentation in Antenna Subtraction (Robin Schuermann) 2022-06-21 13:00: Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor (Pedram Roushan (Google)) 2022-06-22 14:00: Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries (Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Penn State University ) 2022-06-24 16:00: Fabrizio Caola - Three-loop scattering amplitudes in QCD (Fabrizio Caola (Oxford)) 2022-06-28 14:00: Optical Stochatic Cooling of Electrons -- Maxwell's Demon goes optical! (Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (Fermilab/NIU/CERN/Stanford)) 2022-09-23 10:00: Geometric deep learning on the sphere: scalable and equivariant spherical CNNs (Jason McEwen) 2022-09-28 10:00: "Rare beauty: in search of new physics at the LHCb experiment”. (Dr Harry Cliff, HEP, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-09-28 10:40: “Quantum Tops: probing the fundamentals of nature with its heaviest particle”. (Dr James Howarth, University of Glasgow) 2022-09-28 11:30: “Getting a flavour for New Physics at LHCb” (Dr Matt Kenzie, Dept of Physics, University of Warwick) 2022-09-28 12:10: Title to be confirmed (Dr Karsten Koeneke, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg · Institute of Physics) 2022-09-28 13:50: “Probing Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model Couplings in Higgs Boson Decays to Bottom Quarks” (Dr Elisabeth Schopf, Particle Physics, University of Oxford) 2022-09-28 14:30: "Exploring the frontiers of physics at the LHC and beyond”     (Dr Sarah Williams, Queens College Cambridge & HEP, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-10-04 11:00: The search for exotic long-lived particles: illuminating a blind spot of the LHC programme (Louie Corpe (CERN)) 2022-10-06 10:30: Quantum gas microscopy of magnetic phases with and without doping (Dr Timon Hilker, MPQ Munich ) 2022-10-07 16:00: Diboson precision measurements with the Higgs at LHC and FCC-hh (Alejo Rossia (Manchester)) 2022-10-11 11:00: QED and hadronics in B->Kll et al (Roman Zwicky (University of Edinburgh)) 2022-10-11 16:00: Almost all extremal black holes in AdS are singular (Maciej Kolanowski (Warsaw)) 2022-10-13 10:30: Orbital interactions between strongly confined fermions (Prof Joseph Thywissen, Toronto) 2022-10-13 14:00: A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene (Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford)) 2022-10-13 15:00: An experimental approach for the validation and development of Group Interaction Modelling for polymer properties (Malvina Constantinou, Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-10-14 16:00: The hunt for non-resonant signals of new physics at the LHC (Ilaria Brivio (Zurich)) 2022-10-18 16:00: Elizabethan vortices (Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP)) 2022-10-20 14:00: Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites (Elmer Doggen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)) 2022-10-20 15:00: Resonant acoustic mixing processing studies of energetic materials (Andrew Claydon, Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-10-21 16:00: Andrea Banfi - Jet observables at all orders in QCD (Andrea Banfi (Sussex)) 2022-10-25 11:00: Time-dependent and rare probes of the Standard Model: status at Belle II (Thibaud Humair (Max Planck Institute for Physics)) 2022-10-28 16:00: Mapping the SMEFT to UV models for four-fermion operators (Fabian Esser (Valencia)) 2022-11-01 11:00: Machine Learning - the future of particle physics? (Nadya Chernyavskaya (CERN)) 2022-11-01 11:00: Ultracold RbCs Molecules: Robust Storage Qubits and Rotationally Magic Traps (Prof Simon L. Cornish, Department of Physics, Durham University) 2022-11-01 16:00: The Memory Effect and Infrared Divergences in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity (Bob Wald (University of Chicago)) 2022-11-03 14:00: Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology? (Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford)) 2022-11-03 15:00: Cleaning up the nuclear legacy: Vitrified wasteform development and durability (Russell Hand, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield) 2022-11-04 15:30: Subir Sarkar - A challenge to the standard cosmological model (Subir Sarkar (Oxford)) 2022-11-08 11:00: Properties of the Higgs boson: A decade of Higgs measurements with the ATLAS detector (Ashley Mcdougall (Nikhef)) 2022-11-10 14:00: Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers (Danny Bennett (University of Liège)) 2022-11-10 15:00: A day in the life of an adsorbate: Observing dynamics in an open quantum system (Bill Allison, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-11-11 16:00: Graham van Goffrier - The future of nuclear matrix elements for 0νββ decay (Graham van Goffrier (UCL)) 2022-11-15 11:00: Semileptonic B decays at LHCb (Mark Smith (Imperial)) 2022-11-15 16:00: Superconformal quantum mechanics and Black Holes (Nick Dorey (DAMTP)) 2022-11-17 14:00: A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems (Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University)) 2022-11-17 15:00: Fundamentals of thermodynamics (and a bit of quantum mechanics) (John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-11-18 16:00: Rudi Rahn - The azimuthal decorrelation in V+jet production and the Winner-Takes-All axis (Rudi Rahn (Amsterdam U)) 2022-11-22 11:00: Exploring the Unknown with Higgs Boson Pairs (Bill Balunas (University of Cambridge)) 2022-11-22 16:00: Statistical Mechanics of Abelian Higgs Vortices. (Nick Manton (DAMTP)) 2022-11-22 16:00: Isaac Physics & STEM SMART event - Impacting physics education and admissions (Lisa Jardine-Wright, OBE - Director of Isaac Physics, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-11-23 11:15: Magnetotransport of pyrochlore spin ice Sm2Ir2O7 across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary (Dr. Matthew Coak, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London) 2022-11-24 11:15: Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems (Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève)) 2022-11-24 15:00: Additive manufacturing of energetic materials (Mike O’Donnell, Fracture & Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2022-11-25 16:00: Christoph Hanhart - TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM FOR HEAVY-LIGHT MESON SPECTROSCOPY (Christoph Hanhart (FZ Julich, IKP)) 2022-11-29 11:00: Applications of Timepix technology for Beam Instrumentation at CERN (James Storey (CERN)) 2022-12-01 14:00: Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics? (Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge)) 2022-12-01 14:00: Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics? (Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge)) 2022-12-06 11:00: Evidence is all you need: Nested Sampling for particle physics (David Yallup (Cambridge)) 2022-12-13 11:00: Vector Boson Scattering to Unravel EWSB and probe BSM physics (Karolos Potamianos (University of Oxford)) 2022-12-14 09:00: "Image analysis: from particle physics to cancer research" (Dr Lorena Escudero Sanchez ) 2022-12-14 09:40: “Machine Learning and Gravitational Waves”. (Dr Stephen Green) 2022-12-14 10:20: "On Modelling Complex Systems in Astronomy" (Prof Yuan-Sen Ting) 2022-12-14 11:10: "Nested sampling: powering the next-generation of Bayesian inference tools for cosmology, particle physics and beyond" (Dr Will Handley) 2022-12-14 11:50: “Getting a flavour for New Physics at LHCb” (Dr Matthew Kenzie) 2022-12-14 13:30: "Data-driven exploration beyond the Standard Model of particle physics" (Dr Ken Mimasu) 2022-12-14 14:10: "Black Hole Physics Meets Gravitational Wave Data" (Dr Christopher Moore) 2022-12-14 14:50: Cosmology with photometry galaxy surveys: from precision to accuracy (Dr Boris Leistedt) 2022-12-14 15:50: Interpretable Machine Learning for Science (Miles Cranmer, Princeton University) 2022-12-14 16:30: “Multi-survey cosmology: opportunities in the systematics-limited regime” (Dr Elisabeth Krause) 2023-01-09 10:00: Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Re-ionization: unveiling the mysteries of the infant universe with experimental radio cosmology (Dr Eloy de Lera Acedo) 2023-01-09 11:00: Mapping the Universe at 21 cm (Dr Seth Siegel, McGill University, Montreal) 2023-01-09 11:45: Radio Cosmology — a new window on the Universe" (Dr Richard Shaw, University of British Columbia, Vancouver) 2023-01-17 11:00: Rare neutral current decays of b quarks at LHCb (Lakshan Mohan (University of Cambridge)) 2023-01-24 11:00: Custom Orthogonal Weight functions (COWs) - an improved event weighting procedure for removing background from signal. (Matt Kenzie (University of Warwick)) 2023-01-26 11:00: Electron Correlation and Coupling with Phonon in the Rhombohedral Stacked Graphene (Prof. Long Ju, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 2023-01-26 15:00: Quantum tunnelling effects in the guanine-thymine wobble misincorporation via tautomerism (Louie Slocombe, Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Surrey) 2023-01-31 11:00: Heavy quark fragmentation: why, how, and where to? (Chris Pollard (Warwick)) 2023-02-03 16:00: Miguel Crispim Romao - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Collider and Beyond the Standard Model Physics (Miguel Crispim Romao (Southampton U. and LIP, Minho)) 