| Date, Time, Place *NOTE NEW TIME AND LOCATION | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Tuesday,
Feb. 1, 2005 12:00pm, PHYS 4220 |
Howard E.
Brandt, ARL Fellow, U.S.
Army Research Laboratory A Special-Purpose Quantum Computer for Quantum Cryptography (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 12:15pm, PHYS 4220 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Lin Tian, University of Innsbruck Quantum Engineering of Nanomechanical Modes by a Trapped Ion (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005 12:15pm, PHYS 4220 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar: Wenhui Li, University of Virginia Dipole-Dipole Interactions in a Frozen Rydberg Gas (abstract) |
| Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005 3:30pm, CSIC (bldg 406); 1115 |
Suggestion
to attend CDS
lecture: Hideo Mabuchi, California Institute of Technology Measurement and control in quantum information science (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2005 12:15pm, PHYS 4220 |
Morton Rubin, UMBC Discrete Wigner Functions and Mutually Unbiased Bases (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2005 12:15pm, PHYS 4220 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar: Ting Yu, University of Rochester Finite-Time Disentanglement via Spontaneous Emission (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2005 4:00pm, Physics Lecture Hall |
Suggestion
to attend Physics
Colloquium: Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics? (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2005 12:15pm, PHYS 4220 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar: Ana Maria Rey, NIST Damped center of mass oscillations of a 1-D Bose gas in an optical lattice (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2005 12:15pm, PHYS 4220 |
Perry Rice, Miami University (home
page) Using Correlation Functions To Measure Entanglement in Quantum Optics (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2005 4:00pm, Physics Lecture Hall |
Suggestion
to attend Physics
Colloquium: Chris Monroe, University of Michigan Quantum Computing with Individual Atoms and Photons (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2005 10:30am, NIST Bldg 215, Rm C106 Visitor pre-registration required. contact: sanjiv.shresta@nist.gov |
Suggestion
to attend NIST Atomic Physics Division
Seminar: William D. Phillips, UMD and NIST A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: Cold atoms meet solid state (abstract) |
| Tuesday, May 3, 2005 2pm-5pm, National Academy of Sciences Auditorium 2100 C St, NW, Washington, DC |
Suggestion
to attend NAS
Symposium: John Preskill, California Institute of Technology From Quantum Entanglement to Quantum Computing: Putting weirdness to work |
Fall
2004
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Monday, Aug. 30, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Howard J. Carmichael, Univ of Auckland A Quantum Trajectory Formalism for Continuous Variable Teleportation. (abstract) |
| Thursday, Sep. 2, 2004 1:30pm, George Mason Univ, Mason Hall, Room D3A&B |
Suggestion to attend QUIC seminar:
Yakir Aharonov, George Mason Univ How To Probe Quantum Reality Without Disturbing It. (link) |
| Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Tom Shiokawa, UMD Qubit Decoherence and Control via Effective Spin-Boson Model. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Frederick W. Strauch, UMD Multiparticle Entanglement in a Macroscopic Superconducting Circuit. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Sanjiv Shresta,
NIST Non-Markovian qubit dynamics in a thermal field bath: Relaxation, decoherence and entanglement. (abstract) |
| Monday, Oct. 4, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Daniel Greenberger, City College of New York A Very General Bell's Theorem Without Inequalities for Two Particles. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Michael Steiner, Naval Research Laboratory Measurement Problem reduced to 2-qubit entanglement. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Keith Schwab, Laboratory for the Physical Sciences and National
Security Agency Progress on Mechanical Experiments Near the Uncertainty Principle Limit. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Ron W Rendell, Naval Research Laboratory Contractive Entanglement in Squeezed State Evolution. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Postponed to Nov 16. |
