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Date Details
Monday, 17th December Prof. Vladimir Minogin
(SFI Walton Fellow CIT/Tyndall National Institute and Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Toitsk)
"Focusing of Atomic Microbeams by Near-Field Atom Microlenses"
Thursday, 13th December at 12.30pm PhD Presentation by Marco Wisse (Physics Department, U.C.C.)
"Charge-Exchange Spectroscopy in the MAST Tokamak"
Monday, 10th December The following Physics Department and Tyndall staff will give short talks about their research:
  1. Paddy McCarthy - "Plasma Group activities and current projects"
  2. Eoin O'Reilly - "The Physics of Photonic Materials and Devices"
  3. Brian Corbett - "III-V materials and devices for everyday applications"
Monday, 3rd December Prof. Jorg Schmiedmayer (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
"Atom Chips: Integrated Circuits for Matter Waves"
(Schrodinger Lecture 2007)
Monday, 26th November John Inglesfield (University of Cardiff, UK)
"Optics of Natural Phenomena: Rainbows, Haloes and Glories"
(Part of Institute of Physics in Ireland Lecture Programme)
Monday, 19th November Michael Köhl (University of Cambridge, UK)
"Quantum Atom Optics: Observing particles beneath the waves"
Wednesday, 14th November Richard Jones (University of Sheffield, UK)
"Soft Machines: What nanotechnology can learn from biology"
(Part of Institute of Physics in Ireland Lecture Programme)
Monday, 12th November The following Physics Department staff will give short talks about their research:
  1. Paul Callanan - "Accretion disks in X-ray Binaries"
  2. Frank Peters - "Photonic Integration - Using Light in the 21st Century"
  3. John McInerney - "Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers"
Monday, 5th November The following Physics Department and Tyndall staff will give short talks about their research:
  1. Paul Townsend - Keeping Secrets with Quantum Mechanics
  2. Rod Webb - "Digital Processing with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers"
  3. Emanuele Pelucchi - "Single, site-controlled quantum dots by MOVPE"
Monday, 29th October Bank Holiday - No Seminar
Monday, 22nd October The following Physics Department staff will give short talks about their research:
  1. Denise Gabuzda - "Probing the Nuclei of Active Galaxies"
  2. Andy Ruth - "Highly Sensitive Molecular Absorption Spectroscopy"
  3. Niall Ó Murchadha - "Solving the Binary Black Hole Problem"
Monday, 15th October Nick Quirke (University College Dublin)
"Nanofluidics: A Big Fuss About Nothing?"
(Part of Institute of Physics in Ireland Lecture Programme)
Monday, 8th October The following Physics Department staff will give short talks about their research:
  1. Thomas Busch - "Ultracold Quantum Gases"
  2. Síle Nic Chormaic - "Microfibres for Quantum Optics"
  3. Stephen Fahy - "Electron Dynamics in Solids: Frontiers in the ultra-fast and ultra-small"