2023-02-07 11:00: Extending the leading direct dark matter searches to lighter particles (Prof Henrique Araujo (Imperial)) 2023-02-09 14:00: Understanding Metallic Bonding (Volker Heine) 2023-02-09 15:00: Experimental and numerical study of detonation reaction zones (James Edgeley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2023-02-10 16:00: Mao Zeng - Gravitational waves and multi-loop scattering amplitudes (Mao Zeng (Edinburgh U.)) 2023-02-16 14:00: Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids (Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U)) 2023-02-17 16:00: Effective Field Theories for heavy and light new physics. (Anke Biekötter (Mainz U.)) 2023-02-23 14:00: Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM (Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge)) 2023-02-23 15:00: The formation of contrast in scanning helium microscopy (Sam Lambrick, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory) 2023-02-24 16:00: Gluons and Euclidean Gravity on the Lattice (Chris Bouchard (Glasgow)) 2023-02-28 11:00: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector (Prof Chris Hays (University of Oxford)) 2023-02-28 16:00: Carroll, Cotton and Ehlers (Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechique)) 2023-03-02 14:00: Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge)) 2023-03-02 15:00: Keeping up the pressure (Patricia Alireza, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2023-03-03 10:00: The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in the multi-fluid plasma regime with transport effects (Kyriakos Tapinou, University of Queensland) 2023-03-03 16:00: Eetu Loisa - TBA (Eetu Loisa (DAMTP)) 2023-03-07 11:00: HHarmony in Bb — the present and future of ATLAS DiHiggs(4b) searches (Teng Jian Khoo (Humboldt University of Berlin)) 2023-03-09 15:00: Ultrafast diffusion at the onset of 2D growth: O/Ru(0001) and S/Ni(111) (Jack Kelsall, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory) 2023-03-10 16:00: Felix Kahlhoefer - From picoseconds to teraseconds: The lifetime frontier of particle physics (Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen U.)) 2023-03-14 16:00: Skyrme crystals (Martin Speight (Leeds)) 2023-03-16 14:00: Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems (Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden)) 2023-03-17 16:00: Chris Monahan - Determining the partonic structure of hadrons via lattice quantum chromodynamics (Chris Monahan (William-Mary Coll.)) 2023-04-06 14:00: Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena (Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University)) 2023-04-18 10:00: Quantum computing with neutral ytterbium atoms (Jeff Thompson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University) 2023-04-25 11:00: Beauty meson to double charm decays at LHCb (Fionn Bishop (University of Cambridge)) 2023-04-25 11:15: Magneto-optical probes shed light on the unconventional transport and magnetism of Eu – based semi-metals (Dr. Veronika Sunko, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley) 2023-04-25 17:00: New Directions in the Fractalization, Quantization, and Revival of Dispersive Systems (Peter Olver (University of Minnesota)) 2023-04-27 14:00: Cavity Magnonics (Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen)) 2023-04-28 16:00: Nicholas Rodd - Echos of the Early Universe in Axion Haloscopes (Nicholas Rodd) 2023-05-02 11:00: The Force Aweakens: searching for new sources of CP violation in the electroweak sector (Prof Andrew Pilkington (University of Manchester)) 2023-05-04 14:00: Planckian dissipation in metals (Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge)) 2023-05-04 15:00: An investigation into the effectiveness of patch repairs to restore impact properties of CFRPs for aerostructure application (Zoe Hall, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London) 2023-05-04 15:30: An overview of the CASS group at Imperial (John Dear, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London) 2023-05-05 16:00: Daniel Reichelt - Jet angularities in quark and gluon jets at the LHC (Daniel Reichelt) 2023-05-10 15:00: A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles (Jenny Coulter (Harvard)) 2023-05-11 14:00: Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder (Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor)) 2023-05-11 15:00: Fusion is coming: Recent achievements and activities in the nuclear fusion (Simon Kirk, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) 2023-05-12 16:00: Nico Gubernari - Probing the Standard Model with rare B-Meson Decays (Nico Gubernari) 2023-05-16 11:00: Simulating Collision Events on a Quantum Computer (Simon Williams (Imperial College)) 2023-05-16 16:00: Classification of static extreme black holes (James Lucietti (Edinburgh)) 2023-05-17 16:00: Scanned Josephson Tunneling Microscopy: Visualizing Electron-Pair Fluids and Density Waves (Prof J.C. Séamus Davis, University of Oxford, University College Cork, Cornell University) 2023-05-18 14:00: Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos (Alexander Altland (University of Cologne)) 2023-05-18 15:00: DYMAT in historical context (Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2023-05-19 11:00: Topological charge pumping with ultracold atomic gases (Prof Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (University of Göttingen)) 2023-05-19 16:00: James Moore - The top quark legacy of the LHC Run II for PDF and SMEFT analyses (James Moore) 2023-05-23 11:00: The Climate Emergency: can Particle Physics ever be sustainable? (Prof Veronique Boisvert (RHUL)) 2023-05-25 14:00: Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet (Tommaso Gorni (CINECA)) 2023-05-26 16:00: Oliver Fischer - Sterile neutrinos at colliders and beyond (Oliver Fischer ) 2023-05-30 11:00: Measurement of the Pion Charge-Exchange Differential Cross Section on Argon with the ProtoDUNE Detector (Kang Yang (University of Oxford)) 2023-05-30 16:30: Counting periodic orbits. LMS Hardy Lecture (Eva Miranda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)) 2023-05-31 16:00: The Electron-Phonon Problem Revisited (Prof Steve Kivelson, Stanford University) 2023-06-01 14:00: Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides (Changming Yue (University of Fribourg)) 2023-06-02 16:00: Manuel Morales Alvarado - Towards DGLAP evolution equations in the SMEFT (Manuel Morales Alvarado) 2023-06-06 11:00: Not all hopes for new physics die immediately (David Rousso (University of Cambridge)) 2023-06-08 14:00: Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits (Adam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics)) 2023-06-09 16:00: Robert Szafron - Uncertainty of perturbative QCD predictions (Robert Szafron) 2023-06-14 16:00: Spin dynamics and hydrodynamical regimes of quantum matter (Prof Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley) 2023-06-16 10:30: Quantum materials in and beyond equilibrium (Prof Christian Rüegg, Director, Paul Scherrer Institute) 2023-06-20 11:00: Taking Physics Forward with FASER (Prof Anna Sfyrla (University of Geneva)) 2023-06-28 14:00: Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar) (Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University)) 2023-07-27 14:00: The quantum Mpemba effect (Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA)) 2023-08-03 16:00: The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories (Tom Melia (IPMU)) 2023-08-17 14:00: Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics (Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis)) 2023-08-23 14:00: Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems (Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo)) 2023-09-07 14:00: Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores (Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute) 2023-09-14 14:00: Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability (Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France)) 2023-09-29 15:00: Pressure, Rate, and Temperature Effects on Mechanical Properties in Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) (Jennifer Jordan, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials) 2023-10-05 14:00: Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales (Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford)) 2023-10-06 16:00: Heavy quark fragmentation and its application to top-pair events with B-hadrons (Terry Generet) 2023-10-11 16:00: Quantum Mechanics and Many Body Games (Prof Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford) 2023-10-12 14:00: Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge) (Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge)) 2023-10-13 16:00: Precise predictions for jet vetoed cross sections at the LHC (Matthew Lim, University of Sussex) 2023-10-17 11:00: Where’s SUSY? The electroweak SUSY landscape after ATLAS Run 2 searches (Ben Hodkinson (University of Oxford)) 2023-10-18 15:00: Improved statistical estimation of impact sensitivity (Dennis Christensen, Oslo, Norway) 2023-10-19 14:00: Waves topology in geophysical flows (Antoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique)) 2023-10-24 11:00: Mixing and CP violation in open-charmed beauty decays (Dr Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge)) 2023-10-26 14:00: Theoretical