| Friday, Nov. 5, 2004 10:30am, NRL Bldg. 60 Auditorium |
Suggestion to attend QUIC
seminar: Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology Cavity QED - From Purcell and Casimir to the Era of Strong Coupling for Single Atoms and Photons (link) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004 3:30pm, LPS Seminar room, lower level contact: Dr. Ho (ho@lps.umd.edu) |
Suggestion to attend LPS seminar:
Rajarshri Roy, Univiversity of Maryland Non-Linear Dynamics of Lasers and Feedback |
| Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Chris Moseley, U. S. Military Academy, Westpoint Quantum Control and the Griffiths Formulation. (abstract) |
| Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004 3:30pm, LPS Seminar room, lower level contact: Dr. Ho (ho@lps.umd.edu) |
Suggestion to attend LPS
seminar: Chia Hung Yang, Univiversity of Maryland Spin Berry Phase: Observation of Beating in a Semiconductor Ring |
| Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar: Eite Tiesinga, NIST Ultracold Atomic Gases (abstract) |
| Friday, Dec. 10, 2004 10:30am, NRL Bldg. 60 Auditorium |
Suggestion to attend QUIC seminar:
Seth Lloyd, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Limits to Measuring Spacetime Geometry (link) |
| Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Paul Lett, NIST A (Proposed) Experiment to Determine the Correct Stress-Energy Tensor, or: What is the Momentum of a Photon in a Dielectric? (abstract) |
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Monday, Feb. 2, 2004 3:00pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Julio Gea-Banacloche, Univ of Arkansas and NIST Quantum error correction for correlated errors. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Yaakov S. Weinstein, Naval Research Laboratory Pseudo-Random Operators for Quantum Information Processing. (abstract) |
| Monday, Feb. 16, 2004 3:00pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Howard Wiseman, Griffith University TBA. (abstract) |
| Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004 12:00pm, NIST, Gaithersburg contact sanjiv@physics.umd.edu |
no QCI seminar this week. Suggestion to
attend QIBEC seminar: Peter Zoller, Univ of Innsbruck TBA. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Ting Yu, Univ of Rochester Qubit Entanglement and Decoherence (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Mar. 9, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Julio Gea-Banacloche, Univ of Arkansas and NIST Consequences of field quantization for quantum logic: surprises and pitfalls (abstract) |
| Monday, Mar. 15, 2004 3:00pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute Dynamical control of entanglement and decoherence: from nano - to macro- systems (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Philip R. Johnson, University of Maryland Distinguishing quantum from classical in coupled phase qubits (abstract) |
| Monday, Apr. 5, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint AMO and QCI Seminar:
Ali Vaziri, NIST and Univ of Vienna Entangled Quantum States of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Ana Maria Rey, UMD and NIST Bragg Spectroscopy of ultracold atoms loaded in an optical lattice (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
James Franson, APL Johns Hopkins Univ Quantum Computing Using Single Photons and the Zeno Effect (abstract) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
A. K. Rajagopal, Naval Research Laboratory Two-Mode Gaussian States: Uncertainty, EPR Pairs, Squeezing and Entanglement (abstract) |
| Thursday, Apr. 29, 2004 2:00pm, PHYS 1201 |
Suggestion to attend Condensed Matter
seminar: Krishnendu Sengupta, Yale University Mott insulator to superfluid transition of ultracold atoms near a Feshbach resonance. (abstract) |
| Tuesday, May 4, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Steven Bullock and Gavin Brennen,
NIST and UMD Time Reversal Symmetry and Entangled Eigenstates (abstract) |
| Tuesday, June 1, 2004 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Kurt Jacobs, Griffith University The Emergence of Classical Motion in a Quantum World (abstract) |
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Sept. 9, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Luis A. Orozco, UMD Conditional Dynamics and quantum feedback, an experiment in cavity QED . (abstract) |