minimum (David Khmelnitskii) 2023-10-26 16:00: New Avenues for Quantum Simulations In- and Out-of-equilibrium (Prof Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, LMU) 2023-10-27 16:00: Infrared singularities and subtraction schemes: the Torino method at NNLO (Chiara Signorile-Signorile) 2023-11-01 11:15: Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition (Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute) 2023-11-01 14:15: Seminar on Superconductivity enhancement in polar metals ( Isao H. Inoue from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan) 2023-11-02 14:00: Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries (Frank Schindler, Imperial College London) 2023-11-02 15:00: The stochastic wave function method for diffusion of alkali atoms on metallic surface (Elena Torres, Institute of Fundamental Physics, Madrid, Spain) 2023-11-03 16:00: Tetraquarks, Pentaquarks, and the Legacy of the Three-Body Problem (Mikhail Mikhasenko) 2023-11-07 11:00: How To Upgrade A Hardware Trigger (Gareth Bird (University of Cambridge)) 2023-11-07 11:15: High Resolution Stabilised Spectrographs and HARVY (Clark Baker, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2023-11-08 16:00: Forces from fluctuations in and out of equilibrium (in QED and Active Matter) (Prof Mehran Kardar, MIT) 2023-11-09 14:00: Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response (Mehran Kardar (MIT)) 2023-11-09 15:00: Challenges in capturing transient thermal evolutions in materials using IR imaging (Janice Barton & Karthik Ramakrishnan, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol) 2023-11-10 16:00: High Energy Resummation for Jet Processes at the LHC (Jennifer Smillie) 2023-11-14 11:00: Jet Propulsion: Advancing the performance and understanding of hadronic objects in ATLAS for Run 3 (Dr Matt LeBlanc (University of Manchester)) 2023-11-14 11:15: Revisiting the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources with LOFAR (Vijay Mahatma) 2023-11-15 11:00: Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices (Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich) 2023-11-15 16:00: Lighting up superconductivity (Prof Eugene Demler, ETH Zürich) 2023-11-16 14:00: Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D (Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University)) 2023-11-16 15:00: Build the future: Design concrete with machine learning (Bogdan Zviazhynski, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2023-11-17 11:00: Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics ( Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) 2023-11-20 16:00: Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure (Prof Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University) 2023-11-21 11:00: Physics for Sustainable Development (Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex)) 2023-11-21 11:15: What are the Clouds of Venus made of? (Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge)) 2023-11-23 14:00: Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains (Nick Jones, University of Oxford) 2023-11-23 15:00: Hardening effects in metals (Claire Lincoln, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2023-11-24 14:30: Tagging rare top, Z and Higgs decays at colliders (Jernej Kamenik) 2023-11-28 11:15: Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves (Dr Emily Sandford (University of Cambridge)) 2023-11-30 13:00: Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics (Alex Matthews, DeepMind) 2023-12-05 11:00: “IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe? (Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University)) 2023-12-15 16:00: The dynamic Universe of preferred axion models (Andrew Cheek) 2024-01-16 11:15: The History of MRAO (Malcolm Longair (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2024-01-17 16:00: Lighting the Quantum Future (Prof Ian Walmsley FRS, Imperial College London) 2024-01-18 14:00: Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials (Joseph Barker (Leeds)) 2024-01-23 11:00: A Clue to the Mystery of Dark Matter: Direct Searches with LZ and XLZD (Dr Kimberly Palladino (University of Oxford)) 2024-01-23 11:15: Probing the M Dwarf Cosmic Shoreline with JWST (Dr. James Kirk, Imperial College London) 2024-01-24 11:15: Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4 (Dr. Clifford Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham) 2024-01-25 14:00: The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems (John Chalker (Oxford)) 2024-01-26 16:00: On the uses of Geometry for Higgs Physics (Rodrigo Alonso (IPPP)) 2024-01-30 11:00: An Experimental and Phenomenological dissection of heavy quark decays into light leptons (Davide Lancierini (University of Cambridge)) 2024-01-31 16:00: Mixing, stopping, coupling, lifting, and other keys to the second Monte Carlo revolution (Prof Werner Krauth, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford) 2024-02-01 11:00: Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization (Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford ) 2024-02-01 14:00: State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot) (Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-01 15:00: 2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot (Nick von Jeinsen, Surface and 2D Nanoscience, Cavendish Laboratory) 2024-02-02 15:45: Quantum entanglement of top quarks (Claudio Severi (U. Manchester)) 2024-02-07 11:15: Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry (Dr. Tamaghna Hazra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 2024-02-08 14:00: Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers (Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart) 2024-02-08 15:00: Discovering the 2D world with XPS (Shaoliang Guan, Cavendish Laboratory) 2024-02-09 16:00: Closing in on New Physics with the Flavor, Collider, and Electroweak Triad (Benjamin Stefanek (King's Coll. London)) 2024-02-13 11:00: Overview and Status of the 2x2 NDLAr Demonstrator: A Pixel-Based LArTPC Prototype for the DUNE Near Detector (Karolina Wresilo (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-13 16:00: Merons, bimerons and skyrmions in α-Fe2O3: from cosmology to spintronics (Prof Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford) 2024-02-15 14:00: Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities (Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS)) 2024-02-15 15:00: Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials under Extreme Conditions (Vatsa Gandhi, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2024-02-16 16:00: Baryon-baryon interactions and the H dibaryon from lattice QCD (Jeremy Green (DESY, Zeuthen.)) 2024-02-20 11:00: PUEO and Ultra High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy (Stefano Vergani (UCL)) 2024-02-22 11:15: New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality (Prof. Alix McCollam, School of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland) 2024-02-22 14:00: Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning (Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)) 2024-02-22 15:00: Shock and Impact Deformation: A Geological Perspective (Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-23 16:00: On amplitudes and field redefinitions (David Sutherland (University of Glasgow)) 2024-02-27 11:15: Real-time pipelines for SKA — Progress and challenges (Dr. Ying-He Celeste Lü (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2024-02-28 14:00: The Modelling of LHC Collisions in PYTHIA - Physics and Uncertainties (Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University)) 2024-02-28 16:00: Protonic Electrochemical Synapses for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Computing (Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT) 2024-02-29 14:00: Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect (Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester) 2024-02-29 15:00: The challenge of developing materials for fusion (Jim Pickles, Tokamak Energy, Oxford) 2024-03-01 16:00: NNLO + Strings (Peter Skands) 2024-03-05 11:00: Prototyping the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (Jingyuan Shi - University of Cambridge) 2024-03-05 11:15: New Space & the CubeSat Revolution (Dr. Dolev Bashi) 2024-03-06 11:15: The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research (Prof. Greg Boebinger) 2024-03-08 16:00: Searching for Instantons at Hadron Colliders (Valentin V. Khoze (Durham IPPP)) 2024-03-13 16:00: Attoscience, Nobel 2023, and Quantum Simulators (Prof Maciej Lewenstein, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences) 2024-03-15 14:00: Terahertz-chip-scale Systems for Intelligent Sensing and 6G Communication: Can AI help? (Prof. Kaushik Sengupta) 2024-03-15 16:00: Multi-scale cross-attention transformer encoder for event classification (Mihoko Nojiri (KEK)) 2024-03-19 11:15: Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies (Dr. Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)) 2024-04-19 16:00: Flavor Hierarchies from Minimal U(2) Symmetries (Anders Eller Thomsen (Bern U.)) 2024-04-24 11:00: Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems (Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University) 2024-04-25 14:00: Resonant Bloch oscillations in transmons embedded in high-impedance circuits (Benjamin Remez (Yale)) 2024-04-26 16:00: New physics searches at colliders using HEFT (Anisha (Glasgow U.)) 2024-04-30 11:15: Radio observations of extra-galactic transients with the AMI-LA telescope (Dr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford)) 2024-05-01 16:00: Chirality and Topology (Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids) 2024-05-02 14:00: The entanglement membrane in exactly solvable lattice models (Michael Rampp, MPIPKS) 2024-05-02 15:00: Energetics now and future trends (Bill Proud, Institute of Security Science and Technology, Imperial College, London) 2024-05-03 16:00: Froggatt-Nielsen Models Meet the SMEFT (Eetu Loisa (Cambridge U.)) 2024-05-07 11:00: BREAD: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (Dr Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge)) 2024-05-07 11:15: Interferometric measurements of the 21-cm signal with SKA (Yuchen Liu and Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2024-05-07 16:00: Split signature supergravity - Hypersymplectic geometry via new geometric structures (Jan Gutowski (Surrey)) 2024-05-09 15:00: Image-based high strain rate testing of materials (Fabrice Pierron, MatchID, Ghent, Belgium) 2024-05-10 16:00: TBA (Daniel Yeo (Cambridge U.)) 2024-05-14 11:00: Experimental status of exotic spectroscopy (and thoughts on the future) (Mark Whitehead (Glasgow)) 2024-05-14 11:15: Blue Phase Liquid Crystals & Their Potential for Astronomy (Oana Niculescu (University of Cambridge)) 2024-05-14 16:00: From Twistors to celestial symmetries and their AdS deformations (Lionel Mason (Oxford)) 2024-05-15 16:00: Scale invariance, a hidden symmetry explored with quantum gases (Prof Jean Dalibard, Collège de France, Kaster Brossel Laboratory) 2024-05-16 14:00: Exact many-body dynamics in quantum circuits via space-time duality (Bruno Bertini, University of Nottingham) 2024-05-16 15:00: Gram-scale explosions to inform numerical modelling and FREM development (Adam Dennis, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield) 2024-05-17 16:00: How can we learn mathematical structures of physical systems? String compactifications as a tool (Sven Krippendorf (LMU)) 2024-05-21 11:15: Diffusion meets Nested Sampling (David Yallup (University of Cambridge)) 2024-05-21 11:30: The ALPHA axion dark matter experiment (Dr Jón Guðmundsson (Stockholm)) 2024-05-21 15:00: Interacting quantum gases in optical lattices with periodic driving. (Prof. Elmar Haller, University of Strathclyde) 2024-05-22 14:00: Topological defects in spiral spin liquids (Han Yan, University of Tokyo) 2024-05-22 16:00: Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Entanglement (Prof Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University) 2024-05-23 14:00: Orbital and spin Hall effect in altermagnetic RuO2 (Dr Lishu Zhang (Forschungszentrum Jülich)) 2024-05-23 15:00: Benchmarking and developing models for molecule-surface potential energy surfaces. The difficulties and opportunities arising from experimental data which is too detailed and too sensitive (Gil Alexandrowicz, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea) 2024-05-24 11:30: Lattice QCD studies of doubly heavy tetraquarks (William Parrott (York U., Toronto)) 2024-05-24 14:00: Active Elasticity in non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials (Dr. Jack Binysh, University of Amsterdam) 2024-05-24 16:00: Global EFT fits for the LHC and future colliders (Eleni Vryonidou (Manchester U.)) 2024-05-28 11:15: Inside-out growth in the Early Universe: a core in a vigorously star-forming disc (William Baker (University of Cambridge)) 2024-05-29 11:15: Superconductivity in Thin-film Infinite-layer Nickelates (Professor Danfeng Li, Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong) 2024-05-29 14:00: Unravelling emergent quantum phenomena from first-principles (Mohammad saeed Bahramy (University of Manchester)) 2024-05-30 14:00: Entanglement Rényi entropies from Ballistic Fluctuations Theory: the free fermionic case (Paola Ruggiero, Kings College London) 2024-05-31 16:00: QFT constraints as Bayesian priors for Standard-Model tests (Andreas Juttner (Southampton U./CERN)) 2024-06-03 11:15: Exploring the ordered states of the multi-phase superconductor CeRh2As2 (Dr. Konstantin Semeniuk, MPI-CPfS Dresden/Germany) 2024-06-04 11:00: Supernova Neutrinos (Susan Cartwright (University of Sheffield)) 2024-06-04 11:15: Unveiling the ionising properties of galaxies at the Epoch of Reionisation with NIRCam (Dr. Charlotte Simmonds (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge)) 2024-06-05 16:00: Observation of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4 with Momentum-Resolved EELS (Peter Abbamonte (UIUC)) 2024-06-07 16:00: Nuclear PDFs (Ingo Schienbein (LPSC, Grenoble)) 2024-06-11 14:00: The MUonE Experiment: Understanding Muon g−2 Puzzle via Muon- electron Scattering (Ce Zhang (University of Liverpool)) 2024-06-11 15:30: Applied artificial intelligence to cosmological data analysis (Dr. Boris Bolliet (Assistant Teaching Professor, Cavendish Laboratory and KICC)) 2024-06-13 14:00: Disorder-tunable entanglement at infinite temperature (Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds) 2024-06-14 16:00: Determining the proton structure with 1% accuracy (Roy Stegeman (U. Edinburgh)) 2024-06-14 16:00: Analogue Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms (Dr Alexei Bylinskii, QuEra Computing Inc, Boston) 2024-06-18 11:15: How do you dream whilst living with uncertainty - Artist Robert Ssempijja in conversation with Professor Helen Mason (Robert Ssempijja, Cavendish Arts Science Fellow) 2024-07-01 14:00: Dynamical Many-body Freezing in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems (Sayan Choudhury, Harish-Chandra Research Institute) 2024-07-31 14:00: EELS and Optical Properties of Layered and 2D Materials (Shangpeng Gao) 2024-08-20 14:00: Quantum Computing with Silicon and Germanium Hole Spins (Professor Dominik Zumbühl) 2024-08-27 14:00: Solid state defects for quantum information processing (Song LI (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)) 2024-09-13 14:00: Nonlinear and Quantum Technologies in Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits (Dr Kartik Srinivasan ) 2024-09-13 15:00: High-performance Semiconductor Quantum Light Sources (Dr Jin Liu) 2024-09-27 11:30: Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature (Brian Skinner, Ohio State University ) 2024-10-01 11:00: Low-Energy Excess Results from MicroBooNE (Steve Dennis (Cambridge)) 2024-10-04 16:00: EW physics at very high energies: A multi-TeV muon collider as a case study (Tao Han (Pittsburgh U.)) 2024-10-08 11:00: Exploring the Performance of the CODEX-b Detector (Paul Swallow (University of Cambridge)) 2024-10-08 11:15: Isotope ratios in transiting and directly-imaged exoplanetary atmospheres (Siddharth Gandhi (Warwick)) 2024-10-09 11:15: Structures, superconductivity, and soft chemistry in anti-cuprate square lattice materials (Nicola Kelly) 2024-10-10 14:00: Recent progress on emergent quantum electrodynamics in dipolar-octupolar quantum spin ice (Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto) 2024-10-11 14:00: Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet (Revaz Ramazashvili (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier)) 2024-10-11 16:00: From Flavor Bounds to Charming Higgs Discoveries (Mauro Valli (Universita` La Sapienza Roma)) 2024-10-15 11:00: Heavy Neutral Leptons and Slow-Moving Particles at ATLAS (Dr. Gareth Bird University of Cambridge) 2024-10-15 11:15: JADES census of broad line AGN and their hosts (Ignas Juodžbalis (KICC)) 2024-10-16 16:00: Visualizing strongly interacting quantum phases of matter (Ali Yazdani (Princeton)) 2024-10-17 14:00: Electron-phonon, electron-electron and phonon-phonon interactions: applications to equilibrium and non-equilibrium spectroscopy (Giovanni Marini (University Of Trento)) 2024-10-17 15:00: How is Small different from Big? (Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford) 2024-10-18 13:30: Superfluidity and superconductivity: their defeat, fluctuation, and respect to U(1) symmetry (Prof. Wei Ku (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)) 2024-10-18 15:00: Searching for Anyon in Quantum Materials (Philip Kim (Harvard)) 2024-10-18 16:00: Higher Order Corrections and the Higgs Production Cross Section (Tom Schellenberger (RWTH Aachen U.)) 2024-10-22 11:00: Summer Student Talks Part 1 (Jonas Dej, Jesse Zhang, Shikang Ni) 2024-10-23 11:15: Topology: a new twist to electrons in quantum materials (Andrew Boothroyd) 2024-10-24 14:00: Interfacial Engineering of the magnetism and spin transport in two-dimensional materials (Prof. Haichang Lu (Beihang University)) 2024-10-24 15:00: Rate, temperature and their coupled effects on the deformation process of polycarbonate and its composite (Peihao Song, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Oxford) 2024-10-25 16:00: Quarkonium fragmentation from HF-NRevo: A low-to-high-energy approach (Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH, Madrid)) 2024-10-29 11:00: Summer Student Talks Part 2 (Joseph Garvey, Cecilia Bombari, Ritwik Mangrulkar) 2024-10-29 11:15: To be or not to be: Are JWST-discovered AGN real black holes? (Dr. Xihan Ji, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge) 2024-10-29 13:00: Quantum geometry on physical properties in quadratic band touching (Changgeun Oh (University of Tokyo)) 2024-10-30 16:00: Flat bands: an obstruction or a resource? (Sebastian Huber (ETH Zurich)) 2024-10-31 14:00: Tuning the Electronic Phases of Graphene Nanoribbons (Michele Pizzochero (University of Bath)) 2024-11-05 11:00: 3 Flavour Oscillation Results from NOvA with 10 Years of Data (Alex Booth (Queen Mary University of London)) 2024-11-05 11:15: Radio AGN with the LOFAR all-sky survey (Prof. Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire)) 2024-11-07 14:00: Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits (Katja Klobas, University of Birmingham) 2024-11-08 16:00: The ρ and K* resonances using lattice QCD with physical quark masses (Nelson Lachini (DAMTP)) 2024-11-12 11:00: Measuring tau g-2 at the LHC (Lydia Beresford, DESY) 2024-11-12 15:00: Quantum Sensing of Quantum Matter (Amir Yacoby (Harvard)) 2024-11-12 16:00: L^2 geometry of hyperbolic monopoles (Derek Harland (Leeds)) 2024-11-13 16:00: Information scrambling and quantum advantage in quantum simulation (Andrew Daley (Oxford)) 2024-11-14 14:00: A gapless 1D spin liquid as a critical point between fragile Kondo insulators (Nick Bultnick, University of Ghent) 2024-11-14 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Olivia Morley. Formerly of PCS) 2024-11-15 16:00: Two attempts to study a SU(2) pure gauge lattice theory on two quantum hardware. (Emanuele Mendicelli (Liverpool U.)) 2024-11-19 11:00: New measurement of the K+ → π+ν¯ ν decay by the NA62 Experiment (Joel Christopher Swallow, INFN-LNF) 2024-11-19 11:15: Characterising Nitrogen-Rich Galaxies at z>6 (Dr. Yuki Isobe (University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-20 11:15: Non-equilibrium effects in superconducting thin films probed by time-domain THz spectroscopy. (Chiara Ciccarelli) 2024-11-20 14:00: Dynamically localized but deconfined excitations in strained classical spin ice (Jonathan Nilsson Hallen (Harvard)) 2024-11-21 14:00: Twist to the M-ax(is): A New Moiré Platform Based on M-Point Twisting (Dumitru Calugaru, Princeton and Oxford) 2024-11-21 15:00: Neutral Atom Microscopy: Science and Applications (Paul Dastoor, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory) 2024-11-22 10:30: Materials for the future (Konstantin Novoselov (Manchester)) 2024-11-22 16:00: Flavour deconstruction: from the electroweak scale to the GUT scale (Mario Fernández Navarro (Glasgow U.)) 2024-11-26 11:00: Latest results from the Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at the LHC (Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, University of Manchester (GB)) 2024-11-27 16:00: Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound (Brad Ramshaw (Cornell)) 2024-11-28 14:00: Categorical Landau Paradigm: Phases, Transitions and Lattice Models (Apoorv Tiwari, Niels Bohr Institute) 2024-11-29 16:00: How to disentangle Parton Distribution Functions and new physics signals? (Elie Hammou (DAMTP)) 2024-12-03 11:00: Aspects of Leptogenesis: from the low to the high scale (Jessica Turner, University of Durham) 2024-12-03 15:30: Strongly correlated topological flat bands in the novel class of moiré materials (Dmitri Efetov (LMU Munich)) 2024-12-03 16:00: Monopole-Fermion Scattering is Weird. (David Tong (DAMTP)) 2024-12-05 14:00: Chiral spin model: geometry, chaos & quantum teleportation (Jiannis Pachos, Leeds University) 2024-12-05 15:00: Feeling the strain: quadrupoles, octupoles and beyond (Ian Fisher (Stanford)) 2024-12-06 16:00: Efficient on-shell matching (Jose Santiago (Universidad de Granada)) 2025-01-13 15:00: Fermion pairs and loners under the microscope (Martin Zwierlein (MIT)) 2025-01-21 11:00: 2HDM+a and mono-Higgs at ATLAS (Dr. Nikolai Fomin, University of Cambridge) 2025-01-21 11:15: Unifying foreground emission characterisation across the radio and microwave regimes: implications for cosmology (Dr. Melis Irfan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)) 2025-01-22 11:15: Tuning dimensionality, magnetism and conduction in van-der-Waals Mott insulators FeP(S,Se)3 (Dr. Matthew Coak (School of physics and astronomy, University of Birmingham)) 2025-01-23 14:00: The second law of thermodynamics and its mesoscopic interpretation (Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP)) 2025-01-24 16:00: The hierarchy problem, UV/IR mixing, nonrenormalisation theorems and new approaches to naturalness (Steven Abel (Durham U., IPPP)) 2025-01-28 11:00: GScan’s industrial tracker system for the muon tomography applications (Andi Hektor, GScan) 2025-01-30 14:00: Real Space Approaches to Topological Band Systems (Ryan L Barnett (Imperial College London)) 2025-01-31 16:00: Cosmological tensions? A guide for high energy theorists (William Handley (Cambridge U.)) 2025-02-04 11:00: The Proton EDM experiment (Alex Keshavarzi, University of Manchester) 2025-02-04 11:15: Results of beamline testing at the MROI (Dr. John Young (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2025-02-05 16:15: Exploring Quantum Phases of Matter on Quantum Processors (Frank Pollmann (TU Munich)) 2025-02-06 15:00: Study of RAM Vessel Diameter on Mixing Effectiveness and Faraday Instabilities (Gereon Leckebusch, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-02-06 15:30: Sample geometry for shear testing with a UTM (Benjamin Revie, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-02-06 16:30: Oscillons (Andrzej Wereszynski (Jagiellonian U., Krakow)) 2025-02-07 16:00: Flavour Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the SMEFT Likelihood (Peter Stangl (CERN)) 2025-02-11 11:00: ML beyond Neutrino Physics: Cancer Research (Lorena Escudero) 2025-02-11 11:15: The capacity of Constant Torsion Emergent Gravity to resolve cosmological tensions (Sinah Legner (University of Cambridge)) 2025-02-11 16:00: Spacetime extensions in low regularity (Peter Cameron (Imperial)) 2025-02-13 14:00: Quantum phases of matter under non-unitary dynamics (Izabella Lovas, ETH Zurich) 2025-02-14 14:00:  Anomalous fluctuations in stochastic cellular automata (Takato Yoshimura, Oxford) 2025-02-14 16:00: Flavour Physics at the Intensity Frontier (Stefan Schacht (Durham U.)) 2025-02-18 11:00: Past, present and future involvement in the ATLAS experiment (Laura Fabbri, University of Bologna) 2025-02-18 11:15: Accounting for Noise and Singularities in Bayesian Calibration Methods for Global 21-cm Cosmology Experiments (Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge)) 2025-02-18 16:00: The S Algebra in Self-Dual Yang-Mills: Twistorial and Spacetime Perspectives (Adam Kmec (Oxford)) 2025-02-19 16:15: Searching for new physics with ultracold molecules (Michael Tarbutt (Imperial College)) 2025-02-21 16:00: Robust estimates of theoretical uncertainties at fixed-order in perturbation theory (Rene Poncelet (Cracow, INP)) 2025-02-25 11:00: Influence of gravity on atomic interferometers (Jeremiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge) 2025-02-25 11:15: Exoplanet Detection with SPIRIT: Infrared CMOS Photometry and the Discovery of the Hot Neptune TOI-2407b (Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge)) 2025-02-25 16:00: On kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1. (Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne)) 2025-02-26 16:15: Porous nitride semiconductors for novel light sources (Rachel Oliver (DMSM)) 2025-02-27 14:00: Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene (Steve Simon, Oxford) 2025-02-27 15:00: Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions (Helen Chadwick, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea) 2025-02-28 16:00: The two-pole nature of the Lambda(1405) from lattice QCD (John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum)) 2025-03-03 16:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University) 2025-03-04 11:00: Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold (Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester) 2025-03-04 11:15: Cygnus X-3 in 2024: many giant radio flares! (Prof. Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2025-03-04 16:00: TBA (Nick Manton (DAMTP)) 2025-03-05 11:15: Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials (Max Birch - RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science) 2025-03-05 16:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University) 2025-03-06 11:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University) 2025-03-06 14:00: The Rise of Density Functional Theory......or.....Millions of Lucky Flukes (and counting)! (Prof. Mike C. Payne, FRS (Cambridge)) 2025-03-07 16:00: A new look for the pion form factor (Matthew Kirk (Durham U.)) 2025-03-11 11:00: Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS (Lars Henkelmann) 2025-03-12 00:00: Coupling Light with Matter to Compute (CANCELLED) (Natalia Berloff (DAMTP)) 2025-03-12 11:00: Quantum circuits models for free independence (Pieter Claeys, MPIPKS Dresden) 2025-03-13 14:00: Generative models, rare events and tensor networks (Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham)) 2025-03-13 15:00: On the beamline: Studying surfaces at a 3rd generation synchrotron facility (Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell) 2025-03-14 14:00: From two to three dimensions: Impact of stacking order on electronic properties of graphene and graphite (Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski (Bath)) 2025-03-14 16:00: A linear PDF model for robust Bayesian inference (Mark Costantini (DAMTP)) 2025-03-19 11:15: Multi-layer Crystal Field Effect in locally non-centrosymmetric compounds (Marie-Aude Measson - CNRS Institut Neel) 2025-03-21 16:00: Challenges and developments in the determination of Parton Distribution Functions (Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN)) 2025-03-24 14:00: Nonlinear transport and photocurrent in 2D electronic liquids (Habib Rostami (Bath)) 2025-03-26 16:00: Fractional Charge and Fractional Statistics & how they are connected (Prof. Thors Hans Hansson (Stockholm)) 2025-03-27 14:00: Field-induced Multi-Q⃗ States in a Pyrochlore Heisenberg Magnet (Cecilie Glittum (Helmholtz-Zentum Berlin)) 2025-04-01 11:00: Searching for light-dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters (Prof./Dr. Patrick Knights, University of Birmingham) 2025-04-11 15:00: Quantum geometry and topology with (a) spin (Dr Gunnar Lange (Oslo)) 2025-04-14 11:15: Modified Cu-charge density wave, altermagnetic property and non-reciprocal transport at manganite/cuprate interface (Subhrangsu Sarkar, University of Fribourgo) 2025-04-14 15:00: Extra seminar: Are we all set with materials for qubits? (Sergey Frolov (University of Pittsburgh)) 2025-04-15 14:00: Quantum geometry effects in flat bands (Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma) 2025-04-24 14:00: Gibbs state preparation on digital quantum simulators (Dominik Hahn, Oxford) 2025-04-29 11:00: Axion dark matter - The Good, Bad and New ways to detect it (Martin Bauer: Durham University, IPPP) 2025-05-01 14:00: Modelling Interactions in Biology (Prof. Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci, FRS (Cambridge)) 2025-05-01 15:00: The mechanical properties of wood at high rates of strain (Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-05-02 16:00: Connecting scales in the SMEFT at the LHC and future colliders (Jaco ter Hoeve (University of Edinburgh)) 2025-05-06 11:00: LHCb Upgrade II - Flavour Physics at HL-LHC (Dan Thompson: University of Birmingham) 2025-05-06 14:00: Cocktail Effects in Superconductivity: High-Entropy Approach to Antimonide Compounds (Professor Daigorou Hirai, Nagoya University) 2025-05-06 16:00: General solution to gauged U(1) anomaly equations (Ben Allanach (DAMTP)) 2025-05-07 16:15: Quantum Computational Physics (Simon Trebst (Cologne)) 2025-05-08 14:00: An integrated computational physics approach for magnetically confined plasma (Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge)) 2025-05-08 15:00: Can we design fatigue-resistant alloys? (Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-05-09 14:00: Photonic Pseudomagnetism and Landau Levels (Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State) 2025-05-09 16:00: Resummation of Non-Global Logarithms (Nicolas Schalch (Oxford U.)) 2025-05-13 11:00: Single charge pion production cross-sections at MicroBooNE (Philip Detje: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-13 11:15: Testing the HARPS3 Data Reduction Pipeline with Synthetic Spectra to achieve Earth-Twin RV Precision (Alicia Anderson (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2025-05-13 16:00: Einstein-Maxwell instantons, complex structures, and the Geroch group (Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh)) 2025-05-14 11:15: Pathways towards High-Temperature Superconductivity (Sven Friedemann - HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK) 2025-05-15 15:00: Prediction and its application to mechanical properties (Peter Gould) 2025-05-16 16:00: TBA (Tyler Corbett (Vienna U.)) 2025-05-20 11:00: A general approach to quantum integration of cross sections in high-energy physics (Ifan Williams: Quantinuum) 2025-05-20 11:15: A 21-cm Cosmologist’s Journey: From Cambridge to North America and Back Again (Dr. Peter Sims (University of Cambridge)) 2025-05-21 16:15: New Frontiers in Superconducting Quantum Hardware (Martin Weides (Glasgow)) 2025-05-22 14:00: Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (Prof. Sir David Clary, FRS (University of Oxford)) 2025-05-22 15:00: A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story (John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-05-27 11:00: Treating Cancer with Proton Beam Therapy (Simon Jolly: University College London) 2025-05-27 11:15: Bayesian anomaly detection for Cosmology - 21cm, Supernovae, and beyond (Samuel Leeney (University of Cambridge)) 2025-05-30 16:00: Searching for Ultra-light dark matter with atomic & nuclear clocks and Interferometers (Hannah Banks (Cambridge U.)) 2025-06-03 11:00: Quarkonia production in jets at LHCb and in Pythia 8 (Naomi Cooke: University of Glasgow) 2025-06-03 11:15: Prebiotic Chemistry, Exoplanets and Stellar Flaring (Lukas Rossmanith) 2025-06-04 11:00: Exploring charge density waves in twisted bilayer NbSe2 with machine learning (Dr Zac Goodwin (Oxford)) 2025-06-04 16:15: The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter (Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)) 2025-06-05 14:00: “Old and new physics in the J1-J2 Heisenberg spin chain” (Prof. Chris Hooley (Coventry)) 2025-06-06 14:00: Deep Learning many-body electronic structure (Prof. Ji CHEN (Peking University)) 2025-06-10 11:00: Joint 3-flavour neutrino analysis of T2K and NOvA data (Patrick Dunne: Imperial College London) 2025-06-10 11:15: Intuitive knowledge systems for discovery (Akeelah Bertram (Cavendish Arts Science Fellow)) 2025-06-11 11:00: Time-Resolved Collapse and Revival of the Heavy-Fermion State by Pulsed Light (Michael Turaev, University of Bonn) 2025-06-12 14:00: Exciton (De)Localization and Dissociation in Heterogeneous Semiconductors from First Principles Computational Modeling (Prof. Marina Filip (Oxford)) 2025-06-12 14:00: The enigmatic long-period radio transients (Prof. Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University)) 2025-06-13 16:00: Evanescent Operators, Schemes, and Prescriptions (Marko Pesut (Zurich U.)) 2025-06-17 11:00: The ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter: an historical perspective (Prof. Michel Lefebvre, University of Victoria) 2025-06-17 11:15: Love Bites: The Deadly Romance of Spider Pulsars (Prof. Rene Breton (University of Manchester)) 2025-06-19 14:00: Four Generations of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials (Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)) 2025-06-25 11:00: Entrepreneurship as a Career Option for Physicists (Benat Mencia) 2025-06-25 11:00: The Galaxy-Environment Connection: Perspectives from the Radio Skies (Dr Catherine Hale, University of Oxford) 2025-06-30 11:00: Extremes of Physics: Understanding radio pulsars through large-scale surveys on the path to the SKA (Dr Lucy Oswald, Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton) 2025-07-01 11:15: The Most Ambitious Radio Astronomy Endeavour of the 21st Century? Science, Technology and Engineering Dialogues in a Large-scale Project (Prof. Howard Reader) 2025-07-02 11:00: Machine Learning the Infant Universe (Dr Harry Bevins, University of Cambridge) 2025-07-02 14:00: Quo Vadis Quantum Dynamics? (David M Weld (UC Santa Barbara)) 2025-07-02 14:00: Quo Vadis Quantum Dynamics? (David M Weld (UC Santa Barbara)) 2025-07-04 14:00: Approaching precise device scale all-atom simulations of crystallisation of halide perovskites (Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge)) 2025-07-08 11:15: Optimizing Data Delivery and Scalable HI Profile Classification for the SKA Era: Infrastructure and Science Challenges at the Spanish SRC (Dr. Manu Parra-Royón (Astrophysics Institute of Andalucia - Spanish National Research Council)) 2025-07-09 11:15: The effect of staggered local environments on quantum spin chains (Paul Goddard - University of Warwick) 2025-07-10 14:00: Control of spin current in a canted antiferromagnet (Prof. Haiming Yu (Beihang)) 2025-07-21 11:00: Galaxy clusters as cosmological laboratories (Dr Yvette Perrott, Victoria University of Wellington) 2025-07-22 14:00: Fluid dynamics and quantum geometry in the quantum Hall effect (Duncan Haldane (Princeton)) 2025-07-24 14:00: Unveiling emergent phenomena in "digital" quantum trajectories (Dr Federico Carollo (Coventry University)) 2025-08-04 11:00: Complexity beyond entanglement - magic of many-body systems (Marcello Dalmonte (ICTP Trieste)) 2025-08-05 14:00: Surface Visualization of Bacterial Biofilms using Neutral Atom Microscopy (Professor Paul Dastoor, University of Newcastle) 2025-08-07 15:00: First-principles Investigation of Nonlinear Optical Crystals using CASTEP (Ming-Hsien Lee (Department of Physics, Tamkang University; TCM, 1991-1995)) 2025-08-12 14:00: Helium Spin Echo – An Open Quantum System (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-08-19 14:00: Quantum Hydrodynamics (Dylan Reynolds, ICTS Bangalore) 2025-08-19 14:00: Thermodynamics, phonon occupation numbers, and their measurements by helium spin echo (Dr Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboraroty, University of Cambridge) 2025-09-23 14:00: A phase microscope for quantum gases (Prof Christof Weitenberg, TU Dortmund) 2025-10-02 14:00: Artificial Kitaev chains in quantum dots coupled through superconductors (Prof. Greg Mazur) 