| Sept. 16, 2003 1:15pm, IPST 1116 |
Joint QCI and Informal Statistical
Physics Seminar (note new time and place): Shmuel Fishman, The Technion, Haifa Kicking Cold Atoms: Quantum resonances and decoherence. |
| Sept. 23, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Guido Pupillo, UMD and NIST Effects of inhomogeneity on the spectrum of the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian in the Mott-Insulator regime. (abstract) |
| Sept. 30, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Peter Blair Blakie, NIST Classical field method for modeling finite temperature Bose gases. (abstract) |
| Oct. 7, 2003 12:00pm, PHYS 4316 |
Sanjiv Shresta, UMD Dissertation defense: Coherent dynamics in atom-field interactions. (abstract) |
| Oct. 14, 2003 | No seminar this week. |
| Oct. 21, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Juan Pablo-Paz, LANL Decoherence, quantum chaos and the Loschmidt echo. (abstract) |
| Oct. 22, 2003 12:00pm Laboratory for Physical Sciences Room 1318 |
Special QCI and Laboratory for Physical
Sciences seminar (note new time and place): Juan Pablo-Paz, LANL Phase space methods to study quantum walk algorithms. (abstract) |
| Oct. 28, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Nicolai Nygaard, NIST Superfluid Fermi Gas with a Vortex Line. (abstract) |
| Nov. 4, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
William D. Phillips, UMD DeBroglie Wave Optics with Coherent Atoms. (abstract) |
| Nov. 11, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Keith Schwab, Laboratory for the Physical Sciences and National
Security Agency Close Approach to the Uncertainty Principle with Nanomechanics. (abstract) |
| Nov. 18, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Eric Bolda, NIST Tunable coherent collisions of ultracold atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice: Toward neutral atom quantum computing. (abstract) |
| Nov. 25, 2003 | No Seminar this week. Have a great Thanksgiving! |
| Dec. 2, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Tom Shiokawa, UMD Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Non-Markovian Regime. (abstract) |
| Dec. 12, 2003 1:30pm, PHYS 4208 |
Joint QCI and Gravitation Theory
Seminar (note new time and place): Bei-Lok Hu, with Albert Roura and Philip Johnson, UMD Misunderstandings of Unruh effect: Analysis of some proposed detection schemes. |
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Feb. 6, 2003 2:00pm, PHYS 4220 |
Ana Maria Rey, UMD and NIST Quantum Dynamics of a Period-Three Pattern Loaded BEC in an Optical Lattice |
| Feb. 13, 2003 2:00pm, PHYS 4220 |
Jamie Williams,
NIST Kinetic Theory of a Bose-Condensed Gas at Finite Temperature |
| Feb. 20, 2003 2:00pm, PHYS 4220 |
Steve Rolston, UMD and NIST Why Atomic Physics is a Great Place to Study Quantum Information |
| Feb. 27, 2003 2:00pm, PHYS 4220 |
Wendell Hill, UMD Atoms in Light Tubes |
| Mar. 4, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Sanjiv Shresta,
UMD Casimir-Polder Retardation Force via Self-Dressing in Atom-EMF Interaction |
| Mar. 11, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Hsi-Sheng Goan,
University of Queensland, Australia An Analysis of Single-Spin Measurement by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (abstract) |
| Mar. 18, 2003 | No seminar this week. |
| Apr. 1, 2003 | No seminar this week. |
| Apr. 8, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Verne L Jacobs,
NRL Density-Matrix Description of Coherent Optical Interactions in Quantized Many-Electron Systems (abstract) |
| Apr. 15, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Philip R Johnson, UMD Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics of Josephson-Junction Qubits (abstract) |
| Apr. 22, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Gavin Brennen,
UMD and NIST Entanglement Dynamics in 1D Quantum Cellular Automata (abstract) |
| Apr. 29, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Frederick W Strauch, UMD Entanglement Tutorial I (abstract) |
| May 6, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Esteban Calzetta, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Condensate Collapse as Dynamical Squeezing of Vacuum Fluctuations (abstract) |
| May 13, 2003 2:30pm, PHYS 1201 |
Frederick W Strauch, UMD Entanglement Tutorial II (abstract) |
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Sept. 12, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 1304 |