2025-10-07 11:00: Precision at Peak Performance: CMS Delivers the Most Precise Luminosity Measurement at any bunched-beam hadron collider (Dr. Christopher Palmer, University of Maryland) 2025-10-08 16:15: Non-reciprocal phase transitions (Peter Littlewood (The University of Chicago)) 2025-10-09 14:00: Electronic response to ion projectiles traversing matter from first principles (Prof. Emilio Artacho (Cambridge & Nanogune)) 2025-10-10 16:00: Short- vs Long-Distance Dynamics in b->sll Decays (Arianna Tinari (Zurich U.)) 2025-10-14 11:00: Charmless B → VV decays: B0(s) → φφ (Mary Slipper, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-14 15:30: Summer project presentation (Zixuan Chai, Joseph Morris, William Royce, and Ben Collishaw Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-15 16:15: Hunting for Hidden Order (Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich)) 2025-10-16 14:00: Disorder and Symmetries in Lindbladian models (Arijeet Pal, UCL) 2025-10-16 15:00: Using nuclear imaging, numerical simulation, and lightweight AI to optimise industrial systems (Kit Windows-Yule, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham) 2025-10-17 16:00: PhysLean: Digitalizing physics into Lean (Joseph Tooby-Smith (Reykjavik University)) 2025-10-21 11:00: Water-based quantum dots liquid scintillator for particle physics (Teppei Katori, King's College London) 2025-10-21 11:15: The Origin and Polarization of Fast Radio Bursts (Dr. Weiyang Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)) 2025-10-21 13:30: Journal Club: Diffraction of helium and hydrogen atoms through single-layer graphene (Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-21 16:00: Standing gravitational waves (Sebastian Szybka (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)) 2025-10-23 14:00: Quantum Coherence of Diamond NV Centers Near Surfaces, Interfaces, and Dislocations (Jonah Nagura (Chicago)) 2025-10-23 15:00: In-process monitoring and metal additive manufacturing: from scientific insight to real-time digital quality assurance (Paul Hooper, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College) 2025-10-24 16:00: Two-Loop Renormalization of Effective Field Theories (Luca Naterop (Zurich U.)) 2025-10-28 11:00: Investigating the polarisation puzzle with B0(s) -> K*K* decays at LHCb (Matthew Monk, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-28 15:30: Simulations in a Dynamic Basis (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-29 16:15: Theory of g factors in semiconductors — some history, and new insights (David DiVincenzo (Forschungszentrum Jülich & JARA Institute for Quantum Information, Aachen)) 2025-10-30 14:00: Quantum transport in disordered Chern insulators (Benoit Doucot (LPTHE, CNRS and Sorbonne University)) 2025-11-04 11:00: HV-MAPS Pixel Detectors for Particle Tracking and LiDAR: A Dual-Use Silicon R&D (Tianqi Gao, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-04 11:15: Measuring Advanced Light Sources and their Optics using Interferometry and Self-Cal (Bojan Nikolic (University of Cambridge)) 2025-11-04 16:00: Energy in spacetimes with negative cosmological constant (Virinchi Rallabhandi (University of Edinburgh)) 2025-11-05 14:00: Exciton-phonon interaction in semiconductors: theory, coding and applications (Dr Fulvio Paleari (CNR Istituto Nanoscienze, Modena)) 2025-11-06 14:00: Altering electrical transport in 2D materials through sub-wavelength cavities (Marco Polini, University of Pisa) 2025-11-06 15:00: Unlocking new materials for the hydrogen economy (Paul Dastoor, Department of Physics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) 2025-11-07 14:00: Hyperbolic Fracton Models: Bridging AdS/CFT and Self-Correcting Code (Prof. Han YAN (Tokyo)) 2025-11-07 14:00: Journal Club: Electric Field Effect Tuning of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene (Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-11-07 16:00: Parton showers beyond leading colour (Jeffrey R. Forshaw (Manchester U.)) 2025-11-11 11:00: First Measurement of Electron Neutrino Pion Production on a Carbon Target (Nicholas Latham, King's College London) 2025-11-11 11:15: Creating a physically accurate CEM model of the REACH for global 21-cm cosmology (Dr. John Cumner (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2025-11-11 14:00: From the beginning of the universe to the theory of everything: A brief history of Quantum Field Theory. (Field theory in Surface Physics series 1) (Min Lin, Cavedish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-11 16:00: Black Hole Binary Dynamics and  High Precision Gravitational Scattering (Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)) 2025-11-11 16:00: RG-stability of parameter relations in the absence of a conventional symmetry (Howie Haber, University of California Santa Cruz) 2025-11-12 16:15: Tensor networks: entanglement as building blocks of quantum matter (Frank Verstraete (DAMTP, Cambridge)) 2025-11-13 14:00: Witnessing the Quantum Spin Liquid in Herbertsmithite (Prof. Felix Flicker (Bristol)) 2025-11-13 15:00: Nanoscale thermodynamics (Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford) 2025-11-18 11:00: LiquidO opaque scintillator detectors and the physics opportunities (Jeff Hartnell, University of Sussex) 2025-11-18 11:15: Insights into the Epoch of Reionization from galaxies in the first billion years (Dr. Lily Whitler (Kavli Institute for Cosmology)) 2025-11-18 13:40: SHeM for Battery Materials Characterisation: Insights Inspired by H-Si(111) (Ke Wang, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-18 16:00: Energy transfer mechanisms in non-integrable solitons' interactions ( Azadeh Mohammadi (Federal University of Pernambuco)) 2025-11-20 14:00: Publishing in Nature Journals: An editor’s insight (Dr Giulia Pacchioni (Nature Review Materials)) 2025-11-20 15:00: Challenges and opportunities in understanding the dynamic behaviour of engineering materials under complex loading paths (Antonio Pellegrino, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Bath) 2025-11-21 16:00: Topological Portals to the Dark Sector (Nudžeim Selimović (INFN, Padua)) 2025-11-24 14:00: Topological Non-Abelian Gauge Structures in Cayley–Schreier Lattices (Tomáš Bzdušek (Zurich)) 2025-11-25 11:00: The land of dark sectors: A collider perspective (Sukanya Sinha, University of Manchester) 2025-11-25 11:15: Real-Time Wideband Widefield Mutual Coupling Compensation for SKA-Low (Dr. Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2025-11-25 14:00: Characterizing a Quantum Environment (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-27 14:00: Topology at Scale: Bridging Topological Phases, Critical Phenomena, and Real-Space Embedding (Antimo Marrazzo (SISSA)) 2025-11-28 16:00: Bayesian Analysis and Analytic Continuation of Scattering Amplitudes from Lattice QCD (Miguel Salg (U. Bern, AEC)) 2025-12-02 10:00: Quantum mixtures in a box (Dr Christoph Eigen, AMOP, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-12-02 11:00: The Pandora Project (John Marshall, University of Warwick) 2025-12-02 11:15: Constructing Radio Foreground Maps with REACH (Daniel Robins (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2025-12-02 14:00: Using AI for instrument development and digital sandbox (Ke Wang, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-12-02 15:30: First Steps Toward Understanding Ice Formation in Plants (Prof. Gabriele C. Sosso) 2025-12-03 16:15: Cold Atom Quantum Technology to Explore Fundamental Physics (Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College London & Oxford University)) 2025-12-04 14:00: Extracting Anyon Statistics from Neural Network Fractional Quantum Hall States (Andres Perez Fadon, Imperial College) 2025-12-05 16:00: Feynman integral reduction using syzygy-constrained symbolic reduction rules (Sid Smith (U. Padua, Dept. Phys. Astron.)) 2025-12-09 14:00: Quantitative Reconstruction of Low Aspect Ratio MoS₂ Bubbles via Specular Contrast (Chenyang Zhao, Cavendish Laboratory) 2025-12-11 14:00: Are the Ce pyrochlores quantum spin liquids - and how could we know for sure? (Owen Benton, Queen Mary University of London) 2025-12-12 15:15: First-principles open quantum dynamics based on a density-matrix formalism for spin-optotronic properties in solids  (Yuan PING (University of Wisconsin - Madison)) 2026-01-15 14:00: Leveraging theory and simulation to decode and design multidimensional electronic spectroscopies in the condensed phase (Prof. Thomas E. Markland (Stanford)) 2026-01-19 12:30: The Bumpy Road to Net Zero (David Reiner (Judge Business School)) 2026-01-20 11:00: Searches for Supersymmetry using two or three leptons with ATLAS detector (Dr Shuhui Huang (University of Cambridge)) 2026-01-20 11:15: Measuring the diffuse Galactic synchrotron spectral index and curvature between 45 and 2300 MHz (Dr. Melis Irfan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)) 2026-01-20 14:00: Density Functional Theory: Fundamental Principles and Applications (Min Lin, Cavendish Laboratory) 2026-01-22 14:00: Topological design of light beams: vortices, knots, textures & beyond (Mark Dennis (Birmingham)) 2026-01-23 12:30: The Bumpy Road to Net Zero (David Reiner (Judge Business School)) 2026-01-23 16:00: Among the Rarest: Theoretical Insights into Four Top-Quark Production at the LHC (Michele