Sanjiv Shresta, UMD Application of Grassmann Coherent States to 2-Level Systems |
| Sept. 19, 2002 2:00pm, PHYS 1201 |
Joint Condensed
Matter and Quantum Coherence and Information Seminar Nimrod Moiseyev, Technion Controlled Tunneling of Cold Atoms: from Full Suppression to Strong Enhancements |
| Sept. 26, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Gavin Brennen, UMD and NIST A Quantum Bus for Efficient Non-Local Operations |
| Oct. 3, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Carl Williams, NIST Lattice Loading of Neutral Atoms: From Superfluidity to the Mott-Insulator |
| Oct. 10, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Paul Julienne, NIST Quantum Encounters of the Cold Kind: Cold Collisions and Quantum Threshold Phenomena |
| Oct. 17, 2002 | No QCI seminar this week. Please
attend the
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar(2pm): http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/condmat/seminar/ |
| Oct. 24, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Yanhua Shih, UMD Baltimore Quantum Imaging, Quantum Lithography and the Uncertainty Principle |
| Oct. 31, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Postponed to 5 Dec |
| Nov. 7, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Fred Strauch, UMD Quantum Logic Gates for Capacitively Coupled Josephson Junctions |
| Nov. 14, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Tom Shiokawa, UMD Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Complex Systems |
| Nov. 21, 2002 | No Seminar this week. |
| Nov. 28, 2002 | No Seminar this week. Have a great Thanksgiving! |
| Dec. 5, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Postponed to 6 Feb 2003 |
| Dec. 12, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 4102 |
Stefano Liberati, UMD Sonoluminescence as Squeezed Light |
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Feb. 7, 2002 3:00pm, PHYS 1304 |
Mike Ryan, UNAM
Mexico City and UMD The Geometrical Formulation of Quantum Mechanics |
| Feb. 14, 2002 3:00pm, PHYS 1126 |
Phil Johnson, UMD Computing Tunneling in Quantum Open and Closed Systems with Split Operators |
| Feb. 21, 2002 3:00pm, PHYS 1126 |
Young S. Kim, UMD Feynman Decoherence |
| Feb. 28, 2002 3:00pm, PHYS 1126 |
Postponed until April. No seminar this week. |
| Mar. 7, 2002 3:00pm, PHYS 1126 |
Huizhong Xu, UMD Quantum Dynamics of a Current-Biased Josephson Junction |
| Mar. 13, 2002 1:30pm, PHYS 1402 |
AMO
Special Seminar: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico Quantum Information Processing in Optical Lattices |
| Mar. 21, 2002 2:30pm, PHYS 1126 |
Carl Williams, NIST Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms |
| Apr. 11, 2002 2:30pm, PHYS 1126 |
William D. Phillips, UMD and NIST Quantum Information and Neutral Atom Qubits |
| Apr. 18, 2002 2:30pm, PHYS 1126 |
Xuedong Hu, UMD Decoherence in Solid State Quantum Computer Prototypes |
| Apr. 25, 2002 2:30pm, PHYS 1126 |
Charles Clark, NIST Solitons and Vortices in BEC |
| May 3, 2002 | No QCI seminar this week. Please attend the Quantum
Information and Computation session of the New Directions in the
Foundations of Physics Conference: http://carnap.umd.edu/philphysics/calendar.html |
| May 9, 2002 | No QCI seminar this week. Please attend the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar(2pm): http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/condmat/seminar/ and the Distinguished AMO Theory Lecture(4pm): http://www.physics.umd.edu/cal/spevents/amotheory/burnett.html |
| Date, Time, Place | Speaker, Affiliation, Title |
| Nov 1, 2001 3:00pm, PHYS 4208 |
Bei-Lok Hu,
UMD Decoherence in Quantum Brownian Motion: Non-Markovian Dynamics in Non-Ohmic Environments |
| Nov. 8, 2001 3:00pm, PHYS 4208 |
Bei-Lok Hu, UMD Two Level Atom-Field Interactions: Misconceptions in Decoherence of Qubits by an Electromagnetic Field |
| Nov. 15, 2001 3:00pm, PHYS 4208 |
Enric Verdaguer, University of Barcelona Stochastic Theory of Quantum Brownian Motion |
| Nov. 29, 2001 3:00pm, PHYS 4208 |
Sanjiv Shresta, UMD Moving Atom in an Electromagnetic Field: Motional, Two Level, Vacuum Fluctuations and Boundary Effects |
| Dec. 6, 2001 3:00pm, PHYS 4208 |
Postponed until January. No seminar this week. |
| Dec. 13, 2001 3:00pm, PHYS 4208 |
Enric Verdaguer, University of Barcelona Quantum Tunneling with Dissipationn |