Lupattelli (Münster U.)) 2026-01-27 11:00: Searching for long-lived heavy neutrinos at the LHC (Dominique Trischuk (University of Victoria)) 2026-01-27 11:15: The SuperSharp story - a space tech company spun out of Cambridge Astronomy (Ian Parry (IoA and CTO of SuperSharp Space Systems Ltd)) 2026-01-27 14:00: Journal club: High resolution neutron Larmor diffraction using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms (Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2026-01-29 15:00: Directional reflectance microscopy: Beyond conventional crystal orientation mapping (Matteo Seita, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2026-01-30 16:00: Towards precision Studies of B → Kπ l+ l- from Lattice QCD Beyond the Narrow-Width Approximation (Felix Erben, CERN) 2026-02-03 11:00: Hints of Dark Matter at the LHC in Electroweak SUSY final states? (Alessandro Ruggiero (University of Oxford)) 2026-02-03 11:15: Exploring Pathways from Chemistry to Complexity in Dynamic Environments (Skyla White (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2026-02-03 14:00: Quantum Simulations of Ballistic Motion (Matthew Ord, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-04 09:30: From Optimal Gridding toward Learning-Based Imaging in Radio Interferometry (Dr Haoyang Ye, Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory) 2026-02-05 13:00: Biophysics of motility of unicellular organisms (Prof. Antonio De Simone) 2026-02-05 15:00: A Journey From The Center Of The Earth (Charles Carrigan, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-06 12:30: Perspectives on Green Chemistry Innovation (Ruth Pegington (Cambridge Display Technology)) 2026-02-06 16:00: NNLO QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a jet (Colomba Brancaccio (Turin U.)) 2026-02-10 11:00: Muon Collider As The Next Generation Particle Physics Facility (Karol Krizka (University of Birmingham)) 2026-02-10 14:00: Measurement of electrical currents (Bill Allison, Cavendish Lab) 2026-02-11 16:15: Emergent physics in atomically thin semiconductors (Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich)) 2026-02-12 14:00: From Anderson to Many-Body localization: Instabilities in the random-field XXZ chain (Dr Jeanne Colbois (CNRS)) 2026-02-12 15:00: Experimental-Numerical Failure Investigation in Adhesively Bonded Lightweight Structures in Extreme Mechanical Environments (Maria Lißner, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) 2026-02-12 15:30: Topological pumping and quantum information (Konrad Viebahn ETH Zurich) 2026-02-13 16:00: Untangling the IBP Equations (William Liu (University of Cambridge)) 2026-02-17 11:00: The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy from Non-Supersymmetric String Theory (Susha Parameswaran (University of Liverpool)) 2026-02-17 11:15: Introduction to Cavendish Arts Science Fellow Thulani Rachia (Thulani Rachia) 2026-02-19 14:00: Functional theory of the occupied spectral density and solution of its dynamical Euler-Lagrange equations (Prof. Andrea Ferretti) 2026-02-20 12:30: Why Water’s Worth Weighing: The Missing Molecule in Materials of the Future (Ben Davey (Xylem)) 2026-02-20 16:00: Top-Yukawa- and light-quark-induced electroweak corrections to Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion (Arunima Bhattacharya (Valencia U., IFIC)) 2026-02-23 16:15: 2026 Scott Lectures: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage – past present and future (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)) 2026-02-24 11:00: Towards the discovery of 0vbb: first results from LEGEND (William Quinn (University College London)) 2026-02-24 11:15: A new legacy of Cavendish radio astronomy: high dynamic range imaging of 3CRR (Dr. Vijay Mahatma (Cavendish Astrophysics)) 2026-02-25 16:15: 2026 Scott Lectures: 2D van der Waals materials for spintronics (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)) 2026-02-26 14:00: Exciton Self-Trapping, Frozen Disorder, and Morphotropic Phase Boundaries in Halide Perovskites (Prof. Julia Wiktor (Chalmers)) 2026-02-26 15:00: The effect of damage on the mechanical response and sensitiveness of energetic composites (Kieran Heal, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-26 16:15: Novel quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits (Pedram Roushan (Google Quantum AI)) 2026-02-27 11:00: 2026 Scott Lectures: Superconducting Spintronics for Racetrack Memory (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)) 2026-02-27 16:00: Baryogenesis in the 2HDM+a (Tom Gent (University of Sussex)) 2026-03-03 11:00: Cancelled: Semiconductor-based neutron detector development at QMUL (Adrian John Bevan, Queen Mary University of London) 2026-03-03 16:00: Gravitational instantons with a cosmological constant (Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh)) 2026-03-05 14:00: The saga of chiral transitions in arrays of Rydberg atoms (Natalia Chepiga (Oxford)) 2026-03-05 15:00: Measuring phonons with the spin of helium atoms (Boyao Liu, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2026-03-06 12:30: Plasmas, Plants and Partnerships: Supporting Industrial Decarbonisation through Fusion Energy (Ben Evans (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)) 2026-03-06 16:00: Precision Monte Carlo Tools and Resummation of Soft-Photon Effects for Low-Energy e+e- Scattering (Jérémy Paltrinieri, University of Liverpool) 2026-03-10 11:00: Building the ITk strips detector (Dr. Bart Hommels (University of Cambridge)) 2026-03-11 16:15: How should we use (classical) computers to simulate (realistic) electrons? (George Booth (King's College London)) 2026-03-12 14:00: Superconducting pairing correlations on a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer (Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum)) 2026-03-13 16:00: Precision Determinations of Electromagnetic Corrections to Hadronic Processes at Low Energies (Nils Hermansson-Truedsson (Universty of Edinburgh)) 2026-03-17 11:00: Accelerator Developments for Particle Physics at the Cockcroft Institute (Peter Ratoff (University of Lancaster)) 2026-03-19 11:00: Rare beauty decays as precision probes of new physics (Dr Harry Cliff, Cavendish Laboratory) 2026-03-19 14:00: Fractional Chern and topological insulators (Prof. Titus Mangham-Neupert (Zurich)) 2026-03-20 12:30: Sustainable Battery Design & Supply Chain (Lukas Gazda (BMZ)) 2026-03-20 15:00: Toponium at the LHC: a new frontier in top-quark physics (Benjamin Fuks (Paris, LPTHE)) 2026-03-24 14:00: Mechanical characterisation of materials using Virtual Fields Method (Vivian Perez, Cavendish Laboratory) 2026-03-26 11:00: Making the Unseen Seen: Rare B Decays with Invisible Signatures (Dr Slavomira Stefkova) 2026-03-26 11:00: Making the Unseen Seen: Rare B Decays with Invisible Signatures (Dr Slavomira Stefkova) 2026-03-26 14:00: Shift current response in 2D materials – A study in moiré graphene systems and Janus transition-metal dichalcogenides (Dr Yuncheng Mao (Aix-Marseille Université)) 2026-03-31 11:00: Chasing footprints of massive new physics (Dr Mark Smith) 2026-03-31 14:00: Investigating the optically silent phonons in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) (Aleksandar Radić, Cavendish Laboratory) 2026-04-02 11:00: Looking Forward: Exploring Nature at High Precision (Dr Will Barter) 2026-04-23 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lukasz Fidkowski (Washington)) 2026-04-30 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Adrian E. Feiguin (Northeastern)) 2026-04-30 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Ken Lewtas, The Falcon Project Ltd.) 2026-04-30 16:15: Toward affordable preventive healthcare (Ferenc Krausz (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)) 2026-05-06 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Natalia Berloff (DAMTP)) 2026-05-07 14:00: Synthesizing Diverse Policies for Multi-Agent Coordination (Prof. Amanda Prorok (Cambridge)) 2026-05-12 16:00: Carrollian momenta from anti de Sitter ( Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechnique)) 2026-05-14 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Raul Perea-Causin (Stockholm)) 2026-05-14 15:00: Advances in Label-Free High-Resolution Molecular Imaging using J Series III Cluster SIMS (Naoko Sano, Ionoptika. Ltd., Chandler’s Ford, UK) 2026-05-20 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Sougato Bose (University College London)) 2026-05-21 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Marko Ljubotina (TUM)) 2026-05-21 15:00: How bubble acoustics can help in three apocalypses (Tim Leighton, Sloan Water Technology, Romsey, Hampshire) 2026-05-26 16:00: Shape modes of CP^1 vortices (Nora Gavrea (Leeds)) 2026-06-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Emil J. Bergholtz (Stockholm)) 2026-06-03 16:15: Quantum optics with organic molecules (Vahid Sandoghdar (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)) 2026-06-04 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. José J. Baldoví (University of Valencia)) 2026-06-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Tomáš Bzdušek (UZH)) 2026-06-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Denis Bartolo (ENS, Lyon)) 2026-07-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Teuta Pilizota (Cambridge)) : Title to be confirmed (Kazuki Sakurai (Cambridge))